Dimensional modeling described in the Kimball Toolbook was in its 3rd edition 15 years ago yet is still the latest in data modeling advice. So much is different in cloud warehouses that many of those best practices are now bad practices. In this video Dave Fowler, the founder of Chartio and author of Cloud Data Management goes over what no longer applies, and what does.

In this video, President and Founder of Mode, Benn Stancil discusses new ways to align the optimal application boundaries in the modern data stack, providing a set of guidelines for determining how and where to draw the lines between your many tools. He also motivates an example of these boundaries by demonstrating how metadata surfaced in an analytics tool like Mode can increase overall data confidence.