E143: Bringing Software Engineering Best Practices to Data
Jul 22, 2024
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Tim Delisle and Nico Joseph, founders of FiveOneFour, discuss bringing software engineering practices to data teams, market education, open source requirements, democratizing data access, and monetization strategies. Topics include evolving data schemas, separate APIs, fast iteration, user feedback, and the benefits of embracing open source practices.
Bringing software engineering practices to data engineering enhances system stability and evolution.
Providing a seamless, locally accessible development environment is crucial for data engineers.
Deep dives
Founding Datalog and Democratizing Data Access
The co-founders discuss their journey from founding Datalog, an ETL platform focused on democratizing access to data for enterprises, to working at Nike. They emphasize the challenges of true data democratization within large organizations and the need for software development best practices in data engineering.
Moose Framework and Software Engineering Best Practices
The Moose framework integrates software engineering best practices like versioning APIs to prevent data breakdowns within the data engineering landscape. They introduce MooseJS, highlighting its loose coupling feature that allows different parts of the system to evolve independently, reducing data system disruptions.
Enhancing Local Development Experience and Framework Integration
The podcast discusses enhancing the local development experience for building data-intensive applications and integrating across the stack within the data engineering realm. They emphasize the importance of providing a seamless, locally accessible development environment for data engineers.
Target Developers and Use Cases for Moose Framework
The focus shifts to the developers targeted by the Moose framework, including those building data-intensive functionalities within applications, enterprise data product developers, and those replacing vertical data software applications. They highlight the Python and TypeScript developer communities as prime users of Moose.
Tim Delisle and Nico Joseph are Co-Founders of FiveOneFour, the company attempting to bring a software developer-like experience to data and analytics stacks. Together, they're second-time founders who previously founded data integration company Datalogue, which Nike acquired in 2021.
In this episode, we break down the software engineering practices that would benefit data teams, their approach to market education (ie. things like templates to get users started), why open source is a requirement for a product like this, where we are on the journey to democratize access to data, their approach to monetization & more!
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