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50: From Data Infrastructure to Data Management with Ananth Packkildurai

Aug 25, 202159 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Highlights from this week’s episode:

  • Ananth’s background (2:51)
  • The evolution of Slack (4:54)
  • Kafka and Presto’s two of the most reliable and flexible tools for Ananth (9:43)
  • How Snowflake gained an advantage over Presto (13:24)
  • Opinions about data lakes (17:23)
  • Core features of data infrastructure (23:22)
  • The tools define the process, and not the other way around (31:30)
  • Defining a data mesh (36:44)
  • Data is inherently social in nature (40:31)
  • Lessons learned from writing Data Engineering Weekly (49:14)

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.

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