This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Ioannis Foukarakis, Senior Data Engineer at Mattermost and recent winner of Rudderstack’s transformations challenge. During the episode, Ioannis discusses data engineering, ML, and the influence of software engineering on data. Topics also include stories from Ioannis and Kostas’ college days, how data and engineering have changed over the years, future developments and exciting opportunities in the space, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Davor Bonaci, the Executive VP at DataStax. During the episode, Davor discusses his journey in working stream processing at Goggle and his journey in founding Kaskada. The conversation also includes discussion on recommendation engines, how to improve stream and batch processing, what Kaskada is doing to solve key pain points in the space, democratizing and operationalizing ML, and more.