In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tony Wang of Stanford University. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Peter's background and journey in data (0:26) Introduction to PLG (4:18) Starting in data at Heroku (6:05) Building the data stack at Heroku (8:13) Data stack requirements for early-stage companies (12:00) Differentiating PLG companies from open source companies (19:26) Venture capital and open source as a lever for growth (22:56) Initial data modeling and analysis (25:38) Operationalizing Data (29:16) Sales and Marketing Operationalization (31:5...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Peter Chapman, a GTM consultant. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The overview of refuel (0:33) The evolution of AI and LLMs (3:51) Types of LLM models (12:31) Implementing LLM use cases and cost considerations (00:15:52) User experience and fine-tuning LLM models (21:49) Categorizing search queries (22:44) Creating internal benchmark framework (29:50) Benchmarking and evaluation (35:35) Using refuel for documentation (44:18) The challenges of analytics (46:45) Using customer support ticket data (48:17) The tag...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rishabh Bhargava of refuel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Viren’s background in data (0:39) Evolution of Orchestration (1:52) AI Orchestration (3:00) Understanding Conductor and orkes (6:26) Event-Driven Orchestration (8:10) Viren’s Transition to Founder (12:27) Non-Technical Aspects of Being a Founder (15:50) Democratizing AI for Developers (18:16) The evolution of microservices orchestration (21:56) Challenges in appealing to the 99% developer group (24:32) Value of orchestration for developers (30:31...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of orkes.io. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Introduction of the panel (0:05) Defining composable data stack (5:22) Components of a composable data stack (7:49) Challenges and incentives for composable components (10:37) Specialization and modularity in data workloads (13:05) Organic evolution of composable systems (17:50) Efficiency and common layers in data management systems (22:09) The IR and Data Computation (23:00) Components of the Storage Layer (26:16) Decoupling Language and Execut...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming discussion with a panel of experts as Wes McKinney (Co-Founder, Voltron), Pedro Pedreira Software Engineer, Meta), Chris Riccomini (Seed Investor, various startups), and Ryan Blue (Co-Founder and CEO, Tabular) join the show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Artyom’s background in the data space (0:32) The growth and changes at Cube (5:58) Pain points of managing metrics definitions across different tools (9:39) Trade-offs between coupled and decoupled semantic layers (12:12) Making a case for implementing a semantic layer (14:17) The evolution of semantic layers (23:28) Challenges in designing a decoupled semantic layer (24:16) Different approaches to solving the interface problem (26:58) Implementi...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov of Cube Dev. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: No Code Analytics (1:22) Analytics as a Team Sport (2:31) The workflow of someone without Alteryx (11:27) Alteryx's ability to handle diverse data sources (14:32) The balance between ease of use and complexity (23:06) Enabling casual end users with a no code interface (24:19) Taking analytics to the data (31:47) The boundaries between data engineers and end users (33:44) The importance of collaboration in analytics (34:12) The potential of every ...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jay Henderson of Alteryx. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Matt’s background and journey with Fermyon (2:32) WebAssembly and enhanced security models (3:43) The IOT Startup and Google Acquisition (10:49) Google's Early Containers (11:50) Scaling and anticipating requests (20:22) Introduction to WebAssembly and its importance (23:32) The Benefits of WebAssembly (30:57) Comparison of Virtual Machines, Containers, and Micro VMs (33:12) The Importance of Fast Startup Times in WebAssembly (37:39) Metaphysics ...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The role of an orchestrator in the lifecycle of data (1:34) Relevance of orchestration in data pipelines (00:02:45) Changes around data ops and MLOps (3:37) Data Cleaning (11:42) Overview of Dagster (13:50) Assets vs Tasks in Data Pipeline (19:15) Building a Data Pipeline with Dexter (25:40) Difference between Data Asset and Materialized Dataset (28:28) Defining Lineage and Data Assets in Dagster (29:32) The boundaries of software and organizatio...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sandy Ryza of Dagster. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The evolution of the data scientist role (1:03) Common problems in different companies (2:05) Measuring and curating content on Reddit (4:29) The challenges of working with unstructured content at Reddit and Twitter (11:03) Lessons learned from Reddit and applying them at Twitter (13:17) Data challenges and customer behavior analysis at GlossGenius (20:16) How the data scientist's role has changed over time (00:25:10) The essence of the data scie...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Katie Bauer of GlossGenius. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Evolution of Databases and Data Systems (2:33) Abstracting Data for Business Users (4:31) Building a Database for Google-like Search (7:58) The Big Data Explosion (11:10) Selling Myspace as First Customer (13:14) Starting ActionIQ (16:57) The customer-centric organization (22:46) Transitioning to customer data focus (23:53) Understanding business users' needs (28:30) Supporting Arbitrary Queries and Data Models (34:42) Unique Technical Perspe...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tasso Argyros of ActionIQ. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Defining data mesh (6:37) Addressing the scale of organizational complexity and usage (9:04) The shift from monolithic to microservices (12:24) The sociological structure in data mesh (13:59) Data product generation and sharing in data mesh (17:27) Data Mesh: Simplifying Data Work (24:09) Getting Started with Data Mesh (29:14) Building products for Data Mesh (36:42) Building a customizable and extensible platform to shape data practice (39:28) Th...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation regarding Data Mesh with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s background in real estate (3:27) Why Fundrise was Started (4:37) Democratizing Investment Opportunities (6:35) Investment Thesis for Venture (11:55) Challenges with Data and Technology (12:34) Importance of Data Model Abstraction (20:03) Data Infrastructure and Investments (23:22) Evolution of Data Engineering (25:12) Closing the Tooling Gap (34:23) The user base segmentation (36:28) The emotional reality of investment decisions (40:50) Dat...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ben Miller of Fundrise. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The concept of composable at a lower level of data infrastructure (1:28) New architectures and components that allow developers to build databases (3:44) Pedro's background and experience in data infrastructure (6:18) The Spectrum of Latency and Analytics (12:59) Different Query Engines for Different Use Cases (16:32) Vectorized vs Code Gen Data Processing (19:33) Vectorization and Code Generation (21:21) Examples of Vectorized Engines (24:33) Re...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedro Pedreira of Meta. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Colin's Background and Starting Omni (1:48) Defining “good” at Google search early in his career (4:42) Looker's Unique Approach to Analytics (9:48) The paradigm shift in analytics (10:52) The architecture of Looker and its influence (12:04) Combatting the challenge of unbundling in the data stack (14:26) The evolution of analytics engineering (21:50) Enhancing user flexibility in Omni (23:44) The evolution of BI tools (32:53) What does the futur...
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Colin Zima of Omni. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Unique Perspective of Practitioners (2:10) Account-based Marketing (6:30) Sales Development Representatives (SDR) (8:05) Descriptive, People, and Engagement Data (11:38) Data Overload and Actionable Data (14:20) Working with Data Teams and Internal Data (17:52) The relationship between business and data teams (22:27) The importance of collaboration between marketing and data teams (24:17) Travis and Hillary writing a book (25:33) The taxonomy...
