The Data Engineering Show

Sudeep Kumar, Principal Engineer at Salesforce is a ClickHouse fan. He considers the shift to Clickhouse as one of his biggest accomplishments during his eBay days and walks Boaz through his experience with the platform. How on one hand it handled 2B events per minute, but also how it required rollups which compromised granularity when extending time windows. Besides a ClickHouse review from a practitioner’s point of view, Sudeep tells us about interesting use-cases he’s working on at Salesforce. The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

According to Maxime Beauchemin, CEO & Founder at Preset and Creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow, it's not so straight-forward to understand what you're really getting into and the vastness of the skills that are required in order to build a thriving company.Picking the right system and services is key for a successful start, and can help you avoid the chaos of having too many tools spread across multiple teams.Plus, Max walks the bros through the genesis of Airflow, Superset & Presto, and Airflow's old school marketing approach that won the hearts of developers across the world. And just like the terminator, once the machine takes over, you can't stop.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

According to Yoav Shmaria, VP R&D Platform at Similarweb, the best way to manage data warehouse costs is to tag every table, database or ETL running to have good granularity over every feature.  Besides handy cost management tips, Yoav walks the bros through the tech stack he implemented to analyze 100s of TBs of web data to serve fast customer-facing analytics.Full disclosure, Similarweb is a Firebolt customer, but the bros kept it objective, and there’s no Firebolt talk in this episode.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Klarna is one of the leading fintech companies in the world, valued at $45B. While many corporations are “stuck” on-prem, Klarna made the move and today is a cloud-only company. Gunnar Tangring, Klarna’s Lead Data Engineer tells Boaz what this new modernized stack looks like.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Archana shares Eventbrite’s data stack modernization process, and how you get engineers to adopt new technologies like dbt which may be outside their comfort zone.  The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Growing from a startup to an IPOed and then an acquired company meant that Slack’s sales org was scaling rapidly. Apun Hiran, Slack’s Director of Software Engineering explains how the data stack and architecture evolved to support this growth with more reliable and timely metrics. Speaker: Apun Hiran, Director of Software Engineering (Data), SlackHosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, CEO and CPO, FireboltThe Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Should data engineering AND BI be handled by the same people? According to Jonathan Palmer, VP Data Platform at Scopely – YES. By Analytics Engineers. His team of Analytics Engineers is in the final stages of transitioning 5.5 PBs of data which include 15B evens per day to the modern data stack. Tune in to learn how they did it.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Why would you create ugly data? According to Jens Larsson, don’t even go near raw data. Jens started off at Google, continued to manage data science at Spotify, caught the startup bug at Tink, and recently joined an exciting new company called Ark Kapital, together with Spotify’s former VP Analytics. Jens explains how he and his team killed the notion of raw data at Tink and walks us through the Google, Spotify and Ark Kapital data stacks.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing

Ananth Packkildurai, Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk and curator of the popular Data Engineering Weekly newsletter, shares his insights on building customer-facing data applications. He discusses the evolution of analytics infrastructure and the significance of technologies like data lineage and catalogs. Ananth delves into real-time data integration solutions, evaluating tools such as Druid and ClickHouse. He also offers guidance for software engineers looking to break into data roles, emphasizing the importance of SQL and a log-driven approach.

Gong manages hundreds of thousands of videoconferences and millions of emails PER DAY, which add up to hundreds of TBs. The Data Bros met Yarin Benado, Gong’s engineering manager to understand what is required to move to a modern data stack to support all this, what this stack looks like, and why it all comes down to data quality at the end of the day. The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.soPrevious guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.Check out our three most downloaded episodes:Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data EngineerJoe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data EngineeringBill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing