The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31) Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04) How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35) Defining data quality (14:07) The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36) Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09) How to work w...

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show by talking about data quality. 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: Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00) How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04) When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35) What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07) Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14) The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27...

On the PRQL this week, Eric and Kostas bring in some of the Rudderstack engineering team to discuss data pipelines and preview episode 66 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: Aayush’s career background (4:13) How his biological sciences academic training impacts his work (8:04) How do we allow dashboards to get messy? (9:35) Building cultural or technical solutions to effective dashboards (15:19) Using data dashboards to make material business improvements (23:19) What is business observability? (32:23) Building a platf...

In this show PRQL, Eric and Kostas talk about the evolution of the role of a data engineer and preview the conversation with Aayush Jain. 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: Announcement: Data Stack Live! (1:00) Michel’s career background (4:13) Solving the technical and process challenges of moving data (7:04) Lessons learned from managing data at Live Ramp (9:35) How to build a modern data stack (16:19) Triggers to signal when more data infrastructure is needed (23:19) Why Airbyte is an open-source product (30:23) Ai...

For this week's PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Michel Tricot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Ciaran Dynes, the Chief Product Officer at Matillion, a powerful and easy-to-use, completely cloud-capable ETL/ELT solution. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week's PRQL, Kostas and Eric preview their upcoming conversation with Ciaran Dynes of Matillion. 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: Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47) Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44) Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47) Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28) What makes IoT unique (23:56) Killing the SQL server (29:11) W...

In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix, Inc. 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 interaction with data at an early age (2:35) Working with telecom data (5:08) Analyzing emojis in customer sentiment (8:44) Infrastructure needed for diverse data (12:22) Building better interfaces and looking out for human error (24:17) Dealing with differences in identities in different layers of the stack (41:21) The Data Stack Show is a...

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Eric and Kostas break down further topics from episode 60 about stream processing and open source projects. 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 brief overview of Ashley’s background (2:47) Benthos’ creation and the problems it was meant to address (4:01) Use cases for Benthos (18:25) Key features of Benthos that make it stand out (22:23) Adding windowing to Benthos for fun (29:23) The highs and lows of maintaining an open source project for five years (32:17) The architecture of Benthos...

On this week's debrief, Kostas and Eric talk about the variety of open source projects that come from Facebook. 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: Starburst Data is Justin’s second startup (2:42) Starburst focuses on doing data warehousing analytics without the need for the data warehouse (4:14) Multi-cloud solutions among merger and acquisition use cases (8:32) Ways the stack is increasing in complexity (12:25) Comparing essential components of a data stack from 2010 to now (15:01) The futur...

On this week's Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas dig more into the topic of data tooling. 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: Solving problems with data has been a long-time passion of Scott’s (2:52) Day-to-day use of data at InterSystems (6:25) The technical aspects involved in constructing a data fabric (17:52) Companies at a variety of maturity levels can adopt a data fabric (26:49)  A paradigm shift in the marketplace (28:39) Comparing and contrasting data fabric and...

On this Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas are joined by Brian from Rudderstack to talk about Data Quality. 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: Egor’s software engineering background and history with Uber (2:19) Experimentation platforms and analytics definitions (7:49) Bigeye’s function and use cases (9:40) Managing the relationship between the data engineer maintaining the pipelines and the downstream teams providing the context (18:49) Pinpointing problems in data compared to problems i...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Jeff’s history with stream processing (2:52) Working with Mantis to address the impact of Netflix downtime (4:20) Defining observability as operational insight (6:58) Time series data and the value of data today (18:52) Data integration’s shift from batch to streaming (29:34) The current state of change data capture (32:20) How an engineer thinks o...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Pete’s background in data engineering and capital market trading (2:10) Comparison of the tooling from 2012 when Deephaven started with that of today (10:30) Taking a closer look at defining real-time data (19:47) Getting non-technical people, clients, and developers all on the same platform (36:11) Deephaven’s incremental update model (40:25) Kafk...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Neil’s programming hobby turned into a career and how he cold-contacted Mixpanel for a job (2:28) Lessons learned from nine years at Mixpanel (5:05) Defining product analytics (8:06) How Mixpanel has evolved into the product it is today (10:56) The importance of Mixpanel’s real-time analysis (19:52) Looking at Arb, Mixpanel’s own arbitrary segmenta...