Built For Complexity: Data Observability Meets Data Integration

Taylor Murphy, Head of Product and Data at Meltano, introduces the history and vision behind the open source brainchild that spun out of GitLab. In a world where businesses rely on a high variety of external data sources, many of which may be obscure and unique to an industry, the ability to develop custom connectors is indispensable. The growth of the Meltano community signals a larger trend where data teams are choosing tech stacks that adapt to their business contexts rather than the other way around. While data observability has become embraced as a data quality must-have, the industry recognizes that growing complexity calls for a distinctly proactive approach to data observability.