Soda Feature Deep-Dive: Cloud Metrics Store

Soda Cloud Metrics Store significantly enhances a data engineer's ability to ensure data quality by leveraging historical data to support intelligent testing and validation processes. The platform enables data teams to prevent downstream data issues by capturing historical metrics, which serve as a baseline for what constitutes good data. This historical data allows for dynamic threshold testing through methods like change-over-time and anomaly detection, thereby facilitating advanced testing as code capabilities and enabling early detection and resolution of data issues. The platform supports various data workloads, including ingestion and transformation, by allowing engineers to write tests and validations as code, which are stored and managed in a cloud-based environment. The integration with tools like dbt further extends its capabilities, allowing for a comprehensive end-to-end data observability workflow that includes incident detection and resolution. Soda's approach aims to simplify the complexity of data testing and improve the reliability of data products, ensuring that data teams can confidently use their data for informed decision-making.