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The PRQL: Will Data Quality Always Require a Human in the Loop? Dec 21, 2021

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

66: How Data Infrastructure Has Evolved and Managing High Performing Data Teams with Srivatsan Sridharan Dec 15, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00)
How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04)
When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35)
What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07)
Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14)
The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09)
Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25)
The unique challenge of Fintech vs other consumer industries (45:03)

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: How Would You Define a Data Pipeline? Featuring the RudderStack Eng. Team Dec 10, 2021

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On the PRQL this week, Eric and Kostas bring in some of the Rudderstack engineering team to discuss data pipelines and preview episode 66 of the Data Stack Show. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

65: Operationalizing Data from the Warehouse With Aayush Jain of Cliff.ai Dec 08, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Aayush’s career background (4:13)
How his biological sciences academic training impacts his work (8:04)
How do we allow dashboards to get messy? (9:35)
Building cultural or technical solutions to effective dashboards (15:19)
Using data dashboards to make material business improvements (23:19)
What is business observability? (32:23)
Building a platform for operations teams (43:15)
How important community is to the cliff.ai business proposition (41:03)

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: Why is the Data Engineer's Role Expanding? Dec 03, 2021

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In this show PRQL, Eric and Kostas talk about the evolution of the role of a data engineer and preview the conversation with Aayush Jain. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

64: Data Stack Composability and Commoditization with Michel Tricot of Airbyte Dec 01, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Announcement: Data Stack Live! (1:00)
Michel’s career background (4:13)
Solving the technical and process challenges of moving data (7:04)
Lessons learned from managing data at Live Ramp (9:35)
How to build a modern data stack (16:19)
Triggers to signal when more data infrastructure is needed (23:19)
Why Airbyte is an open-source product (30:23)
Airbyte’s role in providing support to open-source problems (38:15)
How important DPT is for the Airbyte protocol and platform (41:03)

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: The Beauty of Commoditization Nov 26, 2021

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For this week's PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Michel Tricot. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

63: The ETL - ELT Flip With Ciaran Dynes of Matillion Nov 24, 2021

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On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Ciaran Dynes, the Chief Product Officer at Matillion, a powerful and easy-to-use, completely cloud-capable ETL/ELT solution. 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 Part of the Data Stack Will Be Commoditized Next? Nov 19, 2021

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On this week's PRQL, Kostas and Eric preview their upcoming conversation with Ciaran Dynes of Matillion. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

62: The Internet of Everything with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix Nov 17, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47)
Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44)
Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47)
Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28)
What makes IoT unique (23:56)
Killing the SQL server (29:11)
What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13)
5G, LoRa, and drawbacks and advances in widespread IoT adoption (37:05)
Security and privacy in IoT (41:23)
Using IoT as a cattle rancher (45:20)

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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