Opinion

As companies increasingly leverage data to power digital products, drive decision making, and fuel innovation, understanding the health and reliability of these most critical assets is fundamental. For decades, organizations have relied on data catalogs to power data governance. But is that enough?

Debashis Saha, VP of Engineering at AppZen, formerly at eBay and Intuit, and Barr Moses, CEO and Co-founder of Monte Carlo, discuss why data catalogs aren’t meeting the needs of the modern data stack, and how a new approach — data discovery — is needed to better facilitate metadata management and data reliability.

It’s no secret: knowing…

Monte Carlo, the data observability company, today announced the launch of the Monte Carlo Data Observability Platform, the first end-to-end solution to prevent broken data pipelines. Monte Carlo’s solution delivers the power of data observability, giving data engineering and analytics teams the ability to solve the costly problem of data downtime.

As businesses increasingly rely on data to drive better decision making and maintain their competitive edge, it’s mission-critical that this data is accurate and trustworthy. Today, companies spend upwards of $15 million annually tackling data downtime, in other words, periods of time where data is missing, broken, or otherwise…

Your team just migrated to Snowflake. Your CTO is all in on this “modern data stack,” or as she calls it: “The Enterprise Data Discovery.” But as any data engineer will tell you, not even the best tools will save you from broken pipelines.

In fact, you’ve probably been on the receiving end of schema changes gone bad, duplicate tables, and one-too-many null values on more occasions than you wish to remember.

The good news? When it comes to managing data quality in your Snowflake environment, there are few steps data teams can take to understand the health of your…

As data systems become increasingly distributed and companies ingest more and more data, the opportunity for error (and incidents) only increases. For decades, software engineering teams have relied on a multi-step process to identify, triage, resolve, and prevent issues from taking down their applications.

As data operations mature, it’s time we treat data downtime, in other words, periods of time when data is missing, inaccurate, or otherwise erroneous, with the same diligence, particularly when it comes to building more reliable and resilient data pipelines.

While not a ton of literature exists about how data teams can handle incident management for…

Notes from Industry

Many data leaders tell us that their data scientists and engineers spend 40 percent or more of their time tackling data issues instead of working on projects that actually move the needle.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s how the data engineering team at Resident, a house of direct-to-consumer furnishings brands, reduced their data incidents by 90% with data observability at scale.

Direct-to-consumer mattress brands may not be the first category that comes to mind when discussing data-driven companies. But Daniel Rimon, Head of Data Engineering at Resident, credits their investment in technology, data, and marketing with their…

To quote a friend, “Building your data stack without factoring in data quality is like buying a Ferrari but keeping it in the garage.”

In this article, guest columnist Francisco Alberini, Product Manager at Monte Carlo, introduces a better way measure the cost of bad data on your company.

Last week, I was on a Zoom call with Lina, a Data Product Manager at one of our larger customers who oversees their data quality program.

Her team is responsible for maintaining 1000s of data pipelines that populate many of the company’s most business critical tables. Reliable and trustworthy data is…

The Definitive Guide

This guest post was written by Francisco Alberini, Product Manager at Monte Carlo and former Product Manager at Segment.

Data pipelines can break for a million different reasons, and there isn’t a one-size-fits all approach to understanding how or why. Here are five critical steps data engineers must take to conduct root cause analysis for data quality issues.

While I can’t know for sure, I’m confident many of us have been there.

I’m talking about the frantic late afternoon Slack message that looks like:

Data Downtime Interview

We sat down with Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, the leading search and AI-driven analytics platform, for a wide-ranging conversation about her daily work, common challenges organizations face on the road to data democratization, and diversity in data science.

Over the past few decades, the world of data analytics has undergone transformation from a siloed entity to a cross-functional powerhouse. Now, in 2021, in this decade of data, the time is ripe for yet another sea-change, this time in the form of data democratization and accessibility.

Paving the way forward for this new movement towards actionable…