Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How we should think about batch versus streaming (6:02) Defining “streaming ETL” (9:34) A brief history of streaming processing platforms (22:07) The birth and evolution of Benthos (28:41) What led Jeff to build a new tool (34:29) Why you shouldn’t share all the data (37:23) Making streaming technologies approachable to engineers (42:09) Breaking out of traditional terminology (52:58) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming livestream panel talking about all things streaming. Don't miss next week's episode with experts from Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize and Benthos
Jun 10, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ahmed’s background and career journey (2:27) Why the modern data stack “sucks” (4:53) The limitations of progress (9:13) Showing data with only 11 columns (11:55) Managing one table that rules them all (19:02) Viewing the world as timestamped activities (32:40) When this model becomes harder to use (35:15) The two parts you need in a company (44:41) Those who use Narrator (48:32) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the...
Jun 08, 2022•57 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Ahmed Elsamadisi of Narrator AI.
Jun 03, 2022•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Viren’s background and career journey (2:23) Engineering challenges in Netflix transitions (6:05) How Conductor changed the process (9:30) Building a lot more microservices (16:04) Open sourcing Conductor (17:38) Defining “orchestration” (22:05) Using an orchestrator written in Java (31:04) Building a cloud service around microservices (34:59) Differentiating product experiences (37:17) Orchestration platforms in new environments (42:15) Advice f...
Jun 01, 2022•52 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of Orkes.
May 27, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Tristan’s background and career journey (2:43) Updating old technology (11:40) Defining “data observability” (18:44) The primary user of a data observability tool (29:56) Handling an incident (33:01) Why multipliers for data observability (37:06) Early symptoms of a data drift (43:12) Tuning in the context of data engineering (50:11) What keeps Tristan working with data (55:12) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the C...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tristan Spaulding of Acceldata.
May 20, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Cindi’s career journey (2:36) Major shifts in analytics (6:34) Where we are in formation of the modern analytics cloud (9:07) The process of moving into the cloud (11:01) How to accelerate the digital transformation (17:29) Common patterns amongst company cultures (19:42) Data regulations affecting change (22:34) ThoughtSpot customer base (24:06) The need to know SQL (27:42) Power users leveraging the AI Insights (31:24) Who should audit technolo...
May 18, 2022•58 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot and Host of The Data Chief Podcast.
May 13, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Guest introductions (1:02) Defining data quality (4:08) Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33) Differentiating observability and data quality (17:53) Who should care about quality in the organization (26:55) Why this is still a valid conversation (35:44) The jurisdiction of various components (45:39) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts...
May 11, 2022•59 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Barr’s background and career journey (2:12) Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47) Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41) Defining data accuracy and reliability (17:36) How much can be done with standardization (22:27) How to avoid frustration when generating data about data (25:49) Defining “resolution” (28:59) Understanding the concept of SLAs (33:25) Building a company for a category that doesn’t exist yet (37:40) What it looks like to use...
May 04, 2022•52 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo.
May 02, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How Gabriel got into data (1:54) What Carto is (5:28) Location data vs spatial data (6:37) Time data vs space data (7:50) System supports for spatial data (9:50) Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19) Who uses Carto and why (15:52) What’s coming for Carto (19:15) What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22) The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to...
Apr 29, 2022•29 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pete’s start in data and Data Council (2:01) Learning more from failure (6:42) Shaping terminology and definitions (9:30) What investors look for in data technology (12:43) Working as a data engineer (16:32) Data Council takeaways (18:16) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintainin...
Apr 28, 2022•22 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How James got started in data (2:42) What makes PostHog different (10:43) Why we need product analytics (13:40) Capturing and collecting data (15:17) Dealing with drift on a platform like PostHog (19:45) Starting from the metrics versus events (22:50) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building a...
Apr 27, 2022•29 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s background and career journey (2:13) The birth of Great Expectations (5:02) Defining software engineering (9:38) Adopting open source products (13:04) Working in data versus healthcare (18:01) What's next for Great Expectations (20:29) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintai...
Apr 26, 2022•26 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s career journey (2:55) What makes Firebolt different (3:58) Firebolt’s data product family (7:37) Table engines and Firebolt (10:57) Ben’s favorite part of ClickHouse (12:52) The experience of building an optimizer (15:19) Where Firebolt fits into architecture (17:27) Working in the data space: to love and dislike (19:51) Coming soon in the near future (24:35) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for develo...
Apr 25, 2022•28 min
Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin.
Apr 22, 2022•6 min
Don't miss our livestream event on April 27 as we talk about all things Data Quality with some of the best in the business.
Apr 21, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34) Why analytics are hard (7:28) Defining “data management” (11:47) Defining “data virtualization” (15:57) The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34) Where a company should invest first (21:40) Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19) How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53) Giving context to data (35:14) Cataloging: background, at Promethium, future (39:29) Who uses data ca...
Apr 20, 2022•56 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium.
Apr 15, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Max’s career journey and role today (2:56) Hitting the limits of traditional BI (11:06) The most influential technology (14:34) Merging with BI and visualization (17:35) Two thoughts on real-time (21:02) Defining BI (24:53) How many have actually achieved self-serve BI (29:54) How preset.io fits in the BI architecture of today (32:36) How to use preset.io to expose analytics (35:23) The analytics process to power something like embedded (42:45) O...
Apr 13, 2022•57 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.io.
Apr 08, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Robert’s background and career journey (2:21) How studying languages influences database work (5:13) Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ years (7:50) Explaining the ClickHouse database (10:43) How ClickHouse is able to focus on latency (13:39) The use cases behind ClickHouse (19:19) How ClickHouse is different than other databases (25:47) Why old problems are just now getting addressed (29:04) How ClickHouse works with others again...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Robert Hodges of Altinity.
Apr 01, 2022•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16) Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21) What Atlan does (11:53) The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25) How to create a company’s first data team (18:13) Defining “agile data” (22:01) The necessity of data ops (26:36) The minimum data stack needed (29:16) Data team size (31:58) Where to start when you need to make adjustments (34:51) Collaborate with different parts of t...
Mar 30, 2022•56 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan.
Mar 25, 2022•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Panel introductions (2:23) What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24) The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34) How to decide system management vs. user flexibility (20:14) Why previous products failed in creating this category (29:12) Increased demand and democratization of datastack skills via SaaS (42:03) Broader applications for Reverse ETL (47:29) Limitations of Reverse ETL (55:05) How user technical a...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack.
Mar 18, 2022•4 min
