
The Data Engineering Show
The Data Engineering Show is a podcast for data engineering and BI practitioners to go beyond theory. Learn from the biggest influencers in tech about their practical day-to-day data challenges and solutions in a casual and fun setting.
SEASON 1 DATA BROS
Eldad and Boaz Farkash shared the same stuffed toys growing up as well as a big passion for data. After founding Sisense and building it to become a high-growth analytics unicorn, they moved on to their next venture, Firebolt, a leading high-performance cloud data warehouse.
SEASON 2 DATA BROS
In season 2 Eldad adopted a brilliant new little brother, and with their shared love for query processing, the connection was immediate. After excelling in his MS, Computer Science degree, Benjamin Wagner joined Firebolt to lead its query processing team and is a rising star in the data space.
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Latest episodes

May 10, 2022 • 34min
A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture
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

Apr 12, 2022 • 32min
Transitioning Scopely’s 5.5 PB Data Platform to the Modern Data Stack
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

Mar 22, 2022 • 29min
Getting rid of raw data with Jens Larsson
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

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Feb 17, 2022 • 33min
How Zendesk engineers manage customer-facing data applications
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.

Jan 20, 2022 • 26min
How are those data intensive customer facing apps engineered at Gong?
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

Dec 14, 2021 • 36min
How Bolt Engineers Are Designing Its Next-Gen Data Platform
Bolt's ride-hailing app serves 2B users in Europe and Africa and handles 500K queries every day. Erik Heintare along with Bolt's engineering team is in the midst of designing a new next-gen data platform and is sharing how it's going to solve their biggest data challenges. Guest: Erik Heintare - Senior Analytics Engineer at BoltHosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, AKA The Data BrosThe 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

Nov 23, 2021 • 39min
How did Agoda scale its data platform to support 1.5T events per day?
Scaling a data platform to support 1.5T events per day requires complicated technical migrations and alignment between hundreds of engineers. What to see how Agoda did it.Guests: Amir Arad, Director of Machine Learning, AgodaShaun Sit, Senior Dev Manager, AgodaHosts: The Data Bros - Eldad and Boaz FarkashThe 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

Oct 21, 2021 • 35min
Diving Into GitHub's Data Stack
It’s the mother of all development projects. You use it daily. And so do 65M developers around the world. This time on the Data Engineering Show – A deep dive into GitHub’s data stack. Arfon Smith KimYen (Truong) Ladia shared GitHub’s data engineering challenges and solutions and explained why every developer should know and adopt the ADR protocol.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

Sep 9, 2021 • 40min
Building Data Products For Data Engineers
How does a tech stack that always needs to be at the forefront of technology look like?
Roy Miara from Explorium talks about building data products for the audience that can’t be fooled – Data Engineers.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

Aug 18, 2021 • 40min
How Vimeo Keeps Data Intact with 85B Events Per Month
How does the Viemo data team deal with 2 PBs of data and 85B events per month? What made them recently build a data ops team? What data tool does the team love? And why (the hell) did they call their legacy platform Fatal Attraction?Guest: Lior Solomon, VP Data Engineering at Vimeo.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