Data and Analytics Reimagined with Terraform and DevOps Principles

This conference talk explores how Bestseller tackled complex retail forecasting challenges by building a self-service data analytics platform based on data mesh principles using Terraform and Ansible. Learn how a small team of three engineers created and now manages a platform serving over 50 stakeholders, enabling data engineers, scientists, and ML engineers to create and share reusable data products with business teams. Speaker Ivica Kolenkaš demonstrates their journey implementing Terraform modules specifically tailored for data engineers to ingest, transform, and shape raw data into valuable data products. Discover the challenges faced as early adopters and the successes achieved while building a self-service data platform-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, and Snowflake to make actionable data as accessible as electricity.