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The Future of Data Engineering
Will AI replace data engineers? No. Will AI fundamentally change data engineering work, yes.
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Josh Gray
The Natural Evolution of Data Platforms
Why do data platforms always get bloated and chaotic at scale? Are processes and tools the right solution to fix this problem?
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Josh Gray
The Pain of Research
At the end of last year, I asked one of our customers, “What was your aha moment when using Artemis?”
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Josh Gray
Moving from Reactive to Proactive Data Observability
I spoke with the CTO of a unicorn data startup, who said, “We are really good at gathering data, but we are not the best at knowing what to do with it.”
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Josh Gray

December 2024

Fragmentation Hell
I had a call with a data engineer who talked about how the fragmentation in the data stack is crushing his team.
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Josh Gray
Why The Data Platform is The Most Important Internal Tool
I was inspired to write this post while reading Packy McCormick's Not Boring article on Rox, a new investment of his. Here is my case for why the data…
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Josh Gray
BigQuery Slots: What You Need to Know
A few weeks ago, I posted that Artemis picked up an insight that saved a customer $11k annually in BigQuery costs. A few people asked how we did it, and…
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Josh Gray
What the Heck Happened to the MDS?
Not too long ago, the Modern Data Stack (MDS) was hailed as a game-changer in the data engineering world.
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Kirsten

November 2024

Reimagining Data Engineering: From Reactive to Proactive Systems
How many of us feel like every time we work on a data and analytical project we are putting out a fire?
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Kirsten
The Bloated dbt Repo
As we shifted from ETL to ELT, transformation workloads have become the main driver of data warehouse costs and teams are more bloated then ever. How…
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Josh Gray
Data Context: The Critical Currency of Modern Data Engineering
In 2006 when British mathematician Clive Humby declared that "data is the new oil", he illuminated a fundamental truth that many organizations are still…
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Kirsten
Is your Data Warehouse Bleeding Money? Signs You need Optimization
In today's data-driven world, cloud data warehouses are the backbone of modern analytics.
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Kirsten
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