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.

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 Michael Del Balso, Co-Founder and CEO of Tecton. During the episode, Michael talks about the company’s desire to provide customers the best feature engineering experience in the world. Topics in the conversation include MLops and data platforms, machine learning vs. data pipelines, the most difficult part in the life cycle of prediction, 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 Will Thompson, the Director of Engineering at Privacy Dynamics. During the episode, Will talks about all things data anonymization and privacy. The conversation includes the challenges of data privacy and other complexities in data, the journey of being an engineer in a startup, how Privacy Dynamics is solving problems in the space, 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 Chase Roberts, Principal VC investor at Vertex Ventures. During the conversation, Chase talks about go-to-market strategies for founders. Topics include taking the idea to market, the hardest part of the pitch, answering the what and how of the problem you are solving, how to price your product, 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 Simba Khadder, Mikiko Bazeley, & Shabnam Mokhtarani, three members of the leadership team at Featureform. During the episode, the group discusses the differences in MLops and data ops, what makes Featureform different from other feature stores, learnings from leading the work versus being in the work, 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 first interview, Brooks and Kostas chat with Eric Sammer, the Founder and CEO of Decodable. During the episode, the group discusses real-time data, stream processing, the complexities of the modern data stack, exciting announcements at Decodable, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Andy Pavlo and Dana Van Aken, the CEO and CTO at OtterTune. During the episode, the group discusses the challenges of tuning database systems, the role of machine learning in automating the process, the importance of workload capture, the benefits of using automated recommendations for index optimization and overall system health, the challenges of managing configuration knobs in database systems and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with H.O. Maycotte, entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of FeatureBase. During the episode, H.O. shares his personal story of growing up in Mexico and his journey to becoming a CEO. The discussion also includes a look at the super evolution, AI advancements and future opportunities, the tension between authenticity and technology, and more.