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What's the Modern Data Stack?

Overused marketing ploy, or the future of data teams?

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Justin
Jan 30, 2023
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The TL;DR

The Modern Data Stack™ (MDS) is a new-ish set of tools that data teams are using to collect, transform, explore, and make use of their company’s data. 

  • Although the data team as we know it is a relatively modern concept, there’s a rich history of data-related software and stacks

  • Older data stacks were run mostly on open source data stores, hosted

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