

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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Nov 11, 2022 • 20min
Shop Talk: What Coalesced at Coalesce?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop around experiences at the Coalesce conference in New Orleans. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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Nov 9, 2022 • 50min
112: Python Native Stream Processing with Zander Matheson of bytewax
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Zander’s background and career journey (2:32)Introducing bytewax (5:16)The difference between systems (10:57)Bytewax’s most common use cases (16:15)How bytewax integrates with other systems (20:25)The technology that makes up bytewax (24:31)Comparing bytewax to other systems (34:17)What’s next for bytewax (36:31)Try it out: bytewax.ioThe 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.

Nov 7, 2022 • 5min
The PRQL: Who Needs a Stream Processing Engine?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Zander Matheson of bytewax. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Nov 4, 2022 • 20min
Shop Talk: The Business of Data Infrastructure is Uniquely Challenging
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop surrounding data infrastructure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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Nov 2, 2022 • 58min
111: What if Your Code Just Ran in the Cloud for You? Featuring Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Erik’s background and career journey (2:51)Managing scale in a rapidly changing environment (6:35)The people side of hypergrowth (12:36)Coding competitions (17:50)Introducing Modal Labs (19:02)How Erik got into building Modal (21:45)The employee experience at Modal (28:09)How a data engineering team would use Modal (31:21)What it takes to build a platform like Modal (36:27)What makes Modal different (42:49)Evolution coming for the data world (45:52)Untapped areas in the data world (48:46)Spotify playlists (52:03)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.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Oct 28, 2022 • 4min
The PRQL: Erik Bernhardsson Just Can’t Stop Solving Problems
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal Labs. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Oct 26, 2022 • 58min
110: How Can Data Discovery Help You Understand Your Data? Featuring Shinji Kim of Select Star
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Shinji’s background and career journey (3:35)Defining “data discovery” (6:03)The best conditions to use Select Star (8:45)Where Select Star fits on the data spectrum (13:38)Why Select Star is needed (17:35)How Select Star uses metadata (21:02)Exposing data queries (27:04)Composing queries into metadata (33:27)Automating BI tools (37:28)Limits to data governance (41:39)Maintaining economies of scale (48:56)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.

Oct 24, 2022 • 16min
Shop Talk: Why Are There So Many Flavors of Databases?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas talk shop about the wide world of databases. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
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Oct 21, 2022 • 4min
The PRQL: What is Data Discovery?
In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Shinji Kim of Select Star. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
for information about our collection and use of personal data for
advertising.

Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 1min
109: How Does Headless Business Intelligence Work? Featuring Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov of Cube Dev
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:The context of Headless BI (3:31)What Cube Dev does (9:24)How Headless BI works with other tools (13:03)An analysis of LookML (18:04)User interaction with Cube Dev (23:40)Who manages data artifacts (25:22)Taking care of the developer experience (30:37)Levels of performance (30:37)Artyom and Pavel’s background and career journey (35:47)Why you should use Cube Dev (43:38)Roles within a data organization (48:55)How Cube Dev impacts visualization (53:35)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.


