For early-stage startups, sometimes bringing in full-fledged data observability can be overkill. Even if an established organisation starts monitoring their data quality, it's often hard to judge if it is a tech problem or a people problem. In the latest episode of the Modern Data Show, Shane Murray, who went on from being a customer of Monte Carlo to later joining them as their field CTO, helps us understand these problems and how the Monte Carlo tool, using software engineering principles, is addressing the issue of data downtime.