Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache Airflow and career path options for data engineers. How should I structure my data team? A look inside HubSpot, Away, M.M. LaFleur, and more (dbt Blog) Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive (Data Liftoff Blog) The Misunderstood Data Engineer (Data Liftoff Blog) Modular ELT (Data Liftoff Blog) Test SQL Pipelines against Production Clones using DBT and Snowflake (Dan Gooden) HubSpot Data Actio ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co-founder of Red Pill Analytics to talk about scaling modern data stack projects from startups to the enterprise; how do you deal with data quality issues when there’s no central record of customers, how do we introduce data governance, enterprise requirements and meet the needs of enterprise architects and how do we scale concepts such as agile and analytics as engineering beyond our initial champion and data te ..read more

In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic shutdown on the business of analytics and product startups, the work being done in the community to help find a cure and the role that data and analytics can have in accelerating the post-shutdown recovery. “A COVID-19 Dashboard for Massachusetts using Looker and BigQuery” - Hashpath.com blog “The Virus Survival Strategy for your Startup" “COVID-19: Implications for business” - McKinsey “As COVID-19 data sets beco ..read more

We return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and friends won the recent Looker Join 2019 Hackathon event in San Francisco. Keboola homepage “DataOps is NOT Just DevOps for Data” - Data Kitchen Blog - Looker Brings the Data Community Together at JOIN 2019 ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecosystems and their new customer data platform service, Segment Personas. analytics.js: The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application (Github.com) The Million Dollar Engineering Problem (Segment Blog) Tracking Customer Email Marketing Interactions using Segment Personas and Connections (Rittman Analytics Blog) Segment Personas product homepage ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business using today’s modern, modular SaaS analytics tools Lantrns Analytics Rittman Analytics "How it Works" - Lantrns Analytics "How Rittman Analytics does Analytics: Modern BI Stack Operational Analytics using Looker, Stitch, dbt and Google BigQuery" - Rittman Analytics Blog ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features from the acquisition Express Server back in the 90's to today's Autonomous Data Warehouse and Analytic Views. Analytic Views, Oracle Database 12.2 … and Oracle’s Reboot of OLAP now Everything’s In-Memory (and SQL) Oracle9i OLAP uncovered Overview of Analytic Views ..read more

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thinking differently and the deliberate design choices behind Looker Data Platform. JOIN 2018 - Colin Zima Product Keynote - Part 1 GrowthHackers.com AMA with Colin Zima, Chief Analytics Officer & VP of Product at Looker HotelTonight - Story of a Modern Data-Driven Business Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb ..read more

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups. CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London CRAP Talks on Slack Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation) McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a mor ..read more

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019. Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for free Watch Summit 2019 Keynotes Snowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano ..read more