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Demystifying Cloud Data Egress Costs

Understand the impact of data transfer and egress costs across Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud platform in data integration One of the most frequent questions asked by cloud-savvy, price-aware customers is something like: Ok, so we like that your tool makes it easy to integrate our cloud database and storage in our centralized data warehouse, but I know our budget will be scrutinized for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), including our data egress costs.

Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses vs. Data Marts

Let’s precisely define the different kinds of data repositories to understand which ones meet your business needs. October 29, 2020 A data repository serves as a centralized location to combine data from a variety of sources and provides users with a platform to perform analytical tasks. There are several kinds of data repositories, each with distinct characteristics and intended use cases. Let’s discuss the peculiarities and uses of data warehouses, data marts and data lakes.

Why Hiring a Data Analyst Won't Solve Your Business Problems

As businesses increasingly leverage data-driven decision making, the ability to use and understand data at the company-wide level becomes mission critical. While tech behemoths like Netflix, Airbnb, and Spotify have strong data cultures built over the last decade, most companies often face challenges getting up and running with data.

George Fraser and Tristan Handy Discuss the Fivetran-Fishtown Partnership

In a Slack discussion, the two CEOs explain why the Fivetran-dbt integration is great for data analytics engineering enthusiasts. After the recent launch of Fivetran dbt Transformations, both the Fivetran and Fishtown Analytics teams received questions about the newly available feature. (Fishtown is the team behind dbt.) Fivetran CEO George Fraser and Fishtown Analytics CEO Tristan Handy addressed those questions on Slack, and discussed the harmonious relationship between the two companies.