Mark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck to talk about the journey from big data to small data and bringing hybrid cloud execution to DuckDB. Big Data is Dead Teach Your Duckdb To Fly Announcing Motherduck: Hybrid Execution Scales Duckdb From Your Laptop Into The Cloud Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani ..read more

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 Misconcept ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem and software defined assets, a new, declarative approach to managing data and orchestrating its maintenance. Introducing Software-Defined Assets Rethinking Orchestration as Reconciliation: Software-Defined Assets in Dagster Optimizing Data Materialization Using Dagster’s Policies How I use Dagster to orchestrate the production of social science data assets ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by Benn Stancil, CTO and Founder at Mode to talk about their recent acquisition by ThoughtSpot, the economics of the modern data stack and how AI and LLMs could likely become our industry’s next discontinuity. We don’t need another SQL chatbot The new philosophers ThoughtSpot acquires Mode Analytics, a BI platform, for $200M in cash and stock ChatGPT-Powered Data Analysis using Cube, Delphi and the Code Interpreter Plugin ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Artyom Keydunov, Founder at Cube to talk about embedded analytics and Cube's origin story, headless BI, query acceleration and how Cube and Delphi enable an AI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layer. Empower uniquely insightful AI & LLM data experiences AI-powered conversational interface for the semantic layer Define metrics upstream to align your team How Rittman Analytics Delivers the Semantic Layer Today with Cube Rittman Analytics Cube Quickstart ..read more

Hightouch co-Founder and co-CEO Tejas Manohar returns as special guest to talk with Mark Rittman about the reverse ETL market today, the evolution of the composable customer data platform and new featured in Hightouch to enrich customer profiles and drive personalization across marketing campaigns. Reverse ETL is Dead (Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Post) Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to Hubspot You don't need the Modern Data Stack to get sh*t done Hightouch Customer Studio Hightouch Personalization API Hightouch Match Booster What's in Store for Data Teams in 2023 ..read more

Mark is joined by Shinji Kim, Founder and CEO of Select Star to talk about their mission to re-invent data catalogs, data discovery and data lineage for the modern data stack Data Discovery vs. Data Observability: Understanding the Differences for Better DataOps Select Star and dbt Labs Partner for Better Data Discovery on dbt Select Star : Free Trial ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined by Jason Pohl, Senior Director of Data Management at Databricks along with special co-host and Head of Customer Experience at Coalesce, Stewart Bryson to talk about data lakehouses, Databricks and helping to raise tigers in a Thai Tiger Temple. Databricks - A History What is a Delta Lake? The Databricks Lakehouse Platform Databricks SQL Jason Pohl LinkedIn Profile Lions and Tigers and a Bear named Maam Maam Stewart Bryson Github profile Coalesce.io ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined by Twilio Segment Head of Product Kevin Niparko to talk about trends in the customer data platform market, Reverse ETL and Profiles Sync, the impact of LLMs (Large Language Models) on digital customer experience and Segment Unify, a consumer scale real-time identity resolution solution that provides complete, real-time, portable customer profiles. Segment Unify is here: complete, real-time, portable customer profiles Activate warehouse data in all of your destination tools Customer profiles made portable Drill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined by David Jayatillake, CEO and co-founder of Delphi Labs, to talk about the role of semantic models and the marketplace today, large language models and the phenomena that is ChatGPT, and how Delphi Labs are planning on bringing AI to Slack and the modern data stack. https://www.delphihq.com/#about https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jayatillake/details/experience/ For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? LinkedIn post on rationale behind Delphi Labs product development Delphi - Jaffle Shop Demo Semantic Superiority - Part 1 and Part 2 Semantic Search product feature LLM I ..read more