Case Study: Car and Classic achieves 10x faster report loads and trusted data with Metaplane

​​How Car and Classic’s adoption of Metaplane, Snowflake, and dbt led to a 10x improvement in report load time and ensured trust in the data

Car and Classic, Europe's leading classic car marketplace, faced significant data challenges. Their MySQL database was slow and unreliable, causing report load times of over 30 seconds and making data virtually unusable. This, combined with a lack of centralization and metric consistency, eroded trust in data across their organization. James Sharwin, Head of Data, needed a solution to redesign their data approach for better reliability and accessibility.

To solve this, the company implemented a new data stack with Snowflake, dbt Cloud, and Metaplane. Metaplane provided data observability, automatically monitoring their data to proactively catch issues. This integration led to a 10x improvement in report load times and saved the data team over 8 hours per week previously spent identifying incidents. Most importantly, Metaplane ensured trust by alerting the team to problems before they impacted downstream users, putting data integrity at the forefront.

Car and Classic

James Sharwin

Head of Data