Grai Matters Grai Matters: The No-Shave November Edition For those not yet familiar, OpenLineage is an open metadata standard originally developed at WeWork as a component of the Marquez project. It provides a standard interchange format for lineage related metadata and is used heavily by companies like Astronomer.
Grai Matters Grai Matters: Looker 👀? I hardly know her. It's Live The BI layer is, somewhat ironically, one of the hardest components of the data stack for many data engineering teams to generate insight into. It's a user facing component often offering generic query capabilities straight to users who may not fully understand the underlying
Seize the Grai Automating Data Lineage with Metabase 💡Note: this guide was written as of Metabase v0.46. If you find anything no longer working please let us know in the comments or at hello@grai.io Connecting the data used by data consumers in the business or analytics end of an organization is often one of the
Grai Matters Grai Matters: The Barbenheimer Special Anybody see the Barbenheimer special this month? /r/dataengineering sure did. and with that in mind... Metabase is live HUGE shout-out to our friends at Invisible Technologies, who PRed this amazing integration. With it, you can now extract metadata for both Metabase Questions and Collections - all integrated directly into
Grai Matters Grai Matters: BigQuery and Infinite Zoom It's been another big month for us here at Grai, with a couple of great changes we are excited to tell you about. So without further ado, let's get this rolling. Automated BigQuery Lineage Inference Data warehouses, unlike traditional relational databases, usually don't enforce
Seize the Grai Featured Fivetran, Data Lineage, and you. Introduction Since its founding in 2012, Fivetran has formed a core component of the data stack for many organizations. This is especially true for data teams who have adopted ELT architectures in which source data is copied directly into a warehouse before performing transformations. In addition to its great connectors,
Grai Matters 🚀Grai Matters: AI-powered Docs, Enhanced Tagging & More Await! Warmest (hah, it's summer) greetings from the Grai family, including our pup mascot Gus. He's annoyed by the changing weather but hopefully it's not keeping you down. We've had an amazing month fielding questions in slack and beyond. Hopefully you're
Grai Matters Grai Matters: A Fresh Look for the New Season Well, it's officially Spring! At least, I think it is, my wife likes to point out how I systematically mix up March and May so there's a distinct possibility this is still Winter. In any case, hopefully Spr-inter is treating you well, wherever you happen to
Grai Matters 🎉 Grai Matters: Exciting Integrations, Expanded CI, & Test Reports We're absolutely thrilled to bring you the first edition of Grai Matters, our monthly newsletter keeping you informed on our latest product updates and company news. 🤝 New Integrations We know how crucial integrations are for any data stack, and we're excited to announce that Grai now
Seize the Grai Grai: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Lineage in your Data Stack Grai is a robust data lineage solution designed to aid in managing your data stack. This blog post guides you through configuring Grai for a data stack using DBT, Snowflake, Fivetran, and Postgres, and demonstrates how to validate data changes in your version control system to prevent outages rather than
Seize the Grai Production Database Changes You Should Fear the Most As data engineers, we all know that production database changes can be a bit of a headache. Whether it's a schema change, a column type change, or a column name change, it can feel like we're always playing catch-up with the rest of the organization. But
Seize the Grai Grai is in Y Combinator! Quick update, Grai was admitted to the S22 batch of Y-Combinator. We are so excited to be part of this amazing community and can't wait to share more soon.
