This guide, tailored to modern data & analytics engineers, breaks down the what, why and how of data observability, with practical insights to help you build reliable data.

This guide is designed to help data practitioners, engineers, and decision-makers thoroughly understand the key differences between dbt and SQLMesh.

Learn what data products are, why they matter, where to define them, and how to monitor them effectively. An introduction into data products for data engineers, analytics leaders, and modern data teams.

Taking the first steps to getting started with Data Products

What data from hundreds of top data teams tells us about team size, role distribution, data-to-engineer ratios, and salaries.

Examples of how data products are used to solve real-world problems and drive meaningful business impact in B2B SaaS, eCommerce, logistics, and fintech

How and when to extend dbt with a data reliability platform, and key considerations for vendor selection

Explore how data observability integrates into each stage of the data pipeline, from source systems to analytics, enhancing data quality and reliability.

How to drive impact, where to focus, and what skills are required to succeed in the best data governance teams

Building reliability by design for classical ML use cases and Gen AI

Learn why tracking data incidents, not just issues, is key to reliable SLAs. Explore best practices for detection, triage, and postmortems.

A toolset for determining if a data incident is a $1,000 or $100,000 problem

A toolkit for defining and activating ownership across the data team, upstream teams, and business stakeholders

Practical steps for measuring and actioning data quality

Combining dbt tests and anomaly monitors to proactively detect data quality issues on sources, features, and predictions

Synq Data Products create greater clarity, foster a stronger sense of ownership, and enhance reliability for your business-critical data within scaling data ecosystems.

Data reliability challenges fintech companies face with reconciliation, automated decisioning, regulation, and customer experience

How to build reliable data pipelines by combining domain knowledge and automated data checks

How to improve the ROI of your marketing campaigns by reducing upstream data quality issues

How leading companies drive value-driven ad spend allocation based on customer lifetime value and overcome costly data issues

Practical steps to identifying business-critical data models and dashboards and drive confidence in your data

How to use data contracts, tests and Synq to enforce quality and activate ownership between producers, consumers and data teams

Why data lineage workflows break with scale and how to fix it

How asset sprawl in large data teams makes onboarding, development, monitoring and self-serve harder

Practical steps for managing incidents in data teams for faster resolution, better transparency and less hassle

The difficulty of building alerting workflows fit for scale

Four improvements to your dbt workflows to build reliable data for scaling data teams

10 practical steps from top data teams

What to consider before defining ownership, how to manage ownership of upstream and downstream teams and a few simple steps to getting started

Fintech startups have multiple times the amount of critical metrics and data systems making the stakes higher than anywhere else.