The Metrics Layer and Reliability

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Stitch Fix has a metrics product internally that allows people to define and actually manage these definitions. It's also are there core metrics across the business for me it's also reliability is a big differentiator as well. I think experimentation platforms certainly at Stitch Fix every single piece of traffic goes through it right so we have to decide what experience are you going to be exposed to when platform goes down or not doing what it's supposed to do.

Have you ever built a data-related "thing" — a dashboard, a data catalog, an experimentation platform, even — only to find that, rather than having the masses race to adopt it and use it on a daily basis, it gets an initial surge in usage… and then quietly dies? That's sorta' the topic of this episode. Except that's a pretty clunky and overly narrow summary. Partly, because it's a hard topic to summarize. But, data as a product and data products are the topic, and Eric Weber, the data scientist behind the From Data to Product newsletter, joined us for a discussion that we've been trying to make happen for months. It was worth the wait! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.