Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Big News: podcast hits, Kostas’ career change (2:19) Kostas’ career start in data pipelines (4:09) The Winamp and Napster era (11:46) Starting an API gateway (16:56) Observing new technology from afar (23:43) Starting Blendo (32:38) Problems faced in architecting the product (37:12) Kostas’ role at Starburst (40:25) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, anal...
Feb 09, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show.
Feb 04, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Paige’s career path (2:44) Paige’s role and responsibilities at Netlify (6:38) Sharing data insights (8:55) Scope in the context of delivering an insight (12:39) Defining “insight” (15:10) Where the client journey begins (16:43) Miscommunication because of vague terminology (20:06) Netlify’s internal knowledge repository (23:01) Breaking down Netlify’s hub and spoke model (30:45) What data tools to use and when (35:21) The metric layer and BI (44...
Feb 02, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the PRQL, Eric and Kostas discuss tooling as they preview the upcoming show with Paige Berry of Netlify.
Jan 28, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Douwe’s career journey (3:04) The missing piece in GitLab’s data tooling (7:35) The open-source offering in the data space (12:38) Singer’s connection with Meltano (22:31) How Meltano manages connectors on a diverse codebase (35:21) The data house side of Meltano (39:47) Data house operating versus Airflow (44:06) Meltano’s vision present today (47:02) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each we...
Jan 26, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show featuring Douwe Maan of Meltano.
Jan 21, 2022•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Jimmy’s career background (3:01) How to use Data cubes (5:52) What Dropbase is and who it is built for (11:01) Getting sales and marketing data in usable formats (16:46) Ensuring data remains flexible and transferable (28:36) Defining what “offline data” is and how to use it (34:09) How Dropbase can work with the rest of the data stack (43:30) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll ...
Jan 19, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming conversation with Jimmy Chan of Dropbase.
Jan 14, 2022•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Vinoth’s career background (3:19) Building a data lake at Uber (6:52) Defining what a data lake is (14:01) How data warehouses differ from data lakes (22:46) When you should utilize an open source solution in your datastack (37:36) Evolving from a data warehouse to a data lake (45:09) Early wins Hudi earned inside of Uber (52:30) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data e...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show as they talk about data lakes and data warehouses and why these are important.
Jan 07, 2022•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Panel introductions and backgrounds (2:55) What the modern data stack means to each of our panelists (5:04) Defining the fundamental components of a modern data stack (17:22) How the modern stack drives insights and actions for businesses (28:03) Getting to a uniform definition to the modern stack (33:45) Managing the modernization of a large scale data stack (39:09) How testing works in the dbt context (48:44) The relationship between the data w...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show where they discuss the modern data stack with some of the top experts in the industry.
Dec 31, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Eric and Kostas look back over the great topics and guests from season three of the Data Stack Show. 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 ...
Dec 29, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31) Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04) How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35) Defining data quality (14:07) The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36) Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09) How to work with unstructured data in a meaningful way (47:44) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by...
Dec 22, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show by talking about data quality.
Dec 21, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00) How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04) When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35) What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07) Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14) The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09) Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25) The unique challenge of Fintech vs other cons...
Dec 15, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the PRQL this week, Eric and Kostas bring in some of the Rudderstack engineering team to discuss data pipelines and preview episode 66 of the Data Stack Show.
Dec 10, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Aayush’s career background (4:13) How his biological sciences academic training impacts his work (8:04) How do we allow dashboards to get messy? (9:35) Building cultural or technical solutions to effective dashboards (15:19) Using data dashboards to make material business improvements (23:19) What is business observability? (32:23) Building a platform for operations teams (43:15) How important community is to the cliff.ai business proposition (41...
Dec 08, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this show PRQL, Eric and Kostas talk about the evolution of the role of a data engineer and preview the conversation with Aayush Jain.
Dec 03, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Announcement: Data Stack Live! (1:00) Michel’s career background (4:13) Solving the technical and process challenges of moving data (7:04) Lessons learned from managing data at Live Ramp (9:35) How to build a modern data stack (16:19) Triggers to signal when more data infrastructure is needed (23:19) Why Airbyte is an open-source product (30:23) Airbyte’s role in providing support to open-source problems (38:15) How important DPT is for the Airby...
Dec 01, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Michel Tricot.
Nov 26, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Ciaran Dynes, the Chief Product Officer at Matillion, a powerful and easy-to-use, completely cloud-capable ETL/ELT solution.
Nov 24, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's PRQL, Kostas and Eric preview their upcoming conversation with Ciaran Dynes of Matillion.
Nov 19, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47) Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44) Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47) Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28) What makes IoT unique (23:56) Killing the SQL server (29:11) What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13) 5G, L...
Nov 17, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix, Inc.
Nov 12, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kevin’s interaction with data at an early age (2:35) Working with telecom data (5:08) Analyzing emojis in customer sentiment (8:44) Infrastructure needed for diverse data (12:22) Building better interfaces and looking out for human error (24:17) Dealing with differences in identities in different layers of the stack (41:21) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data enginee...
Nov 10, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nov 08, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas break down further topics from episode 60 about stream processing and open source projects.
Nov 05, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: A brief overview of Ashley’s background (2:47) Benthos’ creation and the problems it was meant to address (4:01) Use cases for Benthos (18:25) Key features of Benthos that make it stand out (22:23) Adding windowing to Benthos for fun (29:23) The highs and lows of maintaining an open source project for five years (32:17) The architecture of Benthos (36:23) The importance of ordering in streaming processing (42:15) Gaining traction with an open sou...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's debrief, Kostas and Eric talk about the variety of open source projects that come from Facebook.
Oct 29, 2021•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
