The Data Stack Show

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115: What Is Production Grade Data? Featuring Ashwin Kamath of Spectre Nov 30, 2022

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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.

The PRQL: Managing Complexities of Financial Data Nov 28, 2022

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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.

114: Solving Data Infrastructure Problems at Startups and Enterprises with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting Nov 23, 2022

Show notes

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/

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: The Data Switchboard Nov 21, 2022

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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.

Shop Talk: Kostas Settles the Real-Time vs. Streaming Debate Nov 18, 2022

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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.

113: What Is Streaming Graph? Featuring Ryan Wright of thatDot Nov 16, 2022

Show notes

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/

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: Graph as a Utility Nov 14, 2022

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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.

Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce? Nov 11, 2022

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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.

112: Python Native Stream Processing with Zander Matheson of bytewax Nov 09, 2022

Show notes

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.io

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: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine? Nov 07, 2022

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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.

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