In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Katie Bauer of GlossGenius.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The Evolution of Databases and Data Systems (2:33)Abstracting Data for Business Users (4:31)Building a Database for Google-like Search (7:58)The Big Data Explosion (11:10)Selling Myspace as First Customer (13:14)Starting ActionIQ (16:57)The customer-centric organization (22:46)Transitioning to customer data focus (23:53)Understanding business users' needs (28:30)Supporting Arbitrary Queries and Data Models (34:42)Unique Technical Perspective of Clickstream Data (37:01)The value per terabyte of data (46:45)Building a product for multiple personas (50:45)Composability and Benefits (58:05)Evolution of Storage and Compute (1:00:09)Composability and Treasure Data (1:02:10)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.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tasso Argyros of ActionIQ.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Defining data mesh (6:37)Addressing the scale of organizational complexity and usage (9:04)The shift from monolithic to microservices (12:24)The sociological structure in data mesh (13:59)Data product generation and sharing in data mesh (17:27)Data Mesh: Simplifying Data Work (24:09)Getting Started with Data Mesh (29:14)Building products for Data Mesh (36:42)Building a customizable and extensible platform to shape data practice (39:28)The characteristics of a data product (48:40)Defining what a data product is not (50:45)The origin of the term "mesh" in data mesh (53:32)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.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation regarding Data Mesh with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ben’s background in real estate (3:27)Why Fundrise was Started (4:37)Democratizing Investment Opportunities (6:35)Investment Thesis for Venture (11:55)Challenges with Data and Technology (12:34)Importance of Data Model Abstraction (20:03)Data Infrastructure and Investments (23:22)Evolution of Data Engineering (25:12)Closing the Tooling Gap (34:23)The user base segmentation (36:28)The emotional reality of investment decisions (40:50)Data inputs for real estate investment (47:07)The work of data infrastructure (48:28)The limitations of underwriting analysis (49:36)Improving accuracy with data infrastructure (52:43)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.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ben Miller of Fundrise.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The concept of composable at a lower level of data infrastructure (1:28)New architectures and components that allow developers to build databases (3:44)Pedro's background and experience in data infrastructure (6:18)The Spectrum of Latency and Analytics (12:59)Different Query Engines for Different Use Cases (16:32)Vectorized vs Code Gen Data Processing (19:33)Vectorization and Code Generation (21:21)Examples of Vectorized Engines (24:33)Rewriting Execution Engine in C++ (27:22)Different Organization of Presto and Spark (33:17)Arrow and its Extensions (37:15)The similarities between analytics and ML (44:33)Offline feature engineering and data preprocessing for training (48:00)Dialect and semantic differences in using Velox for different engines (50:01)The convergence of dialects (52:23)Challenges of substrate and semantics (53:18)Future plans for Velox (58:09)The discussion on evolving Parquet (1:03:38)The integration of the relational model and the tensor model (1:07:29)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.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Pedro Pedreira of Meta.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Colin's Background and Starting Omni (1:48)Defining “good” at Google search early in his career (4:42)Looker's Unique Approach to Analytics (9:48)The paradigm shift in analytics (10:52)The architecture of Looker and its influence (12:04)Combatting the challenge of unbundling in the data stack (14:26)The evolution of analytics engineering (21:50)Enhancing user flexibility in Omni (23:44)The evolution of BI tools (32:53)What does the future look like for BI tools? (35:14)The role of Python and notebooks in BI (39:48)The product experience of Omni and its vision (45:27)Expectations for the future of Omni (47:52)The relationship between algorithms and business logic (50:51)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.