Etai

Just posting a thought experiment here. As data challenges become more defined and difficult, purpose-built databases have emerged to optimize specific problems, leading to a proliferation of specialized solutions. This…

As an early data hire at a fast-growing company, one of the first things that you’ll likely encounter is a backlog of questions from employees. This backlog, alongside all the other tasks associated with reporting,…

Simple data cataloging starts with a great organization. A data catalog is a collection of metadata and documentation that helps make sense of the data sprawl that exists in most growing companies. Getting together and…

Hey HN, we’re Etai and Andrew, and together with our team, we’re building Secoda (https://www.secoda.co). We do search (that actually works!) for your company data. The name Secoda stands for "Searchable Company Data".…

While building our last tool, we’ve been using tools that run queries on our data warehouse and have increased our compute costs at a surprising rate (particularly painful on Snowflake and Big Query). We’re…

Our team wrote this article about how to measure the ROI on data discovery as a tool to help teams justify the costs of data discovery and the benefits to management. You can check out the full article here:…

We just released a V1 of table lineage for Snowflake, Redshift and Bigquery, with support for Postgres, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server coming soon. We wrote our own SQL parser to get this feature running so it's…

Problem 1: Data resources and BI tables were once created but unused by anyone in the organization. Problem 2: Everyone seems to have different ways of calculating similar metrics. Problem 3: My data documentation is…