

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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Jan 11, 2023 • 37min
121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Defining data flow (2:31)Are there limitations in timely data flow operation and/or building operators? (8:20)Areas of incremental computation that are having an impact today (17:10)Building a library vs building a product (24:06)Combining delight and empathy into a focus (27:52)Final thoughts and takeaways (32:42)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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Jan 4, 2023 • 1h 14min
120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:What is Materialize? (2:43)Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)The MVP for databases (33:49)Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)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..

Jan 2, 2023 • 6min
The PRQL: What’s our first ever two-part episode about?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming two-part conversation with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry of Materialize.

Dec 28, 2022 • 12min
119: The Data Stack Show Wrapped: 2022
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.

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 3min
118: Bringing Powerful Business Intelligence to Mobile with Zack Hendlin of Zing Data
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zack’s extensive background in the world of data and the genesis of Zing (3:02)Working on relevance, feeds, and ads at Facebook & LinkedIn (9:20)Exploring BI and queries on mobile devices (16:48)Reliance of input quality in data (23:28)Delivering a mobile-first experience in BI (30:11)Limitations of visualization on mobile devices (34:00)How BI tools interact with one another in Zing (45:21)The future of user-experience in consuming data (49:19)Final thoughts and takeaways (59:56)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.

Dec 19, 2022 • 4min
The PRQL: Do You Need Business Intelligence on Your Phone?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zach Hendlin of Zing Data.

Dec 14, 2022 • 56min
117: DX for Data Tooling with Taylor Murphy of Meltano
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Taylor’s journey into data (3:09)What’s been going on at Meltano recently? (7:28)Addressing basic problems in data even with advancements in technology (12:23)What makes Meltano unique in the space (16:53)Why the CLI experience is important (25:37)Quality vs quantity in supporting connectors (35:51)What does data ops look like for Meltano (46:44)Takeaways and closing thoughts (52:56)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.

Dec 12, 2022 • 3min
The PRQL: Is Business Logic Moving Further Down the Stack?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Taylor Murphy of Meltano.

Dec 7, 2022 • 54min
116: Data Democratization & Self Service with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aron’s background in the world of data (2:18)Recent Clients and major projects (3:30)Helping to spearhead data-driven growth at Salesforce (6:50)Stories about Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce (16:12)Biggest learnings as a consultant in the data strategy space (17:58)The need for data democratization (23:33)Advice for Aron’s younger self in consulting (28:45)Current trends in data democratization and sales service (35:01)Aron’s favorite tools and platforms to use (42:19)Favorite part of the consulting process (47:45)Final thoughts and takeaways (50:29)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.

Dec 5, 2022 • 7min
The PRQL: Data Analytics: Same As It Ever Was
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Aron Clymer of Data Clymer.