Fivetran CEO George Fraser Talks Data With Software Engineering Daily

In a recent interview with Jeff Meyerson, host of the Software Engineering Daily podcast, Fivetran CEO George Fraser discussed the evolution of data warehousing and the role of data engineering in modern businesses. He explained that cloud-based column-store databases have made data warehousing more accessible to companies of all sizes, allowing them to store and analyze large amounts of data from various sources. The interview also touched on Fivetran's automated data integration process, which eliminates the need for engineers to write scripts to query APIs like Salesforce and directly replicates data into a single data warehouse. Fraser shared his belief that data engineering will continue to evolve towards functional simplicity, with businesses focusing more on using data to drive their operations rather than building complex data infrastructure from scratch.