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121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry Jan 11, 2023

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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.

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120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry Jan 04, 2023

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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)

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: What’s our first ever two-part episode about? Jan 02, 2023

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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.

119: The Data Stack Show Wrapped: 2022 Dec 28, 2022

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RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

118: Bringing Powerful Business Intelligence to Mobile with Zack Hendlin of Zing Data Dec 21, 2022

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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)

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Do You Need Business Intelligence on Your Phone? Dec 19, 2022

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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.

117: DX for Data Tooling with Taylor Murphy of Meltano Dec 14, 2022

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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)

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Is Business Logic Moving Further Down the Stack? Dec 12, 2022

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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.

116: Data Democratization & Self Service with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer Dec 07, 2022

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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)

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: Data Analytics: Same As It Ever Was Dec 05, 2022

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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.

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