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The Data Stack Show

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Mar 13, 2023 • 3min

The PRQL: Business Intelligence and Product Analytics With Vijay Ganesan, Co-Founder and CEO at NetSpring.io

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Vijay Ganesan of NetSpring.io.
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Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 9min

129: Databases, Data Warehouses, and Timeseries Data with David Kogn of Timescale

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:David’s background and journey to Timescale (2:12)What are time series databases? (14:13)How Timescale would have impacted David’s trajectory early in his career (17:51)Innovation in postgreSQL (21:02)Why does Timescale build their timeseries databases differently? (27:08)The challenges of building a new database on top of an old software (32:22)Writing outside of SQL and Timescale’s secret sauce (37:47)The importance of the developer experience in Timescale (54:08)How does someone know when they need to implement time series functionality (56:51)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:04:57)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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Mar 6, 2023 • 4min

The PRQL: Time-Series Data 101

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Kohn of Timescale.
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Mar 1, 2023 • 57min

128: The Possibilities Are Endless for Synthetic Data with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Alex’s background working for NSA and starting a company (1:51)The Gretel.ai journey (9:30)Defining synthetic data (13:26)The evolution of AI in deep learning data and language learning (16:28)The properties of synthetic data (21:31)Boundaries between synthetic data and prediction models (25:52)The developer experience in Gretel.ai (36:44)Stewardship and expansion of deep learning models in the future (45:36) Final thoughts and takeaways (52:17)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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Feb 27, 2023 • 4min

The PRQL: Boundaries Between Synthetic Data and Prediction Models

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai.
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Feb 22, 2023 • 53min

127: The Anatomy of a Data Lakehouse with Alex Merced of Dremio

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Alex’s background in the data space (2:41)Comics and Pop Culture Blending with Finance training (5:20)What is a data lake house? (7:36)What is Dremio solving in for users? (11:21)Essential components of a data lake house (16:35)Difference between on-prem and cloud experiences (33:53)What does it mean to be a developer advocate? (41:31)Final thoughts and takeaways (49:02)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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Feb 20, 2023 • 4min

The PRQL: What Does It Mean to be a Developer Advocate?

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Alex Merced of Dremio.
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Feb 15, 2023 • 58min

126: Crossing the Product Analytics Chasm with Spenser Skates of Amplitude Analytics

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Spenser’s journey to Co-Founding Amplitude (3:02)Looking back over the last decade of success at Amplitude (8:31)Going from Engineer to Sales (14:41)Comparing product analytics and general analytics (20:11)How cloud data warehousing has impacted analytics (31:38)Providing an out-of-the-box experience for consumers (41:12)Final thoughts and takeaways (54:27)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.
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Feb 13, 2023 • 3min

The PRQL: Amplitude - From Startup to IPO

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Spenser Skates of Amplitude Analytics.
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Feb 8, 2023 • 55min

125: Authorization Is A Data Problem with Jeff Chao of Abbey Labs

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Jeff’s background at Netflix and Stripe leading him to Abbey Labs (2:22)What Abbey is solving in the space (5:16)Tackling permissions in an organization (7:30)Opportunities to improve the availability of data (10:14)The challenge of tackling a new problem area at a new company (14:59)What is the most common challenges in the identity and security space (18:43)Importance of identity and the ability to track it in data (22:46)Connecting all the different platforms without frustrating the user (30:32)What are the parts of access data that needing to be tracked (36:10)Dealing with the varieties of data in security and managing permissions (40:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (51:52)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.

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