Four Ways a Modern Data Stack Can Fuel Results

Drizly, an ecommerce platform for alcohol delivery, successfully managed a 392% increase in sales during the pandemic due to its modern data stack. The company's analytics team had proactively updated their patchwork data infrastructure to a cloud-native modern data stack in 2019, which enabled them to handle the surge in new customers and data. Key insights shared by Drizly at Modern Data Stack Conference 2020 include anticipating dramatic scale when building your foundation, finding best-of-breed modern data stack tools, and planning to scale and grow in data maturity. The adoption of a modern data stack allowed the team to focus on higher-level activities such as enhancing data models and onboarding new analysts quickly using best-of-breed tools across the data stack.