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Jan Soubusta
Field CTO in EngineeringAs Field CTO at GoodData, Jan brings over a decade of experience in backend systems, databases, and cloud-native architectures. His background spans data warehouse operations, large-scale platform engineering, and applied generative AI. Jan has led multiple major long-term projects at GoodData, including the delivery of our data warehouse-as-a-service built on Vertica as well as the ground-up design and development of our next-generation analytics platform. Today, he splits his time between driving product innovation (particularly in the area of AI assisted BI) and representing GoodData in the field — through conferences, articles, and conversations with customers and partners.
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Data Pipeline as Code: Journey of our Blueprint
In this article, I will take you on a journey of the past 18 months of the development of our demo data pipeline. Everything started when my colleague Patrik Braborec published the article How to Automate Data Analytics Using CI/CD. Since then, I followed...
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Ready, set, integrate: GoodData-dbt integration is production-ready!
We proudly announce that GoodData and dbt (Cloud) integration is now production-ready! This article demonstrates all the related capabilities. The integration is part of a data pipeline blueprint, already described in several articles: First PoC of...
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Is MotherDuck ProDUCKtion-Ready?
You have seen many announcements regarding integrations with DuckDB/MotherDuck in the past months. I am quite conservative, so I am not the first to jump on the hype train. I want to be sure about new technology before publicly announcing a new...
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Discovering Opportunities for Artificial Business Intelligence
Recently, I wrote an article in which I described our strategy in the area of what I called “Artificial Business Intelligence”(ABI). In this article, I would like to share with you how we discovered opportunities in this area and what prototypes we...
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The GoodData Way to Artificial Business Intelligence (ABI)
How can you tell if a new trend is not just hype for a niche audience but instead a global phenomenon? My wake-up call was my 94-year-old grandma. She asked me: “Do you also leverage this artificial intelligence at your job? How exactly do you use it?”...
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Streamlit Meets Headless BI
Recently I wrote an unconventional article about exposing analytics use cases in virtual reality. Though it was just a hackathon project, it pushed me to think about what APIs (and in which form) should be exposed by headless BI platforms. When we talk...
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Analytics Inside Virtual Reality: Too Soon?
Have you ever thought about doing analytics in virtual, augmented, or mixed reality? What benefits could it bring to end users? We explored potential use cases for this technology in the data analytics space and implemented a working demo during the...
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Extending a CI/CD Data Pipeline With Meltano
What the Hack Is the "EL" in ELT? ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) consolidates data from any data sources into a central data warehouse (data lake, lakehouse). The "EL" part is responsible for extracting data from various sources and...
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The Best SQL Is the One You Do Not Have To Write and Maintain
Are You Tired of Writing SQL? SQL has been the lingua franca for data manipulation for over 40 years now. Today SQL is an institution, one that very few people can imagine could replace. There is no denying though that its limitations are starting to...
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Why GoodData Decided to Integrate With Dremio
From SaaS to On-Prem With GoodData Cloud Native GoodData has been providing a SaaS analytics platform for over a decade. This year, we decided to break the status quo and offer an on-premises platform — GoodData.CN — as well. There are a few key reasons...
