The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Evolution of Databases and Data Systems (2:33) Abstracting Data for Business Users (4:31) Building a Database for Google-like Search (7:58) The Big Data Explosion (11:10) Selling Myspace as First Customer (13:14) Starting ActionIQ (16:57) The customer-centric organization (22:46) Transitioning to customer data focus (23:53) Understanding busine...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tasso Argyros of ActionIQ. 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: Defining data mesh (6:37) Addressing the scale of organizational complexity and usage (9:04) The shift from monolithic to microservices (12:24) The sociological structure in data mesh (13:59) Data product generation and sharing in data mesh (17:27) Data Mesh: Simplifying Data Work (24:09) Getting Started with Data Mesh (29:14) Building products for...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation regarding Data Mesh with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan. 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: Ben’s background in real estate (3:27) Why Fundrise was Started (4:37) Democratizing Investment Opportunities (6:35) Investment Thesis for Venture (11:55) Challenges with Data and Technology (12:34) Importance of Data Model Abstraction (20:03) Data Infrastructure and Investments (23:22) Evolution of Data Engineering (25:12) Closing the Tooling Gap...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ben Miller of Fundrise. 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 concept of composable at a lower level of data infrastructure (1:28) New architectures and components that allow developers to build databases (3:44) Pedro's background and experience in data infrastructure (6:18) The Spectrum of Latency and Analytics (12:59) Different Query Engines for Different Use Cases (16:32) Vectorized vs Code Gen Data Pr...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedro Pedreira of Meta. 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: Colin's Background and Starting Omni (1:48) Defining “good” at Google search early in his career (4:42) Looker's Unique Approach to Analytics (9:48) The paradigm shift in analytics (10:52) The architecture of Looker and its influence (12:04) Combatting the challenge of unbundling in the data stack (14:26) The evolution of analytics engineering (21:...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Colin Zima of Omni. 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 Unique Perspective of Practitioners (2:10) Account-based Marketing (6:30) Sales Development Representatives (SDR) (8:05) Descriptive, People, and Engagement Data (11:38) Data Overload and Actionable Data (14:20) Working with Data Teams and Internal Data (17:52) The relationship between business and data teams (22:27) The importance of collabora...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Travis Henry and Hillary Carpio of Snowflake. 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: Johnny and David’s background in working together (1:56) The background story of Estuary (4:15) The challenges of ad tech and the need for low latency (5:44) Use cases for moving data at scale (10:35) Real-time data replication methods (11:54) Challenges with Kafka and the birth of Gazette (13:54) Comparing Kafka and Gazette (20:22) The importance...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger of Estuary. 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 potential of AI-driven applications (1:34) The need for hardware infrastructure in AI experimentation (2:40) Oligopoly on the closed side (11:50) Advantages of private side vs. open source (13:18) Leveraging valuable data within enterprises (16:00) The urgency of adopting LLMs in the enterprise (24:02) Expansion of LLMs into new business vertic...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Mark Huang of Gradient. 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: Chang’s background and journey with Pandas (6:26) The persisting challenges in data collection and preparation (10:37) The resistance to change in using Python for data workflows (13:05) AI hype and its impact (14:09) The success and evolution of Pandas as a data framework (20:04) The vision for a next-generation data infrastructure (26:48] LanceDB...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Chang She of Eto Labs. 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: Santona’s journey from nuclear physics to data science (4:59) The appeal of startups and wearing multiple hats (8:12) The challenge of pseudoscience in the news (10:24) Approaching data with creativity and rigor (13:22) Challenges and differences in data workflows (14:39) Schema Evolution and Quality Problems (27:01) Real-time Data Monitoring and A...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Santona Tuli of Upsolver. 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 music impacted Bob’s data journey (3:16) Music’s relationship with creativity and innovation (11:38) The genesis of Weaviate and the idea of vector databases (14:09) The joy of creation (19:02) OLAP Databases (22:21) The progression of complexity in databases (24:31) Vector database (29:23) Scaling suboptimal algorithms (34:34) The future of ve...

In this bonus conversation, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Bob van Luijt of Weaviate. 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 journey in data (2:28) Founding Dagster Labs (7:50) The evolution of data engineering (12:32) Fragmentation in data infrastructure (15:04) The role of orchestration in data platforms (19:53) The importance of operational tools for data pipelines (25:01) Lessons learned from working with GraphQL (26:19) The role of the orchestr...

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Nick Schrock of Dagster Labs. 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: Amr’s extensive background in data (3:23) The evolution of neural networks (9:21) The role of supervised learning in AI (11:17) Explaining Vectara (13:07) Papers that laid the foundation for AI (15:02) Contextualized translation and personalization (20:07) Ease of use and answer-based search (25:01) AI and potential liabilities (35:54) Minimizing d...