Foursquare’s Data Stack Gets Squared Away
As Foursquare grew through multiple acquisitions, they inherited a sprawling and fragmented data ecosystem. This created a severe lack of standardization, leading to costly data duplication, inconsistent lineage, and a discovery process that slowed developer productivity and release cycles.
This success story reveals how Foursquare transformed their data stack by implementing DataHub's flexible, lineage-rich metadata control plane, enabling a developer-first data platform vision.
You will learn how Foursquare:
- Accelerated time-to-discovery and access from days to minutes, dramatically improving developer productivity.
- Adopted DataHub's flexible metadata model to integrate disparate systems (Amazon S3, Redshift, Databricks, and Airflow) without vendor lock-in.
- Automated metadata lineage and established fine-grained access control for sensitive geospatial data.
- Built a scalable control plane that improved visibility into upstream/downstream dependencies, enabling scalable cross-team data reuse.
Download the case study to see how the world's leading geospatial technology company mastered its data complexity.