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47: Taming the Four Dragons of Data with Sven Balnojan of Mercateo Gruppe Aug 04, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode include:

Sven's Ph.D. in Singularity Theory (2:59)
The Databricks vs. Snowflake conversation (8:17)
The difficulty of not just inventing something new, but making it accessible (18:01)
Databricks and unstructured data (22:22)
Organizational change responding to technological change (29:27)
The three-dimensional evolution of a successful open source project (40:31)

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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46: A New Paradigm in Stream Processing with Arjun Narayan of Materialize Jul 28, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode include:

Introducing Arjun and how he fell in love with databases (2:51)
Looking at what Materialize brings to the stack (5:28)
Analytics starts with a human in the loop and comes into its own when analysts get themselves out and automate it (15:46)
Using Materialize instead of the materialized view from another tool (18:44)
Comparing Postgres and Materialize and looking at what's under the hood of Materialize (23:16)
Making Materialize simple to use (32:33)
Why Materialize doubled down on writing 100% in Rust (35:43)
The best use case to start with (42:03)
Lessons learned from making Materialize a cloud offering (44:22)
Keeping databases to the cloud for low latency (48:31)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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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45: Open Source and Attribution with Ophir Prusak of Codesmith Jul 21, 2021

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Highlights from today's conversation include:

Ophir's decision to switch from software engineering to marketing and riding the startup train (2:39)
Open sourcing in the world of software (5:55)
How open source has changed Ophir's life as a marketeer working at startups (10:28)
Chartio's sunsetting drove Ophir to search for a data tooling replacement (27:27)
Discussing trends in adoption of tools for small scale and large scale companies (35:01)
Data challenges related to attribution--how wrong do you want to be? (44:07)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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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44: Leveraging Data in a Post-Covid World with Ruben Ugarte of Practico Analytics Jul 14, 2021

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Highlights from this week's episode:

Ruben's background (2:36)
Massive shifts in data caused by COVID (4:47)
Big Tech is no longer untouchable (9:54)
Accelerations in the BI space (15:17)
A focus on people and on trust (23:43)
Numbers are filtered by the biases of the people viewing them (28:46)
AI trends and adoption (38:06)
Using qualitative data for insights, particularly at early stages (40:56)
Recommendations for taking stock of who is using the data and assessing what their skills are (50:06)

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43: Modern Authentication and User Management with Sokratis Vidros of Clerk.dev Jul 07, 2021

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Highlights from this week's episode:

Sokratis' realization that big corporations were not the best thing for him (2:56)
Transitioning for Workable to Clerk.dev (3:40)
Convincing developers to outsource components to a service (9:36)
Clerk's layered solutions and how it affects the developer and the end-user (12:41)
Starting with Clerk from scratch vs. using Clerk to replace an existing component (19:55)
Synergies and SaaS starter kit (24:06)
Building Clerk to avoid a single point of failure (29:19)
Reflecting back on the transformation and growth of Workable, and how it was like working at eight different companies (33:03)
Lessons that Sokratis has taken away from his years as a developer (42:18)

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42: Scaling Data Science with Ryan Boyer of Shipt Jun 30, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode include:

Ryan's full circle path from stocking shelves at Target to using data science for a company owned by Target (2:00)
Building great tools and wielding them effectively (5:04)
Changes at Shipt since being acquired (9:29)
How people’s bias impacts models built by data scientists (12:30)
The different data sources Shipt incorporates (22:02)
How Ryan's work as a data scientist has changed as Shipt has grown (25:29)
How data science helps marketing (31:38)
Improving search experience (34:23)
Shipt's evolving data stack (38:27)
New trends in data science (47:06)

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41: Doing MLOps on Top of Apache Pulsar and Trino with Joshua Odmark of Pandio Jun 23, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode:

Joshua started his first company at age 15 and then sold two more startups after that (2:15)
Embracing the open source movement and not reinventing the wheel if you don't have to (12:15)
Pulsar seemed built to address Kafka's weaknesses (17:23)
Using Redis as a coordinator for federated learning and taking advantage of its portability (23:05)
The pillars of Pandio and some practical use cases (31:24)
Feature stores and model versioning (38:23)
Seeing Pulsar as the future because of the ability to run tens of millions of topics (41:04)

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40: Graph Processing on Snowflake for Customer Behavioral Analytics Jun 16, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode include:

Launching Affinio and the engineering backgrounds of the co-founders (2:36)
The massive transformation in customer data privacy regulation in the past eight years (6:23)
Creating the underpinning technology that can apply to any customer behavioral data set (10:05)
Ranking and scoring surfing patterns and sorting nodes and edges (14:13)
Placing the importance of attributes into a simple UI experience (19:28)
Going from a columnar database to a graph processing system (25:20)
Working with custom or atypical data (32:46)
The decision to work with Snowflake (37:43)
Next steps for utilizing third-party tools within Snowflake (52:18)

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39: Diving deeper into CDC with Ali Hamidi and Taron Foxworth of Meroxa Jun 11, 2021

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Highlights from this week’s episode include:

Meroxa is a real-time data engineering managed platform (4:53)
Use cases for CDC (6:20)
Meroxa leverages open source tools to provide initial snapshots and start the CDC stream (12:29)
Making the platform publicly available (14:14)
What the Meroxa user experience looks like (16:10)
Raising Series A funding (17:49)
Easiest and most difficult data sources for CDC (20:23)
The current state of open CDC (23:16)
Expected latency when using CDC (29:56
CDC, reverse ETL, and a focus on real-time (36:39)
Are existing parts of the stack when Meroxa is adapted? (39:45)

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38: Graph Databases & Data Governance with David Allen of Neo4j Jun 02, 2021

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Highlights from this week's episode include:

David’s background in comparative databases (1:50)
David’s experience and lessons he learned from writing his book (3:23)
How writing a technical book compares to writing technical documentation (4:41)
The process of writing a book (6:30)
The best and worst part of David’s book writing experience (8:02)
An introduction to what Neo4j is (9:08)
What you need to graph (11:13)
Typical problems a graph database is a good solution for (13:00)
The difference between performance and relational databases (18:41)
How Neo4j addresses performance and ergonomics (23:30)
Neo4j and scalability (26:20)
How Neo4j fits in the modern data stack (31:48)
Neo4j use cases (35:45)
Practical implementation of Neo4j (40:51)
Neo4j’s relationship with open source (45:50)

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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