The data industry was rocked by dbt Labs' announcement of changes to their pricing model. Striim's John Kutay brings on Jacob Matson who's fresh off his talk at MDS Fest 'Operational Analytics on Prod: using dbt & SQL Server for operational use cases' to break down the pricing changes.  John and Jacob discuss: Overview of the dbt Cloud pricing changes How it impacts data teamsWhat it means for the open source community at largeHow data teams should reactJacob Matson is VP of Finance and...

Pete Hunt is the CEO of Elementl. Elementl is the company behind Dagster – a popular Data Orchestration framework. Pete Hunt is also very well known for his leadership developing React.js which transformed the way modern front-end applications are built using functional programming and asset aware re-rendering. Pete talks about how Data Orchestration can also be optimized to be aware of the assets it is computing. Why is this important? As data teams scale the delivery of production data...

Sean Taylor is an industry veteran and expert in Data Science, AI, and ML. Sean is Chief Scientist at Motif Analytics: a paradigm-shifting toolkit for sequence analytics. His career accolades include leading core data science at Facebook and Lyft. Sean is also known for launching Prophet – a popular open-source forecasting framework leveraged at some of the world's largest companies. We dive into Data Science and tie it back to Data Engineering. How does Data Science differ from Data...

Mark Freeman is a vocal advocate of Data Quality, Data Contracts and aligning the data community around these pillars. Mark Freeman has experience as both a data scientist and data engineer which gives him a unique, astute outlook on data management. This is why he's amassed tens of thousands of followers on social media to date along with the largest slack community on Data Quality that he founded with Chad Sanderson: Data Quality Camp. Our host John Kutay dives into these topics with Mark...

Zhamak Dehghani is the CEO / Founder of Nextdata and also well known as the creator of Data Mesh. Data Mesh is a set of core principles that enables organizations to become data-driven by changing the way they organize their teams and their data architecture.  Zhamak walks us through her deep expertise working with enterprise data teams and the story of how Data Mesh came to be. Zhamak also discusses the power decentralization and how it allows enterprises to scale insights. Zhamak...

In this episode John Kutay hosts Aron Clymer to discuss the current state of the Modern Data Stack. Aron shares his expertise as he details how far we've come in data and what the next big milestones are. Aron also discusses Data Governance, the Semantic Layer, and how teams can best modernize their stack.  Aron Clymer is Founder & CEO of Data Clymer, a next gen data & analytics consulting firm that empowers every client’s success by unlocking the value of data. The Data Clymer team...

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...

Bruno Aziza – Head of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud – has a unique expert perspective on the data industry  through his work with data executives and visionaries while managing a broad portfolio of products at Google including  BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker, Data Studio, PubSub, Composer, Data Fusion, Catalog, Dataform, Dataprep and Dataplex. In this episode, Bruno we dive into  topics such as the development (and disappointment) of Data Mesh, how it relates to Data Products,...

This episode features David Jayatillake, Co-Founder & CEO at Delphi Labs, as we explore the Semantic Layer and Data Governance. Join us as David shares his expertise on the Semantic Layer's role in unifying data access and simplifying user interpretation. We'll discuss its benefits, challenges, and implementation best practices. We'll also cover Data Governance, a vital aspect of managing data quality and security. David will reveal the importance of governance in today's data-driven...

In this episode we chat with Armon Petrossian – CEO of Coalesce – about a broad range of topics in data including the state of the data economy, column-aware data transformations, and data mesh. You can follow Armon on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonpetrossian/ and learn more about Coalesce: https://coalesce.io

In this episode, we're excited to welcome Brian Chambers, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Chick-fil-A, to share his insights on edge computing. Edge computing has become a hot topic recently as companies look for ways to process and analyze data closer to where it is generated. With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the need for real-time decision-making, edge computing is poised to transform how we think about data management. Brian brings a wealth of...

We are kicking off Season 3 of What's New in Data with none other than Ethan Aaron: CEO of Portable.io. Ethan is known for founding Portable.io – a leading Cloud ETL product – along with his viral perspectives on data and "low key" data events that have taken over the industry with appearances in New York City, Chicago, Denver, Toronto, Boston, and many other cities. We chat with Ethan on the hottest topics in data including macro economic effects on the data industry, consolidation of the...

In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Talia Moyal, the Head of Product Marketing at Airbyte. Talia will be sharing her thoughts on the importance of extensibility in the world of SaaS and how Airbyte is powering their product with community. This is our last episode of the year, but we will be back with a bunch of new guests and amazing topics covering the world of data. We wish you a very safe and happy holiday, and we will see you in the new year! Make sure to join...

On today's episode, we sit down with Shruti Bhat, Chief Product Officer & SVP of Marketing at Rockset,  and discuss what happens to your operations when they have a single source of truth. Traditional batch systems or warehouses lead to stale data sets and disparate data systems. Solutions like Rockset are empowering enterprise companies' core operations with real-time data. Make sure to Follow Shruti Bhat. Happy holidays and a Happy New Year!

We host Julie Beynon, Head of Analytics at Clearbit – Julie is well known for her work in building analytics with tools that may already be in your data stack, enabling more teams across your organization to understand your customer through a single lens and giving access to actional insight data at their fingertips. Make sure to follow Julie on LinkedIn 

In this episode, Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist, and Tim Gasper, Chief Customer Officer and Product Strategist, from data.world discuss the importance of empowering business and technical users to understand, locate, trust and get value from data from a "Knowledge-first world." Juan and Tim explain how the current "data first-world" practice focuses on data literacy rather than business literacy, leaving a disconnect between data and business teams. To learn more, follow Juan Sequeda and ...

Joe Reis and Matthew Housley of Ternary Data join us to talk about building loosely coupled systems, data contracts, and avoiding data hell. They also elaborate on some of our favorite passages from their incredible book:  Fundamentals of Data Engineering. We also muse over future-facing trends such as data streaming becoming the future ETL (ETL 2.0). Joe and Matt break down their expert perspectives on this episode of What's New in Data with host John Kutay. 

A discussion with Abhi Sivasailam – a Growth & Analytics leader (Flexport, Hustle, Keap, Honeybook) – on "The Modern Data Team" shortly before his talk at dbt Labs' Coalesce conference in New Orleans. Abhi dives into real world data leadership and engineering management topics such as applying Domain-driven design on data teams, producer-defined models (plus why he thinks they're better than consumer-led), and adhering to SLAs across the business. Abhi also provides a future-facing view...

We have the pleasure of hosting Shinji Kim: Founder and CEO of Select Star.  One of Select Star’s specializations is Data Discovery: giving the end user the knowledge to bridge the gap between periodic clean-up of dashboards and documentation.  Make sure to follow Shinji on Linkedin for more.

In this episode, we host Jacob Matson –  Data enthusiast, excel guru,  and VP of Finance + Operations at Simetric. Jacob is a very active member in both dbt and SQLSERVER communities and takes a deep dive into query optimization and tuning within SQL. Make sure to follow Jacob to learn more Twitter Linkedin

In this episode, we host Benjamin Rogojan,  also known as The Seattle Data Guy! Benjamin is an established thought leader in the data space, with videos on youtube covering topics from Vocabulary for Data Engineers 101  to  Snowflake Vs Databricks -  A Race To Build THE Cloud Data Platform Make sure to check out all his socials below. Youtube Linkedin Twitter

The launch of Season 2! Recorded on Linkedin Live; we hosted Sarah Krasnik: analytics consultant and one of the founders of Versionable. Sarah is a passionate software engineer, thought leader, and jack of all trades in the data space, with a vast amount of knowledge in a multitude of data analytics stacks and products with articles discussing topics like change data capture, observability, and orchestration tools with plenty of hands-on insights.  Sarah is passionate about bringing...

In this episode recorded live from New York City, we hosted Ethan Aaron: CEO of Portable and thought leader in the data industry. Ethan covers a range of topics such as out-of-the-box analytics, the ‘Post-Modern Data Stack,’ and running a dashboard-driven organization. Ethan explains why having too many tools too early could weigh down small data teams and reduce the business value they could provide. Make sure to follow Ethan on Linkedin for more.

We host Arpit Choudhury  – well known for his work in building data communities such as Astorik.com – to talk about the 'modern data divide' and how to overcome friction between data people and non-data people. Arpit also talks about the value of 'all in one' tools versus having a multivariate modern data stack. Follow Arpit Choudhury on Linkedin  and check out his community of data practitioners at Astorik.com  

Matt Turck from FirstMark Capital joins us on a live episode of ‘What’s New In Data’ from Snowflake Summit. We recap the summit, talk about the state of the data industry, and look ahead to how a potential recession will play a role.