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05 Jun 2026
The Meltano Datadog integration brings pipeline observability into the monitoring platform your team already trusts. Data pipelines power dashboards, reports, and business decisions — but when something goes wrong, teams often don't find out until someone asks why the numbers look wrong.
02 Jun 2026
Schedule-based Power BI refreshes fire at the clock, not when your data is ready so a slow pipeline means stale dashboards. Meltano Cloud now lets you trigger a Power BI semantic model refresh as a step inside your pipeline, so reports update the moment your data lands. Every time, in order.
28 May 2026
Every two weeks, the Meltano team opens the floor to talk new features, the roadmap, and (most importantly) how the community is actually building with Singer and Meltano in the wild. This session had a packed agenda: a responsible disclosure on a real-world GitHub Actions vulnerability, a community…
26 May 2026
If you're currently on Fivetran and wondering whether you're getting value for money, this post is for you. We built the Meltano Savings Calculator to answer a question data teams ask us constantly: "How much would we actually save if we switched?" Until now, that answer required a sales call, a spr…
21 May 2026
Will AI replace data engineers? It is the question every data leader, hiring manager, and engineering team is quietly debating right now. In Season 4 Episode 2 of the Data Matas podcast, host Aaron Phethean sits down with Julian, a software engineer with deep roots in cloud computing and analytics, …
19 May 2026
Every data leader is asking the same question right now: how should our analytics team be using Claude Code, Cursor, and the wave of agentic coding tools showing up in their stack? Most of them are asking the wrong question. In a new short video, Meltano CEO Aaron Phethean argues that the goal was n…
11 May 2026
Notes from Meltano Office Hours, May 8, 2026 Moving data should not still feel fragile. That was the thread running through our latest Meltano Office Hours. The topic was narrow at first: after you build a custom tap or target, how should you add it to a Meltano project? But the discussion quickly g…
07 May 2026
A conversation with Kevin Sampson, first data hire at Vertex Service Partners, on what it actually takes to make AI useful inside a real business. A few weeks ago, at a meetup in front of a couple hundred people, a speaker on the main stage said something I could not shake. "AI does not need a seman…
06 May 2026
What an open table format actually is Alex started with the basics. Before table formats existed, teams had two options. Either move every dataset into a warehouse, which worked but locked the data into one engine and made every change a migration. Or sit on a pile of Parquet files in object storage…
20 Apr 2026
Meta's Ads Manager is built for campaign managers. It's good enough for day-to-day optimization. It is not enough for the analysis that actually moves the needle.