Monday Morning Data Chat

Benn Stancil joins the show to chat about 2024 predictions, how GenAI impacts product development, writing, and more. Please note - there were some Internet problems with Benn's audio once in a while in the talk.

Dave Langer returns to the show to chat about Python in Excel, data science in SMBs without "data scientists", and much more

It's Joe and Matt today, taking listener questions and ranting about whatever's on their minds.

Alex Gallego (founder and CEO of Redpanda) joins the show to chat about the streaming data renaissance, why open formats for tiered storage is the future of data, and much more.

Mike Ferguson (Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies, Chairman of Big Data London) joins the show to chat about the top key trends he's seeing in in data management and analytics - GenAI, architecture modernization, FinOps, and much more.

Tristan Handy (CEO of dbt Labs ) joins the show to chat about the data tooling landscape, business moats, semantic layers, the data engineering ecosystem, and much more. We covered a ton of ground in an hour and probably could've kept going for another hour. Enjoy!

Sarah Nagy (CEO, Seek.ai) joins us to chat about automating analytics with generative AI, the generative AI space in general, and much more.

Dave McComb (Semantic Arts) is a pioneer in the use of knowledge graphs and semantics in data management. He joins to chat about these topics, and much more.

Kai Zenner joins us to chat about all things EU AI Act. If you've wanted to learn about this upcoming piece of critical regulation, tune in.

Nadine Farah joins the show to chat about Apache Hudi's core primitives: indexing, CDC, table services, faster UPSERTs, incremental processing framework, and more.

Yoav Cohen (co-founder & CTO at Satori) joins the show to chat about why data security is hard, strategies companies use to deal with analytics over sensitive data, security and compliance requirements that data teams need to meet, and much more.

Our favorite nerd sniper, Kevin Hu (CEO of Metaplane), joins the show to help us recap some major conferences we attended last week. Lots of data news, gossip, anecdotes, and more.

Why are semantics important for a data warehouse? Lukas Schulte joins us to chat about why semantics are important, the heterogeneity of data systems, how semantics relate to SQL compilers, his project SDF, and much more. Please be aware that this discussion will get into the nitty-gritty and technical weeds of all things data. #sql   #data   #datawarehouse

This is a bit of a different episode, but it's a topic that is long overdue for discussion. Between long hours sitting in front of a monitor, "hustle culture", and prevalent alcohol and drug use, our profession is literally killing us. The negative effects on health and wellness among techies are insane. We've seen our friends go to the ER from stress, diet, and lifestyle-related...

Matt Housley and Joe Reis chat about where data engineering is going, and take audience questions.

The data job market is certainly evolving. Matt, Chris, and Joe have a candid chat and AMA about career advice going into 2024.

Amit Prakash (CTO/Co-Founder of Thoughtspot) joins the show to chat about the future of generative AI in data analytics. Thoughtspot has been a leader in searchable analytics, and it will be interesting to get Amit's take on where the field of analytics is heading next.

Max Howell created Homebrew, one of the most popular open-source software (OSS) packages on the planet. He's also the founder of  tea.xyz , which is helping incentivize developers to pursue their OSS projects. In this episode, we chat about the realities and future of OSS, how developers can be remunerated for their OSS projects, and much more. Tea: tea.xyz

Aaron Hunsaker joins Matthew Housley and I to chat about data grifters, dealing with vendors, how data people should converse with "the business", and much more. Aaron doesn't hold back. Enjoy this very candid in-person chat.

Hala Nelson joins the show to chat writing books, teaching math, and much more. It's not often we get three math nerds, professors, and authors in the same conversation, and this is a lot of fun. Enjoy!

David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger (both from Estuary) join the show to do a deep dive into streaming data processing. We also cover how to scale change data capture (CDC) and where transformations belong in data pipelines. Estuary: https://estuary.dev/ Gazette: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Note - Joe's audio was having issues for this episode. Apologies.

Multiple products, versions, platforms, targets technologies, formats, and locales? How do you make sense of the "multiple of multiples" challenge from a technical perspective? The "language of the business" and data in all its structured, semi-structured, and 'unstructured' forms helps drive this home. John O'Gorman has world-class expertise in language, semantics,...

Brian Olsen joins us again to chat about why Apache Iceberg won the table format war. We also finish our chat from last time about Data Mesh. #dataengineering #datalake #datamesh

David Langer joins the show to chat about how programming languages for data science, BI teams have a unique advantage in helping introduce data science into their organizations.

Devin Petersohn (Modin, Ponder) knows a thing or two about dataframes, having done his PhD thesis on them, among other related achievements. We'll talk about all things dataframes, both high level and in the weeds. If you've ever wanted to learn about dataframes, this is the discussion for you.