Case Study: Reforge scales its data team and saves 18 hours a week with Metaplane

How Reforge used Snowflake, dbt, and Metaplane to 3x their team and save 18 hours a week

Reforge, a learning and community platform for tech professionals, faced significant data scalability challenges as the company grew. Their initial data warehouse, built on Postgres, could not handle increased demand, leading to frequent timeouts and a development process that lacked version control. Their Head of Data, Daniel Wolchonok, needed a modern data stack that could support the exploding demand for insights and a rapidly expanding team.

By implementing Metaplane for data observability, alongside Snowflake and dbt, Reforge built a scalable solution. Metaplane provided critical monitoring that alerted the data team to quality issues immediately, preventing prolonged data problems. This new stack saved the team 18 hours per week, allowed the data team to triple in size, and ensured the entire company had access to consistent, reliable data for decision-making.

Reforge

Daniel Wolchonok

Head of Data