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Data Observability with Millions of Users - Barr Moses Feb 08, 2023

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Barr Moses, CEO of Monte Carlo explains the difference between data quality and data observability, and how to make sure your data is accurate in a world where so many different teams are accessing it.

The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so
Previous guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.
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How Amplitude Engineers Process 5 Trillion Real-time Events Jan 05, 2023

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Weichen Wang, Senior Engineering Manager at Amplitude, came to meet the bros to talk about Amplitude's cutting-edge data stack and how it processes 5 Trillion real-time events while dealing with mutable data and massive scale.

Making Observability a Key Business Driver Nov 29, 2022

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80% of the code that you write doesn’t work on the first try. And that’s fine. But knowing which 80% is not working and which 20% is working is the actual challenge. After 10 years at Facebook, managing and scaling the Seattle site to over 6000 engineers(!) Vijaye Raji founded Statsig to make observability automated and real-time. How is the semantic layer managed? How was the Statsig team able to build an observability product that handles real-time ever-changing metadata? What are Vijaye’s main takeaways from engineering at Facebook? Tune in.

A ClickHouse Review from a Practitioner’s Point of View Sep 01, 2022

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Sudeep Kumar, Principal Engineer at Salesforce is a ClickHouse fan. He considers the shift to Clickhouse as one of his biggest accomplishments during his eBay days and walks Boaz through his experience with the platform. How on one hand it handled 2B events per minute, but also how it required rollups which compromised granularity when extending time windows.

Besides a ClickHouse review from a practitioner’s point of view, Sudeep tells us about interesting use-cases he’s working on at Salesforce.

The Creator of Airflow About His Recipe for Smart Data-Driven Companies Aug 03, 2022

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According to Maxime Beauchemin, CEO & Founder at Preset and Creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow, it's not so straight-forward to understand what you're really getting into and the vastness of the skills that are required in order to build a thriving company.

Picking the right system and services is key for a successful start, and can help you avoid the chaos of having too many tools spread across multiple teams.

Plus, Max walks the bros through the genesis of Airflow, Superset & Presto, and Airflow's old school marketing approach that won the hearts of developers across the world. And just like the terminator, once the machine takes over, you can't stop.

How Similarweb Delivers Customer Facing Analytics Over 100s of TBs Jul 13, 2022

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According to Yoav Shmaria, VP R&D Platform at Similarweb, the best way to manage data warehouse costs is to tag every table, database or ETL running to have good granularity over every feature.

Besides handy cost management tips, Yoav walks the bros through the tech stack he implemented to analyze 100s of TBs of web data to serve fast customer-facing analytics.

Full disclosure, Similarweb is a Firebolt customer, but the bros kept it objective, and there’s no Firebolt talk in this episode.

How Klarna Designed a New Data Platform in the Cloud Jun 09, 2022

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Klarna is one of the leading fintech companies in the world, valued at $45B.

While many corporations are “stuck” on-prem, Klarna made the move and today is a cloud-only company. Gunnar Tangring, Klarna’s Lead Data Engineer tells Boaz what this new modernized stack looks like.

How Eventbrite is Modernizing its Data Stack May 23, 2022

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Archana shares Eventbrite’s data stack modernization process, and how you get engineers to adopt new technologies like dbt which may be outside their comfort zone.

A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture May 10, 2022

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Growing from a startup to an IPOed and then an acquired company meant that Slack’s sales org was scaling rapidly.
Apun Hiran, Slack’s Director of Software Engineering explains how the data stack and architecture evolved to support this growth with more reliable and timely metrics.

Speaker: Apun Hiran, Director of Software Engineering (Data), Slack
Hosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, CEO and CPO, Firebolt

Transitioning Scopely’s 5.5 PB Data Platform to the Modern Data Stack Apr 12, 2022

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Should data engineering AND BI be handled by the same people? According to Jonathan Palmer, VP Data Platform at Scopely – YES. By Analytics Engineers. His team of Analytics Engineers is in the final stages of transitioning 5.5 PBs of data which include 15B evens per day to the modern data stack. Tune in to learn how they did it.

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