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 ....
May 20, 2024•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ryan's Background and Roles in Data (0:05) Data Activation and Dashboard Staleness (1:27) Profiles and Data Activation (2:54) Customer-Facing Experience and Product Management (3:40) Profiles Product Overview (5:10) Use Cases for Profiles (6:44) Challenges with Data Projects (9:19) Entity Management and Account Views (15:33) Handling Entities and Duplicates (17:55) Challenges in Entity Management (22:18) Product Management and Data Solutions (26:...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min
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 ....
May 13, 2024•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Matt KG’s Background in Data (0:35) Challenges in purchasing data tools (1:28) Early experiences in data analysis (9:51) Matt’s Transition to a subprime auto loan company (13:19 Transition to RudderStack and software purchase decisions (17:36) Tech Problems: People and Process (22:02) Challenges in Purchasing Data Tools (22:55) Budget Constraints and Purchasing Decisions (24:46) Challenges with Platform Documentation (26:55) Metrics and Cost Effi...
May 08, 2024•56 min
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 ....
May 06, 2024•3 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kostas Passes the Baton as Co-Host of the Podcast (0:24) Reflecting on the Podcast (2:56) New Co-Host John Wessel and His Background in Data (4:34) Kostas Journey in Data (10:55) Rudderstack's Explosive Growth (21:28) The Podcast's Inception and Marketing Activities (24:19) Evolution of the podcast (27:22) Memorable guests and experiences (28:29) Connecting with industry leaders and key innovators in the space (33:05) Kostas' new venture (36:26) ...
May 01, 2024•46 min
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 ....
Apr 29, 2024•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Evolution of Data Systems (0:47) The Role of Open Source Software (2:39) Challenges of Time Series Data (6:38) Architecting InfluxDB (9:34) High Cardinality Concepts (11:36) Trade-Offs in Time Series Databases (15:35) High Cardinality Data (18:24) Evolution to InfluxDB 3.0 (21:06) Modern Data Stack (23:04) Evolution of Database Systems (29:48) InfluxDB Re-Architecture (33:14) Building an Analytic System with Data Fusion (37:33) Challenges of ...
Apr 24, 2024•58 min
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 ....
Apr 22, 2024•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pete’s background and the origin story of Data Council (1:04) Reflecting on 10 years of Data Council (2:07) Impact of the pandemic on conferences (5:25) Rebuilding after the pandemic (7:42) Evolution of Data Council (10:33) Balancing content and sponsorship (16:17) Selecting speakers and content at Data Council (19:39) Highlights from the conference this year (21:58) Realization of AI Future (22:45) Embracing AI at Data Council (23:31) Announceme...
Apr 18, 2024•36 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Tristan's Background and Journey into Data (1:14) Evolution of Machine Learning and AI (3:13) Impact of Generative AI (6:33) MLOps and Challenges in Early Data Science (8:48) Success and Applications of AI Today (11:34) Continual AI Copilot Platform (18:04) Challenges in building remarkable AI assistants (19:58) Reliability and accuracy in AI responses (25:31) Regulation and adoption of AI assistants (31:30) Future of AI assistants and Continual ...
Apr 17, 2024•36 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ryan’s background in data (0:58) Transition from Performing Arts to Data (2:23) Understanding End Users in Data Projects (6:08) Learning from Failures in Data Projects (8:07) The self-service era (19:50) Struggles of self-service (21:23) The disillusion with dashboards (26:23) GoodData's approach (30:06) Merging wisdom with modern approach (31:50) User experience with GoodData (34:05) Defining metrics and AI (36:35) Connecting with Ryan and GoodD...
Apr 15, 2024•42 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Evolution of Data Processing (2:36) Ryan’s Background and Journey in Data (4:52) Challenges in Transitioning to S3 (8:47) Impact of Latency on Query Performance (11:43) Challenges with Table Representation (15:26) Designing a New Metadata Format (21:36) Integration with Existing Tools and Open Source Project (24:07) Initial Features of Iceberg (26:11) Challenges of Manual Partitioning (31:49) Designing the Iceberg Table Format (37:31) Trade-o...
Apr 10, 2024•2 hr 30 min
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 ....
Apr 08, 2024•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Apruva’s background in streaming technology (0:48) Developer experience and Kafka streams (2:47) Motivation to bootstrap a startup (4:09) Meeting the Confluent founders and early work at Confluent (6:59) Projects at Confluent and transition to engineering management (10:34) Overview of Responsive and event-driven applications (12:55) Defining event-driven applications (15:33) Importance of latency and state in event-driven applications (18:54) Lo...
Apr 03, 2024•58 min
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 ....
Apr 01, 2024•4 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Chad’s background and journey in data (0:46) Importance of Data Supply Chain (2:19) Challenges with Modern Data Stack (3:28) Comparing Data Supply Chain to Real-world Supply Chains (4:49) Overview of Gable.ai (8:05) Rethinking Data Catalogs (11:42) New Ideas for Managing Data (15:16) Data Discovery and Governance Challenges (18:51) Static Code Analysis and AI Impact on Data (24:55) Creating Contracts and Defining Data Lineage (27:31) Data Quality...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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 ....
Mar 25, 2024•8 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kevin’s background and work at Stripe (0:31) Evolution of Data Infrastructure at Stripe (2:18) Kevin's Interest in Data (5:29) Software Engineer or Data Engineer? (8:27) Speech Recognition Work at Amazon (11:06) Efficiency and Cost Management (15:50) Metadata and Query Analysis (18:38) Surprising Discoveries in Metadata Analysis (21:43) Optimizing Cost and Value (23:55) Product Sizing Stripe Data (26:39) Popular Tool for Data Interaction (30:08) ...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min
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 ....
Mar 18, 2024•6 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Michael’s background and journey in data (0:33) The origin story of Druid (2:39) Experiences and growth in Data (8:08) Druid's evolution (21:46) Druid's architectural decisions (26:32) The user experience (30:06) The developer experience (35:14) The evolution of BI tools (40:55) Data architecture and integration (47:53) AI's impact on BI (52:26) What would Mike be doing if he didn’t work in data? (56:27) Final thoughts and takeaways (57:02) The D...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr
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 ....
Mar 11, 2024•6 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The evolution of data operations (1:13) Unravel's role in simplifying data operations (2:17) Kunal’s journey from fashion to enterprise data management (5:23)\ The Unravel platform and its components (10:08) Challenges in data operations at scale (16:34) Users of Unravel within an organization (22:32) Calculating ROI on data products (25:55) Understanding the cost of data operations (27:01) Measuring productivity and reliability (30:59) Diversity...
Mar 06, 2024•53 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kunal Agarwal of Unravel Data.
Mar 04, 2024•5 min
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Tony's background and research focus (3:35) Challenges in academia and industry (6:15) Ph.D. student's routine (10:47) Academic paper review process (15:26) Aha moments in research (20:05) Academic lab structure (23:09) The decision to move from hardware to data research (24:43) Research focus on time series data management (27:40) Data modeling in time series and OLAP systems (32:01) Issues and potential solutions for parquet format (37:32) Role...
Feb 28, 2024•51 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tony Wang of Stanford University.
Feb 26, 2024•3 min
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...
Feb 21, 2024•57 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Peter Chapman, a GTM consultant.
Feb 19, 2024•6 min
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...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rishabh Bhargava of refuel.
Feb 12, 2024•4 min
