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 better outcomes across their businesses with data. RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer dat...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Michael’s background and journey in data (0:33) The origin story of Druid (2:39) Experiences and growth in Data (8:08) Druid's evolution (21:46) Druid's architectural decisions (26:32) The user experience (30:06) The developer experience (35:14) The evolution of BI tools (40:55) Data architecture and integration (47:53) AI's impact on BI (52:26) Wh...

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 better outcomes across their businesses with data. RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer dat...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The evolution of data operations (1:13) Unravel's role in simplifying data operations (2:17) Kunal’s journey from fashion to enterprise data management (5:23)\ The Unravel platform and its components (10:08) Challenges in data operations at scale (16:34) Users of Unravel within an organization (22:32) Calculating ROI on data products (25:55) Unders...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kunal Agarwal of Unravel 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: Tony's background and research focus (3:35) Challenges in academia and industry (6:15) Ph. D. student's routine (10:47) Academic paper review process (15:26) Aha moments in research (20:05) Academic lab structure (23:09) The decision to move from hardware to data research (24:43) Research focus on time series data management (27:40) Data modeling i...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tony Wang of Stanford University. 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: Peter's background and journey in data (0:26) Introduction to PLG (4:18) Starting in data at Heroku (6:05) Building the data stack at Heroku (8:13) Data stack requirements for early-stage companies (12:00) Differentiating PLG companies from open source companies (19:26) Venture capital and open source as a lever for growth (22:56) Initial data mode...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Peter Chapman, a GTM consultant. 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 overview of refuel (0:33) The evolution of AI and LLMs (3:51) Types of LLM models (12:31) Implementing LLM use cases and cost considerations (00:15:52) User experience and fine-tuning LLM models (21:49) Categorizing search queries (22:44) Creating internal benchmark framework (29:50) Benchmarking and evaluation (35:35) Using refuel for document...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rishabh Bhargava of refuel. 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 in data (0:39) Evolution of Orchestration (1:52) AI Orchestration (3:00) Understanding Conductor and orkes (6:26) Event-Driven Orchestration (8:10) Viren’s Transition to Founder (12:27) Non-Technical Aspects of Being a Founder (15:50) Democratizing AI for Developers (18:16) The evolution of microservices orchestration (21:56) Cha...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of orkes.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: Introduction of the panel (0:05) Defining composable data stack (5:22) Components of a composable data stack (7:49) Challenges and incentives for composable components (10:37) Specialization and modularity in data workloads (13:05) Organic evolution of composable systems (17:50) Efficiency and common layers in data management systems (22:09) The IR...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming discussion with a panel of experts as Wes McKinney (Co-Founder, Voltron), Pedro Pedreira Software Engineer, Meta), Chris Riccomini (Seed Investor, various startups), and Ryan Blue (Co-Founder and CEO, Tabular) join the show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and us...

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Artyom’s background in the data space (0:32) The growth and changes at Cube (5:58) Pain points of managing metrics definitions across different tools (9:39) Trade-offs between coupled and decoupled semantic layers (12:12) Making a case for implementing a semantic layer (14:17) The evolution of semantic layers (23:28) Challenges in designing a decou...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov of Cube Dev. 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: No Code Analytics (1:22) Analytics as a Team Sport (2:31) The workflow of someone without Alteryx (11:27) Alteryx's ability to handle diverse data sources (14:32) The balance between ease of use and complexity (23:06) Enabling casual end users with a no code interface (24:19) Taking analytics to the data (31:47) The boundaries between data engineer...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jay Henderson of Alteryx. 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: Matt’s background and journey with Fermyon (2:32) WebAssembly and enhanced security models (3:43) The IOT Startup and Google Acquisition (10:49) Google's Early Containers (11:50) Scaling and anticipating requests (20:22) Introduction to WebAssembly and its importance (23:32) The Benefits of WebAssembly (30:57) Comparison of Virtual Machines, Contai...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Matt Butcher of Fermyon 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: The role of an orchestrator in the lifecycle of data (1:34) Relevance of orchestration in data pipelines (00:02:45) Changes around data ops and MLOps (3:37) Data Cleaning (11:42) Overview of Dagster (13:50) Assets vs Tasks in Data Pipeline (19:15) Building a Data Pipeline with Dexter (25:40) Difference between Data Asset and Materialized Dataset (2...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sandy Ryza of Dagster. 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 evolution of the data scientist role (1:03) Common problems in different companies (2:05) Measuring and curating content on Reddit (4:29) The challenges of working with unstructured content at Reddit and Twitter (11:03) Lessons learned from Reddit and applying them at Twitter (13:17) Data challenges and customer behavior analysis at GlossGenius...

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