Our cofounder David Jayatillake ✝️ on the Dear Analyst podcast!

This is why I wanted to join Avora, we’re not building foundations any more; we’re starting to build the house. Our products provide timely insights with context, saving our customers pounds and pence, dollars and cents. x.com/sarahcat21/sta…

It’s Wednesday afternoon and time for a substack post. This time exploring the idea of a data backend, enjoy! davidsj.substack.com/p/building-the…

Avora is already on top of the data layer and will integrate with further metrics layers and data backends as they arise

"One popular AI approach, machine learning (ML), can be combined with data, a business process, and an enterprise workflow to create the context to build a system of intelligence." ⁦Jerry Chen⁩ ⁦Greylock Partners⁩ ⁦⁦Avora⁩ news.greylock.com/the-new-moats-…

It’s Wednesday afternoon, and time for a substack post! This time focused on data and analytics engineering! I’m expecting some 🌶 from software engineers who have zero tolerance of scope creep in any form 😂 davidsj.substack.com/p/this-wont-be…

Great to be able to tell my cofounder story on Data Engineering Weekly!

We’re focused on helping our customers get value from data

Our cofounder David Jayatillake ✝️’s story on Data Engineering Weekly

"We know how to reason about the parts of the system that we are most familiar with, but we don’t spend as much time on the causal links and downstream impacts of changes in our metrics." roundup.getdbt.com/p/bring-back-s…

Just read this blog from Hightouch about need for speed in rETL - hightouch.io/blog/the-need-… They use @RocksetCloud as the source here but most companies are still building upon slow ETL batch systems. So much value to unlock by moving the data faster with little downside

It’s Wednesday and time for a substack post. This time on why many orgs struggle with data. Enjoy! davidsj.substack.com/p/the-data-cha…

To my many friends/followers doing metadata/catalog startups, I have a request: please integrate the metadata info with my BI tool so that I can see it *while I am doing queries.* I have no desire to *ever* visit a third website to just "browse the metadata."

This is Prukalpa ✨'s "I have a dream" speech. I have a dream where metadata is managed properly and accessible and updatable in context. Where new starters can be useful in less than 3 months and we don't waste time on stale centralised docs. 🙂

Second principle: all technical decisions are easy until someone's fingers touch a keyboard, and then the Sunk Cost Principle comes into full effect. By the time we had Tableau up and running, we had already built like 30+ dashboards in Mode. It was over.

"The expected outcome of improving a stack — say, implementing CI/CD, adding staging environments, onboarding a new tool, hardening conventions, adopting infrastructure as code — is that over an extended period, the rate of value creation will increase." stkbailey.substack.com/p/comment-on-t…

"Human-in-the-loop AI" Our data apps are focused in this space. roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep-26-whats-…

Excited to share our first integration with dbt today! You can now build metrics directly on top of dbt models and enjoy lineage, freshness and soon lots more 🧑‍🍳

It’s Wednesday and time for a substack post! This time comparing the two main approaches to metrics layers. Enjoy! davidsj.substack.com/p/metricalypse…

You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating: - someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold - someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster