Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsThree Years In: Things Are Heating UpYear 3 for dbt community has been intense, and things are only going to accelerate from here.6 min read·Jul 2, 2019--2--2
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsA Wave of Acquisitions in Business IntelligenceHoly crap! Within the past week we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau.6 min read·Jun 10, 2019--8--8
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsHow to Unnest Arrays in RedshiftUnnesting arrays on Redshift is a pain, but it’s doable. This post walks through the entire process, start to finish.3 min read·May 14, 2019----
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsPricing-Vision FitYou’ve heard of Product-Market Fit. PMF has become common parlance within startup culture. It has even spawned similar terms, my favorite…3 min read·May 4, 2019----
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsWhat’s in a name?Sinter just became dbt Cloud. Why the re-brand?7 min read·Jan 16, 2019--2--2
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsDoes my Startup Data Team Need a Data Engineer?The role of the data engineer in a startup data team is changing rapidly. Are you thinking about it the right way?12 min read·Jan 3, 2019--17--17
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsScaling KnowledgeThe hardest thing about scaling a company is communication.7 min read·Sep 6, 2018--1--1
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsTwo Years In And It’s Just Getting GoodThis week marks the second anniversary of Fishtown Analytics. A year ago, I wrote One Year In: We’re Still in Business. I had pretty…3 min read·Jul 6, 2018--1--1
Tristan HandyHow Compatible are Redshift and Snowflake’s SQL Syntaxes?I just went through the process of converting 25,000 lines of SQL from Redshift to Snowflake. Here are my notes.9 min read·Jun 13, 2018--9--9
Tristan HandyinFishtown AnalyticsHow to Safely Convert Strings to Integers in RedshiftThis is a very stupid problem. I am not writing this post because it’s a fascinating topic—rather, I’m writing it in the hopes that you…2 min read·Mar 16, 2018--1--1
