# Drill to Detail Podcast Returns with Ep.60 ‘A Deeper Look Into Looker’ With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

URL: https://rittmananalytics.com/blog/2019/03/05/drill-to-detail-podcast-returns-with-ep-60-a-deeper-look-into-looker-with-special-guest-lloyd-tabb
Description: One of our CEO and founder Mark Rittman’s side projects is the Drill to Detail Podcast, a podcast series where Mark interviews a special guest each episode to talk about…
Author: Mark Rittman
Published: 2019-03-05T22:08:38+01:00
Modified: 2019-03-05T22:08:38+01:00

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One of our CEO and founder Mark Rittman’s side projects is the [Drill to Detail Podcast](https://www.drilltodetail.com/), a podcast series where Mark interviews a special guest each episode to talk about their work, their products and their take on the analytics, big data and data management industry.

Drill to Detail is now on its 60th episode and now starts its third season with Mark joined by Lloyd Tabb, Founder, CTO and Chairman of Looker to talk about the foundational story of Looker and LookML, query latency and semantic models, analytic engines and code IDEs, analytics developer workflows and the rise of cloud elastically-scalable databases, packaged applications and embedded analytics and why learning (and loving) are the long-term keys to analytics and business success.

-   [Looker JOIN: The Tour 2019](https://looker.com/events/join-the-tour)
    
-   [“7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data”](https://looker.com/blog/7-reasons-looker-built-a-new-language-for-data)
    
-   [“How do you decide what to model in dbt vs LookML?”](https://blog.fishtownanalytics.com/how-do-you-decide-what-to-model-in-dbt-vs-lookml-dca4c79e2304) – Tristan Handy
    
-   [“Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides”](https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/06/15/lloyd-tabb-looker.html) – BizJournals.com
    
-   [Looker Packaged Applications](https://looker.com/product/applications)
    
-   [“A simple explanation of Symmetric Aggregates or: Why On Earth Does My SQL Look Like That?”](https://discourse.looker.com/t/a-simple-explanation-of-symmetric-aggregates-or-why-on-earth-does-my-sql-look-like-that/6601) – Daniel Mintz
    
-   [Drill to Detail Ep.48 ‘Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation’ With Special Guest Julian Hyde](https://www.drilltodetail.com/podcast/2018/1/23/drill-to-detail-ep48-mondrian-olap-apache-calcite-and-database-dis-aggregation-with-special-guest-julian-hyde)