Amundsen — Lyft’s data discovery & metadata engine

1 · Lyft · April 2, 2019, 4:01 p.m.
Amundsen — Lyft’s data discovery & metadata engineIn order to increase productivity of data scientists and research scientists at Lyft, we developed a data discovery application built on top of a metadata engine. Code named, Amundsen (after the Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen), we improve the productivity of our data users by providing a search interface for data, which looks something like this:The problemData in our world has grown 40x over the last 10 years — see the chart below from Unite...