Modern Data Stack Guide
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Must read data articles - April

The next layer of the modern data stack

dbt Labs raised another round of funding- $222m at $4.2b valuation. Existing investor Altimeter led the round, with participation from Databricks, GV, Salesforce Ventures, and Snowflake. The raise will fuel our investment in building the next layer in the modern data stack.

blog.getdbt.com

The next layer of the modern data stack
The data experience is broken - Castor Blog

For the past 15 years, we've made tremendous innovations in terms of data production. We've optimized the way to store and process data with cloud data warehouses. We can model and transform data easily with dbt. We can create dashboards by clicking fingers thanks to great BI tools.

www.castordoc.com

The data experience is broken - Castor Blog
A very big deal

Tech acquisitions are like marriages: They mean a lot to the people involved, but the rest of us would be forgiven for not noticing that much is different. After blustery announcements about synergy, shared visions, and obligatory corporate excitement for the next step in the journey, most acquisitions fade from relevance.

benn.substack.com

A very big deal
Why Analytics Sucks

When I was a data scientist at Airbnb, I once received an ad-hoc request to identify Olympians that had accounts on Airbnb. No context given, just a colorless request in Slack. After a day of painstakingly scraping the web and munging data in SQL, I dumped the data into a table in our data warehouse, sent it off, then promptly moved onto other work.

medium.hyperquery.ai

Why Analytics Sucks