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: Jeff's Background and Transition to Independent Consulting (0:03) Working at Keurig and Business Model Changes (2:16) Tech Stack Evolution and SAP HANA Implementation (7:33) Adoption of Tableau and Data Pipelines (11:21) Supply Chain Analytics and Timeless Data Modeling (15:49) Impact of Cloud Compu…

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: Clint’s Background and Journey in Data (0:51) Starting a Data Career (2:01) Transition to Startup SaaS World (4:27) Clint’s Connection to a Federal Reserve Database (5:31) Challenges in Predictive Modeling (10:27) Data Input Challenges (15:50) Marketers' Workflow and Data Integration (18:29) Soft RO…

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: Introducing a special edition of the show with the cynical data guy (0:19) Metadata and LLMs (2:32) Data-driven culture (8:44) No-code orchestration tools (17:09) No Code vs. Low Code (19:58) Enterprise Challenges with No Code Solutions (20:08) No Code Tools for Small Companies (21:40) Inappropriate…

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 history of computer science and AI inflection point (1:23) Binny's early programming experiences and the constraints of technology (2:14) Getting interested in computer programming (5:02) The experiment that impacted the starting of Kognitos (8:23) Challenges in traditional computer science (16:…

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: David's Background and Journey in Data (0:30) Transition to Time Series Forecasting (2:03) Working on Time Series Forecasting at Amazon (2:55) Challenges and Experience in Time Series Forecasting (4:32) Transitioning to a New Role at Amazon (5:52) Tools and Methods for Time Series Forecasting (8:17)…

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: Ben’s background and journey in data (0:18) Relating data to business outcomes (2:33) Facebook's approach to data-driven business outcomes (4:43) Subjectivity and data-driven business outcomes (8:43) Infrastructure and data collection at Facebook (12:04) The importance of first-party data and the de…

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: Ryan's Background and Roles in Data (0:05) Data Activation and Dashboard Staleness (1:27) Profiles and Data Activation (2:54) Customer-Facing Experience and Product Management (3:40) Profiles Product Overview (5:10) Use Cases for Profiles (6:44) Challenges with Data Projects (9:19) Entity Management…

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: Matt KG’s Background in Data (0:35) Challenges in purchasing data tools (1:28) Early experiences in data analysis (9:51) Matt’s Transition to a subprime auto loan company (13:19 Transition to RudderStack and software purchase decisions (17:36) Tech Problems: People and Process (22:02) Challenges in …

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: Kostas Passes the Baton as Co-Host of the Podcast (0:24) Reflecting on the Podcast (2:56) New Co-Host John Wessel and His Background in Data (4:34) Kostas Journey in Data (10:55) Rudderstack's Explosive Growth (21:28) The Podcast's Inception and Marketing Activities (24:19) Evolution of the podcast …

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 Systems (0:47) The Role of Open Source Software (2:39) Challenges of Time Series Data (6:38) Architecting InfluxDB (9:34) High Cardinality Concepts (11:36) Trade-Offs in Time Series Databases (15:35) High Cardinality Data (18:24) Evolution to InfluxDB 3.0 (21:06) Modern Data St…

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: Pete’s background and the origin story of Data Council (1:04) Reflecting on 10 years of Data Council (2:07) Impact of the pandemic on conferences (5:25) Rebuilding after the pandemic (7:42) Evolution of Data Council (10:33) Balancing content and sponsorship (16:17) Selecting speakers and content at …

Highlights from this week’s conversation include: Tristan's Background and Journey into Data (1:14) Evolution of Machine Learning and AI (3:13) Impact of Generative AI (6:33) MLOps and Challenges in Early Data Science (8:48) Success and Applications of AI Today (11:34) Continual AI Copilot Platform (18:04) Challenges in building remarkable AI assis…

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