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The PRQL: Are you afraid of IOT? Nov 12, 2021

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In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix, Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

61: What is Data Design? With Kevin Gervais of Touchless Nov 10, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Kevin’s interaction with data at an early age (2:35)
Working with telecom data (5:08)
Analyzing emojis in customer sentiment (8:44)
Infrastructure needed for diverse data (12:22)
Building better interfaces and looking out for human error (24:17)
Dealing with differences in identities in different layers of the stack (41:21)

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: Will we ever get rid of the CSV? Nov 08, 2021

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Data Debrief: The Highs and Lows of Open Source Projects Nov 05, 2021

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Eric and Kostas break down further topics from episode 60 about stream processing and open source projects. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

60: Architecting a Boring Stream Processing Tool With Ashley Jeffs of Benthos Nov 03, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

A brief overview of Ashley’s background (2:47)
Benthos’ creation and the problems it was meant to address (4:01)
Use cases for Benthos (18:25)
Key features of Benthos that make it stand out (22:23)
Adding windowing to Benthos for fun (29:23)
The highs and lows of maintaining an open source project for five years (32:17)
The architecture of Benthos (36:23)
The importance of ordering in streaming processing (42:15)
Gaining traction with an open source project (53:21)
Benthos’ blobfish mascot (58:03)

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.

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Data Debrief: What Open Source Data Projects Have Come Out of Facebook, Whoops, *Meta? Oct 29, 2021

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On this week's debrief, Kostas and Eric talk about the variety of open source projects that come from Facebook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

59: Making ETL Optional with Justin Borgman of Starburst Data Oct 27, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Starburst Data is Justin’s second startup (2:42)
Starburst focuses on doing data warehousing analytics without the need for the data warehouse (4:14)
Multi-cloud solutions among merger and acquisition use cases (8:32)
Ways the stack is increasing in complexity (12:25)
Comparing essential components of a data stack from 2010 to now (15:01)
The future of ETL (27:36)
The best maturity stage for an organization to implement Starburst (31:27)
Starburst connectors (36:55)
Monetizing enterprise solutions while promoting open source ones (41:52)
The history of Presto and Trino (45:37)
Benefits of a decentralized data mesh (49:53)

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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Data Debrief: Will Enterprise Build The Future of Data Tooling? Oct 22, 2021

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On this week's Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas dig more into the topic of data tooling. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

58: Data Federation is No Longer The "F" Word with Scott Gnau of InterSystems Oct 20, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Solving problems with data has been a long-time passion of Scott’s (2:52)
Day-to-day use of data at InterSystems (6:25)
The technical aspects involved in constructing a data fabric (17:52)
Companies at a variety of maturity levels can adopt a data fabric (26:49)
A paradigm shift in the marketplace (28:39)
Comparing and contrasting data fabric and data mesh (30:49)
Sharing data across the business and not having it siloed in different departments (39:46)
Privacy and security within a data fabric (41:22)
The future of data fabric and pushing the edge (43:17)

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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Data Debrief: Can Tools Help Solve Data Quality Organizational Challenges? Oct 15, 2021

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On this Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas are joined by Brian from Rudderstack to talk 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.

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