The Data Stack Show

In this episode, Eric and Kostas look back over the great topics and guests from season three of the Data Stack Show.  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.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Manu’s career background and describing Lightup (2:31)Why traditional tools don’t work for modern data problems (6:04)How a data lake differs from a data warehouse (11:35)Defining data quality (14:07)The business impact of solving and applying data quality (31:36)Constructing a healthy financial view on the impact of data (41:09)How to work with unstructured data in a meaningful way (47:44)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.

Eric and Kostas preview the upcoming show by talking about data quality.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00)How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04)When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35)What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07)Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14)The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09)Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25)The unique challenge of Fintech vs other consumer industries (45:03)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.

On the PRQL this week, Eric and Kostas bring in some of the Rudderstack engineering team to discuss data pipelines and preview episode 66 of the Data Stack Show.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Aayush’s career background (4:13)How his biological sciences academic training impacts his work (8:04)How do we allow dashboards to get messy? (9:35)Building cultural or technical solutions to effective dashboards (15:19)Using data dashboards to make material business improvements (23:19)What is business observability? (32:23)Building a platform for operations teams (43:15)How important community is to the cliff.ai business proposition (41:03)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 show PRQL, Eric and Kostas talk about the evolution of the role of a data engineer and preview the conversation with Aayush Jain.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Announcement: Data Stack Live! (1:00)Michel’s career background (4:13)Solving the technical and process challenges of moving data (7:04)Lessons learned from managing data at Live Ramp (9:35)How to build a modern data stack (16:19)Triggers to signal when more data infrastructure is needed (23:19)Why Airbyte is an open-source product (30:23)Airbyte’s role in providing support to open-source problems (38:15)How important DPT is for the Airbyte protocol and platform (41:03)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.

For this week's PRQL, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming episode with Michel Tricot.

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas have a conversation with Ciaran Dynes, the Chief Product Officer at Matillion, a powerful and easy-to-use, completely cloud-capable ETL/ELT solution.