DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea?

Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by iamacyborg on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:18AM (#39342356)

AirByte was definitely one of the MDS vendors.

They literally got a huge investment because their deck bragged about having a few thousand Github stars and a few thousand folks in a Slack channel.

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Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by cookie_monsta on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:15AM (#39342670)

I can't tell if this is envy or scorn

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Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by benjaminwootton on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:07AM (#39342921)

I don't think it's either.

Modern Data Stack is a set of characteristics - cloud based, SaaS, consumption based pricing, ELT bias, open source bias, component based etc.

AirByte is all of them. It's just a fact rather than a criticism.

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Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by staticautomatic on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:36AM (#39346900)

I think this is fair and I don’t doubt that AirByte jumped on the MDS marketing bandwagon, but the fact that their pricing isn’t inscrutable sets them apart in my view.

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Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by iamacyborg on Monday February 12, 2024 @04:49AM (#39343165)

Neither, just an interesting factoid that highlights just how zany the VC landscape was in the MDS space just a few years ago.

https://airbyte.com/blog/the-deck-we-used-to-raise-our-150m-...

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Re:DBT Founder: Is the "Modern Data Stack" Still a Useful Idea? by tomrod on Monday February 12, 2024 @08:11AM (#39344369)

Github stars used to be a signal of quality, and velocity of those stars indicated a winning product. But like all rating systems, they are for sale to the nearest Mechanical Turk or GenAI.

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