Using Open Source Software for Analytical Projects and the Benefits of dbt

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 teams
• What it means for the open source community at large
• How data teams should react

Jacob Matson is VP of Finance and Operations at Simetric where he leads their operational data stack. Jacob is also the founder of MDS in a Box

Blogs referenced in the podcast:

Consumption-based pricing and the future of dbt cloud by Tristan Handy 

The next big step forwards for analytics engineering by Tristan Handy

dbt Cloud's New Pricing Model: The Sinister Phase II by Lauren Balik

Step-by-step guide to run dbt in production with Google Cloud Platform by Ivan Toriya

Accelerating dbt core CI/CD with GitHub Actions by DataFold's Kyle McNair

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.