In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 21, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The context of Headless BI (3:31) What Cube Dev does (9:24) How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03) An analysis of LookML (18:04) User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40) Who manages data artifacts (25:22) Taking care of the developer experience (30:37) Levels of performance (30:37) Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47) Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38) Roles within a data organization (48:55) How Cube Dev impacts visual...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 17, 2022•20 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov of CubeJS. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 14, 2022•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Gleb’s background and career journey (2:51) The adoption problems (10:53) How Datafold solves these problems (18:08) The vision for Datafold (26:27) Incorporating Datafold as a data engineer (38:53) The importance of the data engineer (42:12) Something to keep in mind when designing data tools (46:46) Implementing new technology into your company (53:18) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each ...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 10, 2022•18 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 07, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Introducing our guests (3:05) Defining “data team” (4:40) How data teams emerge and evolve (14:11) The need that forces the creation of a data team (21:12) The backbone of the data team (26:23) Building a career within a data team (36:39) Advice for new data team managers (47:35) Question and answer time (52:38) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 3 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop regarding transitioning from consumer to builder. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Oct 03, 2022•28 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion around the topic of building data teams. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 30, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Vinoo’s background and career journey (2:43) How to benchmark cost (7:54) How Bluesky addresses rising Snowflake bills (14:01) “Workload” as defined by Bluesky (17:14) Space for BI optimization (22:55) How products manage bill growth (28:34) How to optimize your workloads (35:37) Bluesky’s partnerships (39:53) Getting real-time feedback on your work (44:50) Where to begin reevaluating your Snowflake game (50:47) The Data Stack Show is a weekly po...
Sep 28, 2022•56 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk about data politicians in this new special show format. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 26, 2022•22 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 23, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03) How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25) Defining “modern data stack” (8:39) The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44) How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15) Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17) Signs you should do a product integration (33:38) The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19) The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55) How important open sou...
Sep 21, 2022•59 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 16, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Benn’s background and career journey (2:28) The problem Benn sought to solve (4:48) Data engineering a decade ago (9:58) Technology inside vs. outside Silicon Valley (18:11) What’s next for data (24:42) Mode’s evolution and journey (29:31) Challenges of getting enough context to create (39:21) Current trends that won’t see long-term benefits (48:44) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week ...
Sep 14, 2022•57 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 09, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kyle’s background and career journey (2:38) Unique challenges in building data engineering products (9:33) The problem set Databricks resolves (13:46) About Onehouse (17:15) From Microsoft to Onehouse (20:59) Why there’s so much distance between data powers (24:45) Why the data lake is not enough (30:15) Who should have a lake house (39:03) Why we have all three data platforms (43:53) How to step into the data lake house world (49:48) The Data St...
Sep 07, 2022•56 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Sep 02, 2022•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kishore’s background and career journey (2:30) Internal analytics versus user-facing analytics (3:49) New ways of thinking about analytics (8:06) What makes Pinot different (13:45) How Pinot transforms systems (21:53) Understanding the data landscape (32:40) The Pinot user experience (36:27) Something exciting about StarTree (40:05) When you should adopt this technology (43:15) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the C...
Aug 31, 2022•49 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Aug 26, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: When is it right to use ML? (5:22) ML business models (10:21) Significant changes in delivering ML (19:07) Why ML is different (25:19) SQL becoming more important (34:39) Graduating from SQL-based to real-time (37:22) Space for a new role (45:11) State-of-the-art models (49:03) The most exciting thing in the ML space (53:59) Open source in ML (56:39) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 4 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming live stream episode featuring Willem Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Aug 19, 2022•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: James’ role at Great Expectations (2:33) What Great Expectations does (5:49) How Great Expectations approaches data quality (7:01) Why a data engineer should use Great Expectations (16:41) Defining “data quality” (19:16) Translating expectations from one domain to the other (27:00) Community around Great Expectations (30:59) The user experience (33:41) Something exciting on the horizon (40:27) Interacting with marketers in a non-technical way (43...
Aug 17, 2022•54 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with James Campbell at Superconductive. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Aug 12, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Vinoth’s background and career journey (3:08) Defining “data lakehouse” (5:10) Databricks versus lake houses (13:37) The services a lakehouse needs (17:37) How to communicate technical details (26:55) Onehouse’s product vision (31:41) Lakehouse performance versus BigQuery solutions (36:44) How to deliver customer experience equally (40:17) How to start building a lakehouse (44:00) Big tech’s effect on smaller lakehouses (55:33) Skipping the data ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 13 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoth Chandar of Apache Hudi. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Aug 05, 2022•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Eric’s background and career journey (3:30) Presenting to people without knowledge of AI (11:04) Why math was chosen over AI (19:03) From compilers to databases (25:42) The contribution of category theory (30:09) The Connexus customer experience (37:45) The primary user of Connexus (46:33) Interacting with 300,000 databases (51:07) When Connexus begins to add value (54:02) The best way to learn this mathematical approach (55:46) The Data Stack Sh...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Eric Damlier of Conexus AI. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 29, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00) Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23) Being close to the money in data (9:50) Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00) Defining “data organization” (17:53) The first roles you should hire for (22:06) Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44) One role to bridge different needs (27:26) Why data analysts are needed (30:51) How to avoid a kitchen sink of data (40:20) Data engineer archetype (45:48) Data roles c...
Jul 27, 2022•54 min