This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric chats with Josh Wills, an experienced data scientist with work at places like IBM, Google, Slack, DuckDB, and others. During this conversation, Josh shares his journey working at these large companies including work in data engineering, data science, and other fields. Eric and Josh also discuss high-quality data and the process to get it, auction code, usage patterns and complexities in search, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Dhruba Borthakur, the Co-founder and CTO at Rockset. During the episode, Dhruba shares his journey working in the early days of the Facebook team, working and developing platforms like Hadoop and RocksDB, the next evolution of hardware storage, value storage and indexes, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, we have a special edition as we recorded a series of bonus episodes live at Data Council in Austin, Texas. On this episode, Brooks and Kostas chat with Pete Soderling, the Founder of Data Council. During this conversation, Pete talks about the origins of Data Council, the focus of AI at this year’s conference, how the data community has grown to support the event, future expansion, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, we have a special edition as we recorded a series of bonus episodes live at Data Council in Austin, Texas. In this episode, Brooks and Kostas chat with Gunnar Morling, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Decodable. During the episode, Gunnar talks about his time at Red Hat, including spearheading the Debezium project, a platform for change data capture (CDC). Topics in this conversation include the processes of Debezium, how to build a diverse system while incorporating common interfaces, open-sourced CDC projects, and more.