The Data Stack Show

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.

Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation about data ops and diversity with Prupalka of Atlan.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Panel introductions (2:23)What is driving the trend behind Reverse ETL? (5:24)The obstacles to building an internal Reverse ETL tool at scale (15:34)How to decide system management vs. user flexibility (20:14)Why previous products failed in creating this category (29:12)Increased demand and democratization of datastack skills via SaaS (42:03)Broader applications for Reverse ETL (47:29)Limitations of Reverse ETL (55:05)How user technical ability affects design and build roadmaps (58:14)What do you anticipate comes next for Reverse ETL? (1:02:45)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 panel discussion on reverse ETL and the modern data stack.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Che’s background and career journey (4:23)Coherence between hemispheres in the human brain (6:58)Raising Airbnb above primitive AB testing technology (8:54)Economic thinking in Airbnb’s data science practice (14:24)Dealing with multiple pipelines (16:48)Eppo’s role in recognizing statistically significant data (20:01)Defining “experiment” (23:25)Types of experiments (25:57)The workflow journey (27:18)Dealing with metric silos (34:21)Why we still need to innovate today (37:03)Where experimentation can be used (39:36)How big a sample size should be (43:29)How to self-educate to get the maximum value (45:39)Bridging the gap between data engineers and data scientists (48:14)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 Che Sharma of geteppo.com.