The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Nick’s background and career journey (2:40)What Transform does (5:53)Metrics layer vs. metrics store (8:04)Signals vs. metrics (13:24)The user of a metric layer (14:34)Using Transform within an organization (17:05)How to fuse two sources into a metric (23:54)Currently supported databases (28:46)Community engagement (31:33)Optimizing for queries, metrics, and use cases (35:33)Technology and the human factor (40:49)Managing metrics amidst fast-paced change (46:53)Out-of-the-box metrics store (49:26)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 Nick Hansel from Transform.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Bary’s background and Hex (3:05)Reconciling two sides of data (9:16)Collaboration at Hex (15:10)What it takes to build something like Hex (20:02)Defining “commitment engineering” (26:01)How to begin working with Hex (30:56)Hex customers and uniqueness (40:31)The future in a world of data acquisition (45:30)Crossover between analytics and ML (51:33)Advice for data engineers (57:19)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 Barry McCardel of Hex Technologies.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kevin’s background and career journey (1:54)Metaplane and the problem that is solves (6:47)The silence of data problems (9:53)Data physics work that requires more (13:35)Trusting data when bugs are present (19:12)Building a navigable experience (22:36)Developing anomaly detection (30:06)What Metaplane provides today (35:05)Metaplane’s plans for the future (37:45)Comparing Bigquery, Snowflake, and Redshift (40:56)Why data goes bad (48:15)Advice for data trust workers (59:24)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 Kevin Hu of Metaplane.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Tejas’ background and career journey (2:49, 43:04)Digital collaboration with Netflix Drive (7:57)A formal version control component (23:44)Centralized store vs. local affairs (31:05)The different skill sets a data engineer needs (37:38)How to get into data engineering (40:57)New technologies coming into day-to-day work (44:39)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.

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Tejas Chopra of Netflix.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:How we should think about batch versus streaming (6:02)Defining “streaming ETL” (9:34)A brief history of streaming processing platforms (22:07)The birth and evolution of Benthos (28:41)What led Jeff to build a new tool (34:29)Why you shouldn’t share all the data (37:23)Making streaming technologies approachable to engineers (42:09)Breaking out of traditional terminology (52:58)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 livestream panel talking about all things streaming. Don't miss next week's episode with experts from Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize and Benthos