The Data Stack Show

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Slapdash co-founder Ivan Kanevski. Slapdash describes itself as the operating system for work. Slapdash emphasizes reducing the time people spend controlling their computer in relation to the time they spend expressing their intent.Key topics discussed were:Starting Slapdash and expanding on tools from working at Facebook (3:31)Being client agnostic and working with the tools that people bring to the job (7:35)Distinctions between mouse-centric and keyboard-centric users (12:58)Slapdash’s approach to collecting data (16:08)Building Slapdash to scale and using Postgres (19:45)Using a graph model and a focus on efficiency (24:50)Challenges of reducing latency (29:35)Opening up Slapdash to be programmable (38:17)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds chat with Mason Stewart, the lead engineer at Bookshop.org. Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. Their hope is to help strengthen the fragile ecosystem and margins around bookselling and keep local bookstores an integral part of our culture and communities.Among other topics, today’s conversation talked about making what some might call boring decisions with the data stack that are better described as mature decisions and the intertwining of human interaction with data for problem solving and recommendations.Background on Mason and Bookshop.org (3:28)Technical challenges of keeping up with a rapidly expanding business (10:00)Interacting with data from fulfillment partners (14:36)Data schema for books and dealing with Elasticsearch (24:46)Human intervention in recognizing problems and exceptions (31:38)In-depth look at Bookshop’s data stack (37:06)Using curated lists from bookstores instead of algorithmic recommendations (43:50)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds connect with IFTTT data scientist Peter Darche. IFTTT is a free platform that helps all your products and services work better together through automated tasks. Their discussion covered a lot of ground involving their data stack, their use cases and clearing up once and for all how to pronounce the company’s name.Background on IFTTT (2:12)Peter tells the proper way to pronounce IFTTT (3:34)An overview of IFTTT’s technological architecture (6:14)The uses of data and analytics at IFTTT (8:04)Constructing the data stack (10:11)Dealing with challenges (15:20)Best practices for communicating with internal teams about the data (23:04)Discussing functional data engineering (26:05)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds continue their conversation about Ruby, a start-up designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, by talking with the Nashville company’s CTO Sam Bledsoe. This follow-up discussion digs into how their data engineering and marketing setups co-exist and how they rely on Azure.Sam’s background and more info about Ruby (2:11)Privacy-related challenges at the intersection of banking and medical data (4:33)What to expect from using Azure (15:06)Breaking down the stack (24:44)The need for marketing people with technological skills (36:20)Talking Big Query, RedShift, Spark and data virtualization (41:15)Biggest changes anticipated in moving as a spin-off from the bank (43:59)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Nic Discepoli for the first of two conversations about Ruby, a startup where he is the customer analytics lead. This Nashville-based company is designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, often corresponding with a medical event. Their conversation included topics like: Launching Ruby and Nic’s involvement in the company (3:35)Realizing that tracking data manually on spreadsheets was no longer sustainable (7:07)Rundown of Ruby’s toolset (9:50)Challenges with data quality (14:27)Using unique IDs and following UTM parameters through the stack (21:04)Recalculating customer acquisition cost with data (33:05)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds talk change data capture (CDC) with DeVaris Brown, co-founder and CEO of Meroxa. Their conversation digs into the benefits of utilizing CDC and how Meroxa is using it. Highlights from the conversation include:Introduction to DeVaris and Meroxa (3:24)Why CDC has more traction today (6:58)How CDC is changing the way we build products (12:52)Where CDC is playing an important role (21:11)The experience that Meroxa delivers (24:42)Looking at Meroxa’s sources, technology and data stack (27:28)DeVaris’ vision for the company (37:10)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis connects with Satyam Krishna, a data engineer at Grofers, India’s largest low-price online supermarket. Grofers boasts a network of more than 5,000 partner stores, a user base with three million iOS and Android app downloads, and an efficient supply chain that allow it to deliver more than 25 million products to customers every month. Satyam offers insights into how he helped build the data engineering function at Grofers, how they developed a robust data stack, how they’re turning production databases into live event streams using Change Data Capture, how Grofers’ internal customers consume data, and the company made adjustments due to the pandemic. Topics of discussion included:Satyam moving from a developer to a data engineer (2:43)Describing Grofers’ data stack and data lake (6:41)Who is consuming data inside the company and what are some of their common uses specific to Grofers? (12:03)What are the biggest issues day-to-day as a data engineer? (18:21)COVID’s impact on business practices and the data stack (21:28)The big problem of data discoverability and metadata cataloging (27:44)Completely changing architecture to something that can scale up (33:16)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Utkarsh Gupta, senior engineer of data science at 1mg, India’s largest online healthcare platform.Together they discussed 1mg’s data infrastructure, its response to the global pandemic and how data drives their product and their business. Highlights from the show included discussions about:Utkarsh and 1MG’s background (1:32) 1mg being based on a bedrock of data (4:25)Business analytics (5:33)Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on business (11:40)Description of 1mg’s data stack (16:53)Biggest challenges faced and managing collaboration (27:08)Opinions on open source technology (40:31)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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 episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Alex Dovenmuehle, head of data engineering for Mattermost, an open-source self-hosted communication tool that optimizes dev workflows in highly secure environments. Kostas and Alex discuss:Alex's background and experience (2:29)Data stack Mattermost is using (9:25)How Mattermost built their Data Stack (21:05)Using data to understand the story of the customer's journey (24:58)Focus on privacy and security (26:33)Practical ways Mattermost is using data (37:14)What's next for data analytics at Mattermost and wrap up (42:45)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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.

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