Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product Manager at Google Cloud to talk about Malloy, a new query language to replace SQL for analytics.

• Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb

• Malloy : An experimental language for data

• A Sequel to SQL? An introduction to Malloy

• Why SQL syntax sucks, and why it matters

• Composing with Queries

• Dimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy Special

• Data is Rectangular and other Limiting Misconceptions

• Malloy's Near Term Roadmap

Drill to Detail Ep.98 'Why the Future of Notebooks Isn't Just About Notebooks' with Special Guest Izzy Miller

Mark Rittman is joined by Izzy Miller to talk about Hex, a collaborative data platform that brings everyone together to explore, analyze, and share … and why the future of notebooks isn’t just about notebooks.

• Hex website

• Public app gallery of example Hex projects .

• Dataframe SQL announcement

• Hex for Analytics Engineers

• Tweet thread about why the python / sql debate is boring

• "The Sharing Gap"

Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Michale Drogalis, Product Manager at Confluent to talk about the history of Apache Kafka and real-time stream processing, the origins of kSQL and kSQLdb and the rationale and use-cases addressed by these products.

• ksqldDB product homepage

• Introducing ksqlDB Blog Post

• Kafka Streams vs. ksqlDB Blog Post