The Analytics Engineering Roundup
Coalesce 2024 was the fifth Coalesce. Every year gets a little tighter, a little bigger. And as we build our innovation engine and mature the underlying platform, the product announcements get ever-more-significant.
We’re only a couple of days out from the event so I don’t have stats to share here. But if you’ve been to a few Coalesces, I will say that I think Benn does a really fantastic job of summarizing the journey that the event has taken over the last five years. I don’t want to endorse every single thing in his post, but his core point—the transition from purely-community-vibes to yes-AND-also-with-ROI—is spot on. Travel budgets in 2022 were bountiful; if we still wanted people to show up in 2023 and 2024 we needed to demonstrate real ROI from the event.
Fortunately, ROI doesn’t need to crowd out the quirky, the playful, the unique. We can build relationships, safeguard the dbt Community’s special place in the ecosystem, and still get shit done.
