Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Guest introductions (1:02) Defining data quality (4:08) Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33) Differentiating observability and data quality (17:53) Who should care about quality in the organization (26:55) Why this is still a valid conversation (35:44) The jurisdiction of various components (45:39) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts...
May 11, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Barr’s background and career journey (2:12) Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47) Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41) Defining data accuracy and reliability (17:36) How much can be done with standardization (22:27) How to avoid frustration when generating data about data (25:49) Defining “resolution” (28:59) Understanding the concept of SLAs (33:25) Building a company for a category that doesn’t exist yet (37:40) What it looks like to use...
May 04, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo.
May 02, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How Gabriel got into data (1:54) What Carto is (5:28) Location data vs spatial data (6:37) Time data vs space data (7:50) System supports for spatial data (9:50) Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19) Who uses Carto and why (15:52) What’s coming for Carto (19:15) What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22) The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to...
Apr 29, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pete’s start in data and Data Council (2:01) Learning more from failure (6:42) Shaping terminology and definitions (9:30) What investors look for in data technology (12:43) Working as a data engineer (16:32) Data Council takeaways (18:16) 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 maintainin...
Apr 28, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How James got started in data (2:42) What makes PostHog different (10:43) Why we need product analytics (13:40) Capturing and collecting data (15:17) Dealing with drift on a platform like PostHog (19:45) Starting from the metrics versus events (22:50) 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 a...
Apr 27, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s background and career journey (2:13) The birth of Great Expectations (5:02) Defining software engineering (9:38) Adopting open source products (13:04) Working in data versus healthcare (18:01) What's next for Great Expectations (20:29) 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 maintai...
Apr 26, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s career journey (2:55) What makes Firebolt different (3:58) Firebolt’s data product family (7:37) Table engines and Firebolt (10:57) Ben’s favorite part of ClickHouse (12:52) The experience of building an optimizer (15:19) Where Firebolt fits into architecture (17:27) Working in the data space: to love and dislike (19:51) Coming soon in the near future (24:35) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for develo...
Apr 25, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin.
Apr 22, 2022•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Don't miss our livestream event on April 27 as we talk about all things Data Quality with some of the best in the business.
Apr 21, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34) Why analytics are hard (7:28) Defining “data management” (11:47) Defining “data virtualization” (15:57) The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34) Where a company should invest first (21:40) Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19) How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53) Giving context to data (35:14) Cataloging: background, at Promethium, future (39:29) Who uses data ca...
Apr 20, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium.
Apr 15, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Max’s career journey and role today (2:56) Hitting the limits of traditional BI (11:06) The most influential technology (14:34) Merging with BI and visualization (17:35) Two thoughts on real-time (21:02) Defining BI (24:53) How many have actually achieved self-serve BI (29:54) How preset.io fits in the BI architecture of today (32:36) How to use preset.io to expose analytics (35:23) The analytics process to power something like embedded (42:45) O...
Apr 13, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.io.
Apr 08, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Robert’s background and career journey (2:21) How studying languages influences database work (5:13) Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ years (7:50) Explaining the ClickHouse database (10:43) How ClickHouse is able to focus on latency (13:39) The use cases behind ClickHouse (19:19) How ClickHouse is different than other databases (25:47) Why old problems are just now getting addressed (29:04) How ClickHouse works with others again...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Robert Hodges of Altinity.
Apr 01, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16) Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21) What Atlan does (11:53) The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25) How to create a company’s first data team (18:13) Defining “agile data” (22:01) The necessity of data ops (26:36) The minimum data stack needed (29:16) Data team size (31:58) Where to start when you need to make adjustments (34:51) Collaborate with different parts of t...
Mar 30, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan.
Mar 25, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Panel introductions (2:23) What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24) The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34) How to decide system management vs. user flexibility (20:14) Why previous products failed in creating this category (29:12) Increased demand and democratization of datastack skills via SaaS (42:03) Broader applications for Reverse ETL (47:29) Limitations of Reverse ETL (55:05) How user technical a...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack.
Mar 18, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Che’s background and career journey (4:23) Coherence between hemispheres in the human brain (6:58) Raising Airbnb above primitive AB testing technology (8:54) Economic thinking in Airbnb’s data science practice (14:24) Dealing with multiple pipelines (16:48) Eppo’s role in recognizing statistically significant data (20:01) Defining “experiment” (23:25) Types of experiments (25:57) The workflow journey (27:18) Dealing with metric silos (34:21) Why...
Mar 16, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Che Sharma of geteppo.com.
Mar 11, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Boris’ background career journey (2:32) The origins of “reverse ETL” (6:39) Reverse Fivetran (16:35) Product as an experience (22:41) Fivetran users vs Census users (24:14) How to add value to a data dump (26:56) Ways companies are creating IP (33:48) The cascade effect of the modern data stack (37:56) Defining “data federation” (43:51) Lessons from building a product (49:10) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Borris Jabes of Census.
Mar 04, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Verl’s career journey (2:46) M&A data evaluation criteria (7:12) What Claravine does (10:48) The breadth of data (15:03) Adding to content and advertising data (18:22) How Claravine standardizes data (23:53) Designing a data model (25:40) The underlying technologies of building a product (33:43) The main consumer (35:02) Maintaining quality (39:06) Helping solidify definitions (41:37) Implementing Claravine’s model across various companies (44:54...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Verl Allen of Claravine.
Feb 25, 2022•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Sean’s career journey (3:27) Optimization and localized testing results (7:49) Denying potential access to more data (13:46) Other dimensions data has (18:32) The other side of capturing events (20:55) Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03) SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40) How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38) Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08) Communicating about data (38:36) The next phase...
Feb 23, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show with Sean Halliburton of Warnermedia.
Feb 18, 2022•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Par’s background and current role (2:48) About Talend (6:46) Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08) What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37) Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59) Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39) Curiosity and data engineering (38:31) Defining the modern data stack (45:07) How to get a feel for data engineering (52:52) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP ...
Feb 16, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.io.
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