This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan about the concept of data mesh, a complex topic that encompasses both technical and organizational aspects. During this conversation, the group discusses the transition from a monolithic IT team to a data mesh model, the implementation and adoption of data mesh, and the concept of data products within the data mesh framework. The episode emphasizes the importance of empowering domain practitioners and building platforms that support the creation and sharing of data products to enable the implementation of data mesh, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Ben Miller, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fundrise. During the episode, Ben discusses how Fundrise democratizes investment opportunities in asset classes such as corporate real estate and venture capital. He explains how Fundrise is a data-driven company and discusses its approach to data modeling and analysis while also sharing his views on the future of data infrastructure, emphasizing the need for it to be accessible to non-technical users. The conversation also covers the role of emotions in investment decisions, the challenges of data analysis in the financial industry, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Pedro Pedreira, a Software Engineer at Meta (formerly Facebook). During the conversation, Pedro discusses the intricacies of data infrastructure and the concept of composability. He delves into the specifics of data latency, explaining the spectrum of requirements from low-latency dashboards to high-latency batch queries. Pedro also discusses the concept of vectorization in database operations and the benefits it brings. The conversation shifts to the development and usage of certain libraries and the goal of converging dialects in data computation. Don’t miss this great episode!