The Data Stack Show

Latest Episodes:

Shop Talk: The Business of Data Infrastructure is Uniquely Challenging Nov 04, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop surrounding data infrastructure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

111: What if Your Code Just Ran in the Cloud for You? Featuring Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs Nov 02, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Erik’s background and career journey (2:51)
Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35)
The people side of hypergrowth (12:36)
Coding competitions (17:50)
Introducing Modal Labs (19:02)
How Erik got into building Modal (21:45)
The employee experience at Modal (28:09)
How a data engineering team would use Modal (31:21)
What it takes to build a platform like Modal (36:27)
What makes Modal different (42:49)
Evolution coming for the data world (45:52)
Untapped areas in the data world (48:46)
Spotify playlists (52:03)

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: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems Oct 28, 2022

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

110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star Oct 26, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35)
Defining “data discovery” (6:03)
The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45)
Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38)
Why Select Star is needed (17:35)
How Select Star uses metadata (21:02)
Exposing data queries (27:04)
Composing queries into metadata (33:27)
Automating BI tools (37:28)
Limits to data governance (41:39)
Maintaining economies of scale (48:56)

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.

Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases? Oct 24, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: What is Data Discovery? Oct 21, 2022

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

109: How Does Headless Business Intelligence Work? Featuring Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov of Cube Dev Oct 19, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

The context of Headless BI (3:31)
What Cube Dev does (9:24)
How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03)
An analysis of LookML (18:04)
User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40)
Who manages data artifacts (25:22)
Taking care of the developer experience (30:37)
Levels of performance (30:37)
Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47)
Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38)
Roles within a data organization (48:55)
How Cube Dev impacts visualization (53:35)

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.

Shop Talk: Will the Future of the Customer Data Platform Include a Shared Logic Layer? Oct 17, 2022

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In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the wide world of data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PRQL: What Comes to Mind When You Think of ‘Headless’? Oct 14, 2022

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

108: You Can’t Separate Data Reliability From Workflow with Gleb Mezhanskiy of Datafold Oct 12, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Gleb’s background and career journey (2:51)
The adoption problems (10:53)
How Datafold solves these problems (18:08)
The vision for Datafold (26:27)
Incorporating Datafold as a data engineer (38:53)
The importance of the data engineer (42:12)
Something to keep in mind when designing data tools (46:46)
Implementing new technology into your company (53:18)

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.