In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Stavros Papadopoulos of TileDB, Inc.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Joran’s background leading him from accounting to coding (3:10)What is Tiger Beetle? (5:53)Double-entry accounting and why it is important for a database (12:28)The need for low latency and high throughput (26:27)Why financial database software needs a laser focus (29:01)What are people using to implement a double-entry system? (36:09)Safety in financial software and addressing storage faults (40:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (55:52)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Defining data flow (2:31)Are there limitations in timely data flow operation and/or building operators? (8:20)Areas of incremental computation that are having an impact today (17:10)Building a library vs building a product (24:06)Combining delight and empathy into a focus (27:52)Final thoughts and takeaways (32:42)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:What is Materialize? (2:43)Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)The MVP for databases (33:49)Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming two-part conversation with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry of Materialize.

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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zack’s extensive background in the world of data and the genesis of Zing (3:02)Working on relevance, feeds, and ads at Facebook & LinkedIn (9:20)Exploring BI and queries on mobile devices (16:48)Reliance of input quality in data (23:28)Delivering a mobile-first experience in BI (30:11)Limitations of visualization on mobile devices (34:00)How BI tools interact with one another in Zing (45:21)The future of user-experience in consuming data (49:19)Final thoughts and takeaways (59:56)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zach Hendlin of Zing Data.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Taylor’s journey into data (3:09)What’s been going on at Meltano recently? (7:28)Addressing basic problems in data even with advancements in technology (12:23)What makes Meltano unique in the space (16:53)Why the CLI experience is important (25:37)Quality vs quantity in supporting connectors (35:51)What does data ops look like for Meltano (46:44)Takeaways and closing thoughts (52:56)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Taylor Murphy of Meltano.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aron’s background in the world of data (2:18)Recent Clients and major projects (3:30)Helping to spearhead data-driven growth at Salesforce (6:50)Stories about Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce (16:12)Biggest learnings as a consultant in the data strategy space (17:58)The need for data democratization (23:33)Advice for Aron’s younger self in consulting (28:45)Current trends in data democratization and sales service (35:01)Aron’s favorite tools and platforms to use (42:19)Favorite part of the consulting process (47:45)Final thoughts and takeaways (50:29)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ashwin’s background in the data space (2:43)The unique nature of working with data in finance (7:32)Technological challenges of working in the finance data space (13:55)The third-party data factor and judging if it is reliable enough (17:07)What made Ashwin decide to go out and build his own company? (31:47)Defining data decay and data storing and why both are important (37:52)Advice on the importance of data quality (42:10)Final takeaways and wrap-up (50:49)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ashwin Kamath of Spectre.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Max’s career journey (2:54)Going from a small startup to a big enterprise (11:15)Dynamics of a switchboard operator (17:09)Common threads through different companies (20:53)When data is not the answer (26:57)The evolution of CDP (29:38)Data sources to include in a CDP (35:16)Working with event data (37:19)Max’s take on other tools (41:18)The cutting edge in data (43:09)Building your data company in an evolving environment (49:28)Find Max: https://www.obsessiveanalytics.com/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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the topic of streaming.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ryan’s background and career journey (2:49)Quine and where it came from (4:36)Graph databases 101 (7:17)Use cases for graph databases (13:44)Purposes for graphs (22:27)How to use Quine (31:49)Quine’s performance and scale (43:06)Educating users about a new product (49:13)The team that would optimize Quine (52:23)When graph will gain popularity (56:15)Quine: https://quine.io/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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ryan Wright of thatDot.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around experiences at the Coalesce conference in New Orleans.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zander’s background and career journey (2:32)Introducing bytewax (5:16)The difference between systems (10:57)Bytewax’s most common use cases (16:15)How bytewax integrates with other systems (20:25)The technology that makes up bytewax (24:31)Comparing bytewax to other systems (34:17)What’s next for bytewax (36:31)Try it out: bytewax.ioThe 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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zander Matheson of bytewax.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop surrounding data infrastructure.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Erik’s background and career journey (2:51)Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35)The people side of hypergrowth (12:36)Coding competitions (17:50)Introducing Modal Labs (19:02)How Erik got into building Modal (21:45)The employee experience at Modal (28:09)How a data engineering team would use Modal (31:21)What it takes to build a platform like Modal (36:27)What makes Modal different (42:49)Evolution coming for the data world (45:52)Untapped areas in the data world (48:46)Spotify playlists (52:03)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35)Defining “data discovery” (6:03)The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45)Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38)Why Select Star is needed (17:35)How Select Star uses metadata (21:02)Exposing data queries (27:04)Composing queries into metadata (33:27)Automating BI tools (37:28)Limits to data governance (41:39)Maintaining economies of scale (48:56)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The context of Headless BI (3:31)What Cube Dev does (9:24)How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03)An analysis of LookML (18:04)User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40)Who manages data artifacts (25:22)Taking care of the developer experience (30:37)Levels of performance (30:37)Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47)Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38)Roles within a data organization (48:55)How Cube Dev impacts visualization (53:35)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov of CubeJS.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Gleb’s background and career journey (2:51)The adoption problems (10:53)How Datafold solves these problems (18:08)The vision for Datafold (26:27)Incorporating Datafold as a data engineer (38:53)The importance of the data engineer (42:12)Something to keep in mind when designing data tools (46:46)Implementing new technology into your company (53:18) 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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Introducing our guests (3:05)Defining “data team” (4:40)How data teams emerge and evolve (14:11)The need that forces the creation of a data team (21:12)The backbone of the data team (26:23)Building a career within a data team (36:39)Advice for new data team managers (47:35)Question and answer time (52:38)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop regarding transitioning from consumer to builder.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion around the topic of building data teams.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Vinoo’s background and career journey (2:43)How to benchmark cost (7:54)How Bluesky addresses rising Snowflake bills (14:01)“Workload” as defined by Bluesky (17:14)Space for BI optimization (22:55)How products manage bill growth (28:34)How to optimize your workloads (35:37)Bluesky’s partnerships (39:53)Getting real-time feedback on your work (44:50)Where to begin reevaluating your Snowflake game (50:47)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk about data politicians in this new special show format.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03)How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25)Defining “modern data stack” (8:39)The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44)How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15)Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17)Signs you should do a product integration (33:38)The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19)The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55)How important open source is (49:14)Data-centric ML (53:47)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com..

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Benn’s background and career journey (2:28)The problem Benn sought to solve (4:48)Data engineering a decade ago (9:58)Technology inside vs. outside Silicon Valley (18:11)What’s next for data (24:42)Mode’s evolution and journey (29:31)Challenges of getting enough context to create (39:21)Current trends that won’t see long-term benefits (48:44)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kyle’s background and career journey (2:38)Unique challenges in building data engineering products (9:33)The problem set Databricks resolves (13:46)About Onehouse (17:15)From Microsoft to Onehouse (20:59)Why there’s so much distance between data powers (24:45)Why the data lake is not enough (30:15)Who should have a lake house (39:03)Why we have all three data platforms (43:53)How to step into the data lake house world (49:48)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kishore’s background and career journey (2:30)Internal analytics versus user-facing analytics (3:49)New ways of thinking about analytics (8:06)What makes Pinot different (13:45)How Pinot transforms systems (21:53)Understanding the data landscape (32:40)The Pinot user experience (36:27)Something exciting about StarTree (40:05)When you should adopt this technology (43:15)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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.