Data Depot: A recap of the past month with Meltano
Let's talk community and company-building efforts since receiving funding two months ago
Wow, how time flies. It has been two months since we announced our seed funding from GV, and a full month since we had our team offsite in Mexico. There will be more to come on the vision launched from those auspicious days together. In the meantime, here’s a look at where we’re headed:
Using Meltano, teams will be able to manage the different tools that make up their data stack in a single place. We’ll offer an end-to-end solution that leverages DataOps best practices to make data teams more efficient and increase the confidence in the insights and decisions resulting from their work. We’ll empower rapid prototyping by making best-in-class open source tools easier to use and integrate than ever. Building and growing an engaged community is paramount to the future success of the open source data space and the future of Meltano.
We’re here to build the future of data together with you.
Here are the highlights from the past two months:
Releases
The team has been busy working on improvements across Meltano. Check out the latest changelog and SDK changelog for all the details and take a look at highlights, including:
Added support for Python 3.9
1.0 SDK Release - coming soon :)
Updates to MeltanoHub, including the milestone of reaching 273 taps and 17 targets.
Thanks to Pat Nadolny, Derek Visch, Stephen Bailey, Joshua Adeyemi, and others who contributed this month.
To see what’s coming up next, take a look at our roadmap.
Community engagement
The Meltano community is a passionate bunch, and we’re so lucky to collaborate with you all. Here are a few of our favorite moments from August.
Highlights from office hours and demo day!
Oliver Laslett, Co-founder and CTO at Lightdash, gave us an overview of Lightdash, an open source BI tool
Douwe Maan, our CEO, went through the pitch deck that was used to raise our seed round.
We reviewed opening Meltano projects directly in VS Code. Using this method, projects will open in a development container, which allows users to get up and running on macOS and Windows without environment configuration.
Prratek Ramchandani, our fantastic community contributor, shared the tap he built using the Meltano SDK for importing data from dbt artifacts
We did a demo of our big release of the Target and Stream Map SDKs. See more on Stream Maps.
Live Coding
We hosted our first-ever live coding Build with Us event, where we built tap-athena- a new SDK-based tap for pulling data out of AWS Athena. View the new tap on GitHub.
Social Spotlight
Ryan Reynolds continues to ignore how much we ship him on Twitter
We all love when things work out perfectly
Celebrating the end of summer
Slack
Tips for speeding up Meltano pipelines and debugging pipeline (tap-to-target) performance issues discussion in Slack.
Setting up CI/CD for your Singer Tap guides in Slack.
Well said…
“Decentralization comes at a cost: Our architecture becomes our user experience. Fault lines between products become fault lines in how it feels to use the modern data stack—and for most people, that’s what matters most.”
What we are actually looking for, yearning for, as a data industry right now is distributed production and governance of a shared resource: knowledge.”
Culture and company building
Company Values - the first iteration of our company values forged at our team offsite in Mexico City.
Team offsite recap and highlights.
Hiring
We are hiring. Check out our open roles.
Want to learn more about the Meltano vision? Hear what we have planned:
Join us at office hours every Wednesday at 9 AM Pacific
From ETL vs ELTP - DataOps best practices
Upcoming
We are participating in the first-ever Open Source Data Stack Event, Sept 28-30 with our partners at Dagster, dbt Labs, Grouparoo, Preset, Snowplow, Our very own Taylor Murphy, Head of Data and Product, will be speaking on Community Driven, Open Source Data Integration. We will also be joined by guest speakers James Densmore from Hubspot and Emilie Schario from Netlify.