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News from RudderStack and insights for data teams

Feature launch: Snowflake Streaming integration
Feature launch: Snowflake Streaming integration
With our Snowflake Streaming integration, you can get customer event data from every source into Snowflake faster (and save on your Snowflake bill!). Read the launch blog to learn more.
Unified data platform: How it works & why you need one
by Ryan McCrary
Understanding event data: The foundation of your customer journey
by Danika Rockett
Event streaming: What it is, how it works, and why you should use it
by Brooks Patterson

What is the Growth Stack?
Learn how to build a data stack to 1) centralize every customer data point in a single storage/compute layer, and 2) make this layer accessible to every downstream tool for activation.

RudderStack Product News - Vol. #024: Attentive Tag
In this update, we introduce support for Attentive and six more new integrations. We also highlight our recent articles dissecting the push to unbundle the CDP.

What is the Starter Stack?
When it comes to investing in a data stack, the first step is the most important because your foundational decisions will have a big impact on the future. In this post we provide a detailed guide to help you get started the right way.

Grafana Increases Conversion Rates with RudderStack
RudderStack enabled Grafana to collect behavioral data in real-time to personalize customer interactions with tools such as Intercom and Customer.io and run experiments to improve web conversion rates.

RudderStack Product News - Vol. #023: Tracking Plans
In this update, we introduce Server-side enforcement of Tracking plans in the UI, highlight integration updates for Redshift, Google Analytics, and Marketo, and introduce a practical guide to the modern data stack.

Guide to the Modern Data Stack: the Data Maturity Journey
The modern data stack can be overwhelming. This simple framework places the tools of the modern stack in context of the data maturity journey to help you build the right stack for every stage.

How We Reduced Startup Time by 80% With Webpack
Learn how the RudderStack Engineering team improved developer experience, getting startup time down to 12 seconds from 5 minutes by using webpack to get rid of overhead from Typescript.

A Guide to Customer Metrics: What to Track and Why
At this point, understanding and leveraging metrics is a requirement for most businesses survival. Here we cover why metrics are important and outline which metrics you should be tracking.

Analytics Engineering vs. Data Engineering
In this post we explore how data engineering is changing as data tooling matures and new roles, like analytics engineering, emerge. Key takeaway: with Analytics Engineers & Data Engineers working together, data teams can do more than ever before.