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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.

Jan 25, 20231h 10m

The PRQL: Bringing Innovation to the Lowest Level of Databases

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In 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.

Jan 23, 20234 min

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.

Jan 18, 20231h 0m

The PRQL: Do We Need A Dedicated Database for Every Use Case?

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In 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.

Jan 16, 20234 min

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.

Jan 11, 202337 min

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.

Jan 4, 20231h 14m

The PRQL: What’s our first ever two-part episode about?

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In 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.

Jan 2, 20235 min

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.

Dec 28, 202212 min

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.

Dec 21, 20221h 3m

The PRQL: Do You Need Business Intelligence on Your Phone?

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In 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.

Dec 19, 20224 min

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.

Dec 14, 202256 min

The PRQL: Is Business Logic Moving Further Down the Stack?

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In 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.

Dec 12, 20222 min

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.

Dec 7, 202254 min

The PRQL: Data Analytics: Same As It Ever Was

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In 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.

Dec 5, 20226 min

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.

Nov 30, 202254 min

The PRQL: Managing Complexities of Financial Data

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In 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.

Nov 28, 20226 min

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.

Nov 23, 202259 min

The PRQL: The Data Switchboard

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In 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.

Nov 21, 20223 min

Shop Talk: Kostas Settles the Real-Time vs. Streaming Debate

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In 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.

Nov 18, 202221 min

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.

Nov 16, 20221h 4m

The PRQL: Graph as a Utility

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In 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.

Nov 14, 20223 min

Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce?

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In 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.

Nov 11, 202220 min

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.

Nov 9, 202250 min

The PRQL: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine?

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In 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.

Nov 7, 20225 min

Shop Talk: The Business of Data Infrastructure is Uniquely Challenging

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In 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.

Nov 4, 202219 min

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.

Nov 2, 202257 min

The PRQL: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems

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In 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.

Oct 28, 20224 min

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.

Oct 26, 202258 min

Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?

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In 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.

Oct 24, 202215 min

The PRQL: What is Data Discovery?

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In 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.

Oct 21, 20223 min

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.

Oct 19, 20221h 1m

Shop Talk: Will the Future of the Customer Data Platform Include a Shared Logic Layer?

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In 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.

Oct 17, 202219 min

The PRQL: What Comes to Mind When You Think of ‘Headless’?

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In 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.

Oct 14, 20224 min

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.

Oct 12, 20221h 0m

Shop Talk: Is It Possible for Excel To Die?

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In 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.

Oct 10, 202217 min

The PRQL: Are Marketers the Worst Data Quality Offenders?

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In 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.

Oct 7, 20224 min

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.

Oct 5, 20221h 2m

Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Transitioning From Consumer to Builder

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In 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.

Oct 3, 202227 min

The PRQL: What Can We Learn From the Patterns of Successful Data Teams?

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In 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.

Sep 30, 20223 min

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.

Sep 28, 202256 min

Shop Talk With Eric and Kostas: Data Politicians

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In 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.

Sep 26, 202221 min

The PRQL: Comparing Snowflake to a Car

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In 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.

Sep 23, 20223 min

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.

Sep 21, 202258 min

The PRQL: Kostas Becomes a Prophet

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In 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.

Sep 16, 20223 min

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.

Sep 14, 202257 min

The PRQL: What Does 10 Years in the Data Space Give You?

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In 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.

Sep 9, 20224 min

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.

Sep 7, 202255 min

The PRQL: Who Really Needs To Know How a DBMS Works?

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In 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.

Sep 2, 20224 min

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.

Aug 31, 202248 min

The PRQL: Data Warehouses on Steroids

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In 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.

Aug 26, 20222 min