Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Alex’s background working for NSA and starting a company (1:51) The Gretel.ai journey (9:30) Defining synthetic data (13:26) The evolution of AI in deep learning data and language learning (16:28) The properties of synthetic data (21:31) Boundaries between synthetic data and prediction models (25:52) The developer experience in Gretel.ai (36:44) Stewardship and expansion of deep learning models in the future (45:36) Final thoughts and takeaways (...
Mar 01, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai.
Feb 27, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Alex’s background in the data space (2:41) Comics and Pop Culture Blending with Finance training (5:20) What is a data lake house? (7:36) What is Dremio solving in for users? (11:21) Essential components of a data lake house (16:35) Difference between on-prem and cloud experiences (33:53) What does it mean to be a developer advocate? (41:31) Final thoughts and takeaways (49:02) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the C...
Feb 22, 2023•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Merced of Dremio.
Feb 20, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Spenser’s journey to Co-Founding Amplitude (3:02) Looking back over the last decade of success at Amplitude (8:31) Going from Engineer to Sales (14:41) Comparing product analytics and general analytics (20:11) How cloud data warehousing has impacted analytics (31:38) Providing an out-of-the-box experience for consumers (41:12) Final thoughts and takeaways (54:27) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for develope...
Feb 15, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Spenser Skates of Amplitude Analytics.
Feb 13, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Jeff’s background at Netflix and Stripe leading him to Abbey Labs (2:22) What Abbey is solving in the space (5:16) Tackling permissions in an organization (7:30) Opportunities to improve the availability of data (10:14) The challenge of tackling a new problem area at a new company (14:59) What is the most common challenges in the identity and security space (18:43) Importance of identity and the ability to track it in data (22:46) Connecting all ...
Feb 08, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jeff Chao of Abbey Labs,
Feb 06, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pedram’s journey into the world of data (4:05) What should the datastack at an early-stage startup look like? (9:53) New ideas surrounding access control for data (24:45) What can data teams learn around complexity from software engineering (30:55) Scaling up instead of scaling out in processing data (37:40) Why DuckDB is making so much noise in the market (41:06) Final thoughts and takeaways (53:25) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powere...
Feb 01, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedram Navid of West Marin Data.
Jan 30, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Stavros’ journey into data and founding TileDB (3:12) What problem was TileDB going to solve? (12:05) Defining database systems (21:35) What part of database architecture is TileDB? (31:58) Storage engine solutions (42:37) What does the API look like in using TileDB? (50:40) What makes genomics unique in working with data (55:28) Final thoughts and takeaways (1:06:46) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for dev...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Stavros Papadopoulos of TileDB, Inc.
Jan 23, 2023•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Joran’s background leading him from accounting to coding (3:10) What is Tiger Beetle? (5:53) Double-entry accounting and why it is important for a database (12:28) The need for low latency and high throughput (26:27) Why financial database software needs a laser focus (29:01) What are people using to implement a double-entry system? (36:09) Safety in financial software and addressing storage faults (40:26) Final thoughts and takeaways (55:52) The...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle.
Jan 16, 2023•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Defining data flow (2:31) Are there limitations in timely data flow operation and/or building operators? (8:20) Areas of incremental computation that are having an impact today (17:10) Building a library vs building a product (24:06) Combining delight and empathy into a focus (27:52) Final thoughts and takeaways (32:42) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, ...
Jan 11, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: What is Materialize? (2:43) Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22) The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20) The MVP for databases (33:49) Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03) Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25) The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) Final takeaways and previewing part two of the convers...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming two-part conversation with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry of Materialize.
Jan 02, 2023•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
Dec 28, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Zack’s extensive background in the world of data and the genesis of Zing (3:02) Working on relevance, feeds, and ads at Facebook & LinkedIn (9:20) Exploring BI and queries on mobile devices (16:48) Reliance of input quality in data (23:28) Delivering a mobile-first experience in BI (30:11) Limitations of visualization on mobile devices (34:00) How BI tools interact with one another in Zing (45:21) The future of user-experience in consuming data (...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zach Hendlin of Zing Data.
Dec 19, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Taylor’s journey into data (3:09) What’s been going on at Meltano recently? (7:28) Addressing basic problems in data even with advancements in technology (12:23) What makes Meltano unique in the space (16:53) Why the CLI experience is important (25:37) Quality vs quantity in supporting connectors (35:51) What does data ops look like for Meltano (46:44) Takeaways and closing thoughts (52:56) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by Rudde...
Dec 14, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Taylor Murphy of Meltano.
Dec 12, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Aron’s background in the world of data (2:18) Recent Clients and major projects (3:30) Helping to spearhead data-driven growth at Salesforce (6:50) Stories about Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce (16:12) Biggest learnings as a consultant in the data strategy space (17:58) The need for data democratization (23:33) Advice for Aron’s younger self in consulting (28:45) Current trends in data democratization and sales service (35:01) Aron’s favor...
Dec 07, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer.
Dec 05, 2022•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ashwin’s background in the data space (2:43) The unique nature of working with data in finance (7:32) Technological challenges of working in the finance data space (13:55) The third-party data factor and judging if it is reliable enough (17:07) What made Ashwin decide to go out and build his own company? (31:47) Defining data decay and data storing and why both are important (37:52) Advice on the importance of data quality (42:10) Final takeaways...
Nov 30, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ashwin Kamath of Spectre.
Nov 28, 2022•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Max’s career journey (2:54) Going from a small startup to a big enterprise (11:15) Dynamics of a switchboard operator (17:09) Common threads through different companies (20:53) When data is not the answer (26:57) The evolution of CDP (29:38) Data sources to include in a CDP (35:16) Working with event data (37:19) Max’s take on other tools (41:18) The cutting edge in data (43:09) Building your data company in an evolving environment (49:28) Find M...
Nov 23, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting.
Nov 21, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the topic of streaming.
Nov 18, 2022•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ryan’s background and career journey (2:49) Quine and where it came from (4:36) Graph databases 101 (7:17) Use cases for graph databases (13:44) Purposes for graphs (22:27) How to use Quine (31:49) Quine’s performance and scale (43:06) Educating users about a new product (49:13) The team that would optimize Quine (52:23) When graph will gain popularity (56:15) Quine: https://quine.io/ The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
