Your data quality tools are like that neighbor who won’t stop describing his rash at parties — great at describing problems, terrible at telling you what to do about them. Impact Dimensions cut through the noise by organizing data quality issues into four categories that reveal which problems actually matter, where to fix them cheapest, and why the ones you’re ignoring may be costing you the most.
$1 Billion in Data Observability VC Investment: This Is Not Going to End Well
VC overinvestment causes predatory usage-based pricing and threatens vendor sustainability. How many data engineers will you need to lay off to cover your data observability costs this year?
“We Just Eyeball Row Counts and Pray”
We read 849 comments across 18 community threads on Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and the dbt Community Forum. The #1 reason data engineers don’t test: nobody gives them the time. The #2 reason: the data changes faster than the tests can keep up. Here’s the full breakdown, in their own words.
DataOps + FITT + Data Testing = 10x Data Engineering Productivity with AI
AI coding tools like Claude Code are generating significant excitement in software engineering. But for data engineers, getting 10 times the productivity isn’t automatic. Just adding an AI agent to a messy pipeline and hoping it works usually leads to failure.
The Equation For AI Success: DT + DX + CTX = 10x
How to Make Data Analysis Ten Times Faster with AI and Large Language Models
The DataOps Way to Data Quality: A Free Book for Every Data Team
Most data quality advice tells you what to measure. This book tells you why your team keeps failing and what to actually do about it.
Why Your Data Quality Dashboard Isn’t Working And What to Do About It
This article pulls back the curtain on why standard data quality dashboards fall short. We’ll reveal six powerful, and perhaps surprising, truths about data quality dashboard failure.
We Got Roasted On Reddit For Asking ‘Why Data Engineers Don’t Test?’
We asked the r/dataengineering community ‘Why don’t you test?’ And we got roasted. Learn why
Webinar: You’re Massively Overpaying For Data Observability
Watch this on demand webinar where we named names, broke down exactly what you’re paying for (spoiler: $300K a Year for a Z-Score?), and showed how TestGen delivers the same capabilities without bankrolling someone else’s Series C.
Be The First To Know: Smart, Continuous Table Monitoring Has Arrived In TestGen
The days of learning about data problems from an angry business analyst should be over. With TestGen’s table monitoring, you’re watching everything automatically and continuously.
















