69: What is the Modern Data Stack?

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Panel introductions and backgrounds (2:55)
• What the modern data stack means to each of our panelists (5:04)
• Defining the fundamental components of a modern data stack (17:22)
• How the modern stack drives insights and actions for businesses (28:03)
• Getting to a uniform definition to the modern stack (33:45)
• Managing the modernization of a large scale data stack (39:09)
• How testing works in the dbt context (48:44)
• The relationship between the data warehouse and the data lake (52:25)
• What has us most excited or the future of modern data stacks (56:02)

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