
Drill to Detail
Mark Rittman is joined each episode by a special guest from the world of business intelligence, analytics and big data.
Latest episodes

Jun 1, 2021 • 41min
Drill to Detail Ep.91 'GraphQL, Data Platform Engineers and Dagster' With Special Guest Nick Schrock
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Nick Schrock, ex-Facebook Engineer and now Founder of Elementl to talk about GraphQL, data platform engineers and @dagsterio, a data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL.Introducing Dagster Dagster homepage Elementl homepage Orchestrating dbt with Dagster Moving past Airflow: Why Dagster is the next-generation data orchestrator

May 20, 2021 • 39min
Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Michale Drogalis, Product Manager at Confluent to talk about the history of Apache Kafka and real-time stream processing, the origins of kSQL and kSQLdb and the rationale and use-cases addressed by these products.ksqldDB product homepage Introducing ksqlDB Blog PostKafka Streams vs. ksqlDB Blog Post

Apr 28, 2021 • 49min
Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash
Mark Rittman is joined by Eldad Farkash, Co-Founder and CEO at Firebolt to talk about SiSense and Panorama, the history of cloud data warehouses and how Firebolt's technology delivers query results 4-6000x faster than Snowflake, Redshift and AWS Athena.Snowflake’s Co-Founder Marcin Żukowski Reflects On His Time At CWICentrum Wiskunde & Informatica & MonetDBEldad Farkash, inventor of In-Chip technology, takes top honors with IT Software (Individual) awardFirebolt Touts Massive Speedup in Cloud Data WarehouseWhy Firebolt?

Apr 12, 2021 • 44min
Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin
Maxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apache Superset and now Preset.io, why the future of business intelligence is open source and news on Marquez, a reference implementation of the OpenLineage open source metadata service for the collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystem’s metadata sponsored by WeWork.The Rise of the Data EngineerDrill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset & The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime BeaucheminApache Airflow 2.0 is here!Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platformThe Future of Business Intelligence is Open SourcePowerful, easy to use data exploration and visualization platform, powered by Apache Superset™Admunsen: Open source data discovery and metadata engineOpenLineageMarquez: Collect, aggregate, and visualize a data ecosystem's metadata

Mar 29, 2021 • 49min
Drill to Detail Ep.87 'Sunopsis, Fast Data and Oracle Data Integration's Data Mesh' with Special Guest Jeff Pollock
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jeff Pollock, Vice President Product Development for Fast Data at Oracle, to talk about the history of Oracle Data Integration from Warehouse Builder and Sunopsis to the move to the cloud and today’s distributed “data mesh”, based around Oracle’s fast data product, Oracle GoldenGate.Technology Brief : Dynamic Data Fabric and Trusted Data Mesh using the Oracle GoldenGate PlatformData Mesh Part 1: Future of Data Integration with a Deep Dive into GoldenGate, Kafka and SparkHow to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data MeshAn Introduction to Real-Time Data IntegrationDrill to Detail Ep.22 'SnapLogic's Enterprise Integration Cloud' With Special Guest Craig Stewart

Mar 15, 2021 • 46min
Drill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar
Mark Rittman is joined by Tejas Manohar from Hightouch to talk about the concept of "reverse ETL", his journey from working on Segment's Personas product to co-founding Hightouch and his recent guest post on the Fivetran Blog, "Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse".Why Your Customer Data Platform Should Be the Data Warehouse Hightouch Ushers In The Era Of Operational Analytics Hightouch homepage Customer 360 Data Warehousing and Sync to Hubspot using BigQuery, dbt, Looker and Hightouch Why (and How) Customer Data Warehouses are the New Customer Data Platform Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen

Mar 3, 2021 • 44min
Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality and the story behind her new data reliability startup Monte Carlo.Monte Carlo - Data reliability delivereddbt Data Source Freshness Delivering End-to-End Data Observability with Looker and Monte Carlo Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQLWhy Testing Your Data Is Insufficient

Dec 8, 2020 • 53min
Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review & Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson
The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics along with Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics.Coalesce 2020 Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen Snowflake Stock Has More Than Tripled Since Its IPO. CEO Frank Slootman Explains What’s Next. Fishtown Analytics Announces $12.9M Fundraise A License to build the future

Jul 28, 2020 • 46min
Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker development by automating and abstracting the process of LookML development.Futuremodel HomepageFuturemodel Early Access Beta Program

Jun 4, 2020 • 46min
Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple
Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS service that automatically tests your LookML to ensure Looker always runs smoothly for your users.Spectacles product homepage and early access programData Tests in LookerAutomated testing in the modern data warehouse#JOIN19 - Using Customized Open-Source Tools With LookMLContinuous Integration and Automated Build Testing with dbtCloud