Travis welcomes to his podcast Saket Saurabh, who provides a window into the world of data management and the self-service options that are democratizing it. Co-founder and CEO of Nexla, Saket has a passion for data and infrastructure and how to improve its flow among partners, customers and vendors. Nexla automates various data engineering tasks, intelligently creates an abstraction of data and enables collaboration among people at different skill levels. Named a 2021 Cool Vendor by Gartner, Nexla is a leader in data preparation, integration and tracking. Top 3 value bombs:  Data architectures overall need to be more abstract to enable future flexibilityThe first stumbling block for most organizations is not knowing where to locate their data.ETL is dead. The ELT model has become central while streaming and real-time use cases are becoming prevalent.