Drill to Detail Ep.117 ‘How DataCoves Operationalises the Modern Data Stack’ featuring Special Guest Noel Gomez

Join Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions.

• Datacoves Platform Overview

• Build vs Buy Analytics Platform: Hosting Open-Source Tools

• Scale the benefits of Core with dbt Cloud

• Dagster vs. Airflow

Drill to Detail Ep.116 ‘Spotify, Semantic Layers and Steep’s Metrics-First Approach to BI Tools’ with Special Guest Johan Baltzar

Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.

• The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders

• Steep homepage

• New in Steep : Cube and dbt  

• Targets & BI - How hard can it be?

Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao

Mark is joined in this latest Drill to Detail episode by Tobias (Toby) Mao, CTO and co-Founder at Tobiko Data to talk about SQLGlot, the innovation culture at Airbnb and the data engineering challenges solved by SQLMesh.

• SQLGlot

• Introducing Minerva — Airbnb’s Metric Platform

• SQLMesh homepage

• Tobiko Cloud

• Running dbt in SQLMesh

• dbt Mesh

• Dlt (Data Load Tool)

Drill to Detail Ep.114 ‘Building a Solopreneur Data Analytics Consultancy’ with Special Guest Christian Steinert

Mark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups.

• Steinert Analytics homepage

• Christian Steinert LinkedIn Profile

• “Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process”

• “Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”

Drill to Detail Ep. 113 ‘Data Teams, Portable and Data Integration’s Long Tail’ featuring Special Guest Ethan Aaron

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market.

• Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Profile

• Portable.io Homepage

• “The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn)

• “You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn)

• “The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)