The Data Stack Show

On this week's PRQL, Kostas and Eric preview their upcoming conversation with Ciaran Dynes of Matillion.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47)Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44)Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47)Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28)What makes IoT unique (23:56)Killing the SQL server (29:11)What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13)5G, LoRa, and drawbacks and advances in widespread IoT adoption (37:05)Security and privacy in IoT (41:23)Using IoT as a cattle rancher (45:20)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 Rob Rastovich of ThingLogix, Inc.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Kevin’s interaction with data at an early age (2:35)Working with telecom data (5:08)Analyzing emojis in customer sentiment (8:44)Infrastructure needed for diverse data (12:22)Building better interfaces and looking out for human error (24:17)Dealing with differences in identities in different layers of the stack (41:21)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 break down further topics from episode 60 about stream processing and open source projects.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:A brief overview of Ashley’s background (2:47)Benthos’ creation and the problems it was meant to address (4:01)Use cases for Benthos (18:25)Key features of Benthos that make it stand out (22:23)Adding windowing to Benthos for fun (29:23)The highs and lows of maintaining an open source project for five years (32:17)The architecture of Benthos (36:23)The importance of ordering in streaming processing (42:15)Gaining traction with an open source project (53:21)Benthos’ blobfish mascot (58:03) 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 this week's debrief, Kostas and Eric talk about the variety of open source projects that come from Facebook.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Starburst Data is Justin’s second startup (2:42)Starburst focuses on doing data warehousing analytics without the need for the data warehouse (4:14)Multi-cloud solutions among merger and acquisition use cases (8:32)Ways the stack is increasing in complexity (12:25)Comparing essential components of a data stack from 2010 to now (15:01)The future of ETL (27:36)The best maturity stage for an organization to implement Starburst (31:27)Starburst connectors (36:55)Monetizing enterprise solutions while promoting open source ones (41:52)The history of Presto and Trino (45:37)Benefits of a decentralized data mesh (49:53)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 this week's Data Debrief, Eric and Kostas dig more into the topic of data tooling.