The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03)How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25)Defining “modern data stack” (8:39)The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44)How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15)Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17)Signs you should do a product integration (33:38)The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19)The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55)How important open source is (49:14)Data-centric ML (53:47)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 Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Benn’s background and career journey (2:28)The problem Benn sought to solve (4:48)Data engineering a decade ago (9:58)Technology inside vs. outside Silicon Valley (18:11)What’s next for data (24:42)Mode’s evolution and journey (29:31)Challenges of getting enough context to create (39:21)Current trends that won’t see long-term benefits (48:44)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 Benn Stancil of Mode.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kyle’s background and career journey (2:38)Unique challenges in building data engineering products (9:33)The problem set Databricks resolves (13:46)About Onehouse (17:15)From Microsoft to Onehouse (20:59)Why there’s so much distance between data powers (24:45)Why the data lake is not enough (30:15)Who should have a lake house (39:03)Why we have all three data platforms (43:53)How to step into the data lake house world (49:48)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 Kyle Weller of Onehouse.ai.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kishore’s background and career journey (2:30)Internal analytics versus user-facing analytics (3:49)New ways of thinking about analytics (8:06)What makes Pinot different (13:45)How Pinot transforms systems (21:53)Understanding the data landscape (32:40)The Pinot user experience (36:27)Something exciting about StarTree (40:05)When you should adopt this technology (43:15)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 Kishore Gopalakrishna of StarTree.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:When is it right to use ML? (5:22)ML business models (10:21)Significant changes in delivering ML (19:07)Why ML is different (25:19)SQL becoming more important (34:39)Graduating from SQL-based to real-time (37:22)Space for a new role (45:11)State-of-the-art models (49:03)The most exciting thing in the ML space (53:59)Open source in ML (56:39)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 live stream episode featuring Willem Pienaar of Tecton and Tristan Zajonc of Continual.