

The Data Stack Show
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.
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Jan 23, 2023 • 4min
The PRQL: Bringing Innovation to the Lowest Level of Databases
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Stavros Papadopoulos of TileDB, Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Jan 18, 2023 • 1h
122: Why Accounting Needs Its Own Database with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Joran’s background leading him from accounting to coding (3:10)What is Tiger Beetle? (5:53)Double-entry accounting and why it is important for a database (12:28)The need for low latency and high throughput (26:27)Why financial database software needs a laser focus (29:01)What are people using to implement a double-entry system? (36:09)Safety in financial software and addressing storage faults (40:26)Final thoughts and takeaways (55:52)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jan 16, 2023 • 5min
The PRQL: Do We Need A Dedicated Database for Every Use Case?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Joran Greef of Tiger Beetle. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

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Jan 11, 2023 • 37min
121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Defining data flow (2:31)Are there limitations in timely data flow operation and/or building operators? (8:20)Areas of incremental computation that are having an impact today (17:10)Building a library vs building a product (24:06)Combining delight and empathy into a focus (27:52)Final thoughts and takeaways (32:42)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Jan 4, 2023 • 1h 14min
120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:What is Materialize? (2:43)Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)The MVP for databases (33:49)Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jan 2, 2023 • 6min
The PRQL: What’s our first ever two-part episode about?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming two-part conversation with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry of Materialize. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Dec 28, 2022 • 12min
119: The Data Stack Show Wrapped: 2022
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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 3min
118: Bringing Powerful Business Intelligence to Mobile with Zack Hendlin of Zing Data
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zack’s extensive background in the world of data and the genesis of Zing (3:02)Working on relevance, feeds, and ads at Facebook & LinkedIn (9:20)Exploring BI and queries on mobile devices (16:48)Reliance of input quality in data (23:28)Delivering a mobile-first experience in BI (30:11)Limitations of visualization on mobile devices (34:00)How BI tools interact with one another in Zing (45:21)The future of user-experience in consuming data (49:19)Final thoughts and takeaways (59:56)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dec 19, 2022 • 4min
The PRQL: Do You Need Business Intelligence on Your Phone?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zach Hendlin of Zing Data. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Dec 14, 2022 • 56min
117: DX for Data Tooling with Taylor Murphy of Meltano
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Taylor’s journey into data (3:09)What’s been going on at Meltano recently? (7:28)Addressing basic problems in data even with advancements in technology (12:23)What makes Meltano unique in the space (16:53)Why the CLI experience is important (25:37)Quality vs quantity in supporting connectors (35:51)What does data ops look like for Meltano (46:44)Takeaways and closing thoughts (52:56)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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.


