The Data Stack Show

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Ahmed Elsamadisi of Narrator 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: Viren’s background and career journey (2:23) Engineering challenges in Netflix transitions (6:05) How Conductor changed the process (9:30) Building a lot more microservices (16:04) Open sourcing Conductor (17:38) Defining “orchestration” (22:05) Using an orchestrator written in Java (31:04) Building a cloud service around microservices (34:59) Diff...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of Orkes. 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: Tristan’s background and career journey (2:43) Updating old technology (11:40) Defining “data observability” (18:44) The primary user of a data observability tool (29:56) Handling an incident (33:01) Why multipliers for data observability (37:06) Early symptoms of a data drift (43:12) Tuning in the context of data engineering (50:11) What keeps Tri...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tristan Spaulding of Acceldata. 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: Cindi’s career journey (2:36) Major shifts in analytics (6:34) Where we are in formation of the modern analytics cloud (9:07) The process of moving into the cloud (11:01) How to accelerate the digital transformation (17:29) Common patterns amongst company cultures (19:42) Data regulations affecting change (22:34) ThoughtSpot customer base (24:06) T...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot and Host of The Data Chief Podcast. 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: Guest introductions (1:02) Defining data quality (4:08) Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33) Differentiating observability and data quality (17:53) Who should care about quality in the organization (26:55) Why this is still a valid conversation (35:44) The jurisdiction of various components (45:39) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podc...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Barr’s background and career journey (2:12) Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47) Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41) Defining data accuracy and reliability (17:36) How much can be done with standardization (22:27) How to avoid frustration when generating data about data (25:49) Defining “resolution” (28:59) Understanding the concept of SLA...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo. 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 Gabriel got into data (1:54) What Carto is (5:28) Location data vs spatial data (6:37) Time data vs space data (7:50) System supports for spatial data (9:50) Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19) Who uses Carto and why (15:52) What’s coming for Carto (19:15) What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22) The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52) The Data St...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pete’s start in data and Data Council (2:01) Learning more from failure (6:42) Shaping terminology and definitions (9:30) What investors look for in data technology (12:43) Working as a data engineer (16:32) Data Council takeaways (18:16) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: How James got started in data (2:42) What makes PostHog different (10:43) Why we need product analytics (13:40) Capturing and collecting data (15:17) Dealing with drift on a platform like PostHog (19:45) Starting from the metrics versus events (22:50) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s background and career journey (2:13) The birth of Great Expectations (5:02) Defining software engineering (9:38) Adopting open source products (13:04) Working in data versus healthcare (18:01) What's next for Great Expectations (20:29) The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ben’s career journey (2:55) What makes Firebolt different (3:58) Firebolt’s data product family (7:37) Table engines and Firebolt (10:57) Ben’s favorite part of ClickHouse (12:52) The experience of building an optimizer (15:19) Where Firebolt fits into architecture (17:27) Working in the data space: to love and dislike (19:51) Coming soon in the ne...

Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Don't miss our livestream event on April 27 as we talk about all things Data Quality with some of the best in the business. 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: Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34) Why analytics are hard (7:28) Defining “data management” (11:47) Defining “data virtualization” (15:57) The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34) Where a company should invest first (21:40) Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19) How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53) G...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium. 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: Max’s career journey and role today (2:56) Hitting the limits of traditional BI (11:06) The most influential technology (14:34) Merging with BI and visualization (17:35) Two thoughts on real-time (21:02) Defining BI (24:53) How many have actually achieved self-serve BI (29:54) How preset.io fits in the BI architecture of today (32:36) How to use pr...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.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: Robert’s background and career journey (2:21) How studying languages influences database work (5:13) Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ years (7:50) Explaining the ClickHouse database (10:43) How ClickHouse is able to focus on latency (13:39) The use cases behind ClickHouse (19:19) How ClickHouse is different than other databases (2...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Robert Hodges of Altinity. 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: Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16) Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21) What Atlan does (11:53) The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25) How to create a company’s first data team (18:13) Defining “agile data” (22:01) The necessity of data ops (26:36) The minimum data stack needed (29:16) Data team size (3...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.