The Data Stack Show
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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 482
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
59: Making ETL Optional with Justin Borgman of Starburst Data
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)
- Mu…
00:57:30 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Data Debrief: Will Enterprise Build The Future of Data Tooling?
On this week's Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas dig more into the topic of data tooling.
00:07:52 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
58: Data Federation is No Longer The "F" Word with Scott Gnau of InterSystems
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 i…
00:49:45 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Data Debrief: Can Tools Help Solve Data Quality Organizational Challenges?
On this Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas are joined by Brian from Rudderstack to talk about Data Quality.
00:06:55 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
57: Improving Data Quality Using Data Product SLAs with Egor Gryaznov of Bigeye
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…
00:56:07 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
56: Stream Processing and Observability with Jeff Chao of Stripe
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 …
01:03:55 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
55: Tables vs. Streams and Defining Real-Time with Pete Goddard of Deephaven Data Labs
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 (…
01:06:48 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
54: The Center of the Modern Data Stack with Neil Rahilly of Mixpanel
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)
- Def…
01:08:53 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
53: What Religion, a Cult, and a Tech Product Have in Common, with Bart Farrell of DoKC
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 languag…
01:20:05 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
52: Discussing Data Warehouses, Lakes, and Meshes with James Serra of EY
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- James’ background at Microsoft and current work with EY’s data fabric (2:22)
- The external and internal facing components of EY’s data fabric (6:39)
- The …
01:08:53 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
51: Democratizing AI and ML with Tristan Zajonc of Continual
Topics in this wide-ranging conversation include:
- Tristan’s background with Cloudera and the need for continual operational ML and AI (3:15)
- How the complexity of Continual is hidden behind a simplici…
00:54:50 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
50: From Data Infrastructure to Data Management with Ananth Packkildurai
Highlights from this week’s episode:
- Ananth’s background (2:51)
- The evolution of Slack (4:54)
- Kafka and Presto’s two of the most reliable and flexible tools for Ananth (9:43)
- How Snowflake gained an adva…
00:58:44 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
49: MLops - The Finalization of the Data Stack with Ben Rogojan of Facebook
Topics in this conversation include:
- Ben's background and his shift to data engineering (2:19)
- Trends in the data space: finding the most efficient tools, the Snowflake phenomenon, and keeping up with…
00:55:09 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
48: Season Two Recap with Eric Dodds and Kostas Pardalis
Highlights from this week’s episode:
- Dissecting the different team structures from organizations in season two (1:16)
- The people behind the data are key to the data itself (9:17)
- Open source licensing a…
00:32:45 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
47: Taming the Four Dragons of Data with Sven Balnojan of Mercateo Gruppe
Highlights from this week’s episode include:
- Sven's Ph.D. in Singularity Theory (2:59)
- The Databricks vs. Snowflake conversation (8:17)
- The difficulty of not just inventing something new, but making it …
00:51:05 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
46: A New Paradigm in Stream Processing with Arjun Narayan of Materialize
Highlights from this week’s episode include:
- Introducing Arjun and how he fell in love with databases (2:51)
- Looking at what Materialize brings to the stack (5:28)
- Analytics starts with a human in the l…
00:56:12 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
45: Open Source and Attribution with Ophir Prusak of Codesmith
Highlights from today's conversation include:
- Ophir's decision to switch from software engineering to marketing and riding the startup train (2:39)
- Open sourcing in the world of software (5:55)
- How open…
00:55:59 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
44: Leveraging Data in a Post-Covid World with Ruben Ugarte of Practico Analytics
Highlights from this week's episode:
- Ruben's background (2:36)
- Massive shifts in data caused by COVID (4:47)
- Big Tech is no longer untouchable (9:54)
- Accelerations in the BI space (15:17)
- A focus on peop…
00:57:33 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
43: Modern Authentication and User Management with Sokratis Vidros of Clerk.dev
Highlights from this week's episode:
- Sokratis' realization that big corporations were not the best thing for him (2:56)
- Transitioning for Workable to Clerk.dev (3:40)
- Convincing developers to outsource …
00:46:00 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
42: Scaling Data Science with Ryan Boyer of Shipt
Highlights from this week’s episode include:
- Ryan's full circle path from stocking shelves at Target to using data science for a company owned by Target (2:00)
- Building great tools and wielding them ef…
00:52:53 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
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