Essays by Ry Walker

The story of leaving safe jobs and building companies — Differential, Astronomer, and now Tembo — because I had no other choice.

A self-assessment and prescriptions for becoming data-driven: hire a data scientist, establish a warehouse, and track your Daily ETL Tasks.

How Astronomer evolved from USERcycle analytics to a data engineering platform. The organic growth from clickstream to Apache Airflow to Kafka.

Could Daily ETL Tasks be an effective indicator for how data-driven your organization is? A thought experiment inspired by Airbnb's data infrastructure.

Our journey through AngelPad as the first Midwest team ever accepted. From application to Demo Day, here's what the top-ranked accelerator is really like.

Data silos are a growing problem as SaaS proliferates. How cloud computing, mobile, and machine learning are creating a data revolution.