We hope you’re having a great week and a wonderful Christmas. Here at Weld, we are slowly wrapping up the year and looking back on all the amazing things 2022 had to offer. But we're not just reminiscing—we’re also super excited for what’s to come! Here’s what’s been cooking at Weld in 2022 and what to expect in the New Year 🎉
Lineage Is Better Than Ever
Back in July, we announced the launch of Lineage. Over the past few months, we spoke to many customers and gathered valuable feedback to make Lineage even better. Here’s what’s new with Lineage:
- Lineage graphs now show not just models and dependencies, but also data sources, tables, and destinations.
- Lineage graphs can be viewed in the Extract, Model, and Activate sections of Weld.
- There’s a new error-highlighting feature, making it even easier to spot issues in your data flow.
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50+ New Standard Connectors
We've been busy in the Integration team at Weld. We now have over 100 integrations, supporting everything from ad platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) to .csv uploads via AWS S3 or Email Forward.
We'll continue building many new integrations in 2023; however, we also recognize that we will never be able to build every niche integration. That’s why we are now launching Custom Connectors 👇
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Custom Connectors
While Weld offers many connectors, there will always be systems for which we don't have a Standard Connector. That's why we've built Custom Connectors. With them, you can write a small script in your favorite language (e.g., JavaScript or Python) to connect to the API—and Weld will handle the rest (scheduling, triggering, schema management, and loading the data into the warehouse).
We can't wait to see what you'll build!
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Orchestrate Your Workspace
Up until now, data models were updated based on your ETL sync schedule. This approach had drawbacks, including a lack of clarity about when a model would be updated—especially if it pulled data from multiple sources with different sync schedules. Now, with Orchestration, you can decide when and how often you want your model to update, and the order in which it does so relative to your other data models and their dependencies.
Additionally, all syncs can now run on custom cron schedules, so you decide exactly when they should run.
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Features to Come 👀
Next-level Alerting
Okay, here's a feature we’re excited about! It might not look sexy, but it's essential for a trustworthy data stack—getting notified when something fails. We started by supporting errors in our Extract & Activate integrations and are now working on adding support for Model and data quality test errors 🙌
You'll be able to see the alerts in the Weld app, and we’re also working on enabling notifications via email or Slack.
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Multiplayer Mode ON!
You might be a lone ranger, a rogue jedi, or a solo wizard analyst—but every legend needs a sidekick at some point. When it's time to collaborate, turn on our multiplayer mode and experience the magic of live co-creation! 🪄🧙♂️
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We Know What You Are Contemplating
Even though every business is unique, some calculations are nearly universal. That’s why we love templates!
Browse through our library to see some of the gold nuggets we’ve created for you. Use the code as-is or get inspiration for answering your own business questions.
And the best part: we’re enabling our growing community to share templates, so you’ll always be up-to-date with how your peers are building their business logic 🧞♂️
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We Would Love to Hear From You!
We've just added an in-product feedback button where you can share screenshots of improvements or ideas for new features. It's enabled for all users, and we hope to hear from you 😊
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Learn SQL with Weld, for Free!
We covered it in our previous newsletter, but we thought it worth mentioning again: we launched a free SQL tutorial! It’s designed to help you go from 0 to 1 in SQL in just a few hours. Try it out and let us know how far you get! 😊
Happy New Year 2023 🎉
What an amazing year it has been. Thanks to all our great customers, partners, investors, and team members for believing in our vision and product. I can't wait to show you all the cool things we have on the roadmap for next year.
