The PRQL: Graph as a Utility
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ryan Wright of thatDot.
Episodes
The Data Stack Show
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.
Episodes
Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around experiences at the Coalesce conference in New Orleans.
112: Python Native Stream Processing with Zander Matheson of bytewax
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Zander’s background and career journey (2:32) Introducing bytewax (5:16) The difference between systems (10:57) Bytewax’s most common use cases (16:15) How bytewax integrates with other systems (20:25) The technology that makes up bytewax (24:31) Comparing bytewax to other systems (34:17) What’s next for bytewax (36:31) Try it out: bytewax.io The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll t...
The PRQL: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zander Matheson of bytewax.
Shop Talk: The Business of Data Infrastructure is Uniquely Challenging
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop surrounding data infrastructure.
111: What if Your Code Just Ran in the Cloud for You? Featuring Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Erik’s background and career journey (2:51) Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35) The people side of hypergrowth (12:36) Coding competitions (17:50) Introducing Modal Labs (19:02) How Erik got into building Modal (21:45) The employee experience at Modal (28:09) How a data engineering team would use Modal (31:21) What it takes to build a platform like Modal (36:27) What makes Modal different (42:49) Evolution coming for the data ...
The PRQL: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs.
110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35) Defining “data discovery” (6:03) The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45) Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38) Why Select Star is needed (17:35) How Select Star uses metadata (21:02) Exposing data queries (27:04) Composing queries into metadata (33:27) Automating BI tools (37:28) Limits to data governance (41:39) Maintaining economies of scale (48:56) The Data Stack Show is a weekl...
Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases.
The PRQL: What is Data Discovery?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star.
109: How Does Headless Business Intelligence Work? Featuring Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov of Cube Dev
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The context of Headless BI (3:31) What Cube Dev does (9:24) How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03) An analysis of LookML (18:04) User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40) Who manages data artifacts (25:22) Taking care of the developer experience (30:37) Levels of performance (30:37) Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47) Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38) Roles within a data organization (48:55) How Cube Dev impacts visual...
Shop Talk: Will the Future of the Customer Data Platform Include a Shared Logic Layer?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.
The PRQL: What Comes to Mind When You Think of ‘Headless’?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov of CubeJS.
108: You Can’t Separate Data Reliability From Workflow with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Gleb’s background and career journey (2:51) The adoption problems (10:53) How Datafold solves these problems (18:08) The vision for Datafold (26:27) Incorporating Datafold as a data engineer (38:53) The importance of the data engineer (42:12) Something to keep in mind when designing data tools (46:46) Implementing new technology into your company (53:18) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each ...
Shop Talk: Is It Possible for Excel To Die?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.
The PRQL: Are Marketers the Worst Data Quality Offenders?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold.
107: Building Modern Data Teams with dbt Labs, REI, and Robinhood
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Introducing our guests (3:05) Defining “data team” (4:40) How data teams emerge and evolve (14:11) The need that forces the creation of a data team (21:12) The backbone of the data team (26:23) Building a career within a data team (36:39) Advice for new data team managers (47:35) Question and answer time (52:38) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts...
Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Transitioning From Consumer to Builder
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop regarding transitioning from consumer to builder.
The PRQL: What Can We Learn From the Patterns of Successful Data Teams?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion around the topic of building data teams.
106: Optimizing Query Workloads (and Your Snowflake Bill) with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Vinoo’s background and career journey (2:43) How to benchmark cost (7:54) How Bluesky addresses rising Snowflake bills (14:01) “Workload” as defined by Bluesky (17:14) Space for BI optimization (22:55) How products manage bill growth (28:34) How to optimize your workloads (35:37) Bluesky’s partnerships (39:53) Getting real-time feedback on your work (44:50) Where to begin reevaluating your Snowflake game (50:47) The Data Stack Show is a weekly po...
Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Data Politicians
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk about data politicians in this new special show format.
The PRQL: Comparing Snowflake to a Car
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data.
105: The Modern Data Stack Is Just Getting Started with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03) How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25) Defining “modern data stack” (8:39) The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44) How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15) Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17) Signs you should do a product integration (33:38) The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19) The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55) How important open sou...
The PRQL: Kostas Becomes a Prophet
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital.
104: A Decade of Change in the Data Space with Benn Stancil of Mode
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Benn’s background and career journey (2:28) The problem Benn sought to solve (4:48) Data engineering a decade ago (9:58) Technology inside vs. outside Silicon Valley (18:11) What’s next for data (24:42) Mode’s evolution and journey (29:31) Challenges of getting enough context to create (39:21) Current trends that won’t see long-term benefits (48:44) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week ...
The PRQL: What Does 10 Years in the Data Space Give You?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode.
103: Everyone Is Invited to the Data Lakehouse with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kyle’s background and career journey (2:38) Unique challenges in building data engineering products (9:33) The problem set Databricks resolves (13:46) About Onehouse (17:15) From Microsoft to Onehouse (20:59) Why there’s so much distance between data powers (24:45) Why the data lake is not enough (30:15) Who should have a lake house (39:03) Why we have all three data platforms (43:53) How to step into the data lake house world (49:48) The Data St...
The PRQL: Who Really Needs To Know How a DBMS Works?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai.
102: Building Pinot for Real-Time, Interactive User Analytics with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree
Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kishore’s background and career journey (2:30) Internal analytics versus user-facing analytics (3:49) New ways of thinking about analytics (8:06) What makes Pinot different (13:45) How Pinot transforms systems (21:53) Understanding the data landscape (32:40) The Pinot user experience (36:27) Something exciting about StarTree (40:05) When you should adopt this technology (43:15) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the C...
The PRQL: Data Warehouses on Steroids
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree.