Modern Data Stack proved the idea for one layer. Dragonfly is building it for all of them.
When one part of the stack gets mapped, benchmarked and chosen deliberately, with honest information, everything built on top of it transforms. Dragonfly applies that to every part of the stack rather than just data: an intelligence layer that understands how a business operates inside, tracks how the technology market moves outside, and turns the two into decisions.
The values line up as well as the maps do. No paid placements, not now and not ever, because technology decisions belong to the businesses that live with the consequences rather than the vendors selling them.
So, what happens to Modern Data Stack?
It grows. The scope widens from data tooling to the whole technology stack, with the same practitioner honesty it always had.
The whole stack
The people who spent a decade assembling data stacks are now asked about AI tools, agents, integrations, security and spend. The coverage follows them.
Articles, interviews, research
A clear read on where the tooling market is moving, practitioners on what is working for them, and research into what teams are really stuck on.
Where to follow it
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Thank you. Genuinely.
None of this was built by a company. It was built by people who kept showing up: writing up the stack they actually ran, arguing about categories that did not exist yet, voting in the awards, replying to someone else’s question at 11pm because they had solved it the year before.
MDS Rocketship Awards
Two years of them, decided by a jury of practitioners rather than a sponsor list. Companies found out they had won from people who actually used their product.
Amazing People in Data
Long, unhurried conversations with the people doing the work. Vladyslav building a stack from scratch, Dunith on unbundling streaming, Kelly on the problems nobody had solved yet.
MDS Summit’23
A room, a schedule, and a lot of practitioners comparing notes in public. Proof that a directory could turn into a community.
112 newsletter issues
Written mostly by Ayushi Rathod and Sonakshi Bubbar, landing every week with no vendor agenda attached. Thank you both.
To everyone who submitted a stack, sat on a jury, sent a correction, or just read quietly for four years:
This is not an ending.
It just gets bigger from here.