

The Data Stack Show
Rudderstack
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.
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Jul 21, 2023 • 20min
Shop Talk: Snowflake Summit Recap
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jul 19, 2023 • 58min
147: Where Data and Infrastructure Converge Featuring Lars Kamp of Resoto
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Lars work on Resoto in helping to cut cloud costs for organizations (2:02)The trend of large resources to micro resources (5:59)What are some of the typical resource drains in data infrastructure (8:56)Managing cost on the backend with scale and experimentation (12:51)Solutions for resource management problems (17:38)How Resoto is solving pain points in resource management (26:17)Navigating the complexities of data infrastructure (29:01)Resoto’s solution for interpreting difficult cloud data products (36:35)Exploring relationships of data points and finding solutions (43:40)Querying in graph database (47:46)How to go from graph to SQL (49:13)How can data teams plan for costs in the coming years (50:53)Final thoughts and takeaways (53:49)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jul 17, 2023 • 4min
The PRQL: Cloud Resource Management Is a Data Problem Featuring Lars Kamp of Resoto
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Lars Kamp of Resoto. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Jul 12, 2023 • 52min
146: What Is a Customer Data Platform? Featuring Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Soumyadeb’s background and journey in data (5:49)Defining customer data (8:10)The complexity of customer data collection (10:04)What is a CDP and how it is properly deployed (17:12)Bridging the gap of data collection and useful analytics for marketing (21:46)How Rudderstack translates data and the new profile feature (25:30)The foundations of data in building a 360 degree customer profile (30:30)Solutions for the intersection between engineering and business users (34:35)How AI and other future technologies will impact data (41:14)Final thoughts and takeaways (46:30)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jul 10, 2023 • 4min
The PRQL: Building Data Products for Multiple Personas with Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Soumyadeb Mitra of Rudderstack. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Jul 5, 2023 • 59min
145: What is Synthetic Data? Featuring Omar Maher of Parallel Domain
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Jul 3, 2023 • 6min
The PRQL: Synthetic Data and Self Driving Cars with Omar Maher of Parallel Domain
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 12min
144: Explaining Features, Embeddings, and the Difference Between ML and AI with Simba Khadder of Featureform
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Simba’s background in the data space (3:05)Subscription intelligence (6:41)ML and Distributed Systems (9:09)The Brutal Subscription Industry (12:31)Serendipity in Recommender Systems (16:31)Subscription as a Strategy (20:47)Customizing Content for Subscribers (22:19)Creating User Embeddings (25:53)Building Featureform (28:01)Embedding Projections (32:47)Spaces and similarity (35:53)User embeddings and transformer models (38:22)Vector Databases for AI/ML (45:05)Orchestrating Transformations in Featureform (51:00)Impact of new technologies on feature stores (56:17)Embeddings and the future of ML (59:20)The gap between ML and business logic (1:02:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:06:37)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jun 26, 2023 • 5min
The PRQL: Feature Stores and ML Ops with Simba Khadder of Featureform
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Simba Khadder of Featureform. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Jun 23, 2023 • 20min
Shop Talk: Accountability and Opportunity for AI
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.