The Data Stack Show

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 dat...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Simba’s background in the data space (3:05) Subscription intelligence (6:41) ML and Distributed Systems (9:09) The Brutal Subscription Industry (12:31) Serendipity in Recommender Systems (16:31) Subscription as a Strategy (20:47) Customizing Content for Subscribers (22:19) Creating User Embeddings (25:53) Building Featureform (28:01) Embedding Proj...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Simba Khadder of Featureform. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 dat...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Stipo and Rob’s background in data (2:43) What is Sigma? (7:46) Takeaways from building analytics products in-house (9:16) Sigma’s approach to datastore interface (11:32) Why analytics and BI are still not a solved problem (15:50) Combining SQL and spreadsheets for useful interface (23:17) The evolution of BI to today (29:40) Overcoming the challen...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 dat...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Scott’s background in martech (3:10) Where things have gone wrong between IT and marketing (5:46) The explosion of digital marketing data (12:04) Costs of having data siloed (16:14) The convergence of marketing and IT teams around data (19:27) Navigating the massive landscape of martech tools (26:10) Needed tools in the martech stack (31:11) The im...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Scott Brinker of HubSpot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ioannis’ background and journey in data (2:42) Rudderstack’s transformations feature and examples of its application (4:20) Winning the transformations contest at Rudderstack (7:21) How Ioannis’ transformation project works for data governance (9:40) Memories from college for Ioannis and Kostas (12:30) Getting into the world of software development...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ioannis Foukarakis of Mattermost. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Davor’s journey from Google and what he was building there (3:32) How work in stream processing changed Davor’s journey (5:10) Analytical predictive models and infrastructure (9:39) How Kaskada serves as a recommendation engine with data (14:05) Kaskada’s user experience as an event processing platform (20:06) Enhancing typical feature store archit...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Davor Bonaci of DataStax. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Aditya’s background and journey in the data space (2:47) What does Ponder do? (5:18) 101 on Pandas and why people utilize it (6:42) The challenge of translating Pandas to a big data platform (16:11) Data Warehouses and ML workflows (21:27) The differences in the “zoo” of data languages (26:56) Why do ML and data engineering have to be so different...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: A.J.’s background and journey in data (2:23) Challenges with Hadoop ecosystem (8:50) Starting InfinyOn and the need for innovation (10:02) Challenges with Kafka and Microservices (14:01) Real-time data streaming for IoT devices (19:28) Paradigm shift to real-time data processing (22:17) Benefits of Rust (29:45) Web Assembly and Platform Features (3...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with A.J. Hunyady, Founder and CEO of InfinyOn. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Josh’s background in data working at Google, Slack, and other companies (1:21) The need and process for high quality data (4:33) Digging into auction code (14:03) Joining Slack and working in the early days of the company (18:00) Not fighting the last war in data (25:42) Building a product, while using the product (30:35) Transitioning to the searc...

In this bonus episode, Eric previews his upcoming conversation with Josh Wills, an experienced data scientist who has worked with IBM, Google, Slack, DuckDB, and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Dhruba’s journey into the data space (2:02) The impact of Hadoop on the industry (3:37) Dhruba’s work in the early days of the Facebook team (7:54) Building and implementing RocksDB (14:33) Stories with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook (24:25) The next evolution in storage hardware (26:14) How Rockset is different from other real-time platforms (33:13)...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The origin story of Data Council (0:39) Developments for the future of Data Council (2:42) The emphasis of AI and ChatGPT at this year’s conference (3:54) The support of the data community (5:31) Biggest changes and innovations in the industry (7:10) What’s next for the Data Council? (10:46) Getting connected with Data Council (13:07) The Data Stac...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Gunner’s background in data (0:32) Setting the vision in early days of Red Hat and spearheading Debezium (6:20) Replication of data in Debezium (9:47) The patterns and processes of Debezium (16:21) Debezium working with Kafka (19:03) Building a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces (24:09) The importance of documentation in open-sour...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Michael’s journey to co-founding Tecton (0:22) The evolution of MLops and platform teams (3:50) Understanding boundaries between the data platform and the MLops (8:42) Differences in machine learning vs data pipelines (16:58) The systems needed to handle all these types of data (22:22) Developer experience in Tecton (25:15) Automating challenges in...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Will’s background in data (0:28) Privacy dynamics and data anonymization (4:18) Addressing data privacy problems in the space (10:33) Developer experience with Privacy Dynamics (13:49) How does Privacy Dynamics work? (21:09) Update of real-time anonymized data (26:29) The problem of dates and other complexities in data (31:24) Being a data engineer...