Julien Le Dem

Julien Le Dem, a data engineer and CTO of Datakin, discusses the significance of data lineage in understanding data quality and pipeline impacts. He introduces OpenLineage, a project aimed at standardizing lineage metadata across various platforms, promoting collaboration among competing companies. Julien explains its core model and how it benefits data observability, trust, and reliability. He emphasizes the importance of community contributions and outlines the integration process, highlighting the pressing need for better tooling in pipeline observability.