Artie

“When you get something reliable as a service that hides all the complications, that's less context you have to worry about. It means it's easier to do new projects because you can just drop this in.”

“Iceberg was not particularly tied like that. It was pretty much a standalone data standard that could be used by a lot of different consumers.”

“We kind of joke internally that AWS services are basically going to Home Depot. They've got the pieces, but you've got to find them all and put them together yourself.”

“It became a serious problem that we were not providing data on a timely basis in the period where most of our users were intensely interested in seeing the results.”

“Code is not an asset. It's a liability – it's something you have to maintain and update as other systems change. CDC is a very complicated ecosystem. That's not something I want us to build.”

“I didn't go to my CTO and say we should replace DMS for our biggest services. I said, let's go with relatively small projects where we can drop it out if we have to, and we'll have time to evaluate whether it's going to work.”

“It initially worked, but we found a lot of issues with DMS - in terms of performance, reliability, silent failures. There's a number of things that made it hairy to manage.”

“You're giving us the finished product. We've got a source, we've got a destination, and you deal with all the details in between.”

“It was smoother than I definitely thought it was going to be.”

“Imagine what happens when you send out an invoice to a customer at the end of the month based on their sending data. But on New Year's Eve, you lag so bad that it doesn't correct itself for 24 hours. Now you have a billing problem to deal with because the invoices that just went out are wrong.”

“DMS was like sitting in the cockpit of a plane and not being a pilot. You have no idea what button does what and how it affects things and how it might help.”

“It relies on Artie to actually deliver the data to us as fast as humanly possible. The faster it delivers the data, the faster the test will run, catch it, and we'll be able to service our customers better.”

“All of this starts with the data being able to be replicated very, very quickly.”

“If it's not core to your business, you should never be building it in-house, because you have to go and support it.”

“For me, as an engineer, being able to talk to another engineer about technical specs made me feel comfortable about the architecture. There was a level of confidence they had that put a level of confidence in me.”

“We were sort of just trying to solve a problem, and then there was a bunch of ancillary benefits that ended up being outcomes of having solved this other problem.”

“It was exactly the way I sort of dreamed or imagined a product would work. That's exactly what I want, and exactly what I don't have in this batch solution.”

“We intend for Snowflake to mirror prod completely.”

“A thousand percent. A million percent.”

“We were just used to it. You kind of just get used to abuse in some way.”

“We had two very skilled people kind of speaking the same language. They were able to resolve stuff as it came up and it's kind of mostly been incident-free since.”

“The key thing I wanted was CDC because I was like, this will enable real time. But I don't even think I really knew at that point what that would be like, because I never had that in any previous job either.”

“That's it, he says. That's, like, the extent of my Artie interaction.”

“Working with Artie was exceptionally positive. Their genuine attentiveness to our needs distinguished them from other vendors. The onboarding process was smooth and the team promptly addressed any issues that came up.”

“Since adopting Artie, we have seen a fourfold increase in the frequency of key business data updates without additional costs. This enhancement has allowed all departments, including Customer Experience, Finance, Marketing, and Supply Chain, to access more current information on their dashboards.”