The Missing Piece: How We Implemented dbt & Lightdash To Unleash The Power Of Our Data Platform

A year on from Sam Bail’s previous post on building our data platform, our data team has changed significantly (we’ve almost tripled in size!) and we’ve made some key updates to…

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Managing Cloud Costs in Full Platform Redesigns

After the massive Collectors Vault launch, Cloud cost management quickly became a priority as the cost grew rapidly with all new project launches and previous projects where cost…

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The One Trait Of High-Impact Engineers

One of the things that I noticed about the greatest engineers I worked with was their ability to take any business idea and turn it into reality, no matter what constraints they…

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Analytics From Day 1: How to Ensure Smooth Data Integrations with New Production Systems

We recently went through one of our most epic product launches at Collectors: Customers are now able to submit cards for grading to PSA, add them to their collection on the new…

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Automating Card Identification Using Computer Vision

We process a lot of cards everyday. Before they hit the grading room, they need to be identified and this is one of the time consuming parts of the process. Though using…

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Building A Data Platform From Scratch At Collectors: Part 3 of 3

This blog post is an account of my first six months at Collectors building a data platform from scratch. It is part memoir, part instructional manual for data teams embarking on a…

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Building A Data Platform From Scratch At Collectors: Part 2 of 3

This blog post is an account of my first six months at Collectors building a data platform from scratch. It is part memoir, part instructional manual for data teams embarking on a…

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Building A Data Platform From Scratch At Collectors: Part 1 of 3

This blog post is an account of my first six months at Collectors building a data platform from scratch. It is part memoir, part instructional manual for data teams embarking on a…

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Welcome to the Collectors Tech Blog!

Welcome to our new Tech Blog. Many of you have seen the multiple exciting changes that Collectors has had this year. I wanted to make sure that we provided transparency on how we…

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