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89: Solving Microservice Orchestration Issues at Netflix with Viren Baraiya of Orkes Jun 01, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Viren’s background and career journey (2:23)
Engineering challenges in Netflix transitions (6:05)
How Conductor changed the process (9:30)
Building a lot more microservices (16:04)
Open sourcing Conductor (17:38)
Defining “orchestration” (22:05)
Using an orchestrator written in Java (31:04)
Building a cloud service around microservices (34:59)
Differentiating product experiences (37:17)
Orchestration platforms in new environments (42:15)
Advice for those early on in their career (46:10)

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: What are the Different Flavors of Orchestration? May 27, 2022

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

88: What Is Data Observability? With Tristan Spaulding of Acceldata May 25, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Tristan’s background and career journey (2:43)
Updating old technology (11:40)
Defining “data observability” (18:44)
The primary user of a data observability tool (29:56)
Handling an incident (33:01)
Why multipliers for data observability (37:06)
Early symptoms of a data drift (43:12)
Tuning in the context of data engineering (50:11)
What keeps Tristan working with data (55:12)

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 Data Exist if We Do Not Observe It? May 20, 2022

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

87: Why Is Now the Golden Age of Data Analytics? With Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot May 18, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Cindi’s career journey (2:36)
Major shifts in analytics (6:34)
Where we are in formation of the modern analytics cloud (9:07)
The process of moving into the cloud (11:01)
How to accelerate the digital transformation (17:29)
Common patterns amongst company cultures (19:42)
Data regulations affecting change (22:34)
ThoughtSpot customer base (24:06)
The need to know SQL (27:42)
Power users leveraging the AI Insights (31:24)
Who should audit technology (32:33)
The ways that education is happening best (36:28)
Stuck in descriptive analytics (40:43)
Changes in company structure (43:54)
Defining an analytics engineer (46:57)
The impact on IT as a function (50:33)
Enjoying data analytics (53:06)

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 You Trust AI Enabled Analytics? May 13, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot and Host of The Data Chief Podcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

86: Solving the Data Quality Problem with Bigeye, Great Expectations, Metaplane, and Lightup.ai May 11, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Guest introductions (1:02)
Defining data quality (4:08)
Forgetting to apply software best practices (8:33)
Differentiating observability and data quality (17:53)
Who should care about quality in the organization (26:55)
Why this is still a valid conversation (35:44)
The jurisdiction of various components (45:39)

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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85: You Can Stop Doing Data Fire Drills with Barr Moses of Monte Carlo May 04, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Barr’s background and career journey (2:12)
Trust: a technical or human problem? (9:47)
Behind the name “Monte Carlo” (15:41)
Defining data accuracy and reliability (17:36)
How much can be done with standardization (22:27)
How to avoid frustration when generating data about data (25:49)
Defining “resolution” (28:59)
Understanding the concept of SLAs (33:25)
Building a company for a category that doesn’t exist yet (37:40)
What it looks like to use Monte Carlo (44:07)
The best part about working with data teams (47:28)

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: Be Careful, Young Padawan, When Comparing Software Observability and Data Observability May 02, 2022

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

Data Council Week (Ep 5): A Primer on Spatial Data With Gabriel Hidalgo of Carto Apr 29, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

How Gabriel got into data (1:54)
What Carto is (5:28)
Location data vs spatial data (6:37)
Time data vs space data (7:50)
System supports for spatial data (9:50)
Explaining “spatial functions” (14:19)
Who uses Carto and why (15:52)
What’s coming for Carto (19:15)
What Gabriel does at Carto (22:22)
The coolest things Carto’s done (23:52)

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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