Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Che Sharma of geteppo.com.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Boris’ background career journey (2:32)The origins of “reverse ETL” (6:39)Reverse Fivetran (16:35)Product as an experience (22:41)Fivetran users vs Census users (24:14)How to add value to a data dump (26:56)Ways companies are creating IP (33:48)The cascade effect of the modern data stack (37:56)Defining “data federation” (43:51)Lessons from building a product (49:10)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.

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Borris Jabes of Census.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Verl’s career journey (2:46)M&A data evaluation criteria (7:12)What Claravine does (10:48)The breadth of data (15:03)Adding to content and advertising data (18:22)How Claravine standardizes data (23:53)Designing a data model (25:40)The underlying technologies of building a product (33:43)The main consumer (35:02)Maintaining quality (39:06)Helping solidify definitions (41:37)Implementing Claravine’s model across various companies (44:54)Internal changes affect on the model (46:47)Connection brought about by structure (49:19)Applying unstructured context to structured stamping (52:36)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.

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Verl Allen of Claravine.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Sean’s career journey (3:27)Optimization and localized testing results (7:49)Denying potential access to more data (13:46)Other dimensions data has (18:32)The other side of capturing events (20:55)Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03)SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40)How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38)Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08)Communicating about data (38:36)The next phase of tooling (41:49)Advice for aspiring managers (45:21)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. 

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show with Sean Halliburton of Warnermedia.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Par’s background and current role (2:48)About Talend (6:46)Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08)What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37)Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59)Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39)Curiosity and data engineering (38:31)Defining the modern data stack (45:07)How to get a feel for data engineering (52:52)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 PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.io.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Big News: podcast hits, Kostas’ career change (2:19)Kostas’ career start in data pipelines (4:09)The Winamp and Napster era (11:46)Starting an API gateway (16:56)Observing new technology from afar (23:43)Starting Blendo (32:38)Problems faced in architecting the product (37:12)Kostas’ role at Starburst (40:25)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.

Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Paige’s career path (2:44)Paige’s role and responsibilities at Netlify (6:38)Sharing data insights (8:55)Scope in the context of delivering an insight (12:39)Defining “insight” (15:10)Where the client journey begins (16:43)Miscommunication because of vague terminology (20:06)Netlify’s internal knowledge repository (23:01)Breaking down Netlify’s hub and spoke model (30:45)What data tools to use and when (35:21)The metric layer and BI (44:17)Next steps in the data space (49:42)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.

This week on the PRQL, Eric and Kostas discuss tooling as they preview the upcoming show with Paige Berry of Netlify.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Douwe’s career journey (3:04)The missing piece in GitLab’s data tooling (7:35)The open-source offering in the data space (12:38)Singer’s connection with Meltano (22:31)How Meltano manages connectors on a diverse codebase (35:21)The data house side of Meltano (39:47)Data house operating versus Airflow (44:06)Meltano’s vision present today (47:02)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.

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show featuring Douwe Maan of Meltano.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Jimmy’s career background (3:01)How to use Data cubes (5:52)What Dropbase is and who it is built for (11:01)Getting sales and marketing data in usable formats (16:46)Ensuring data remains flexible and transferable (28:36)Defining what “offline data” is and how to use it (34:09)How Dropbase can work with the rest of the data stack (43:30)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.

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming conversation with Jimmy Chan of Dropbase.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Vinoth’s career background (3:19)Building a data lake at Uber (6:52)Defining what a data lake is (14:01)How data warehouses differ from data lakes (22:46)When you should utilize an open source solution in your datastack (37:36)Evolving from a data warehouse to a data lake (45:09)Early wins Hudi earned inside of Uber (52:30)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.

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show as they talk about data lakes and data warehouses and why these are important.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Panel introductions and backgrounds (2:55)What the modern data stack means to each of our panelists (5:04)Defining the fundamental components of a modern data stack (17:22)How the modern stack drives insights and actions for businesses (28:03)Getting to a uniform definition to the modern stack (33:45)Managing the modernization of a large scale data stack (39:09)How testing works in the dbt context (48:44)The relationship between the data warehouse and the data lake (52:25)What has us most excited or the future of modern data stacks (56:02)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 PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show where they discuss the modern data stack with some of the top experts in the industry.

In this episode, Eric and Kostas look back over the great topics and guests from season three of 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 data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31)Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04)How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35)Defining data quality (14:07)The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36)Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09)How to work with unstructured data in a meaningful way (47:44)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.

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show by talking about data quality.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00)How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04)When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35)What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07)Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14)The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09)Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25)The unique challenge of Fintech vs other consumer industries (45:03)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.

On the PRQL this week, Eric and Kostas bring in some of the Rudderstack engineering team to discuss data pipelines and preview episode 66 of the Data Stack Show.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aayush’s career background (4:13)How his biological sciences academic training impacts his work (8:04)How do we allow dashboards to get messy? (9:35)Building cultural or technical solutions to effective dashboards (15:19)Using data dashboards to make material business improvements (23:19)What is business observability? (32:23)Building a platform for operations teams (43:15)How important community is to the cliff.ai business proposition (41:03)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 show PRQL, Eric and Kostas talk about the evolution of the role of a data engineer and preview the conversation with Aayush Jain.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Announcement: Data Stack Live! (1:00)Michel’s career background (4:13)Solving the technical and process challenges of moving data (7:04)Lessons learned from managing data at Live Ramp (9:35)How to build a modern data stack (16:19)Triggers to signal when more data infrastructure is needed (23:19)Why Airbyte is an open-source product (30:23)Airbyte’s role in providing support to open-source problems (38:15)How important DPT is for the Airbyte protocol and platform (41:03)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.

For this week's PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Michel Tricot.

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Ciaran Dynes, the Chief Product Officer at Matillion, a powerful and easy-to-use, completely cloud-capable ETL/ELT solution.

On this week's PRQL, Kostas and Eric preview their upcoming conversation with Ciaran Dynes of Matillion.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47)Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44)Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47)Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28)What makes IoT unique (23:56)Killing the SQL server (29:11)What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13)5G, LoRa, and drawbacks and advances in widespread IoT adoption (37:05)Security and privacy in IoT (41:23)Using IoT as a cattle rancher (45:20)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 PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix, Inc.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kevin’s interaction with data at an early age (2:35)Working with telecom data (5:08)Analyzing emojis in customer sentiment (8:44)Infrastructure needed for diverse data (12:22)Building better interfaces and looking out for human error (24:17)Dealing with differences in identities in different layers of the stack (41:21)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.

Eric and Kostas break down further topics from episode 60 about stream processing and open source projects.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:A brief overview of Ashley’s background (2:47)Benthos’ creation and the problems it was meant to address (4:01)Use cases for Benthos (18:25)Key features of Benthos that make it stand out (22:23)Adding windowing to Benthos for fun (29:23)The highs and lows of maintaining an open source project for five years (32:17)The architecture of Benthos (36:23)The importance of ordering in streaming processing (42:15)Gaining traction with an open source project (53:21)Benthos’ blobfish mascot (58:03) 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.

On this week's debrief, Kostas and Eric talk about the variety of open source projects that come from Facebook.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Starburst Data is Justin’s second startup (2:42)Starburst focuses on doing data warehousing analytics without the need for the data warehouse (4:14)Multi-cloud solutions among merger and acquisition use cases (8:32)Ways the stack is increasing in complexity (12:25)Comparing essential components of a data stack from 2010 to now (15:01)The future of ETL (27:36)The best maturity stage for an organization to implement Starburst (31:27)Starburst connectors (36:55)Monetizing enterprise solutions while promoting open source ones (41:52)The history of Presto and Trino (45:37)Benefits of a decentralized data mesh (49:53)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.

On this week's Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas dig more into the topic of data tooling.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Solving problems with data has been a long-time passion of Scott’s (2:52)Day-to-day use of data at InterSystems (6:25)The technical aspects involved in constructing a data fabric (17:52)Companies at a variety of maturity levels can adopt a data fabric (26:49) A paradigm shift in the marketplace (28:39)Comparing and contrasting data fabric and data mesh (30:49)Sharing data across the business and not having it siloed in different departments (39:46)Privacy and security within a data fabric (41:22)The future of data fabric and pushing the edge (43:17)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 businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

On this Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas are joined by Brian from Rudderstack to talk about Data Quality.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Egor’s software engineering background and history with Uber (2:19)Experimentation platforms and analytics definitions (7:49)Bigeye’s function and use cases (9:40)Managing the relationship between the data engineer maintaining the pipelines and the downstream teams providing the context (18:49)Pinpointing problems in data compared to problems in software (21:55)Defining data quality at Bigeye (24:13)Machine learning models as a data product (28:38)Determining SLAs (32:22)How Bigeye brings different parties together and addresses natural communication barriers (36:42)Looking at when an organization needs to implement data quality tooling (45:54)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:Jeff’s history with stream processing (2:52)Working with Mantis to address the impact of Netflix downtime (4:20)Defining observability as operational insight (6:58)Time series data and the value of data today (18:52)Data integration’s shift from batch to streaming (29:34)The current state of change data capture (32:20)How an engineer thinks of the end-user (56:21)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:Pete’s background in data engineering and capital market trading (2:10)Comparison of the tooling from 2012 when Deephaven started with that of today (10:30)Taking a closer look at defining real-time data (19:47)Getting non-technical people, clients, and developers all on the same platform (36:11)Deephaven’s incremental update model (40:25)Kafka, timely data flow, and Deephaven (44:22)Use cases for Deephaven (51:52)Going to GitHub to try out Deephaven (1:02:43)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:Neil’s programming hobby turned into a career and how he cold-contacted Mixpanel for a job (2:28)Lessons learned from nine years at Mixpanel (5:05)Defining product analytics (8:06)How Mixpanel has evolved into the product it is today (10:56)The importance of Mixpanel’s real-time analysis (19:52)Looking at Arb, Mixpanel’s own arbitrary segmentation database (23:44)The business impact that the rise of the cloud data warehouse had on Mixpanel (34:56)Sub-second latencies and real-time use cases (49:05)Career advice from Neil (1:02:02)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:Bart’s journey from southern California, to New York, to Egypt, to London, to Spain (3:31)Exposure to different communities and finding shared language and experience (10:21)Looking back at early online communities and how they furthered your learning journey (27:50)How the level of niche-ness impacts a community (44:06)The cautionary tale of WeWork (57:28)Surefire community killers (1:03:44)Open source communities in tech and the passion that drives them (1:08:11)Follow the Data on Kubernetes Community at DoK.community and on Twitter at @DoKCommunity. You can follow Bart at @birthmarkbart.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.