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The Data Stack Show

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Feb 18, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: How Important Is the Human Factor When Working With Data?

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming show with Sean Halliburton of Warnermedia.
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Feb 16, 2022 • 59min

75: How To Become a Data Engineer with Parham Parvizi of the Data Stack Academy

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Par’s background and current role (2:48)About Talend (6:46)Nonlinear pathways to data engineering roles (11:08)What a data engineer needs to be successful (17:37)Before “data engineer” was a title (27:59)Signs you should be a data engineer (32:39)Curiosity and data engineering (38:31)Defining the modern data stack (45:07)How to get a feel for data engineering (52:52)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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Feb 11, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: Can We Define the Role of the Data Engineer (Yet)?

In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.io.
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Feb 9, 2022 • 45min

74: Kostas Respawns at Starburst, is Interviewed by Eric, and Reminisces About Winamp

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Big News: podcast hits, Kostas’ career change (2:19)Kostas’ career start in data pipelines (4:09)The Winamp and Napster era (11:46)Starting an API gateway (16:56)Observing new technology from afar (23:43)Starting Blendo (32:38)Problems faced in architecting the product (37:12)Kostas’ role at Starburst (40:25)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.
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Feb 4, 2022 • 3min

The PRQL: What Prompts a Conversation About Winamp & Quake Arena on The Data Stack Show?

Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show.
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Feb 2, 2022 • 57min

73: What a High Performing Data Team (and Stack) Looks Like with Paige Berry of Netlify

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Paige’s career path (2:44)Paige’s role and responsibilities at Netlify (6:38)Sharing data insights (8:55)Scope in the context of delivering an insight (12:39)Defining “insight” (15:10)Where the client journey begins (16:43)Miscommunication because of vague terminology (20:06)Netlify’s internal knowledge repository (23:01)Breaking down Netlify’s hub and spoke model (30:45)What data tools to use and when (35:21)The metric layer and BI (44:17)Next steps in the data space (49:42)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 28, 2022 • 4min

The PRQL: How High Performing Data Teams Put Tooling in the Background

This week on the PRQL, Eric and Kostas discuss tooling as they preview the upcoming show with Paige Berry of Netlify.
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Jan 26, 2022 • 55min

72: Building Data Ops Into the Data Lifecycle with Douwe Maan of Meltano

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Douwe’s career journey (3:04)The missing piece in GitLab’s data tooling (7:35)The open-source offering in the data space (12:38)Singer’s connection with Meltano (22:31)How Meltano manages connectors on a diverse codebase (35:21)The data house side of Meltano (39:47)Data house operating versus Airflow (44:06)Meltano’s vision present today (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.
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Jan 21, 2022 • 6min

The PRQL: Is It Viable to Manage Integrations Open Source?

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show featuring Douwe Maan of Meltano.
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Jan 19, 2022 • 57min

71: ETL at the Edges with Jimmy Chan of Dropbase

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Jimmy’s career background (3:01)How to use Data cubes (5:52)What Dropbase is and who it is built for (11:01)Getting sales and marketing data in usable formats (16:46)Ensuring data remains flexible and transferable (28:36)Defining what “offline data” is and how to use it (34:09)How Dropbase can work with the rest of the data stack (43:30)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.

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