Tristan Handy

dbt is no longer a niche product and dbt Slack is no longer a community of misfits...we’ve gone mainstream, folks.

A Letter to the Community

The first global conference for analytics engineers

The inability to bridge the chasm between IT and the business is the core dysfunction in modern data teams, and it’s also the biggest opportunity...

If your time is valuable, it should be important to you to operate with the highest possible leverage. This allows you to get more done...

Data teams are successful when they build reserves of trust. One important way to build trust is by consistently delivering projects on time. Here are...

680 companies use dbt every week, 2100 members of dbt Slack, dbt Cloud processed 140k jobs from 200 accounts in June, and we're hosting regular...

Holy crap! Within the past week we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau.

Unnesting arrays on Redshift is a pain, but it’s doable. This post walks through the entire process, start to finish.

Thoughts on pricing strategy and what it communicates about your company's vision for the future of the market you're in.

Sinter just became dbt Cloud. Why the re-brand?

The role of the data engineer in a data team is changing rapidly. Are you thinking about it the right way?

The hardest thing about scaling a company is communication. Here's how our latest release will make data communication just a little bit easier.

This week marks the second anniversary of Fishtown Analytics. Here's what we learned.

I just went through the process of converting 25,000 lines of SQL from Redshift to Snowflake. Here are my notes.

This is a very stupid problem. I am not writing this post because it’s a fascinating topic—rather, I’m writing it in the hopes that you...

I got this question on my last post. It is a good one, and one that I’ve gotten a bunch of times over the past...

dbt and Looker were built with the same ethos: analysts should be working in code.

Frequently asked questions about Looker explores and how to design them very well.

Modular analytics tools allow companies to choose components to fit their needs and switch out or augment components as their needs change. Here's what I...

dbt (data build tool) enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouses.

This post is one of the first things that new employees read upon joining our team.

dbt, our open source product for data modeling, is SQL-only. SQL can, by itself, accomplish a majority of analytical (non-data science) workloads.

Fishtown Analytics celebrates its one year anniversary today.

You need analytics.

Over the past nine months I’ve worked with over a dozen venture-funded startups to build out their internal analytics. In doing so, there’s a single...

This post, originally published in 2016, was most recently updated in November 2017.

Business intelligence tech has changed really dramatically over the past 3-4 years since the advent of cloud-based analytics databases.

There’s a new small business that just opened up in Fishtown and it’s not a gin bar or artisanal coffee shop.

Over the past three months I’ve been in the lab building Fishtown Analytics. There’s a lot of the company formation process that’s been fun for...

Today is a big day. Today, Magento announced it has purchased RJMetrics. The RJMetrics product will form the foundation of Magento Analytics, giving Magento users...

When a software engineer starts on a new project, her first step is almost always to survey the ecosystem of open source software that exists...

Over the past year, I and the folks at RJMetrics have had the opportunity to observe, and participate in, a significant evolution of the analytics...