The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Boris’ background career journey (2:32)The origins of “reverse ETL” (6:39)Reverse Fivetran (16:35)Product as an experience (22:41)Fivetran users vs Census users (24:14)How to add value to a data dump (26:56)Ways companies are creating IP (33:48)The cascade effect of the modern data stack (37:56)Defining “data federation” (43:51)Lessons from building a product (49:10)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 Borris Jabes of Census.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Verl’s career journey (2:46)M&A data evaluation criteria (7:12)What Claravine does (10:48)The breadth of data (15:03)Adding to content and advertising data (18:22)How Claravine standardizes data (23:53)Designing a data model (25:40)The underlying technologies of building a product (33:43)The main consumer (35:02)Maintaining quality (39:06)Helping solidify definitions (41:37)Implementing Claravine’s model across various companies (44:54)Internal changes affect on the model (46:47)Connection brought about by structure (49:19)Applying unstructured context to structured stamping (52:36)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 Verl Allen of Claravine.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Sean’s career journey (3:27)Optimization and localized testing results (7:49)Denying potential access to more data (13:46)Other dimensions data has (18:32)The other side of capturing events (20:55)Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03)SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40)How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38)Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08)Communicating about data (38:36)The next phase of tooling (41:49)Advice for aspiring managers (45:21)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 show with Sean Halliburton of Warnermedia.

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.

In this PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Parham Parvizi of tura.io.

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.

Eric and Kostas preview some exciting news coming up on episode 74 of the Data Stack Show.