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.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual. During the episode, Sammy discusses his vast experience building tooling products that were acquired by Tesla and Toyota. The conversation covers data tooling, deep learning, the state of self-driving technology and its adoption, Sammy’s journey to founding Eventual, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Chad Sanderson, Head of Data and Data Contracts Advocate. During the episode, Chad talks about all things data contracts. The conversation includes topics such as the value of data contracts, dealing with the semantic and logical layers of data, implicit contracts at companies, how contracts fit into data infrastructure, and more.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Jason Davis, Co-Founder & CEO of Simon Data. During the episode, the group discusses all things CDPs including the importance of the customer journey in marketing and how data teams can support marketing teams in achieving their goals. The conversation also includes mapping back to data terms that data teams can understand, the next frontier of innovation in data infrastructure for marketers, and more.