Guy Adams and Justin Mullen - #TrueDataOps Podcast Ep.6

“When I came to the data world, it was like stepping back in time. I heard customers say things like, let’s spend a month building a QA environment…” Streamed live on LinkedIn and available on-demand, the January 18 edition featured two guests: DataOps.live co-founders CTO Guy Adams and CEO Justin Mullen joined host Kent Graziano for a wide-ranging discussion including predictions for 2023, such as the dominance of data products. As Justin observes, “When we started talking about data products in 2019, no-one was talking about them, or thinking about data as a product. It’s now an absolutely core concept: treating data in the same way that we treat software.” Guy recalls that when he moved from software into the data world, he soon realized there had to be a better way of doing things: taking principles learned from software, adapting them for cloud infrastructure, and using that as a baseline – acknowledging and then dealing with the unique challenges that exist in data…