Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Michael’s journey to co-founding Tecton (0:22)The evolution of MLops and platform teams (3:50)Understanding boundaries between the data platform and the MLops (8:42)Differences in machine learning vs data pipelines (16:58)The systems needed to handle all these types of data (22:22)Developer experience in Tecton (25:15)Automating challenges in ML development (32:30)The most difficult part of the life cycle of prediction (37:24)Exciting new developments at Tecton (39:27)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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Will’s background in data (0:28)Privacy dynamics and data anonymization (4:18)Addressing data privacy problems in the space (10:33)Developer experience with Privacy Dynamics (13:49)How does Privacy Dynamics work? (21:09)Update of real-time anonymized data (26:29)The problem of dates and other complexities in data (31:24)Being a data engineer in a startup (34:44)Moving at the speed of a startup (41:01)Connecting with Will and Privacy Dynamics (43:28)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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Chase’s journey to where he is today (0:51)Lessons in go-to-market roles which helps in the VC world (2:38)Differentiating between go-to-market and distribution (8:13)Taking an idea to the market (11:33)Hardest part of the pitch (17:08)Playbooks for go-to-market founders to follow (20:25)Focus of sales and marketing in go-to-market strategy (28:01)Answering the what and how of the problem you are solving (32:30)The importance of pricing in a go-to-market strategy (46:11)Connecting with Chase (1:00:58)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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Introducing the team from Featureform (0:31)In the work vs. leading the work (3:01)Difference between MLOps and data ops (7:06)The MLOps cycle (10:12)What is Featureform and what makes it different? (13:30)Is there another layer needed in feature stores? (18:46)Getting in touch with Featureform (23:55)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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Eric’s journey to becoming CEO of Decoable (0:20)Does real time matter? (2:12)Differences in stream processing systems (7:57)Processing in motion (13:04)Why haven’t there been more open source projects around CDC? (20:34)The Decodable experience and future focuses for the company (24:31)Streaming processing and data lakes (32:54)Data flow processing technologies of today (39:01)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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Origins of OtterTune (4:43)The problem of knob tuning (6:25)Roles of machine learning (9:32)OtterTune’s development and industry recognition (12:03)The challenges of database tuning and the role of human expertise (16:15)Tuning in production (20:23)Observability and Data Collection (23:37)Data Security and Privacy (29:59)Optimizing on-prem vs. cloud workloads (35:52)Performance benchmarks (40:20)Future opportunities OtterTune is focusing on (43:55)Importance of automated tuning services (50:45)Challenges in Benchmarking Real Workloads (58:43)The Story Behind the Name OtterTune (1:08:58)Balancing Technology and Human Factors (1:13:23)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 with Andy Pavlo and Dana Van Aken of OtterTune.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The journey of H.O. into data and becoming the CEO of FeatureBase (2:37)Characteristics of the super evolution in technology (6:36)ChatGPT as the missionary of AI (9:45)The tension between authenticity and technology (13:12)What is FeatureBase? (17:53)Comparing FeatureBase to feature stores (25:58)Workload capacities and possibilities in FeatureBase (33:20)The importance of developer experience on a platform (38:23)Exciting developments for FeatureBase in the future (47:13)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:52)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.

On this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with H.O. Maycotte of FeatureBase.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Sammy’s background in data and tooling (2:46)Going from multipurpose engineering to a CTO position (5:14) Changes in technology and deep learning models (7:31)The state of self-driving and adoption (13:49)What is Eventual and what are they solving in the space? (20:54)What are daft and data frame and how they work? (28:11)Building a query optimizer (33:42)Sammy’s take on what is going on in data and future possibilities (45:18)Eventual’s future and its impact on the space (51:44)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:47)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.