The Data Stack Show

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:Scott’s background in martech (3:10)Where things have gone wrong between IT and marketing (5:46)The explosion of digital marketing data (12:04)Costs of having data siloed (16:14)The convergence of marketing and IT teams around data (19:27)Navigating the massive landscape of martech tools (26:10)Needed tools in the martech stack (31:11)The importance of an accurate attribution model (34:37)Building tooling for marketers and developers to use (39:20)Future areas of development in the martech space (44:46)Final thoughts and takeaways (52:40)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 Scott Brinker of HubSpot.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ioannis’ background and journey in data (2:42)Rudderstack’s transformations feature and examples of its application (4:20)Winning the transformations contest at Rudderstack (7:21)How Ioannis’ transformation project works for data governance (9:40)Memories from college for Ioannis and Kostas (12:30)Getting into the world of software development (17:27)The changes in data and engineering over the years (20:29)Bridging java with python (23:15)Dealing with ML workloads in the past vs. workflows of today (26:30)Data engineers and ML engineers (33:12)Dealing with data in the early stages to ensure reliability later on (38:39)What creates problems with data quality? (42:11)Exciting developments in data engineering (46:48)Final thoughts and takeaways (51:12)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 Ioannis Foukarakis of Mattermost.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Davor’s journey from Google and what he was building there (3:32)How work in stream processing changed Davor’s journey (5:10)Analytical predictive models and infrastructure (9:39)How Kaskada serves as a recommendation engine with data (14:05)Kaskada’s user experience as an event processing platform (20:06)Enhancing typical feature store architecture to achieve better results (23:34)What is needed to improve stream and batch processes (27:39)Using another syntax instead of SQL (36:44)DataStax acquiring Kaskada and what will come from that merger (40:24)Operationalizing and democratizing ML (47:54)Final thoughts and takeaways (56:04) 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 Davor Bonaci of DataStax.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aditya’s background and journey in the data space (2:47)What does Ponder do? (5:18)101 on Pandas and why people utilize it (6:42)The challenge of translating Pandas to a big data platform (16:11)Data Warehouses and ML workflows (21:27)The differences in the “zoo” of data languages (26:56)Why do ML and data engineering have to be so different in languages? (34:39)Builders should be adapting to the users and not the other way around (39:32)Will we see a singular data interface in the future? (46:19)Aditya’s most surprising discovery in his research (50:40)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:18)Read more of Aditya's work: Pandas vs. SQL – Part 1: The Food Court and the Michelin-Style RestaurantPandas vs. SQL – Part 2: Pandas Is More ConcisePandas vs. SQL – Part 3: Pandas Is More FlexiblePandas vs. SQL – Part 4: Pandas Is More ConvenientThe 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 Aditya Parameswaran of Ponder.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:A.J.’s background and journey in data (2:23)Challenges with Hadoop ecosystem (8:50)Starting InfinyOn and the need for innovation (10:02)Challenges with Kafka and Microservices (14:01)Real-time data streaming for IoT devices (19:28)Paradigm shift to real-time data processing (22:17)Benefits of Rust (29:45)Web Assembly and Platform Features (36:29)Analytics and Event Correlation (40:16)Real-time data processing (47:03)ETL vs ELP (52:20)Final thoughts and takeaways (57:07)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.