
The Data Stack Show
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123: What Is a Universal Database? Featuring Stavros Papadopoulos of TileDB, Inc.
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Stavros’ journey into data and founding TileDB (3:12)What problem was TileDB going to solve? (12:05)Defining database systems (21:35)What part of database architecture is TileDB? (31:58)Storage engine solutions (42:37)What does the API look like in using TileDB? (50:40)What makes genomics unique in working with data (55:28)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:06:46)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.
The PRQL: Bringing Innovation to the Lowest Level of Databases
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Stavros Papadopoulos of TileDB, Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

122: Why Accounting Needs Its Own Database with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Do We Need A Dedicated Database for Every Use Case?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: What’s our first ever two-part episode about?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming two-part conversation with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry of Materialize. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

119: The Data Stack Show Wrapped: 2022
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.

118: Bringing Powerful Business Intelligence to Mobile with Zack Hendlin of Zing Data
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Do You Need Business Intelligence on Your Phone?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zach Hendlin of Zing Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

117: DX for Data Tooling with Taylor Murphy of Meltano
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Is Business Logic Moving Further Down the Stack?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Taylor Murphy of Meltano. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

116: Data Democratization & Self Service with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Data Analytics: Same As It Ever Was
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

115: What Is Production Grade Data? Featuring Ashwin Kamath of Spectre
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Managing Complexities of Financial Data
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ashwin Kamath of Spectre. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

114: Solving Data Infrastructure Problems at Startups and Enterprises with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: The Data Switchboard
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: Kostas Settles the Real-Time vs. Streaming Debate
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the topic of streaming. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

113: What Is Streaming Graph? Featuring Ryan Wright of thatDot
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Graph as a Utility
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ryan Wright of thatDot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around experiences at the Coalesce conference in New Orleans. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

112: Python Native Stream Processing with Zander Matheson of bytewax
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zander Matheson of bytewax. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: The Business of Data Infrastructure is Uniquely Challenging
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop surrounding data infrastructure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

111: What if Your Code Just Ran in the Cloud for You? Featuring Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: What is Data Discovery?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

109: How Does Headless Business Intelligence Work? Featuring Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov of Cube Dev
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: Will the Future of the Customer Data Platform Include a Shared Logic Layer?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: What Comes to Mind When You Think of ‘Headless’?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Artyom Keydunov & Pavel Tiunov of CubeJS. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

108: You Can’t Separate Data Reliability From Workflow with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk: Is It Possible for Excel To Die?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Are Marketers the Worst Data Quality Offenders?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

107: Building Modern Data Teams with dbt Labs, REI, and Robinhood
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Transitioning From Consumer to Builder
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop regarding transitioning from consumer to builder. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: What Can We Learn From the Patterns of Successful Data Teams?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming panel discussion around the topic of building data teams. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

106: Optimizing Query Workloads (and Your Snowflake Bill) with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Data Politicians
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk about data politicians in this new special show format. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Comparing Snowflake to a Car
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vinoo Ganesh of Bluesky Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

105: The Modern Data Stack Is Just Getting Started with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital
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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Kostas Becomes a Prophet
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

104: A Decade of Change in the Data Space with Benn Stancil of Mode
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: What Does 10 Years in the Data Space Give You?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

103: Everyone Is Invited to the Data Lakehouse with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Who Really Needs To Know How a DBMS Works?
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

102: Building Pinot for Real-Time, Interactive User Analytics with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The PRQL: Data Warehouses on Steroids
bonusIn this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.