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99: State of the Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar of Apache Hudi Aug 10, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Vinoth’s background and career journey (3:08)
Defining “data lakehouse” (5:10)
Databricks versus lake houses (13:37)
The services a lakehouse needs (17:37)
How to communicate technical details (26:55)
Onehouse’s product vision (31:41)
Lakehouse performance versus BigQuery solutions (36:44)
How to deliver customer experience equally (40:17)
How to start building a lakehouse (44:00)
Big tech’s effect on smaller lakehouses (55:33)
Skipping the data warehouse (1:04:39)

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: Does Lakehouse Architecture Really Mean the End of the Data Warehouse and Data Lake As We Know It? Aug 05, 2022

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

98: Category Theory and the Mathematical Foundation of the Technologies We Use with Eric Daimler of Conexus Aug 03, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Eric’s background and career journey (3:30)
Presenting to people without knowledge of AI (11:04)
Why math was chosen over AI (19:03)
From compilers to databases (25:42)
The contribution of category theory (30:09)
The Connexus customer experience (37:45)
The primary user of Connexus (46:33)
Interacting with 300,000 databases (51:07)
When Connexus begins to add value (54:02)
The best way to learn this mathematical approach (55:46)

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: Farm to Table Abstract Mathematics Jul 29, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Eric Damlier of Conexus AI. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

97: How To Build an Organization-Empowering Data Team with Emilie Schario of Amplify Partners Jul 27, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00)
Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23)
Being close to the money in data (9:50)
Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00)
Defining “data organization” (17:53)
The first roles you should hire for (22:06)
Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44)
One role to bridge different needs (27:26)
Why data analysts are needed (30:51)
How to avoid a kitchen sink of data (40:20)
Data engineer archetype (45:48)
Data roles crossing over (48:09)

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: If You Were Building a Data Team What Would Your First Hire Be? Jul 22, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Emilie Schario from Amplify Partners. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

96: How To Collect and Leverage Data From the Physical World with Prateek Joshi of Plutoshift Jul 20, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Prateek’s background and career journey (2:10)
The lack of advanced data tools for the physical world (4:55)
Dealing with data from the physical world (10:53)
Stocks in the physical world (14:20)
What it takes to execute this kind of project (19:05)
Challenges around this infrastructure (25:56)
ML tools that are useful in this environment (31:55)
Physical instrumentation and environmental interaction (36:43)
Current adoption of physical instrumentation (42:50)
Data’s responsibility in sustainability (45:56)

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.

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The PRQL: Collecting Data in the Physical World Jul 15, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Prateek Joshi. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

95: How the Metrics Layer Bridges the Gap Between Data & Business with Nick Handel of Transform Jul 13, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Nick’s background and career journey (2:40)
What Transform does (5:53)
Metrics layer vs. metrics store (8:04)
Signals vs. metrics (13:24)
The user of a metric layer (14:34)
Using Transform within an organization (17:05)
How to fuse two sources into a metric (23:54)
Currently supported databases (28:46)
Community engagement (31:33)
Optimizing for queries, metrics, and use cases (35:33)
Technology and the human factor (40:49)
Managing metrics amidst fast-paced change (46:53)
Out-of-the-box metrics store (49:26)

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: Data Marts Aren’t Just for the Enterprise Jul 08, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Nick Hansel from Transform. 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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