The Data Engineering Show
The Data Engineering Show is a podcast for data engineering and BI practitioners to go beyond theory. Learn from the biggest influencers in tech about their practical day-to-day data challenges and solutions in a casual and fun setting.
SEASON 1 DATA BROS
Eldad and Boaz Farkash shared the same stuffed toys growing up as well as a big passion for data. After founding Sisense and building it to become a high-growth analytics unicorn, they moved on to their next venture, Firebolt, a leading high-performance cloud data warehouse.
SEASON 2 DATA BROS
In season 2 Eldad adopted a brilliant new little brother, and with their shared love for query processing, the connection was immediate. After excelling in his MS, Computer Science degree, Benjamin Wagner joined Firebolt to lead its query processing team and is a rising star in the data space.
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Website: https://www.firebolt.io
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Building Uber's AI Assistant: How Genie Revolutionizes On-Call Support with Paarth Chothani from Uber
From Zero to 100M Users: Inside Notion’s Data Stack and AI Strategy with Sumit Gupta
How Rising Wave Is Redefining Real-Time Data with Postgres Power
In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, host Benjamin and co-host Eldad sit with Yingjun Wu, founder and CEO of Rising Wave, to explore the evolution of stream processing systems and the innova…
Revolutionizing Data Governance with DataStrato’s Unified Open Source Approach
Database Technology in the Age of AI with DuckDB Labs co-creator Hannes Mühleisen
- Talk about the journey of DuckDB, an open…
AI and Data Movement: Trends and Best Practices with Estuary’s Daniel Pálma
- Talk about Daniel’s career transition from data engineering to marketing a…
AI and Data Change Management with Chad Sanderson, CEO Gable AI
Tech Stacks and Tradeoffs: Xudo's Founder on Picking the Right Tools for BI Success
Wouter Trappers is the founder of Xudo and shares his slightly unconventional path from philosopher to data consultant with the Bros in this latest episode of The Data Engineering Show. Wouter’s grou…
Data Rewind: Conversation Highlights from Zach Wilson, Matthew Housley, Joe Reis, and Krishnan Viswanathan
In this special roundup episode of The Data Engineering Show, the Bros revisits some of the best bits from episodes with data thought leaders Zach Wilson, Matthew Housley, Joe Reis, and Krishnan Visw…
The Resurgence of SQL: Insights from Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn
In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, the bros, Eldad and Benjamin are joined by Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn to discuss the innovative Hoptimator (H2) project. This conversation reveals how Li…
Vector Databases Won’t Replace SQL - Andy Pavlo
SQL’s slow. SQL’s stupid. We hear these claims every time a new shiny tool enters the market, only to realize five years later when the hype dies down that SQL is actually a good idea.
In this super …
How ZoomInfo transitioned from data graveyards to ROI-driven data projects
Too often expensive resources and manhours are spent on dashboards no one uses, resulting in zero ROI. Philip Philip Zelitchenko, VP of Data & Analytics at ZoomInfo met the bros to talk about adoptin…
Matthew Weingarten from Disney Streaming about Data Quality Best Practices
Matthew Weingarten, Lead Data Engineer at Disney Streaming, talks about principles essential for data quality, cost optimization, debugging, and data modeling, as adopted by the world's leading compa…
Joseph Machado, Senior Data Engineer @ LinkedIn talks best practices
Data engineering should be less about the stack and more about best practices. While tools may change, foundational principles will remain constant. Joseph Mercado, Senior Data Engineer at LinkedIn, …
Professors Joe Hellerstein and Joseph Gonzalez on LLMs
Joe Hellerstein is the Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and Joseph Gonzalez is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
They’ve inspired…
Megan Lieu on powerful notebooks that enable collaboration
There are two types of data influencers on LinkedIn:
1. Those who talk directly about the products and companies they work for
2. Those that provide more general guidance, tips and opinions
Can influen…
Transitioning from software engineering to data engineering
Every data team should have at least one data engineer with a software engineering background. This time on The Data Engineering Show, Xiaoxu Gao is an inspiring Python and data engineering expert wi…
Vin Vashishta explains why we should stop using dashboards
Vin Vashista, the guy we all love to follow, has never seen a dashboard with positive ROI. This time on The Data Engineering Show, he met the bros to talk about the difference between BI dashboards a…
Joe Reis and Matt Housley on the fundamentals of data engineering
After co-writing the best-selling book ‘Fundamentals of Data Engineering’, Joe Reis and Matt Housely joined the bros for some much-needed ranting, priceless data advice, and good laughs. So why are w…