I just spoke at Zero Gravity by Incorta, a modern cloud data pipeline event. I’ve been working with data pipelines for years, so it was amazing sharing about my experiences…
Active metadata is like hot gossip. Here’s why. Just like data mesh or the metrics layer, active metadata is the latest hot topic in the data world. As with every other…
Hot takes on what we get wrong about the metrics layer and where it fits in the modern data stack The metrics layer has been all the rage in 2022. It’s…
Let’s visit a website just to “browse the metadata,” said no one ever. Last Friday, Data Twitter was buzzing with Josh Wills’ tweet about metadata and business intelligence. https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/1520082864234106881?s=20&t=qMLD6kiiVZpkRPyNiJjfOw At Atlan,…
Thanks to “Bundlegate”, it’s been a wild couple of weeks. Here’s what happened and where I think we’re going. It’s been a wild couple of weeks in Data Twitter with another…
TL;DR: We raised $50M led by Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia, and Insight with participation from existing investors, valuing us at $450M. Today’s announcement is surreal. At Atlan, we began as a…
I just spoke at the Subsurface LIVE Winter 2022 conference, and it was great sharing more about a project that is so close to my heart. I know it can…
These trends have converged to create a storm around a new, modern idea of metadata. Last year, we hit some major landmarks in the world of metadata. Gartner scrapped its…
Featuring the 6 big ideas you should know from 2021 As the data world slowed down for the holidays, I got some downtime to step back and think about the…
Building a dream data team is about much more than using the right data stack. A few days ago, I gave a talk at dbt Coalesce about my experience building data…