This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Sven Balnojan, product owner (analytics) at Mercateo Gruppe and author of the recent article “How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company”. Their conversation focused on a comparison and contrast of Databricks and Snowflake and discussed what it takes for an open-source project to succeed when a whopping 98% of them fail.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Arjun Narayan, co-founder and CEO at Materialize. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications and analytics that allows users to get extremely complicated and complex analytics answers in real-time on top of streams.

On The Data Stack Show this week, Eric and Kostas are joined by Ophir Prusak, head of growth at startup Codesmith, a boot camp for software engineers. For nearly a decade, Ophir has been the initial marketing hire for a number of startups and has a variety of experience working with open source tools. He contributes his thoughts on the open source ecosystem and offers perspective on data attribution and the resulting conversations between engineers and marketing.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Ruben Ugarte, principal at Practico Analytics. As a consultant, Ruben has worked with a wide variety of companies who are emerging from the pandemic with wildly different data landscapes whether they’ve seen tremendous growth or have seen their business struggle. For both kinds of organizations, Ruben has helped them make sense of their data. Eric and Kostas also discuss Ruben’s new book, The Data Mirage.