Maybe metadata isn’t as boring as it sounds
Written by The Count Team
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In October I stood in the vendor hall at dbt’s Coalesce in San Diego and found myself surrounded by booth after booth of data catalog companies, each one promising to ‘bring visibility’ to my data stack and ‘unlock the value’ of my data warehouse.
Despite my tone, I’m not fundamentally opposed to data catalogs or ignorant of the value of surfacing these kinds of insights. But admittedly I’ve always found them boring, the simple mention of the topic makes my eyes gloss over like someone’s talking about cars, taxes, or crypto. (No shade if you like those things - they just aren’t my bag.)