Your data quality tools are like that neighbor who won’t stop describing his rash at parties — great at describing problems, terrible at telling you what to do about them. Impact Dimensions cut through the noise by organizing data quality issues into four categories that reveal which problems actually matter, where to fix them cheapest, and why the ones you’re ignoring may be costing you the most.
Data Production Tripwires in Databricks: Stop Bad Data Before It Reaches Production
Learn how to add data quality gates directly into your Databricks job DAG so that bad data stops at the layer where it fails — and never touches production.
TestGen Now Supports Oracle and SAP HANA, with a New Setup Wizard to Get You Running Fast
Two of the most common databases in large enterprises are now supported by open source and enterprise TestGen.
DataKitchen Enhances Its Support for Data Stewards to Manage Data Quality Tests in TestGen
TestGen is becoming a platform for the people who are actually responsible for data quality in large organizations, not just a tool for engineers who run tests.
$1 Billion in Data Observability VC Investment: This Is Not Going to End Well
VC overinvestment causes predatory usage-based pricing and threatens vendor sustainability. How many data engineers will you need to lay off to cover your data observability costs this year?
“We Just Eyeball Row Counts and Pray”
We read 849 comments across 18 community threads on Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and the dbt Community Forum. The #1 reason data engineers don’t test: nobody gives them the time. The #2 reason: the data changes faster than the tests can keep up. Here’s the full breakdown, in their own words.
DataOps + FITT + Data Testing = 10x Data Engineering Productivity with AI
AI coding tools like Claude Code are generating significant excitement in software engineering. But for data engineers, getting 10 times the productivity isn’t automatic. Just adding an AI agent to a messy pipeline and hoping it works usually leads to failure.
The Equation For AI Success: DT + DX + CTX = 10x
How to Make Data Analysis Ten Times Faster with AI and Large Language Models
The DataOps Way to Data Quality: A Free Book for Every Data Team
Most data quality advice tells you what to measure. This book tells you why your team keeps failing and what to actually do about it.
Why Your Data Quality Dashboard Isn’t Working And What to Do About It
This article pulls back the curtain on why standard data quality dashboards fall short. We’ll reveal six powerful, and perhaps surprising, truths about data quality dashboard failure.
















