Tristan Handy

19 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2020 by Tristan Handy · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Handy: Data engineers should focus on scalability, not business logic
“Data engineers shouldn't want to be spending their days expressing business logic. Like how do you amortize revenue across multiple periods? They are technologists. They should want to be thinking about platforms and scalability and all of these like hard tech…”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 47:44 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 negative
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Handy: Data analysts spend 50% of their time blocked by engineering
“Like if you take a team at a like very good, like the data forward organization, a team of 20 data analysts, my guess is that they spend 50% of their time blocked.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 35:12 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Handy: Data lakes offer more flexibility but require more effort
“Where we are today, the data lake can kind of do anything. But it also probably takes more work to do anything. Whereas the data warehouse is, has a more constrained set of use cases, but it is much easier to get up and running for those constraints set of use…”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 12:50 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Handy: Data analysts learn technology to solve problems without identifying as technologists
“I think that a data analyst is somebody who answers business questions with data and they have a, they frequently will have a business or econ degree. They like are interested in solving business problems, but they're also not afraid of technology and they oft…”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 18:28 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 positive
Opinion
Handy: Stitch Fix's 2016 blog post best frames the data engineering role
“There's a guy at Stitch Fix who wrote a blog post called Engineers Shouldn't Write ETL back in 2016, and I still think that that is the best point of view on this topic today.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 48:10 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
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Handy: Turnkey solutions for in-flight data masking did not exist in 2020
“The easy solution to this, I don't think by and large exists yet.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 56:53 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020 positive
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Handy: Data transformation has shifted inside data warehouses using SQL
“What's happening now or over the past, you know, five or so years, the, Transformation step now happens inside the data warehouse and it happens in SQL. And because of that, it is now accessible to a dramatically larger number of people.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 15:57 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Dec 11, 2020
Insight
Handy: Once sensitive data lands in a warehouse, it resists elimination
“If you land data in your warehouse, it is very hard to ever have it go away completely.”
Tristan Handy Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 56:04 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 28, 2022 negative
Opinion
Handy: Data profession is two decades behind software engineering
“And as a profession, like data is generally Probably two decades behind software engineering in terms of, like, the productivity of practitioners and the level of abstraction and everything.”
Tristan Handy Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 13:47 The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
Jun 28, 2022
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Handy: Early-stage VCs doubted data practitioners would learn Git in 2016
“Early stage VCs that I spoke to back in 2016 told me that, like, it wasn't at all clear that data practitioners actually wanted to learn Git.”
Tristan Handy Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 14:51 The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
Jun 28, 2022
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Handy: Data teams in 2016 shared SQL files as email attachments
“Back in 2016, the, like, data practitioners were sending each other SQL files as attachments to emails, and that was, like, the way that we worked together.”
Tristan Handy Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 14:37 The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
Feb 22, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Handy: dbt will start exploring visual, GUI-based workflows this year
“And so this year will probably be the year where we start playing around in that space.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 38:33 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024 positive
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Handy: The shift from ETL to ELT will remain true forever
“One of the kind of trends inside of this is the transition from ETL, extract, transform, load to ELT, extract, load and transform. And that seems to anyone who's not in data that Might not seem like a big thing, but in fact, it's like a really significant tran…”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 14:32 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Tristan Handy: Software multiple expansion has shifted from modern data stack to AI
“If what you were trying to do is maximize the multiple that your software company was trading at, then AI is the enemy because all the multiple expansion has moved from modern data stack to AI.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 24:08 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024
Insight
Handy: Low-code data tools must read and write underlying code
“You have to get no code, low code experiences that read and write code so that code can go through a get PR process and it can have all the same mature stuff built on top of it as any other code.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 39:12 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024
Insight
Tristan Handy: Building a production data system is building a software system
“One of the core beliefs about the, that we have about the profession is that data and software are not that different. And when you're building a production data system, you're building a production software system, which means that we should be taking lessons…”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 28:04 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024 negative
Opinion
dbt CEO Tristan Handy: The modern data stack concept is dead
“I don't think the modern data stack is a useful idea anymore.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 9:55 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Handy asked dbt marketing to adopt 'the analytics stack' label
“My big conclusion is I sent an email to our product marketing, our head of product marketing. I was like, Hey, can we just say the analytics stack? Like this is a set of technologies that works together to do analytics. And it kind of tries to get away from th…”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 15:16 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Handy: CDOs shouldn't build data platforms by integrating nine point products
“If you say I want a modern data platform as a CDO, like the right answer is not go out and buy nine different products and integrate them together.”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 11:59 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
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