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Fraser: Amazon Redshift was the first cheap, fast data warehouse
“Redshift was incredibly important because it was, it came out in 2013. It was in the AWS console. It wasn't the first really good fast data warehouse, but it was the first one that was cheap.”
Fraser: In-warehouse transformation compute is cheaper than data engineering time
“The additional cost of compute and storage to replicate the extra data, to do those steps, those transformation steps inside the warehouse Are so small now, you know, they're less than what it's going to cost you to pay your data engineer for a week to build y…”
Fraser: SaaS vendors sometimes alter their APIs specifically for Fivetran
“And then sometimes they actually change the APIs for us.”
Fraser: dbt has emerged as the standard for data warehouse transformations
“Over the last couple of years, this great tool called DBT, which is an open source community. It's also a product, and there's a company called Fishtown Analytics that's the primary sponsor of DBT, but it's really emerged as the way to orchestrate transformati…”
Fraser: Vertical data integration will be a major trend in tech
“I think there's going to be a huge wave of this over the next few years. I think this is a giant trend in the In the data technology space is vertical integration, both because there's just like a centralization of effort, but also because it allows you to acc…”