How We’re Solving Data Discovery Challenges at Shopify

Humans generate a lot of data. Every two days we create as much data as we did from the beginning of time until 2003! The International Data Corporation estimates the global datasphere totaled 33 zettabytes (one trillion gigabytes) in 2018. The estimate for 2025 is 175 ZBs, an increase of 430%. This growth is challenging organizations across all industries to rethink their data pipelines. The nature of data usage is problem driven, meaning data assets (tables, reports, dashboards, etc.) are aggr...