This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Vinoth Chandar, Creator of the Hudi Project at the Apache Software Foundation. During the episode, Vinosh discusses his experiences building data lakes at companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Confluent. He also gets into the differences between datalakes and warehouses, and when going open source makes sense.

​​This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas hosted a panel of experts from across the business and data landscape including Timothy Chen of Essence VC, Brandon Chen of Fivetran, Paul Boccaccio of Hinge, Jason Pohl of Data Bricks, and Amy Deora of dbt Labs. Together the group discusses what defines the modern datastack and how it impacts each of their businesses.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talked with Manu Bansal, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightup Data. During the episode, Manu helps to define data quality, explains how to design tests for quality, and describes what Lightup is doing to help businesses build solutions to test and use your data.

​​This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talked with Srivatsan Sridharan,  Head of Data Infrastructure at Robinhood. During the episode, Srivatsan discusses his experience helping to build a data team at Yelp, how organizations have evolved their view of data engineering over the years, and how organizations have evolved their view of data engineering.

​​This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talked with Aayush Jain CEO and CTO (Chief Twitter Officer) at Cliff.ai. Cliff.ai is the latest of Aayush’s startup ventures that is focused on “business observability”. During the episode, Aayush discusses what they’re building at Cliff, how community building has impacted the company, and how his academic background formed his current work.