Pedram Navid – Founder of West Marin Data – is a data engineering savant who has captured the attention of the entire industry with his writing and viewpoints. Pedram has been a trailblazer in terms of leveraging the modern data stack including tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, DuckDB, Striim, Fivetran, and dbt to build pipelines. However in a changing environment with tightening budgets and rising interest rates, Pedram is on a new slant of data minimalism. He speaks of 'Doing Data the Hard Way', using low cost tools that are purpose built for narrow jobs that data teams need to get done. Is Pedram's new approach the key for data teams to survive and thrive with economic headwinds? Listen to find out! Follow Pedram on Twitter Follow Pedram on Substack What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim. What's New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.