Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Ben’s career journey (2:55)What makes Firebolt different (3:58)Firebolt’s data product family (7:37)Table engines and Firebolt (10:57)Ben’s favorite part of ClickHouse (12:52)The experience of building an optimizer (15:19)Where Firebolt fits into architecture (17:27)Working in the data space: to love and dislike (19:51)Coming soon in the near future (24:35)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.

Eric and Kostas preview an upcoming mini-series for next week featuring conversations with experts at Data Council Austin.

Don't miss our livestream event on April 27 as we talk about all things Data Quality with some of the best in the business.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kaycee’s background and career journey (2:34)Why analytics are hard (7:28)Defining “data management” (11:47)Defining “data virtualization” (15:57)The relationship between data virtualization and ETL (18:34)Where a company should invest first (21:40)Building without a Frankenstein stack (25:19)How Promethium solves data stack issues (27:53)Giving context to data (35:14)Cataloging: background, at Promethium, future (39:29)Who uses data catalogs (48:00)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.

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Kaycee Lai of Promethium.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Max’s career journey and role today (2:56)Hitting the limits of traditional BI (11:06)The most influential technology (14:34)Merging with BI and visualization (17:35)Two thoughts on real-time (21:02)Defining BI (24:53)How many have actually achieved self-serve BI (29:54)How preset.io fits in the BI architecture of today (32:36)How to use preset.io to expose analytics (35:23)The analytics process to power something like embedded (42:45)Opportunities that exist right now in the BI market (44:53)Commoditization in visualizations across business models (47:58)What it felt like to create data tooling (51:34)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..

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Max Beauchemin of preset.io.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Robert’s background and career journey (2:21)How studying languages influences database work (5:13)Why Robert has been working with databases for 40+ years (7:50)Explaining the ClickHouse database (10:43)How ClickHouse is able to focus on latency (13:39)The use cases behind ClickHouse (19:19)How ClickHouse is different than other databases (25:47)Why old problems are just now getting addressed (29:04)How ClickHouse works with others against another (33:03)When to implement ClickHouse (38:53)The distance between ClickHouse and the end-user (42:24)New database technologies (47:02)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..

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Robert Hodges of Altinity.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16)Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21)What Atlan does (11:53)The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25)How to create a company’s first data team (18:13)Defining “agile data” (22:01)The necessity of data ops (26:36)The minimum data stack needed (29:16)Data team size (31:58)Where to start when you need to make adjustments (34:51)Collaborate with different parts of the data stack (41:27)Defining the metadata plane (44:29)Lessons from facing crazy data problems (48:31)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.