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176: The Fundamentals of Event-Driven Orchestration and How Generative AI Is Shaping Its Future with Viren Baraiya of orkes.io Feb 07, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Viren’s background in data (0:39)
Evolution of Orchestration (1:52)
AI Orchestration (3:00)
Understanding Conductor and orkes (6:26)
Event-Driven Orchestration (8:10)
Viren’s Transition to Founder (12:27)
Non-Technical Aspects of Being a Founder (15:50)
Democratizing AI for Developers (18:16)
The evolution of microservices orchestration (21:56)
Challenges in appealing to the 99% developer group (24:32)
Value of orchestration for developers (30:31)
Role of orchestrators in managing faults (37:37)
The intersection of AI and orchestration (40:27)
Evolution of AI (44:04)
Thriving in AI Environment (47:58)
Final thoughts and takeaways (51:25)

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.

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The PRQL: The Evolution of Application Orchestration Featuring Viren Baraiya of orkes.io Feb 05, 2024

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

175: The Parts, Pieces, and Future of Composable Data Systems, Featuring Wes McKinney, Pedro Pedreira, Chris Riccomini, and Ryan Blue Jan 31, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Introduction of the panel (0:05)
Defining composable data stack (5:22)
Components of a composable data stack (7:49)
Challenges and incentives for composable components (10:37)
Specialization and modularity in data workloads (13:05)
Organic evolution of composable systems (17:50)
Efficiency and common layers in data management systems (22:09)
The IR and Data Computation (23:00)
Components of the Storage Layer (26:16)
Decoupling Language and Execution (29:42)
Apache Calcite and Modular Frontend (36:46)
Data Types and Coercion (39:27)
Describing Data Sets and Schema (42:00)
Open Standards and Frontiers (46:22)
Challenges of standardizing APIs (48:15)
Trade-offs in building composable systems (54:04)
Evolution of data system composability (56:32)
Exciting new projects in data systems (1:01:57)
Final thoughts and takeaways (1:17:25)

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.

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The PRQL: Exploring the Evolution, Challenges, and Benefits of Composable Data Stacks Featuring Wes McKinney, Pedro Pedreira, Chris Riccomini, and Ryan Blue Jan 29, 2024

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming discussion with a panel of experts as Wes McKinney (Co-Founder, Voltron), Pedro Pedreira Software Engineer, Meta), Chris Riccomini (Seed Investor, various startups), and Ryan Blue (Co-Founder and CEO, Tabular) join the show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

174: Does Your Data Stack Need a Semantic Layer? Featuring Artyom Keydunov of Cube Dev Jan 24, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Artyom’s background in the data space (0:32)
The growth and changes at Cube (5:58)
Pain points of managing metrics definitions across different tools (9:39)
Trade-offs between coupled and decoupled semantic layers (12:12)
Making a case for implementing a semantic layer (14:17)
The evolution of semantic layers (23:28)
Challenges in designing a decoupled semantic layer (24:16)
Different approaches to solving the interface problem (26:58)
Implementing a SQL engine in Cube (35:58)
Overhead and debugging in semantic layers (39:08)
The semantic layer and its importance (46:26)
The need for semantics in data products (47:34)
What’s the future of semantic layers and user experience? (51:49)
Final thoughts and takeaways (57:34)

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.

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The PRQL: Why is a Semantic Layer Important in the Modern Data Stack? Featuring Artyom Keydunov of Cube Dev Jan 22, 2024

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

173: Data Analytics Is a Team Sport, Featuring Jay Henderson of Alteryx Jan 17, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

No Code Analytics (1:22)
Analytics as a Team Sport (2:31)
The workflow of someone without Alteryx (11:27)
Alteryx's ability to handle diverse data sources (14:32)
The balance between ease of use and complexity (23:06)
Enabling casual end users with a no code interface (24:19)
Taking analytics to the data (31:47)
The boundaries between data engineers and end users (33:44)
The importance of collaboration in analytics (34:12)
The potential of every employee being a data worker (35:28)
The human nature of the product and users in large enterprises (00:45:38)
Final thoughts and takeaways (46:21)

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.

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The PRQL: Bridging the Gap Between Messy Data and Sophisticated Analytics with Jay Henderson of Alteryx Jan 15, 2024

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

172: How WebAssembly is Enabling the Third Wave of Cloud Compute with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies Jan 10, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Matt’s background and journey with Fermyon (2:32)
WebAssembly and enhanced security models (3:43)
The IOT Startup and Google Acquisition (10:49)
Google's Early Containers (11:50)
Scaling and anticipating requests (20:22)
Introduction to WebAssembly and its importance (23:32)
The Benefits of WebAssembly (30:57)
Comparison of Virtual Machines, Containers, and Micro VMs (33:12)
The Importance of Fast Startup Times in WebAssembly (37:39)
Metaphysics and software development (42:12)
The importance of effective communication in code development (43:18)
The challenges and progress of WebAssembly (47:40)
Requirements of different teams and different jobs (52:17)
Final thoughts and takeaway (53:14)

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.

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The PRQL: WebAssembly: The Future of Cloud Workloads Made Simple with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies Jan 08, 2024

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

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