

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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Nov 30, 2022 • 55min
115: What Is Production Grade Data? Featuring Ashwin Kamath of Spectre
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ashwin’s background in the data space (2:43)The unique nature of working with data in finance (7:32)Technological challenges of working in the finance data space (13:55)The third-party data factor and judging if it is reliable enough (17:07)What made Ashwin decide to go out and build his own company? (31:47)Defining data decay and data storing and why both are important (37:52)Advice on the importance of data quality (42:10)Final takeaways and wrap-up (50:49)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.

Nov 28, 2022 • 6min
The PRQL: Managing Complexities of Financial Data
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ashwin Kamath of Spectre.

Nov 23, 2022 • 59min
114: Solving Data Infrastructure Problems at Startups and Enterprises with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting
Data infrastructure problem solver, Max Werner, shares his career journey, the dynamics of a switchboard operator, and common threads in different companies. He discusses the evolution of CDP, data sources for CDP, working with event data, and his take on other tools. Max also talks about the cutting edge in data and building a data company in an evolving environment.

Nov 21, 2022 • 3min
The PRQL: The Data Switchboard
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Werner of Obsessive Analytics Consulting.

Nov 18, 2022 • 21min
Shop Talk: Kostas Settles the Real-Time vs. Streaming Debate
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around the topic of streaming.

Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 5min
113: What Is Streaming Graph? Featuring Ryan Wright of thatDot
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ryan’s background and career journey (2:49)Quine and where it came from (4:36)Graph databases 101 (7:17)Use cases for graph databases (13:44)Purposes for graphs (22:27)How to use Quine (31:49)Quine’s performance and scale (43:06)Educating users about a new product (49:13)The team that would optimize Quine (52:23)When graph will gain popularity (56:15)Quine: https://quine.io/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.

Nov 14, 2022 • 3min
The PRQL: Graph as a Utility
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Ryan Wright of thatDot.

Nov 11, 2022 • 20min
Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around experiences at the Coalesce conference in New Orleans.

Nov 9, 2022 • 50min
112: Python Native Stream Processing with Zander Matheson of bytewax
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zander’s background and career journey (2:32)Introducing bytewax (5:16)The difference between systems (10:57)Bytewax’s most common use cases (16:15)How bytewax integrates with other systems (20:25)The technology that makes up bytewax (24:31)Comparing bytewax to other systems (34:17)What’s next for bytewax (36:31)Try it out: bytewax.ioThe 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.

Nov 7, 2022 • 5min
The PRQL: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zander Matheson of bytewax.