The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Panel introductions (2:23) What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24) The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34) How to decide system management vs. user flexibility (20:14) Why previous products failed in creating this category (29:12) Increased demand and democratization of datastack skills via SaaS (42:03)...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack. 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: Che’s background and career journey (4:23) Coherence between hemispheres in the human brain (6:58) Raising Airbnb above primitive AB testing technology (8:54) Economic thinking in Airbnb’s data science practice (14:24) Dealing with multiple pipelines (16:48) Eppo’s role in recognizing statistically significant data (20:01) Defining “experiment” (23...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Che Sharma of geteppo.com. 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: Boris’ background career journey (2:32) The origins of “reverse ETL” (6:39) Reverse Fivetran (16:35) Product as an experience (22:41) Fivetran users vs Census users (24:14) How to add value to a data dump (26:56) Ways companies are creating IP (33:48) The cascade effect of the modern data stack (37:56) Defining “data federation” (43:51) Lessons fro...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Borris Jabes of Census. 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: Verl’s career journey (2:46) M&A data evaluation criteria (7:12) What Claravine does (10:48) The breadth of data (15:03) Adding to content and advertising data (18:22) How Claravine standardizes data (23:53) Designing a data model (25:40) The underlying technologies of building a product (33:43) The main consumer (35:02) Maintaining quality (39:06)...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Verl Allen of Claravine. 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: Sean’s career journey (3:27) Optimization and localized testing results (7:49) Denying potential access to more data (13:46) Other dimensions data has (18:32) The other side of capturing events (20:55) Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03) SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40) How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38) Debug...

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show with Sean Halliburton of Warnermedia. 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: Par’s background and current role (2:48) About Talend (6:46) Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08) What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37) Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59) Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39) Curiosity and data engineering (38:31) Defining the modern data stack (45:07) How to get a feel f...

In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.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: Big News: podcast hits, Kostas’ career change (2:19) Kostas’ career start in data pipelines (4:09) The Winamp and Napster era (11:46) Starting an API gateway (16:56) Observing new technology from afar (23:43) Starting Blendo (32:38) Problems faced in architecting the product (37:12) Kostas’ role at Starburst (40:25) The Data Stack Show is a weekly...

Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show. 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: Paige’s career path (2:44) Paige’s role and responsibilities at Netlify (6:38) Sharing data insights (8:55) Scope in the context of delivering an insight (12:39) Defining “insight” (15:10) Where the client journey begins (16:43) Miscommunication because of vague terminology (20:06) Netlify’s internal knowledge repository (23:01) Breaking down Netli...

This week on the PRQL, Eric and Kostas discuss tooling as they preview the upcoming show with Paige Berry of Netlify. 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: Douwe’s career journey (3:04) The missing piece in GitLab’s data tooling (7:35) The open-source offering in the data space (12:38) Singer’s connection with Meltano (22:31) How Meltano manages connectors on a diverse codebase (35:21) The data house side of Meltano (39:47) Data house operating versus Airflow (44:06) Meltano’s vision present today (47...

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show featuring Douwe Maan of Meltano. 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: Jimmy’s career background (3:01) How to use Data cubes (5:52) What Dropbase is and who it is built for (11:01) Getting sales and marketing data in usable formats (16:46) Ensuring data remains flexible and transferable (28:36) Defining what “offline data” is and how to use it (34:09) How Dropbase can work with the rest of the data stack (43:30) The...

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming conversation with Jimmy Chan of Dropbase. 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 career background (3:19) Building a data lake at Uber (6:52) Defining what a data lake is (14:01) How data warehouses differ from data lakes (22:46) When you should utilize an open source solution in your datastack (37:36) Evolving from a data warehouse to a data lake (45:09) Early wins Hudi earned inside of Uber (52:30) The Data Stack Sho...

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show as they talk about data lakes and data warehouses and why these are important. 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: Panel introductions and backgrounds (2:55) What the modern data stack means to each of our panelists (5:04) Defining the fundamental components of a modern data stack (17:22) How the modern stack drives insights and actions for businesses (28:03) Getting to a uniform definition to the modern stack (33:45) Managing the modernization of a large scale...

In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show where they discuss the modern data stack with some of the top experts in the industry. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Eric and Kostas look back over the great topics and guests from season three of 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...