Opinion

A deep dive into the four main principles of data mesh: domain-driven data ownership, data as a product, self-serve data platform, and federated computational governance...

How did the concept of data mesh architecture come into play? A look at what came before it, why we need it, and what might...

To really make the most out of data, we need to have a consistent, unified, and understandable view of it, one that is easily accessible...

The future of analytics engineering calls for greater maturity in processes, teams, and tooling. In the future, individual teams will own their own data. This...

Read this blog post to learn about the five important perspectives gained from Coalesce 2022.

Read this blog post to learn about navigating changes to a data team's structure and leveling up infrastructure and development workflows.

Current economic uncertainty makes navigating new data team investments a little tricky. Is now the right time to consider new tooling and frameworks? Is doing...

Coalesce wrapped last week with more than 120 community-led sessions covering the newest tools and tactics in data. While many speakers had deep experience in...

The growing volume of data coupled with increased business use cases for analytics has created problems for data teams, especially around modeling, transforming, and interpreting...

The data world needs more purple people — generalists who can navigate both the business context and the modern data stack. Let's put aside skillset...

My thoughts on where our space has been and where it might be going.

Translating business logic into code is technical knowledge. Building a marketing attribution model, forecasting, or calculating MRR is technical knowledge. Understanding the inner workings of...

Read this blog post to learn why analytics engineers are actually developers.

A recent post, Dashboards are Dead, sparked a conversation about the future of data reporting.

My love for group by 1, 2 developed when I was a fledgling analyst and has only grown. Even if you disagree, I hope this...

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...

The natural state of the universe is chaos: entropy tends to increase in closed systems, and there’s really nothing that we can do about that....

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

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

As dbt is adopted by a wider community, we want to be extremely clear about when dbt is, and is not, a fit for your...

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...