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    Data Engineering Podcast

    This show goes behind the scenes for the tools, techniques, and difficulties associated with the discipline of data engineering. Databases, workflows, automation, and data manipulation are just some of the topics that you will find here.

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    Enabling Version Controlled Data Collaboration With TerminusDB Jan 11, 2021
    Show notes

    Summary

    As data professionals we have a number of tools available for storing, processing, and analyzing data. We also have tools for collaborating on software and analysis, but collaborating on data is still an underserved capability. Gavin Mendel-Gleason encountered this problem first hand while working on the Sesshat databank, leading him to create TerminusDB and TerminusHub. In this episode he explains how the TerminusDB system is architected to provide a versioned graph storage engine that allows for branching and merging of data sets, how that opens up new possibilities for individuals and teams to work together on building new data repositories. This is a fascinating conversation on the technical challenges involved, the opportunities that such as system provides, and the complexities inherent to building a successful business on open source.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Do you want to get better at Python? Now is an excellent time to take an online course. Whether you’re just learning Python or you’re looking for deep dives on topics like APIs, memory mangement, async and await, and more, our friends at Talk Python Training have a top-notch course for you. If you’re just getting started, be sure to check out the Python for Absolute Beginners course. It’s like the first year of computer science that you never took compressed into 10 fun hours of Python coding and problem solving. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/talkpython today and get 10% off the course that will help you find your next level. That’s dataengineeringpodcast.com/talkpython, and don’t forget to thank them for supporting the show.
    • You invest so much in your data infrastructure – you simply can’t afford to settle for unreliable data. Fortunately, there’s hope: in the same way that New Relic, DataDog, and other Application Performance Management solutions ensure reliable software and keep application downtime at bay, Monte Carlo solves the costly problem of broken data pipelines. Monte Carlo’s end-to-end Data Observability Platform monitors and alerts for data issues across your data warehouses, data lakes, ETL, and business intelligence. The platform uses machine learning to infer and learn your data, proactively identify data issues, assess its impact through lineage, and notify those who need to know before it impacts the business. By empowering data teams with end-to-end data reliability, Monte Carlo helps organizations save time, increase revenue, and restore trust in their data. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/montecarlo today to request a demo and see how Monte Carlo delivers data observability across your data infrastructure. The first 25 will receive a free, limited edition Monte Carlo hat!
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Gavin Mendel-Gleason about TerminusDB, an open source model driven graph database for knowledge graph representation

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by describing what TerminusDB is and what motivated you to build it?
    • What are the use cases that TerminusDB and TerminusHub are designed for?
    • There are a number of different reasons and methods for versioning data, such as the work being done with Datomic, LakeFS, DVC, etc. Where does TerminusDB fit in relation to those and other data versioning systems that are available today?
    • Can you describe how TerminusDB is implemented?
      • How has the design changed or evolved since you first began working on it?
      • What was the decision process and design considerations that led you to choose Prolog as the implementation language?
    • One of the challenges that have faced other knowledge engines built around RDF is that of scale and performance. How are you addressing those difficulties in TerminusDB?
    • What are the scaling factors and limitations for TerminusDB? (e.g. volumes of data, clustering, etc.)
    • How does the use of RDF triples and JSON-LD impact the audience for TerminusDB?
    • How much overhead is incurred by maintaining a long history of changes for a database?
      • How do you handle garbage collection/compaction of versions?
    • How does the availability of branching and merging strategies change the approach that data teams take when working on a project?
    • What are the edge cases in merging and conflict resolution, and what tools does TerminusDB/TerminusHub provide for working through those situations?
    • What are some useful strategies that teams should be aware of for working effectively with collaborative datasets in TerminusDB?
    • Another interesting element of the TerminusDB platform is the query language. What did you use as inspiration for designing it and how much of a learning curve is involved?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen TerminusDB used? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web-?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building TerminusDB and TerminusHub?
    • When is TerminusDB the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of the project?

    Contact Info

    • @GavinMGleason on Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • GavinMendelGleason on GitHub

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Links

    • TerminusDB
    • TerminusHub
    • Chem Informatics
    • Type Theory
    • Graph Database
    • Trinity College Dublin
    • Sesshat Databank analytics over civilizations in history
    • PostgreSQL
    • DGraph
    • Grakn
    • Neo4J
    • Datomic
    • LakeFS
    • DVC
    • Dolt
    • Persistent Succinct Data Structure
    • Currying
    • Prolog
    • WOQL TerminusDB query language
    • RDF
    • JSON-LD
    • Semantic Web
    • Property Graph
    • Hypergraph
    • Super Node
    • Bloom Filters
    • Data Curation
      • Podcast Episode
    • CRDT == Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
      • Podcast Episode
    • SPARQL
    • Datalog
    • AST == Abstract Syntax Tree

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Bringing Feature Stores and MLOps to the Enterprise at Tecton Jan 05, 2021
    Show notes

    Summary

    As more organizations are gaining experience with data management and incorporating analytics into their decision making, their next move is to adopt machine learning. In order to make those efforts sustainable, the core capability they need is for data scientists and analysts to be able to build and deploy features in a self service manner. As a result the feature store is becoming a required piece of the data platform. To fill that need Kevin Stumpf and the team at Tecton are building an enterprise feature store as a service. In this episode he explains how his experience building the Michelanagelo platform at Uber has informed the design and architecture of Tecton, how it integrates with your existing data systems, and the elements that are required for well engineered feature store.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Do you want to get better at Python? Now is an excellent time to take an online course. Whether you’re just learning Python or you’re looking for deep dives on topics like APIs, memory mangement, async and await, and more, our friends at Talk Python Training have a top-notch course for you. If you’re just getting started, be sure to check out the Python for Absolute Beginners course. It’s like the first year of computer science that you never took compressed into 10 fun hours of Python coding and problem solving. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/talkpython today and get 10% off the course that will help you find your next level. That’s dataengineeringpodcast.com/talkpython, and don’t forget to thank them for supporting the show.
    • You invest so much in your data infrastructure – you simply can’t afford to settle for unreliable data. Fortunately, there’s hope: in the same way that New Relic, DataDog, and other Application Performance Management solutions ensure reliable software and keep application downtime at bay, Monte Carlo solves the costly problem of broken data pipelines. Monte Carlo’s end-to-end Data Observability Platform monitors and alerts for data issues across your data warehouses, data lakes, ETL, and business intelligence. The platform uses machine learning to infer and learn your data, proactively identify data issues, assess its impact through lineage, and notify those who need to know before it impacts the business. By empowering data teams with end-to-end data reliability, Monte Carlo helps organizations save time, increase revenue, and restore trust in their data. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/montecarlo today to request a demo and see how Monte Carlo delivers data observability across your data infrastructure. The first 25 will receive a free, limited edition Monte Carlo hat!
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Kevin Stumpf about Tecton and the role that the feature store plays in a modern MLOps platform

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by describing what you are building at Tecton and your motivation for starting the business?
    • For anyone who isn’t familiar with the concept, what is an example of a feature?
    • How do you define what a feature store is?
    • What role does a feature store play in the overall lifecycle of a machine learning project?
    • How would you characterize the current landscape of feature stores?
    • What are the other components that are necessary for a complete ML operations platform?
    • At what points in the lifecycle of data does the feature store get integrated?
    • What types of data can feature stores manage? (e.g. text vs. image/binary vs. spatial, etc.)
    • How is the Tecton platform implemented?
      • How has the design evolved since you first began building it?
        • How did your work on Uber’s Michelangelo inform your work on Tecton?
    • What is the workflow and lifecycle of developing, testing, and deploying a feature to a feature store?
    • What aspects of a feature do you monitor to determine whether it has drifted?
      • How do you define drift in the context of a feature?
        • How does that differ from drift in an ML model?
    • How does Tecton handle versioning of features and associating those different versions with the models that are using them?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected projects that you have seen built with Tecton?
    • When is Tecton the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of the product?

    Contact Info

    • LinkedIn
    • kevinstumpf on GitHub
    • @kevinstumpf on Twitter

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Tecton
    • Uber Michelangelo
    • MLOps
    • Feature Store
    • Blog: What Is A Feature Store
    • StreamSQL
      • Podcast Episode
    • AWS Feature Store
    • Logical Clocks
    • EMR
    • Kotlin
    • DynamoDB
    • scikit-learn
    • Tensorflow
    • MLFlow
    • Algorithmia
    • SageMaker
    • Feast open source feature store
    • Jaeger
    • OpenTelemetry

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Off The Shelf Data Governance With Satori Dec 28, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    One of the core responsibilities of data engineers is to manage the security of the information that they process. The team at Satori has a background in cybersecurity and they are using the lessons that they learned in that field to address the challenge of access control and auditing for data governance. In this episode co-founder and CTO Yoav Cohen explains how the Satori platform provides a proxy layer for your data, the challenges of managing security across disparate storage systems, and their approach to building a dynamic data catalog based on the records that your organization is actually using. This is an interesting conversation about the intersection of data and security and the lessons that can be learned in each direction.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Yoav Cohen about Satori, a data access service to monitor, classify and control access to sensitive data

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by describing what you have built at Satori?
      • What is the story behind the product and company?
    • How does Satori compare to other tools and products for managing access control and governance for data assets?
    • What are the biggest challenges that organizations face in establishing and enforcing policies for their data?
    • What are the main goals for the Satori product and what use cases does it enable?
    • Can you describe how the Satori platform is architected?
      • How has the design of the platform evolved since you first began working on it?
    • How have your experiences working in cyber security informed your approach to data governance?
    • How does the design of the Satori platform simplify technical aspects of data governance?
      • What aspects of governance do you delegate to other systems or platforms?
    • What elements of data infrastructure does Satori integrate with?
      • For someone who is adopting Satori, what is involved in getting it deployed and set up with their existing data platforms?
    • What do you see as being the most complex or underserved aspects of data governance?
      • How much of that complexity is inherent to the problem vs. being a result of how the industry has evolved?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen the Satori platform used?
    • What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building Satori?
    • When is Satori the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of the platform?

    Contact Info

    • LinkedIn
    • @yoavcohen on Twitter

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Satori
    • Data Governance
    • Data Masking
    • TLS == Transport Layer Security

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Low Friction Data Governance With Immuta Dec 21, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    Data governance is a term that encompasses a wide range of responsibilities, both technical and process oriented. One of the more complex aspects is that of access control to the data assets that an organization is responsible for managing. The team at Immuta has built a platform that aims to tackle that problem in a flexible and maintainable fashion so that data teams can easily integrate authorization, data masking, and privacy enhancing technologies into their data infrastructure. In this episode Steve Touw and Stephen Bailey share what they have built at Immuta, how it is implemented, and how it streamlines the workflow for everyone involved in working with sensitive data. If you are starting down the path of implementing a data governance strategy then this episode will provide a great overview of what is involved.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Feature flagging is a simple concept that enables you to ship faster, test in production, and do easy rollbacks without redeploying code. Teams using feature flags release new software with less risk, and release more often. ConfigCat is a feature flag service that lets you easily add flags to your Python code, and 9 other platforms. By adopting ConfigCat you and your manager can track and toggle your feature flags from their visual dashboard without redeploying any code or configuration, including granular targeting rules. You can roll out new features to a subset or your users for beta testing or canary deployments. With their simple API, clear documentation, and pricing that is independent of your team size you can get your first feature flags added in minutes without breaking the bank. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/configcat today to get 35% off any paid plan with code DATAENGINEERING or try out their free forever plan.
    • You invest so much in your data infrastructure – you simply can’t afford to settle for unreliable data. Fortunately, there’s hope: in the same way that New Relic, DataDog, and other Application Performance Management solutions ensure reliable software and keep application downtime at bay, Monte Carlo solves the costly problem of broken data pipelines. Monte Carlo’s end-to-end Data Observability Platform monitors and alerts for data issues across your data warehouses, data lakes, ETL, and business intelligence. The platform uses machine learning to infer and learn your data, proactively identify data issues, assess its impact through lineage, and notify those who need to know before it impacts the business. By empowering data teams with end-to-end data reliability, Monte Carlo helps organizations save time, increase revenue, and restore trust in their data. Visit dataengineeringpodcast.com/montecarlo today to request a demo and see how Monte Carlo delivers data observability across your data infrastructure. The first 25 will receive a free, limited edition Monte Carlo hat!
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Steve Touw and Stephen Bailey about Immuta and how they work to automate data governance

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by describing what you have built at Immuta and your motivation for starting the company?
    • What is data governance?
      • How much of data governance can be solved with technology and how much is a matter of process and communication?
    • What does the current landscape of data governance solutions look like?
      • What are the motivating factors that would lead someone to choose Immuta as a component of their data governance strategy?
    • How does Immuta integrate with the broader ecosystem of data tools and platforms?
      • What other workflows or activities are necessary outside of Immuta to ensure a comprehensive governance/compliance strategy?
    • What are some of the common blind spots when it comes to data governance?
    • How is the Immuta platform architected?
      • How have the design and goals of the system evolved since you first started building it?
    • What is involved in adopting Immuta for an existing data platform?
      • Once an organization has integrated Immuta, what are the workflows for the different stakeholders of the data?
    • What are the biggest challenges in automated discovery/identification of sensitive data?
      • How does the evolution of what qualifies as sensitive complicate those efforts?
    • How do you approach the challenge of providing a unified interface for access control and auditing across different systems (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, RedShift, etc.)?
    • What are the complexities that creep into data masking?
      • What are some alternatives for obfuscating and managing access to sensitive information?
    • How do you handle managing access control/masking/tagging for derived data sets?
    • What are some of the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building Immuta?
    • When is Immuta the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of the platform and business?

    Contact Info

    • Steve
      • LinkedIn
      • @steve_touw on Twitter
    • Stephen
      • LinkedIn
      • Website

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Immuta
    • Data Governance
    • Data Catalog
    • Snowflake DB
      • Podcast Episode
    • Looker
      • Podcast Episode
    • Collibra
    • ABAC == Attribute Based Access Control
    • RBAC == Role Based Access Control
    • Paul Ohm: Broken Promises of Privacy
    • PET == Privacy Enhancing Technologies
    • K Anonymization
    • Differential Privacy
    • LDAP == Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
    • Active Directory
    • COVID Alliance
    • HIPAA
    • GDPR
    • CCPA

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Building A Self Service Data Platform For Alternative Data Analytics At YipitData Dec 15, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    As a data engineer you’re familiar with the process of collecting data from databases, customer data platforms, APIs, etc. At YipitData they rely on a variety of alternative data sources to inform investment decisions by hedge funds and businesses. In this episode Andrew Gross, Bobby Muldoon, and Anup Segu describe the self service data platform that they have built to allow data analysts to own the end-to-end delivery of data projects and how that has allowed them to scale their output. They share the journey that they went through to build a scalable and maintainable system for web scraping, how to make it reliable and resilient to errors, and the lessons that they learned in the process. This was a great conversation about real world experiences in building a successful data-oriented business.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Today’s episode of the Data Engineering Podcast is sponsored by Datadog, a SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications, logs, and more. Datadog uses machine-learning based algorithms to detect errors and anomalies across your entire stack—which reduces the time it takes to detect and address outages and helps promote collaboration between Data Engineering, Operations, and the rest of the company. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datadog today to start your free 14 day trial. If you start a trial and install Datadog’s agent, Datadog will send you a free T-shirt.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Andrew Gross, Bobby Muldoon, and Anup Segu about they are building pipelines at Yipit Data

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by giving an overview of what YipitData does?
    • What kinds of data sources and data assets are you working with?
    • What is the composition of your data teams and how are they structured?
    • Given the use of your data products in the financial sector how do you handle monitoring and alerting around data quality?
      • For web scraping in particular, given how fragile it can be, what have you done to make it a reliable and repeatable part of the data pipeline?
    • Can you describe how your data platform is implemented?
      • How has the design of your platform and its goals evolved or changed?
    • What is your guiding principle for providing an approachable interface to analysts?
      • How much knowledge do your analysts require about the guarantees offered, and edge cases to be aware of in the underlying data and its processing?
    • What are some examples of specific tools that you have built to empower your analysts to own the full lifecycle of the data that they are working with?
    • Can you characterize or quantify the benefits that you have seen from training the analysts to work with the engineering tool chain?
    • What have been some of the most interesting, unexpected, or surprising outcomes of how you are approaching the different responsibilities and levels of ownership in your data organization?
    • What are some of the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned from building out the platform, tooling, and organizational structure for creating data products at Yipit?
    • What advice or recommendations do you have for other leaders of data teams about how to think about the organizational and technical aspects of managing the lifecycle of data projects?

    Contact Info

    • Andrew
      • LinkedIn
      • @awgross on Twitter
    • Bobby
      • LinkedIn
      • @TheDooner64
    • Anup
      • LinkedIn
      • anup-segu on GitHub

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Links

    • Yipit Data
    • Redshift
    • MySQL
    • Airflow
    • Databricks
    • Groupon
    • Living Social
    • Web Scraping
      • Podcast.__init__ Episode
    • Readypipe
    • Graphite
      • Podcast.init Episode
    • AWS Kinesis Firehose
    • Parquet
    • Papermill
      • Podcast Episode About Notebooks At Netflix
    • Fivetran
      • Podcast Episode

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Proven Patterns For Building Successful Data Teams Dec 07, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    Building data products are complicated by the fact that there are so many different stakeholders with competing goals and priorities. It is also challenging because of the number of roles and capabilities that are necessary to go from idea to delivery. Different organizations have tried a multitude of organizational strategies to improve the success rate of these data teams with varying levels of success. In this episode Jesse Anderson shares the lessons that he has learned while working with dozens of businesses across industries to determine the team structures and communication styles that have generated the best results. If you are struggling to deliver value from big data, or just starting down the path of building the organizational capacity to turn raw information into valuable products then this is a conversation that you don’t want to miss.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Today’s episode of the Data Engineering Podcast is sponsored by Datadog, a SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure, applications, logs, and more. Datadog uses machine-learning based algorithms to detect errors and anomalies across your entire stack—which reduces the time it takes to detect and address outages and helps promote collaboration between Data Engineering, Operations, and the rest of the company. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datadog today to start your free 14 day trial. If you start a trial and install Datadog’s agent, Datadog will send you a free T-shirt.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Jesse Anderson about best practices for organizing and managing data teams

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by giving an overview of how you view the mission and responsibilities of a data team?
      • What are the critical elements of a successful data team?
      • Beyond the core pillars of data science, data engineering, and operations, what other specialized roles do you find helpful for larger or more sophisticated teams?
    • For organizations that have "small data", how does that change the necessary composition of roles for successful data projects?
    • What are the signs and symptoms that point to the need for a dedicated team that focuses on data?
    • With data scientists and data engineers in particular being in such high demand, what are strategies that you have found effective for attracting new talent?
      • In the case where you have engineers on staff, how do you identify internal talent that can be trained into these specialized roles?
    • Another challenge that organizations face in dealing with data is how the team is organized. What are your thoughts on effective strategies for how to structure the communication and reporting structures of data teams? (e.g. centralized, embedded, etc.)
    • How do you recommend evaluating potential candidates for each of the necessary roles?
      • What are your thoughts on when to hire an outside consultant, vs building internal capacity?
    • For managers who are responsible for data teams, how much understanding of data and analytics do they need to be effective?
      • How do you define success or measure performance of a team focused on working with data?
    • What are some of the anti-patterns that you have seen in managers who oversee data professionals?
    • What are some of the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned in the process of helping organizations and individuals achieve success in data and analytics?
    • What advice or additional resources do you have for anyone who is interested in learning more about how to build and grow a successful data team?

    Contact Info

    • Website
    • @jessetanderson on Twitter

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Data Teams Book
    • DBA == Database Administrator
    • ML Engineer
    • DataOps
    • Three Vs
    • The Ultimate Guide To Switching Careers To Big Data
    • S-1 Report
    • Jesse Anderson’s Youtube Channel
      • Video about interviewing for data teams
    • Uber Data Infrastructure Progression Blog Post

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Streaming Data Integration Without The Code at Equalum Nov 30, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    The first stage of every good pipeline is to perform data integration. With the increasing pace of change and the need for up to date analytics the need to integrate that data in near real time is growing. With the improvements and increased variety of options for streaming data engines and improved tools for change data capture it is possible for data teams to make that goal a reality. However, despite all of the tools and managed distributions of those streaming engines it is still a challenge to build a robust and reliable pipeline for streaming data integration, especially if you need to expose those capabilities to non-engineers. In this episode Ido Friedman, CTO of Equalum, explains how they have built a no-code platform to make integration of streaming data and change data capture feeds easier to manage. He discusses the challenges that are inherent in the current state of CDC technologies, how they have architected their system to integrate well with existing data platforms, and how to build an appropriate level of abstraction for such a complex problem domain. If you are struggling with streaming data integration and change data capture then this interview is definitely worth a listen.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Modern Data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code. Monitoring data quality, tracing incidents, and testing changes can be daunting and often takes hours to days. Datafold helps Data teams gain visibility and confidence in the quality of their analytical data through data profiling, column-level lineage and intelligent anomaly detection. Datafold also helps automate regression testing of ETL code with its Data Diff feature that instantly shows how a change in ETL or BI code affects the produced data, both on a statistical level and down to individual rows and values. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold today to start a 30-day trial of Datafold. Once you sign up and create an alert in Datafold for your company data, they will send you a cool water flask.
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Ido Friedman about Equalum, a no-code platform for streaming data integration

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by giving an overview of what you are building at Equalum and how it got started?
    • There are a number of projects and platforms on the market that target data integration. Can you give some context of how Equalum fits in that market and the differentiating factors that engineers should consider?
    • What components of the data ecosystem might Equalum replace, and which are you designed to integrate with?
    • Can you walk through the workflow for someone who is using Equalum for a simple data integration use case?
      • What options are available for doing in-flight transformations of data or creating customized routing rules?
      • How do you handle versioning and staged rollouts of changes to pipelines?
    • How is the Equalum platform implemented?
      • How has the design and architecture of Equalum evolved since it was first created?
      • What have you found to be the most complex or challenging aspects of building the platform?
    • Change data capture is a growing area of interest, with a significant level of difficulty in implementing well. How do you handle support for the variety of different sources that customers are working with?
      • What are the edge cases that you typically run into when working with changes in databases?
    • How do you approach the user experience of the platform given its focus as a low code/no code system?
      • What options exist for sophisticated users to create custom operations?
    • How much of the underlying concerns do you surface to end users, and how much are you able to hide?
    • What is the process for a customer to integrate Equalum into their existing infrastructure and data systems?
    • What are some of the most interesting, unexpected, or innovative ways that you have seen Equalum used?
    • What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building and growing the Equalum platform?
    • When is Equalum the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of Equalum?

    Contact Info

    • LinkedIn

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Equalum
    • Change Data Capture
      • Debezium Podcast Episode
    • SQL Server
    • DBA == Database Administrator
    • Fivetran
      • Podcast Episode
    • Singer
    • Pentaho
    • EMR
    • Snowflake
      • Podcast Episode
    • S3
    • Kafka
    • Spark
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Logminer
    • OBLP == Oracle Binary Log Parser
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
    • Jupyter Notebooks
    • Papermill

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Keeping A Bigeye On The Data Quality Market Nov 23, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    One of the oldest aphorisms about data is "garbage in, garbage out", which is why the current boom in data quality solutions is no surprise. With the growth in projects, platforms, and services that aim to help you establish and maintain control of the health and reliability of your data pipelines it can be overwhelming to stay up to date with how they all compare. In this episode Egor Gryaznov, CTO of Bigeye, joins the show to explore the landscape of data quality companies, the general strategies that they are using, and what problems they solve. He also shares how his own product is designed and the challenges that are involved in building a system to help data engineers manage the complexity of a data platform. If you are wondering how to get better control of your own pipelines and the traps to avoid then this episode is definitely worth a listen.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Modern Data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code. Monitoring data quality, tracing incidents, and testing changes can be daunting and often takes hours to days. Datafold helps Data teams gain visibility and confidence in the quality of their analytical data through data profiling, column-level lineage and intelligent anomaly detection. Datafold also helps automate regression testing of ETL code with its Data Diff feature that instantly shows how a change in ETL or BI code affects the produced data, both on a statistical level and down to individual rows and values. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/datafold today to start a 30-day trial of Datafold. Once you sign up and create an alert in Datafold for your company data, they will send you a cool water flask.
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Egor Gryaznov about the state of the industry for data quality management and what he is building at Bigeye.

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by sharing your views on what attributes you consider when defining data quality?
    • You use the term "data semantics" – can you elaborate on what that means?
    • What are the driving factors that contribute to the presence or lack of data quality in an organization or data platform?
    • Why do you think now is the right time to focus on data quality as an industry?
    • What are you building at Bigeye and how did it get started?
    • How does Bigeye help teams understand and manage their data quality?
    • What is the difference between existing data quality approaches and data observability?
      • What do you see as the tradeoffs for the approach that you are taking at Bigeye?
    • What are the most common data quality issues that you’ve seen and what are some more interesting ones that you wouldn’t expect?
    • Where do you see Bigeye fitting into the data management landscape? What are alternatives to Bigeye?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen Bigeye being used?
      • What are some of the most interesting homegrown approaches that you have seen?
    • What have you found to be the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building the Bigeye platform and business?
    • What are the biggest trends you’re following in data quality management?
    • When is Bigeye the wrong choice?
    • What do you see in store for the future of Bigeye?

    Contact Info

    • You can email Egor about anything data
    • LinkedIn

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Bigeye
    • Uber
    • A/B Testing
    • Hadoop
    • MapReduce
    • Apache Impala
    • One King’s Lane
    • Vertica
    • Mode
    • Tableau
    • Jupyter Notebooks
    • Redshift
    • Snowflake
    • PyTorch
      • Podcast.__init__ Episode
    • Tensorflow
    • DataOps
    • DevOps
    • Data Catalog
    • DBT
      • Podcast Episode
    • SRE Handbook
    • Article About How Uber Applied SRE Principles to Data
    • SLA == Service Level Agreement
    • SLO == Service Level Objective
    • Dagster
      • Podcast Episode
      • Podcast.__init__ Episode
    • Delta Lake
    • Great Expectations
      • Podcast Episode
      • Podcast.__init__ Episode
    • Amundsen
      • Podcast Episode
    • Alation
    • Collibra

    The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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    Self Service Data Management From Ingest To Insights With Isima Nov 17, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    The core mission of data engineers is to provide the business with a way to ask and answer questions of their data. This often takes the form of business intelligence dashboards, machine learning models, or APIs on top of a cleaned and curated data set. Despite the rapid progression of impressive tools and products built to fulfill this mission, it is still an uphill battle to tie everything together into a cohesive and reliable platform. At Isima they decided to reimagine the entire ecosystem from the ground up and built a single unified platform to allow end-to-end self service workflows from data ingestion through to analysis. In this episode CEO and co-founder of Isima Darshan Rawal explains how the biOS platform is architected to enable ease of use, the challenges that were involved in building an entirely new system from scratch, and how it can integrate with the rest of your data platform to allow for incremental adoption. This was an interesting and contrarian take on the current state of the data management industry and is worth a listen to gain some additional perspective.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Modern Data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code. Monitoring data quality, tracing incidents, and testing changes can be daunting and often takes hours to days. Datafold helps Data teams gain visibility and confidence in the quality of their analytical data through data profiling, column-level lineage and intelligent anomaly detection. Datafold also helps automate regression testing of ETL code with its Data Diff feature that instantly shows how a change in ETL or BI code affects the produced data, both on a statistical level and down to individual rows and values. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. Follow go.datafold.com/dataengineeringpodcast to start a 30-day trial of Datafold. Once you sign up and create an alert in Datafold for your company data, they will send you a cool water flask.
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Darshan Rawal about Îsíma, a unified platform for building data applications

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by giving an overview of what you are building at Îsíma?
      • What was your motivation for creating a new platform for data applications?
      • What is the story behind the name?
    • What are the tradeoffs of a fully integrated platform vs a modular approach?
    • What components of the data ecosystem does Isima replace, and which does it integrate with?
    • What are the use cases that Isima enables which were previously impractical?
    • Can you describe how Isima is architected?
      • How has the design of the platform changed or evolved since you first began working on it?
      • What were your initial ideas or assumptions that have been changed or invalidated as you worked through the problem you’re addressing?
    • With a focus on the enterprise, how did you approach the user experience design to allow for organizational complexity?
      • One of the biggest areas of difficulty that many data systems face is security and scaleable access control. How do you tackle that problem in your platform?
    • How did you address the issue of geographical distribution of data and users?
    • Can you talk through the overall lifecycle of data as it traverses the bi(OS) platform from ingestion through to presentation?
    • What is the workflow for someone using bi(OS)?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen bi(OS) used?
    • What have you found to be the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging aspects of building the bi(OS) platform?
    • When is it the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of Isima and bi(OS)?

    Contact Info

    • LinkedIn

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes.
    • If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@dataengineeringpodcast.com) with your story.
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers
    • Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at dataengineeringpodcast.com/chat

    Links

    • Îsíma
    • Datastax
    • Verizon
    • AT&T
    • Click Fraud
    • ESB == Enterprise Service Bus
    • ETL == Extract, Transform, Load
    • EDW == Enterprise Data Warehouse
    • BI == Business Intelligence

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    Building A Cost Effective Data Catalog With Tree Schema Nov 10, 2020
    Show notes

    Summary

    A data catalog is a critical piece of infrastructure for any organization who wants to build analytics products, whether internal or external. While there are a number of platforms available for building that catalog, many of them are either difficult to deploy and integrate, or expensive to use at scale. In this episode Grant Seward explains how he built Tree Schema to be an easy to use and cost effective option for organizations to build their data catalogs. He also shares the internal architecture, how he approached the design to make it accessible and easy to use, and how it autodiscovers the schemas and metadata for your source systems.

    Announcements

    • Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management
    • What are the pieces of advice that you wish you had received early in your career of data engineering? If you hand a book to a new data engineer, what wisdom would you add to it? I’m working with O’Reilly on a project to collect the 97 things that every data engineer should know, and I need your help. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/97things to add your voice and share your hard-earned expertise.
    • When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it’s now even easier to deploy and scale your workflows, or try out the latest Helm charts from tools like Pulsar and Pachyderm. With simple pricing, fast networking, object storage, and worldwide data centers, you’ve got everything you need to run a bulletproof data platform. Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/linode today and get a $60 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show!
    • Modern Data teams are dealing with a lot of complexity in their data pipelines and analytical code. Monitoring data quality, tracing incidents, and testing changes can be daunting and often takes hours to days. Datafold helps Data teams gain visibility and confidence in the quality of their analytical data through data profiling, column-level lineage and intelligent anomaly detection. Datafold also helps automate regression testing of ETL code with its Data Diff feature that instantly shows how a change in ETL or BI code affects the produced data, both on a statistical level and down to individual rows and values. Datafold integrates with all major data warehouses as well as frameworks such as Airflow & dbt and seamlessly plugs into CI workflows. Follow go.datafold.com/dataengineeringpodcast to start a 30-day trial of Datafold. Once you sign up and create an alert in Datafold for your company data, they will send you a cool water flask.
    • Are you bogged down by having to manually manage data access controls, repeatedly move and copy data, and create audit reports to prove compliance? How much time could you save if those tasks were automated across your cloud platforms? Immuta is an automated data governance solution that enables safe and easy data analytics in the cloud. Our comprehensive data-level security, auditing and de-identification features eliminate the need for time-consuming manual processes and our focus on data and compliance team collaboration empowers you to deliver quick and valuable data analytics on the most sensitive data to unlock the full potential of your cloud data platforms. Learn how we streamline and accelerate manual processes to help you derive real results from your data at dataengineeringpodcast.com/immuta.
    • Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Grant Seward about Tree Schema, a human friendly data catalog

    Interview

    • Introduction
    • How did you get involved in the area of data management?
    • Can you start by giving an overview of what you have built at Tree Schema?
      • What was your motivation for creating it?
    • At what stage of maturity should a team or organization consider a data catalog to be a necessary component in their data platform?
    • There are a large and growing number of projects and products designed to provide a data catalog, with each of them addressing the problem in a slightly different way. What are the necessary elements for a data catalog?
      • How does Tree Schema compare to the available options? (e.g. Amundsen, Company Wiki, Metacat, Metamapper, etc.)
    • How is the Tree Schema system implemented?
      • How has the design or direction of Tree Schema evolved since you first began working on it?
    • How did you approach the schema definitions for defining entities?
    • What was your guiding heuristic for determining how to design the interface and data models? – I wrote down notes that combine this with the question above
    • How do you handle integrating with data sources?
    • In addition to storing schema information you allow users to store information about the transformations being performed. How is that represented?
      • How can users populate information about their transformations in an automated fashion?
    • How do you approach evolution and versioning of schema information?
    • What are the scaling limitations of tree schema, whether in terms of the technical or cognitive complexity that it can handle?
    • What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen Tree Schema being used?
    • What have you found to be the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons learned in the process of building and promoting Tree Schema?
    • When is Tree Schema the wrong choice?
    • What do you have planned for the future of the product?

    Contact Info

    • Email
    • Linkedin

    Parting Question

    • From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

    Closing Announcements

    • Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, Podcast.__init__ to learn about the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used.
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