Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Ryan’s background in data (0:58) Transition from Performing Arts to Data (2:23) Understanding End Users in Data Projects (6:08) Learning from Failures in Data Projects (8:07) The self-service era (19:50) Struggles of self-service (21:23) The disillusion with dashboards (26:23) GoodData's approach (3…

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: The Evolution of Data Processing (2:36) Ryan’s Background and Journey in Data (4:52) Challenges in Transitioning to S3 (8:47) Impact of Latency on Query Performance (11:43) Challenges with Table Representation (15:26) Designing a New Metadata Format (21:36) Integration with Existing Tools and Open S…

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 …

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Apruva’s background in streaming technology (0:48) Developer experience and Kafka streams (2:47) Motivation to bootstrap a startup (4:09) Meeting the Confluent founders and early work at Confluent (6:59) Projects at Confluent and transition to engineering management (10:34) Overview of Responsive an…

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 …

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Chad’s background and journey in data (0:46) Importance of Data Supply Chain (2:19) Challenges with Modern Data Stack (3:28) Comparing Data Supply Chain to Real-world Supply Chains (4:49) Overview of Gable.ai (8:05) Rethinking Data Catalogs (11:42) New Ideas for Managing Data (15:16) Data Discovery …

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 …

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Kevin’s background and work at Stripe (0:31) Evolution of Data Infrastructure at Stripe (2:18) Kevin's Interest in Data (5:29) Software Engineer or Data Engineer? (8:27) Speech Recognition Work at Amazon (11:06) Efficiency and Cost Management (15:50) Metadata and Query Analysis (18:38) Surprising Di…

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 …

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 an…

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 …

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 (22:3…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kunal Agarwal of Unravel Data.By Rudderstack

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 ti…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tony Wang of Stanford University.By Rudderstack

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 sour…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Peter Chapman, a GTM consultant.By Rudderstack

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) Benchmarkin…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rishabh Bhargava of refuel.By Rudderstack

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 ev…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of orkes.io.By Rudderstack

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 commo…

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.By Rudderstack

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 seman…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov of Cube Dev.By Rudderstack

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…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jay Henderson of Alteryx.By Rudderstack

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 WebAssem…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies.By Rudderstack

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) Differe…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sandy Ryza of Dagster.By Rudderstack

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 challe…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Katie Bauer of GlossGenius.By Rudderstack

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 t…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tasso Argyros of ActionIQ.By Rudderstack

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 St…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation regarding Data Mesh with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan.By Rudderstack

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…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ben Miller of Fundrise.By Rudderstack

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 Differen…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedro Pedreira of Meta.By Rudderstack

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 (…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Colin Zima of Omni.By Rudderstack

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 …

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Travis Henry and Hillary Carpio of Snowflake.By Rudderstack

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) C…

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger of Estuary.By Rudderstack

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 …

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Mark Huang of Gradient.By Rudderstack

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 n…