The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Chase’s journey to where he is today (0:51) Lessons in go-to-market roles which helps in the VC world (2:38) Differentiating between go-to-market and distribution (8:13) Taking an idea to the market (11:33) Hardest part of the pitch (17:08) Playbooks for go-to-market founders to follow (20:25) Focus of sales and marketing in go-to-market strategy (...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Introducing the team from Featureform (0:31) In the work vs. leading the work (3:01) Difference between MLOps and data ops (7:06) The MLOps cycle (10:12) What is Featureform and what makes it different? (13:30) Is there another layer needed in feature stores? (18:46) Getting in touch with Featureform (23:55) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Eric’s journey to becoming CEO of Decoable (0:20) Does real time matter? (2:12) Differences in stream processing systems (7:57) Processing in motion (13:04) Why haven’t there been more open source projects around CDC? (20:34) The Decodable experience and future focuses for the company (24:31) Streaming processing and data lakes (32:54) Data flow pr...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Origins of OtterTune (4:43) The problem of knob tuning (6:25) Roles of machine learning (9:32) OtterTune’s development and industry recognition (12:03) The challenges of database tuning and the role of human expertise (16:15) Tuning in production (20:23) Observability and Data Collection (23:37) Data Security and Privacy (29:59) Optimizing on-prem...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with with Andy Pavlo and Dana Van Aken of OtterTune. 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 journey of H.O. into data and becoming the CEO of FeatureBase (2:37) Characteristics of the super evolution in technology (6:36) ChatGPT as the missionary of AI (9:45) The tension between authenticity and technology (13:12) What is FeatureBase? (17:53) Comparing FeatureBase to feature stores (25:58) Workload capacities and possibilities in Feat...

On this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with H.O. Maycotte of FeatureBase. 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: Sammy’s background in data and tooling (2:46) Going from multipurpose engineering to a CTO position (5:14)  Changes in technology and deep learning models (7:31) The state of self-driving and adoption (13:49) What is Eventual and what are they solving in the space? (20:54) What are daft and data frame and how they work? (28:11) Building a query opt...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual. 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: Chad’s background in data (2:10) Breaking down data quality (4:02) Semantic and logical layers of data (10:04) What are data contracts and how do they work? (17:41) Implicit contracts at companies (24:01) Where do data contracts fit in data infrastructure? (28:14) The value of data contracts to the producer and consumer (31:18) Tools needed in effe...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Chad Sanderson of Data Quality Camp. 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: Defining CDPs (2:28) The data team's role in marketing (7:41) Leveraging commonalities across businesses (12:49) Building a CDP with customer data (18:05) Challenges in identity modeling (23:00) CDP lifecycle and one-to-one data (30:06) Segmentation and optimization (33:23) Real-time data in the cloud (40:37) The future of AI and machine learning (...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jason Davis of Simon Data. 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: Vijay’s background in data (2:09) The journey of founding ThoughtSpot and its impact in the world of BI (2:49) The maturation of BI (6:34) What is NetSpring.io? (8:21) Bridging the gap of BI and product analytics (14:41)  Why data warehouses and not time-series databases? (19:58) The difficulty of using SQL in product analytics (28:35) Challenges i...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vijay Ganesan of NetSpring.io. 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: David’s background and journey to Timescale (2:12) What are time series databases? (14:13) How Timescale would have impacted David’s trajectory early in his career (17:51) Innovation in postgreSQL (21:02) Why does Timescale build their timeseries databases differently? (27:08) The challenges of building a new database on top of an old software (32:...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Kohn of Timescale. 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: Alex’s background working for NSA and starting a company (1:51) The Gretel.ai journey (9:30) Defining synthetic data (13:26) The evolution of AI in deep learning data and language learning (16:28) The properties of synthetic data (21:31) Boundaries between synthetic data and prediction models (25:52) The developer experience in Gretel.ai (36:44) St...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai. 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: Alex’s background in the data space (2:41) Comics and Pop Culture Blending with Finance training (5:20) What is a data lake house? (7:36) What is Dremio solving in for users? (11:21) Essential components of a data lake house (16:35) Difference between on-prem and cloud experiences (33:53) What does it mean to be a developer advocate? (41:31) Final...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Merced of Dremio. 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: Spenser’s journey to Co-Founding Amplitude (3:02) Looking back over the last decade of success at Amplitude (8:31) Going from Engineer to Sales (14:41) Comparing product analytics and general analytics (20:11) How cloud data warehousing has impacted analytics (31:38) Providing an out-of-the-box experience for consumers (41:12) Final thoughts and ta...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Spenser Skates of Amplitude Analytics. 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: Jeff’s background at Netflix and Stripe leading him to Abbey Labs (2:22) What Abbey is solving in the space (5:16) Tackling permissions in an organization (7:30) Opportunities to improve the availability of data (10:14) The challenge of tackling a new problem area at a new company (14:59) What is the most common challenges in the identity and secur...

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