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 maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data. RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com ....
Jun 16, 2023•24 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Scott’s background in martech (3:10) Where things have gone wrong between IT and marketing (5:46) The explosion of digital marketing data (12:04) Costs of having data siloed (16:14) The convergence of marketing and IT teams around data (19:27) Navigating the massive landscape of martech tools (26:10) Needed tools in the martech stack (31:11) The importance of an accurate attribution model (34:37) Building tooling for marketers and developers to u...
Jun 14, 2023•57 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Scott Brinker of HubSpot.
Jun 12, 2023•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ioannis’ background and journey in data (2:42) Rudderstack’s transformations feature and examples of its application (4:20) Winning the transformations contest at Rudderstack (7:21) How Ioannis’ transformation project works for data governance (9:40) Memories from college for Ioannis and Kostas (12:30) Getting into the world of software development (17:27) The changes in data and engineering over the years (20:29) Bridging java with python (23:15...
Jun 07, 2023•58 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ioannis Foukarakis of Mattermost.
Jun 05, 2023•6 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Davor’s journey from Google and what he was building there (3:32) How work in stream processing changed Davor’s journey (5:10) Analytical predictive models and infrastructure (9:39) How Kaskada serves as a recommendation engine with data (14:05) Kaskada’s user experience as an event processing platform (20:06) Enhancing typical feature store architecture to achieve better results (23:34) What is needed to improve stream and batch processes (27:39...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 2 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Davor Bonaci of DataStax.
May 29, 2023•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Aditya’s background and journey in the data space (2:47) What does Ponder do? (5:18) 101 on Pandas and why people utilize it (6:42) The challenge of translating Pandas to a big data platform (16:11) Data Warehouses and ML workflows (21:27) The differences in the “zoo” of data languages (26:56) Why do ML and data engineering have to be so different in languages? (34:39) Builders should be adapting to the users and not the other way around (39:32) ...
May 24, 2023•58 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder.
May 22, 2023•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: A.J.’s background and journey in data (2:23) Challenges with Hadoop ecosystem (8:50) Starting InfinyOn and the need for innovation (10:02) Challenges with Kafka and Microservices (14:01) Real-time data streaming for IoT devices (19:28) Paradigm shift to real-time data processing (22:17) Benefits of Rust (29:45) Web Assembly and Platform Features (36:29) Analytics and Event Correlation (40:16) Real-time data processing (47:03) ETL vs ELP (52:20) F...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with A.J. Hunyady, Founder and CEO of InfinyOn.
May 15, 2023•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Josh’s background in data working at Google, Slack, and other companies (1:21) The need and process for high quality data (4:33) Digging into auction code (14:03) Joining Slack and working in the early days of the company (18:00) Not fighting the last war in data (25:42) Building a product, while using the product (30:35) Transitioning to the search team at Slack (36:50) Usage patterns of search (41:21) Josh’s work in helping build DuckDB (46:20)...
May 10, 2023•59 min
In this bonus episode, Eric previews his upcoming conversation with Josh Wills, an experienced data scientist who has worked with IBM, Google, Slack, DuckDB, and more.
May 08, 2023•2 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Dhruba’s journey into the data space (2:02) The impact of Hadoop on the industry (3:37) Dhruba’s work in the early days of the Facebook team (7:54) Building and implementing RocksDB (14:33) Stories with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook (24:25) The next evolution in storage hardware (26:14) How Rockset is different from other real-time platforms (33:13) Going from a key value store to an index (37:15) Where does Rockset go from here? (44:59) The succes...
May 03, 2023•1 hr
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset.
May 01, 2023•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The origin story of Data Council (0:39) Developments for the future of Data Council (2:42) The emphasis of AI and ChatGPT at this year’s conference (3:54) The support of the data community (5:31) Biggest changes and innovations in the industry (7:10) What’s next for the Data Council? (10:46) Getting connected with Data Council (13:07) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to d...
Apr 28, 2023•15 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Gunner’s background in data (0:32) Setting the vision in early days of Red Hat and spearheading Debezium (6:20) Replication of data in Debezium (9:47) The patterns and processes of Debezium (16:21) Debezium working with Kafka (19:03) Building a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces (24:09) The importance of documentation in open-sourced projects (27:59) Debezium’s vision moving forward (31:32) Why aren’t there more CDC open-sourced...
Apr 27, 2023•40 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Michael’s journey to co-founding Tecton (0:22) The evolution of MLops and platform teams (3:50) Understanding boundaries between the data platform and the MLops (8:42) Differences in machine learning vs data pipelines (16:58) The systems needed to handle all these types of data (22:22) Developer experience in Tecton (25:15) Automating challenges in ML development (32:30) The most difficult part of the life cycle of prediction (37:24) Exciting new...
Apr 26, 2023•43 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Will’s background in data (0:28) Privacy dynamics and data anonymization (4:18) Addressing data privacy problems in the space (10:33) Developer experience with Privacy Dynamics (13:49) How does Privacy Dynamics work? (21:09) Update of real-time anonymized data (26:29) The problem of dates and other complexities in data (31:24) Being a data engineer in a startup (34:44) Moving at the speed of a startup (41:01) Connecting with Will and Privacy Dyna...
Apr 26, 2023•46 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Chase’s journey to where he is today (0:51) Lessons in go-to-market roles which helps in the VC world (2:38) Differentiating between go-to-market and distribution (8:13) Taking an idea to the market (11:33) Hardest part of the pitch (17:08) Playbooks for go-to-market founders to follow (20:25) Focus of sales and marketing in go-to-market strategy (28:01) Answering the what and how of the problem you are solving (32:30) The importance of pricing i...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Introducing the team from Featureform (0:31) In the work vs. leading the work (3:01) Difference between MLOps and data ops (7:06) The MLOps cycle (10:12) What is Featureform and what makes it different? (13:30) Is there another layer needed in feature stores? (18:46) Getting in touch with Featureform (23:55) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, an...
Apr 24, 2023•26 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Eric’s journey to becoming CEO of Decoable (0:20) Does real time matter? (2:12) Differences in stream processing systems (7:57) Processing in motion (13:04) Why haven’t there been more open source projects around CDC? (20:34) The Decodable experience and future focuses for the company (24:31) Streaming processing and data lakes (32:54) Data flow processing technologies of today (39:01) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStac...
Apr 23, 2023•43 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Origins of OtterTune (4:43) The problem of knob tuning (6:25) Roles of machine learning (9:32) OtterTune’s development and industry recognition (12:03) The challenges of database tuning and the role of human expertise (16:15) Tuning in production (20:23) Observability and Data Collection (23:37) Data Security and Privacy (29:59) Optimizing on-prem vs. cloud workloads (35:52) Performance benchmarks (40:20) Future opportunities OtterTune is focusin...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 16 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with with Andy Pavlo and Dana Van Aken of OtterTune.
Apr 17, 2023•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The journey of H.O. into data and becoming the CEO of FeatureBase (2:37) Characteristics of the super evolution in technology (6:36) ChatGPT as the missionary of AI (9:45) The tension between authenticity and technology (13:12) What is FeatureBase? (17:53) Comparing FeatureBase to feature stores (25:58) Workload capacities and possibilities in FeatureBase (33:20) The importance of developer experience on a platform (38:23) Exciting developments f...
Apr 12, 2023•59 min
On this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with H.O. Maycotte of FeatureBase.
Apr 10, 2023•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Sammy’s background in data and tooling (2:46) Going from multipurpose engineering to a CTO position (5:14) Changes in technology and deep learning models (7:31) The state of self-driving and adoption (13:49) What is Eventual and what are they solving in the space? (20:54) What are daft and data frame and how they work? (28:11) Building a query optimizer (33:42) Sammy’s take on what is going on in data and future possibilities (45:18) Eventual’s f...
Apr 05, 2023•58 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual.
Apr 03, 2023•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Chad’s background in data (2:10) Breaking down data quality (4:02) Semantic and logical layers of data (10:04) What are data contracts and how do they work? (17:41) Implicit contracts at companies (24:01) Where do data contracts fit in data infrastructure? (28:14) The value of data contracts to the producer and consumer (31:18) Tools needed in effective data contracts (46:13) The importance of community in data quality (50:53) Getting connected t...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Chad Sanderson of Data Quality Camp.
Mar 27, 2023•4 min
