
The Open Data Stack Distilled into Four Core Tools

You need to be able to draw insight and to structure that information such that people can then act on it. What is doing that? Today, transformation tools like dbt are doing that, if you take the lens of the data team really owning everything end-to-end, but I think also applications that are able to plug into the data warehouse, consume this raw i... See more
Jan-Erik Asplund • Earl Lee, co-founder and CEO of HeadsUp, on the modern data stack value chain

Traditional ETL solutions are still quite powerful when it comes to:
- Common connectors with small-medium data volumes : we still have a lot of respect for companies like Fivetran, who have really nailed the user experience for the most common ETL use cases, like syncing Zendesk tickets or a production Postgres read replica into Snowflake. The only