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Our blog breaks down basic concepts and takes you into the minds of our engineers. We also dig into the business principles that guide our company and allow us to build great solutions for yours.

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The Data Engineer’s Guide to ETL Alternatives

The Data Engineer’s Guide to ETL Alternatives

Rob Meyer · April 8, 2025

The Data Engineer’s Guide to ETL Alternatives

Data Engineer's Guide to the Top Fivetran Alternatives

Data Engineer's Guide to the Top Fivetran Alternatives

Rob Meyer · September 9, 2024

Data Engineer's Guide to the Top Fivetran Alternatives

The Data Engineer’s Guide to ELT Alternatives

The Data Engineer’s Guide to ELT Alternatives

Rob Meyer · April 8, 2025

The Data Engineer’s Guide to ELT Alternatives

Memory Efficient Data Streaming To Parquet Files

Memory Efficient Data Streaming To Parquet Files

Dani Pálma, William Baker · August 21, 2024

Memory Efficient Data Streaming To Parquet Files

Top 10 Data Discovery Tools in 2025: Explore, Analyze, Visualize

Top 10 Data Discovery Tools in 2025: Explore, Analyze, Visualize

Jeffrey Richman · April 7, 2025

Top 10 Data Discovery Tools in 2025: Explore, Analyze, Visualize

MongoDB to Snowflake with Data Normalization

MongoDB to Snowflake with Data Normalization

Jeffrey Richman · January 14, 2025

MongoDB to Snowflake with Data Normalization

Change Data Capture (CDC) Done Correctly - Best Practices for Implementing Change Data Capture

Change Data Capture (CDC) Done Correctly - Best Practices for Implementing Change Data Capture

Rob Meyer · September 9, 2024

Change Data Capture (CDC) Done Correctly - Best Practices for Implementing Change Data Capture

How to Load Data from Postgres to Snowflake: 3 Methods

How to Load Data from Postgres to Snowflake: 3 Methods

Jeffrey Richman · February 26, 2025

How to Load Data from Postgres to Snowflake: 3 Methods

ChatGPT for Sales Conversations: Building a Smart Dashboard

ChatGPT for Sales Conversations: Building a Smart Dashboard

Joseph Shearer · March 24, 2025

ChatGPT for Sales Conversations: Building a Smart Dashboard

How to Avoid the Modern Data Stack's High-Speed Data Tax

How to Avoid the Modern Data Stack's High-Speed Data Tax

David Yaffe · February 28, 2025

How to Avoid the Modern Data Stack's High-Speed Data Tax

Ready to Graduate From Your ELT Tool? Here’s Your Next Move

Ready to Graduate From Your ELT Tool? Here’s Your Next Move

David Yaffe · February 25, 2025

Ready to Graduate From Your ELT Tool? Here’s Your Next Move

A Continuous Slack ➡ ChatGPT ➡ Google Sheets Pipeline

A Continuous Slack ➡ ChatGPT ➡ Google Sheets Pipeline

Johnny Graettinger · February 25, 2025

A Continuous Slack ➡ ChatGPT ➡ Google Sheets Pipeline

What’s a Data Product, Really? Data Usability in Action

What’s a Data Product, Really? Data Usability in Action

Phil Fried · February 25, 2025

What’s a Data Product, Really? Data Usability in Action

Stateful Stream Processing: Concepts, Tools, & Challenges

Stateful Stream Processing: Concepts, Tools, & Challenges

Jeffrey Richman · February 24, 2025

Stateful Stream Processing: Concepts, Tools, & Challenges

How Does Query Processing Happen in Snowflake

How Does Query Processing Happen in Snowflake

Ava Connolly · April 23, 2023

How Does Query Processing Happen in Snowflake

What's the Snowflake Primary Key Constraint? + Its Usage

What's the Snowflake Primary Key Constraint? + Its Usage

Ava Connolly · April 8, 2023

What's the Snowflake Primary Key Constraint? + Its Usage

Redshift Date Functions Demystified: DATEDIFF and DATEADD

Redshift Date Functions Demystified: DATEDIFF and DATEADD

Daniel Harrington · March 31, 2023

Redshift Date Functions Demystified: DATEDIFF and DATEADD

The Change Data Capture (CDC) Landscape

The Change Data Capture (CDC) Landscape

Jeffrey Richman · September 27, 2023

The Change Data Capture (CDC) Landscape

How to Export Data From Firestore: Top Formats & Destinations

How to Export Data From Firestore: Top Formats & Destinations

Olivia Iannone · February 28, 2025

How to Export Data From Firestore: Top Formats & Destinations

Don't Use Kafka as a Data Lake. Do This Instead.

Don't Use Kafka as a Data Lake. Do This Instead.

Kelvin Gakuo · September 13, 2024

Don't Use Kafka as a Data Lake. Do This Instead.

4 Methods to Transfer Data from SQL Server to Snowflake

4 Methods to Transfer Data from SQL Server to Snowflake

Jeffrey Richman · April 14, 2025

4 Methods to Transfer Data from SQL Server to Snowflake

How To Move Data From MongoDB To BigQuery: 2 Methods

How To Move Data From MongoDB To BigQuery: 2 Methods

Jeffrey Richman · April 14, 2025

How To Move Data From MongoDB To BigQuery: 2 Methods

What is SQL Server CDC (Change Data Capture): The Guide

What is SQL Server CDC (Change Data Capture): The Guide

Olivia Iannone · February 28, 2025

What is SQL Server CDC (Change Data Capture): The Guide

How to Analyze Google Firestore Data: 4 Options By Use Case

How to Analyze Google Firestore Data: 4 Options By Use Case

Olivia Iannone · February 25, 2025

How to Analyze Google Firestore Data: 4 Options By Use Case

Capturing data from Salesforce: Historical and Real-Time

Capturing data from Salesforce: Historical and Real-Time

Mahdi Dibaiee · March 24, 2025

Capturing data from Salesforce: Historical and Real-Time

Why TypeScript for real-time data transformation?

Why TypeScript for real-time data transformation?

Phil Fried · May 5, 2023

Why TypeScript for real-time data transformation?

Four software engineering best practices to improve your data pipelines

Four software engineering best practices to improve your data pipelines

Olivia Iannone · December 4, 2024

Four software engineering best practices to improve your data pipelines

How to prevent your data warehouse from becoming a data swamp

How to prevent your data warehouse from becoming a data swamp

Olivia Iannone · March 28, 2023

How to prevent your data warehouse from becoming a data swamp

Why ELT won’t Fix Your Data Problems

Why ELT won’t Fix Your Data Problems

Olivia Iannone · February 28, 2025

Why ELT won’t Fix Your Data Problems

Why you don’t actually need a reverse ETL platform

Why you don’t actually need a reverse ETL platform

Olivia Iannone · March 3, 2025

Why you don’t actually need a reverse ETL platform