If you’ve been following commentary on the modern data stack recently, you may have noticed the tent’s steadily getting bigger. There also appears to be a growing ecosystem of companies that are beginning to take the next step, going from what a modern data stack can look like, to now internalizing this concept in their very own product solutions.

It says something about a company and its people when they drop the process of formulaic job interviews and just let you pitch ideas for the job you want. That’s what happened when I applied to Continual as a Technical Marketing Manager. Five weeks in, I’m pleased to say I’m working on those same ideas, which I’ll detail in a couple minutes.

Following Continual achieving SOC 2 Type 1 compliance in January, we’re proud to announce we are now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. This milestone demonstrates our ongoing commitment to helping our customers protect their data – and their customer’s data – as they build and grow their operational AI platforms. It’s a hard reality for many software projects that security is added late in their development cycle as their market viability becomes clear.