Where we started vs. where we are now in the data world — At the beginning of this year, I made some bold predictions about the future of the modern data stack in 2022. Instead of just kicking off 2023 with a new set of predictions — which, let’s be real, I’m still going to do — I wanted to pause and look…

It’s time for a modern metadata solution, one that is just as fast, flexible, and scalable as the rest of the modern data stack — 2020 brought a lot of new words into our everyday vocabulary — think coronavirus, defund, and malarkey. But in the data world, another phrase has been making the rounds… the modern data stack. The data world has recently converged around the best set of tools for dealing with massive amounts…

How to quash that flood of P0s and help your data team succeed — I just need to get through this busy period, then I can focus on the important stuff… Haven’t we all thought this, only to find ourselves still mired in ad-hoc work months later? With one urgent P0 after another, it can be easy for data leaders and teams to focus…

How to build respect and forge your own path as a new data leader — In the last few years, the modern data stack has fundamentally changed the way we work with data. Self-service and transparency are up; set-up times and compute cost are down; and on-premise, monolithic tools are receding into the past. These ideas aren’t new, and many people have talked about them…

A curated list of the year’s best articles from the data world — Just like that, we’re at the end of 2022! And what a rollercoaster ride it has been with major changes and uncertainty across every industry. (Especially for the bird app users…) A lot happened in the world of the modern data stack this year. We talked about job titles, thought…

Looking for a data lineage tool? These are the key “gotchas” and features you should be asking about. — Data lineage can be a mess. Think of it like knitting a blanket. There are threads coming and going from every direction, far too many to count. All of these have to come together perfectly in an intricate pattern. If you get it right, it’s art. If even one element…

The latest sign of a major shift in how we think about metadata — As we predicted at the beginning of this year, metadata is hot in 2022 — and it’s only getting hotter. But this isn’t the old-school idea of metadata we all know and hate. We’re talking about those IT “data inventories” that take 18 months to set up, monolithic systems that…

Have we found a fix for today’s data chaos and collaboration challenges? — Data is getting even bigger, and traditional data management just doesn’t work. DataOps is on the rise, promising to tame today’s chaos and context challenges. Let’s face it — traditional data management doesn’t work. Today, 75% of executives don’t trust their own data, and only 27% of data projects are…

Augmented analysis, synthetic data, adaptive governance, and more — “We now live in a world of perpetual uncertainty. Businesses that can handle that uncertainty are ones that will navigate the future most successfully.” — Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2022 As the pandemic has shown, organizations that cannot or will not change are in for a heap of trouble…