The Data Stack Show

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Simba Khadder of Featureform. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Stipo and Rob’s background in data (2:43)What is Sigma? (7:46)Takeaways from building analytics products in-house (9:16)Sigma’s approach to datastore interface (11:32)Why analytics and BI are still not a solved problem (15:50)Combining SQL and spreadsheets for useful interface (23:17)The evolution of BI to today (29:40)Overcoming the challenges of collaboration in working with data (33:17)Creating operational coding that humans can understand (46:50)The future of BI (54:00)Cloud’s impact on BI and analytics (1:00:04)The value of getting close to the data for analytics (1:02:21)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:08:45)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Woollen & Stipo Josipovic of Sigma. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Scott’s background in martech (3:10)Where things have gone wrong between IT and marketing (5:46)The explosion of digital marketing data (12:04)Costs of having data siloed (16:14)The convergence of marketing and IT teams around data (19:27)Navigating the massive landscape of martech tools (26:10)Needed tools in the martech stack (31:11)The importance of an accurate attribution model (34:37)Building tooling for marketers and developers to use (39:20)Future areas of development in the martech space (44:46)Final thoughts and takeaways (52:40)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Scott Brinker of HubSpot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ioannis’ background and journey in data (2:42)Rudderstack’s transformations feature and examples of its application (4:20)Winning the transformations contest at Rudderstack (7:21)How Ioannis’ transformation project works for data governance (9:40)Memories from college for Ioannis and Kostas (12:30)Getting into the world of software development (17:27)The changes in data and engineering over the years (20:29)Bridging java with python (23:15)Dealing with ML workloads in the past vs. workflows of today (26:30)Data engineers and ML engineers (33:12)Dealing with data in the early stages to ensure reliability later on (38:39)What creates problems with data quality? (42:11)Exciting developments in data engineering (46:48)Final thoughts and takeaways (51:12)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ioannis Foukarakis of Mattermost. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Davor’s journey from Google and what he was building there (3:32)How work in stream processing changed Davor’s journey (5:10)Analytical predictive models and infrastructure (9:39)How Kaskada serves as a recommendation engine with data (14:05)Kaskada’s user experience as an event processing platform (20:06)Enhancing typical feature store architecture to achieve better results (23:34)What is needed to improve stream and batch processes (27:39)Using another syntax instead of SQL (36:44)DataStax acquiring Kaskada and what will come from that merger (40:24)Operationalizing and democratizing ML (47:54)Final thoughts and takeaways (56:04) 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Davor Bonaci of DataStax. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aditya’s background and journey in the data space (2:47)What does Ponder do? (5:18)101 on Pandas and why people utilize it (6:42)The challenge of translating Pandas to a big data platform (16:11)Data Warehouses and ML workflows (21:27)The differences in the “zoo” of data languages (26:56)Why do ML and data engineering have to be so different in languages? (34:39)Builders should be adapting to the users and not the other way around (39:32)Will we see a singular data interface in the future? (46:19)Aditya’s most surprising discovery in his research (50:40)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:18)Read more of Aditya's work: Pandas vs. SQL – Part 1: The Food Court and the Michelin-Style RestaurantPandas vs. SQL – Part 2: Pandas Is More ConcisePandas vs. SQL – Part 3: Pandas Is More FlexiblePandas vs. SQL – Part 4: Pandas Is More ConvenientThe 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:A.J.’s background and journey in data (2:23)Challenges with Hadoop ecosystem (8:50)Starting InfinyOn and the need for innovation (10:02)Challenges with Kafka and Microservices (14:01)Real-time data streaming for IoT devices (19:28)Paradigm shift to real-time data processing (22:17)Benefits of Rust (29:45)Web Assembly and Platform Features (36:29)Analytics and Event Correlation (40:16)Real-time data processing (47:03)ETL vs ELP (52:20)Final thoughts and takeaways (57:07)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with A.J. Hunyady, Founder and CEO of InfinyOn. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Josh’s background in data working at Google, Slack, and other companies (1:21)The need and process for high quality data (4:33)Digging into auction code (14:03)Joining Slack and working in the early days of the company (18:00)Not fighting the last war in data (25:42)Building a product, while using the product (30:35)Transitioning to the search team at Slack (36:50)Usage patterns of search (41:21)Josh’s work in helping build DuckDB (46:20)Having the right toolset to increase precision and efficiency (52:42)Final thoughts and takeaways (56:03)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric previews his upcoming conversation with Josh Wills, an experienced data scientist who has worked with IBM, Google, Slack, DuckDB, and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Dhruba’s journey into the data space (2:02)The impact of Hadoop on the industry (3:37)Dhruba’s work in the early days of the Facebook team (7:54)Building and implementing RocksDB (14:33)Stories with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook (24:25)The next evolution in storage hardware (26:14)How Rockset is different from other real-time platforms (33:13)Going from a key value store to an index (37:15)Where does Rockset go from here? (44:59)The success of RocksDB as an open source project (49:11)How do we properly steward real-time technology for impact (51:17)Final thoughts and takeaways (56:18)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The origin story of Data Council (0:39)Developments for the future of Data Council (2:42)The emphasis of AI and ChatGPT at this year’s conference (3:54)The support of the data community (5:31)Biggest changes and innovations in the industry (7:10)What’s next for the Data Council? (10:46)Getting connected with Data Council (13:07)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Gunner’s background in data (0:32)Setting the vision in early days of Red Hat and spearheading Debezium (6:20)Replication of data in Debezium (9:47)The patterns and processes of Debezium (16:21)Debezium working with Kafka (19:03)Building a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces (24:09)The importance of documentation in open-sourced projects (27:59)Debezium’s vision moving forward (31:32)Why aren’t there more CDC open-sourced solutions? (34:35)Connecting with Gunnar (37:27)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Michael’s journey to co-founding Tecton (0:22)The evolution of MLops and platform teams (3:50)Understanding boundaries between the data platform and the MLops (8:42)Differences in machine learning vs data pipelines (16:58)The systems needed to handle all these types of data (22:22)Developer experience in Tecton (25:15)Automating challenges in ML development (32:30)The most difficult part of the life cycle of prediction (37:24)Exciting new developments at Tecton (39:27)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Will’s background in data (0:28)Privacy dynamics and data anonymization (4:18)Addressing data privacy problems in the space (10:33)Developer experience with Privacy Dynamics (13:49)How does Privacy Dynamics work? (21:09)Update of real-time anonymized data (26:29)The problem of dates and other complexities in data (31:24)Being a data engineer in a startup (34:44)Moving at the speed of a startup (41:01)Connecting with Will and Privacy Dynamics (43:28)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Chase’s journey to where he is today (0:51)Lessons in go-to-market roles which helps in the VC world (2:38)Differentiating between go-to-market and distribution (8:13)Taking an idea to the market (11:33)Hardest part of the pitch (17:08)Playbooks for go-to-market founders to follow (20:25)Focus of sales and marketing in go-to-market strategy (28:01)Answering the what and how of the problem you are solving (32:30)The importance of pricing in a go-to-market strategy (46:11)Connecting with Chase (1:00:58)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Introducing the team from Featureform (0:31)In the work vs. leading the work (3:01)Difference between MLOps and data ops (7:06)The MLOps cycle (10:12)What is Featureform and what makes it different? (13:30)Is there another layer needed in feature stores? (18:46)Getting in touch with Featureform (23:55)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Eric’s journey to becoming CEO of Decoable (0:20)Does real time matter? (2:12)Differences in stream processing systems (7:57)Processing in motion (13:04)Why haven’t there been more open source projects around CDC? (20:34)The Decodable experience and future focuses for the company (24:31)Streaming processing and data lakes (32:54)Data flow processing technologies of today (39:01)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Origins of OtterTune (4:43)The problem of knob tuning (6:25)Roles of machine learning (9:32)OtterTune’s development and industry recognition (12:03)The challenges of database tuning and the role of human expertise (16:15)Tuning in production (20:23)Observability and Data Collection (23:37)Data Security and Privacy (29:59)Optimizing on-prem vs. cloud workloads (35:52)Performance benchmarks (40:20)Future opportunities OtterTune is focusing on (43:55)Importance of automated tuning services (50:45)Challenges in Benchmarking Real Workloads (58:43)The Story Behind the Name OtterTune (1:08:58)Balancing Technology and Human Factors (1:13:23)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with with Andy Pavlo and Dana Van Aken of OtterTune. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The journey of H.O. into data and becoming the CEO of FeatureBase (2:37)Characteristics of the super evolution in technology (6:36)ChatGPT as the missionary of AI (9:45)The tension between authenticity and technology (13:12)What is FeatureBase? (17:53)Comparing FeatureBase to feature stores (25:58)Workload capacities and possibilities in FeatureBase (33:20)The importance of developer experience on a platform (38:23)Exciting developments for FeatureBase in the future (47:13)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:52)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with H.O. Maycotte of FeatureBase. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Sammy’s background in data and tooling (2:46)Going from multipurpose engineering to a CTO position (5:14) Changes in technology and deep learning models (7:31)The state of self-driving and adoption (13:49)What is Eventual and what are they solving in the space? (20:54)What are daft and data frame and how they work? (28:11)Building a query optimizer (33:42)Sammy’s take on what is going on in data and future possibilities (45:18)Eventual’s future and its impact on the space (51:44)Final thoughts and takeaways (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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Chad’s background in data (2:10)Breaking down data quality (4:02)Semantic and logical layers of data (10:04)What are data contracts and how do they work? (17:41)Implicit contracts at companies (24:01)Where do data contracts fit in data infrastructure? (28:14)The value of data contracts to the producer and consumer (31:18)Tools needed in effective data contracts (46:13)The importance of community in data quality (50:53)Getting connected to Data Quality Camp (1:00:55)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:01:53)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Chad Sanderson of Data Quality Camp. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Defining CDPs (2:28)The data team's role in marketing (7:41)Leveraging commonalities across businesses (12:49)Building a CDP with customer data (18:05)Challenges in identity modeling (23:00)CDP lifecycle and one-to-one data (30:06)Segmentation and optimization (33:23)Real-time data in the cloud (40:37)The future of AI and machine learning (43:02)Final thoughts and takeaways (46:42)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jason Davis of Simon Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Vijay’s background in data (2:09)The journey of founding ThoughtSpot and its impact in the world of BI (2:49)The maturation of BI (6:34)What is NetSpring.io? (8:21)Bridging the gap of BI and product analytics (14:41) Why data warehouses and not time-series databases? (19:58)The difficulty of using SQL in product analytics (28:35)Challenges in pricing models for product analytics and tooling (35:41)Combining analytics and attribution (42:00)What’s the next wave of product analytics? (47:28)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:41)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vijay Ganesan of NetSpring.io. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:David’s background and journey to Timescale (2:12)What are time series databases? (14:13)How Timescale would have impacted David’s trajectory early in his career (17:51)Innovation in postgreSQL (21:02)Why does Timescale build their timeseries databases differently? (27:08)The challenges of building a new database on top of an old software (32:22)Writing outside of SQL and Timescale’s secret sauce (37:47)The importance of the developer experience in Timescale (54:08)How does someone know when they need to implement time series functionality (56:51)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:04:57)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Kohn of Timescale. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Alex’s background working for NSA and starting a company (1:51)The Gretel.ai journey (9:30)Defining synthetic data (13:26)The evolution of AI in deep learning data and language learning (16:28)The properties of synthetic data (21:31)Boundaries between synthetic data and prediction models (25:52)The developer experience in Gretel.ai (36:44)Stewardship and expansion of deep learning models in the future (45:36) Final thoughts and takeaways (52:17)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Alex’s background in the data space (2:41)Comics and Pop Culture Blending with Finance training (5:20)What is a data lake house? (7:36)What is Dremio solving in for users? (11:21)Essential components of a data lake house (16:35)Difference between on-prem and cloud experiences (33:53)What does it mean to be a developer advocate? (41:31)Final thoughts and takeaways (49:02)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Merced of Dremio. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Spenser’s journey to Co-Founding Amplitude (3:02)Looking back over the last decade of success at Amplitude (8:31)Going from Engineer to Sales (14:41)Comparing product analytics and general analytics (20:11)How cloud data warehousing has impacted analytics (31:38)Providing an out-of-the-box experience for consumers (41:12)Final thoughts and takeaways (54:27)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Spenser Skates of Amplitude Analytics. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Jeff’s background at Netflix and Stripe leading him to Abbey Labs (2:22)What Abbey is solving in the space (5:16)Tackling permissions in an organization (7:30)Opportunities to improve the availability of data (10:14)The challenge of tackling a new problem area at a new company (14:59)What is the most common challenges in the identity and security space (18:43)Importance of identity and the ability to track it in data (22:46)Connecting all the different platforms without frustrating the user (30:32)What are the parts of access data that needing to be tracked (36:10)Dealing with the varieties of data in security and managing permissions (40:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (51:52)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Jeff Chao of Abbey Labs, Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Pedram’s journey into the world of data (4:05)What should the datastack at an early-stage startup look like? (9:53)New ideas surrounding access control for data (24:45)What can data teams learn around complexity from software engineering (30:55)Scaling up instead of scaling out in processing data (37:40)Why DuckDB is making so much noise in the market (41:06)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:25)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedram Navid of West Marin Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.