Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" that creates open-source data pipelines, using plugin technologies such as Singer Taps and dbt transformations.

• Meltano homepage and quickstart demo

• Hey, data teams - We're working on a tool just for you

• Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots

• Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelines

• Singer - Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

• dbt Models - Everything is a select

• Meltano Slack Community

Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein

Mark Rittman is joined by returning Special Guest Jake Stein, former co-founder and CEO of Stitch and now SVP of Stitch at Talend to talk about the evolution of the data pipeline-as-a-service, data catalogs and data governance and the vision behind Talend’s acquisition of Stitch. 

• ”The Vision behind Talend's acquisition of Stitch”

• “Stitch is joining Talend”

• “dbt: Analytics Engineering that Works”

• Talend homepage 

Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Taylor Brown from Fivetran to talk about middleware for SaaS data, their focus on integrations with SaaS vendors and how this differentiates their offering, his thoughts on packaged analytic applications announced at the recent Looker Join conference ... and where the name "Fivetran" came from.

• Fivetran website
• Fivetran Source and Target Integrations
• Looker 5 Release with new Analytic and Data Blocks
• "Comparison of Two Great ETL Tools: Fivetran vs. Stitch Data"

Drill to Detail Ep.22 'SnapLogic's Enterprise Integration Cloud' With Special Guest Craig Stewart

Mark Rittman is joined by Craig Stewart to talk about application and data integration, ODI and Sunopsis, SnapLogic's approach to hybrid on-premise/cloud integration and the rise of data preparation and dataflow-based cloud integration tools.

Drill to Detail Ep.9 'Streamsets, Data-in-Motion and Data Drift' with Special Guest Pat Patterson

Mark Rittman is joined by StreamSets' Pat Patterson, talking about data in motion and doing it at scale, the story behind StreamSets and the problem of data drift, and the challenges involved in managing dataflows at scale as a continuous operation.