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72: Building Data Ops Into the Data Lifecycle with Douwe Maan of Meltano Jan 26, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Douwe’s career journey (3:04)
The missing piece in GitLab’s data tooling (7:35)
The open-source offering in the data space (12:38)
Singer’s connection with Meltano (22:31)
How Meltano manages connectors on a diverse codebase (35:21)
The data house side of Meltano (39:47)
Data house operating versus Airflow (44:06)
Meltano’s vision present today (47:02)

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: Is It Viable to Manage Integrations Open Source? Jan 21, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show featuring Douwe Maan of Meltano. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

71: ETL at the Edges with Jimmy Chan of Dropbase Jan 19, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Jimmy’s career background (3:01)
How to use Data cubes (5:52)
What Dropbase is and who it is built for (11:01)
Getting sales and marketing data in usable formats (16:46)
Ensuring data remains flexible and transferable (28:36)
Defining what “offline data” is and how to use it (34:09)
How Dropbase can work with the rest of the data stack (43:30)

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: Is Kostas an Excel Power User Yes/No? Jan 14, 2022

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

70: The Difference Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Vinoth Chandar of Apache Hudi Jan 12, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Vinoth’s career background (3:19)
Building a data lake at Uber (6:52)
Defining what a data lake is (14:01)
How data warehouses differ from data lakes (22:46)
When you should utilize an open source solution in your datastack (37:36)
Evolving from a data warehouse to a data lake (45:09)
Early wins Hudi earned inside of Uber (52:30)

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 Old Tech Concepts Were Borrowed to Build the Data Lake House? Jan 07, 2022

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Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show as they talk about data lakes and data warehouses and why these are important. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

69: What is the Modern Data Stack? Jan 05, 2022

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Panel introductions and backgrounds (2:55)
What the modern data stack means to each of our panelists (5:04)
Defining the fundamental components of a modern data stack (17:22)
How the modern stack drives insights and actions for businesses (28:03)
Getting to a uniform definition to the modern stack (33:45)
Managing the modernization of a large scale data stack (39:09)
How testing works in the dbt context (48:44)
The relationship between the data warehouse and the data lake (52:25)
What has us most excited or the future of modern data stacks (56:02)

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: Should Data Trust Drive the Evolution of Your Data Stack? Dec 31, 2021

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In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show where they discuss the modern data stack with some of the top experts in the industry. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

68: Season Three Recap: Holiday Edition with Eric Dodds and Kostas Pardalis Dec 29, 2021

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In this episode, Eric and Kostas look back over the great topics and guests from season three of the Data Stack Show. 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 https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

67: Now is the Time to Think About Data Quality with Manu Bansal of Lightup Data Dec 22, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31)
Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04)
How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35)
Defining data quality (14:07)
The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36)
Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09)
How to work with unstructured data in a meaningful way (47:44)

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.

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