The Data Stack Show

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...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree. 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: When is it right to use ML? (5:22) ML business models (10:21) Significant changes in delivering ML (19:07) Why ML is different (25:19) SQL becoming more important (34:39) Graduating from SQL-based to real-time (37:22) Space for a new role (45:11) State-of-the-art models (49:03) The most exciting thing in the ML space (53:59) Open source in ML (56:3...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming live stream episode featuring Willem Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual. 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: James’ role at Great Expectations (2:33) What Great Expectations does (5:49) How Great Expectations approaches data quality (7:01) Why a data engineer should use Great Expectations (16:41) Defining “data quality” (19:16) Translating expectations from one domain to the other (27:00) Community around Great Expectations (30:59) The user experience (33...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with James Campbell at Superconductive. 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: Vinoth’s background and career journey (3:08) Defining “data lakehouse” (5:10) Databricks versus lake houses (13:37) The services a lakehouse needs (17:37) How to communicate technical details (26:55) Onehouse’s product vision (31:41) Lakehouse performance versus BigQuery solutions (36:44) How to deliver customer experience equally (40:17) How to s...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoth Chandar of Apache Hudi. 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: Eric’s background and career journey (3:30) Presenting to people without knowledge of AI (11:04) Why math was chosen over AI (19:03) From compilers to databases (25:42) The contribution of category theory (30:09) The Connexus customer experience (37:45) The primary user of Connexus (46:33) Interacting with 300,000 databases (51:07) When Connexus be...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Eric Damlier of Conexus 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: Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00) Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23) Being close to the money in data (9:50) Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00) Defining “data organization” (17:53) The first roles you should hire for (22:06) Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44) One role to bridge different needs (27:26) Why data analysts are nee...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Emilie Schario from Amplify Partners. 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: Prateek’s background and career journey (2:10) The lack of advanced data tools for the physical world (4:55) Dealing with data from the physical world (10:53) Stocks in the physical world (14:20) What it takes to execute this kind of project (19:05) Challenges around this infrastructure (25:56) ML tools that are useful in this environment (31:55) P...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Prateek Joshi. 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: Nick’s background and career journey (2:40) What Transform does (5:53) Metrics layer vs. metrics store (8:04) Signals vs. metrics (13:24) The user of a metric layer (14:34) Using Transform within an organization (17:05) How to fuse two sources into a metric (23:54) Currently supported databases (28:46) Community engagement (31:33) Optimizing for qu...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Nick Hansel from Transform. 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: Bary’s background and Hex (3:05) Reconciling two sides of data (9:16) Collaboration at Hex (15:10) What it takes to build something like Hex (20:02) Defining “commitment engineering” (26:01) How to begin working with Hex (30:56) Hex customers and uniqueness (40:31) The future in a world of data acquisition (45:30) Crossover between analytics and ML...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies. 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: Kevin’s background and career journey (1:54) Metaplane and the problem that is solves (6:47) The silence of data problems (9:53) Data physics work that requires more (13:35) Trusting data when bugs are present (19:12) Building a navigable experience (22:36) Developing anomaly detection (30:06) What Metaplane provides today (35:05) Metaplane’s plans...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kevin Hu of Metaplane. 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: Tejas’ background and career journey (2:49, 43:04) Digital collaboration with Netflix Drive (7:57) A formal version control component (23:44) Centralized store vs. local affairs (31:05) The different skill sets a data engineer needs (37:38) How to get into data engineering (40:57) New technologies coming into day-to-day work (44:39) The Data Stack...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tejas Chopra of Netflix. 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: How we should think about batch versus streaming (6:02) Defining “streaming ETL” (9:34) A brief history of streaming processing platforms (22:07) The birth and evolution of Benthos (28:41) What led Jeff to build a new tool (34:29) Why you shouldn’t share all the data (37:23) Making streaming technologies approachable to engineers (42:09) Breaking o...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming livestream panel talking about all things streaming. Don't miss next week's episode with experts from Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize and Benthos 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: Ahmed’s background and career journey (2:27) Why the modern data stack “sucks” (4:53) The limitations of progress (9:13) Showing data with only 11 columns (11:55) Managing one table that rules them all (19:02) Viewing the world as timestamped activities (32:40) When this model becomes harder to use (35:15) The two parts you need in a company (44:41...