The Data Stack Show

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94: Notebooks Aren’t Just for Data Scientists With Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies Jul 06, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Bary’s background and Hex (3:05)
Reconciling two sides of data (9:16)
Collaboration at Hex (15:10)
What it takes to build something like Hex (20:02)
Defining “commitment engineering” (26:01)
How to begin working with Hex (30:56)
Hex customers and uniqueness (40:31)
The future in a world of data acquisition (45:30)
Crossover between analytics and ML (51:33)
Advice for data engineers (57:19)

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: Have You Ever Been a Part of a Company That Has Done Analytics Really Well? Jul 01, 2022

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

93: There Is No Data Observability Without Lineage with Kevin Hu of Metaplane Jun 29, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Kevin’s background and career journey (1:54)
Metaplane and the problem that is solves (6:47)
The silence of data problems (9:53)
Data physics work that requires more (13:35)
Trusting data when bugs are present (19:12)
Building a navigable experience (22:36)
Developing anomaly detection (30:06)
What Metaplane provides today (35:05)
Metaplane’s plans for the future (37:45)
Comparing Bigquery, Snowflake, and Redshift (40:56)
Why data goes bad (48:15)
Advice for data trust workers (59:24)

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 Are the Similarities Between VCs and Tilapia? Jun 24, 2022

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

92: Building a Decentralized Storage System for Media File Collaboration with Tejas Chopra Jun 22, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Tejas’ background and career journey (2:49, 43:04)
Digital collaboration with Netflix Drive (7:57)
A formal version control component (23:44)
Centralized store vs. local affairs (31:05)
The different skill sets a data engineer needs (37:38)
How to get into data engineering (40:57)
New technologies coming into day-to-day work (44:39)

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 is Netflix Cloud? Jun 17, 2022

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

91: The Future of Streaming Data with Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize, and Benthos Jun 15, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

How we should think about batch versus streaming (6:02)
Defining “streaming ETL” (9:34)
A brief history of streaming processing platforms (22:07)
The birth and evolution of Benthos (28:41)
What led Jeff to build a new tool (34:29)
Why you shouldn’t share all the data (37:23)
Making streaming technologies approachable to engineers (42:09)
Breaking out of traditional terminology (52:58)

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: Can Streaming Simplify Your Data Flows? Jun 10, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming livestream panel talking about all things streaming. Don't miss next week's episode with experts from Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize and Benthos Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

90: The Modern Data Stack Has a Join Problem with Ahmed Elsamadisi of Narrator AI Jun 08, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Ahmed’s background and career journey (2:27)
Why the modern data stack “sucks” (4:53)
The limitations of progress (9:13)
Showing data with only 11 columns (11:55)
Managing one table that rules them all (19:02)
Viewing the world as timestamped activities (32:40)
When this model becomes harder to use (35:15)
The two parts you need in a company (44:41)
Those who use Narrator (48:32)

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: Can One Table Rule Them All? Jun 03, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Ahmed Elsamadisi of Narrator AI. 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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