In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds connect with IFTTT data scientist Peter Darche. IFTTT is a free platform that helps all your products and services work better together through automated tasks. Their discussion covered a lot of ground involving their data stack, their use cases and clearing up once and for all how to pronounce the company’s name.

• Background on IFTTT (2:12)
• Peter tells the proper way to pronounce IFTTT (3:34)
• An overview of IFTTT’s technological architecture (6:14)
• The uses of data and analytics at IFTTT (8:04)
• Constructing the data stack (10:11)
• Dealing with challenges (15:20)
• Best practices for communicating with internal teams about the data (23:04)
• Discussing functional data engineering (26:05)

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