Updating dbt Cloud pricing to support long-term community growth
We’re updating the dbt Cloud Developer and Team plans to better reflect product maturity after years of improvements.
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Tristan has been working in data for two decades, in both in-house and consulting roles, with both large enterprises and small startups.
We’re updating the dbt Cloud Developer and Team plans to better reflect product maturity after years of improvements.
Read articleWe’re often asked how dbt Cloud stores and processes data related to your projects. This post delves into the details of our Terms of Use, which we have recently updated to provide more clarity on these processes.
Read articleWhy it's time for dbt to support Python
Read articleCoalesce is entering its third year with the same charter—elevate data practitioners building the future of analytics engineering.
Read articledbt Labs raised another round of funding– $222m at $4.2b valuation. Existing investor Altimeter led the round, with participation from Databricks, GV, Salesforce Ventures, and Snowflake. The raise will fuel our investment in building the next layer in the modern data stack.
Read articleThe metrics layer generated a lot of buzz at Coalesce, prompting some exciting and important conversations. In short: the dbt Server that will make metrics accessible will be source available. This will provide users control, while enabling us to build a sustainable business.
Read articleSnowflake is at the forefront of changing the way modern data teams work with the Data Cloud. In this session, Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake's SVP of Product,
Read articleThe modern data stack is the third generation of data analysis products to come to prominence since the 90's.
Read articleWith the DAG-in-the-IDE (now available to all dbt Cloud users), analytics engineers can seamlessly navigate the core structure of their dbt project with low friction and low cognitive load, making the entire development process more intuitive, pleasant, and efficient.
Read articleFishtown Analytics– now dbt Labs– was founded to bring analytics engineering to everyone. $150m in new funding will fuel the next phase of that journey.
Read articleWatch Tristan Handy's talk replay from the Coalesce analytics engineering conference in 2020.
Read articleMy thoughts on where our space has been and where it might be going.
Read articleFishtown Analytics has raised $29.5m in a Series B financing. New investor Sequoia Capital led the round with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Amplify Partners participating. Matt Miller of Sequoia joined our board.
Read articleI originally wrote this as a part of our new analyst onboarding program back in June of 2017, shared with new analysts on their first day. It’s as true today as it was the day I wrote it, so I wanted to publish it more broadly. Maybe you’ll find it useful!
Read articleMany folks may not know it, but George (Fivetran’s Co-Founder and CEO) and I go way back. We started out as mortal enemies when I was helping to launch Stitch while Fivetran was in its still-nascent days back in 2015 😄 Since I founded Fishtown Analytics in 2016, though, we’ve been close partners and have...
Read articleFishtown Analytics started as a consulting company that competed with other dbt service providers. We are now a venture backed software company and our business model has fundamentally changed. Our relationship with dbt service providers is now 100% partnership.
Read articleTwo amazing companies in the modern data stack–Fivetran and Census–have launched major integrations with dbt. Here's why I'm excited about this.
Read articleA recent post, Dashboards are Dead, sparked a conversation about the future of data reporting.
Read articledbt is no longer a niche product and dbt Slack is no longer a community of misfits...we’ve gone mainstream, folks.
Read articleThe first global conference for analytics engineers
Read articleThe 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 for progress.
Read articleIf your time is valuable, it should be important to you to operate with the highest possible leverage. This allows you to get more done with your fixed number of hours. Simple. Here's how analysts can operate with leverage.
Read articleData teams are successful when they build reserves of trust. One important way to build trust is by consistently delivering projects on time. Here are four questions we've found to be useful in helping us spot the potholes that derail analytics engineering projects.
Read article680 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 dbt Meetups in 3 cities (NY, SF, London). What a year!
Read articleHoly crap! Within the past week we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau.
Read articleUnnesting arrays on Redshift is a pain, but it’s doable. This post walks through the entire process, start to finish.
Read articleThoughts on pricing strategy and what it communicates about your company's vision for the future of the market you're in.
Read articleThe role of the data engineer in a data team is changing rapidly. Are you thinking about it the right way?
Read articleThe hardest thing about scaling a company is communication. Here's how our latest release will make data communication just a little bit easier.
Read articleThis week marks the second anniversary of Fishtown Analytics. Here's what we learned.
Read articleI just went through the process of converting 25,000 lines of SQL from Redshift to Snowflake. Here are my notes.
Read articleThis 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 avoid the headaches I've gone through.
Read articleI 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 year and a half. This post is my attempt to answer it.
Read articledbt and Looker were built with the same ethos: analysts should be working in code.
Read articleFrequently asked questions about Looker explores and how to design them very well.
Read articleModular 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 think is missing from the market.
Read articledbt (data build tool) enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouses.
Read articleThis post is one of the first things that new employees read upon joining our team.
Read articledbt, our open source product for data modeling, is SQL-only. SQL can, by itself, accomplish a majority of analytical (non-data science) workloads.
Read articleFishtown Analytics celebrates its one year anniversary today.
Read articleOver 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 SQL function that I have come to use surprisingly often.
Read articleThis post, originally published in 2016, was most recently updated in November 2017.
Read articleBusiness intelligence tech has changed really dramatically over the past 3-4 years since the advent of cloud-based analytics databases.
Read articleThere’s a new small business that just opened up in Fishtown and it’s not a gin bar or artisanal coffee shop.
Read articleOver 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 me. I love checklists, and treated the opening of this business as a really big one.
Read articleToday is a big day. Today, Magento announced it has purchased RJMetrics. The RJMetrics product will form the foundation of Magento Analytics, giving Magento users powerful tools to analyze their customers’ behavior.
Read articleWhen a software engineer starts on a new project, her first step is almost always to survey the ecosystem of open source software that exists in the problem space.
Read articleOver the past year, I and the folks at RJMetrics have had the opportunity to observe, and participate in, a significant evolution of the analytics ecosystem. The center of gravity in mature analytics organizations has shifted away from proprietary, end-to-end tools towards more composable solutions.
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