Join Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions.

Datacoves Platform Overview

Build vs Buy Analytics Platform: Hosting Open-Source Tools

Scale the benefits of Core with dbt Cloud

Dagster vs. Airflow

Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.

The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders

Steep homepage

New in Steep : Cube and dbt  

Targets & BI - How hard can it be?

Mark is joined in this latest Drill to Detail episode by Tobias (Toby) Mao, CTO and co-Founder at Tobiko Data to talk about SQLGlot, the innovation culture at Airbnb and the data engineering challenges solved by SQLMesh.

SQLGlot

Introducing Minerva — Airbnb’s Metric Platform

SQLMesh homepage

Tobiko Cloud

Running dbt in SQLMesh

dbt Mesh

Dlt (Data Load Tool)

Mark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups.

Steinert Analytics homepage

Christian Steinert LinkedIn Profile

“Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process”

“Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market.

Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Profile

Portable.io Homepage

“The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn)

“You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn)

“The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)

Mark Rittman is joined by returning guest David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev, to talk about Delphi Labs’ journey from a standalone data analytics chatbot to now becoming the basis of Cube’s new AI features within its composable semantic model product.

Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake

Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov

Introducing the AI API and Chart Prototyping in Cube Cloud

A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Cube's AI API

Cube Rollup London : Bringing Cube Users Together

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

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 Misconceptions

Malloy's Near Term Roadmap

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

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

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