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.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric chats with Josh Wills, an experienced data scientist with work at places like IBM, Google, Slack, DuckDB, and others. During this conversation, Josh shares his journey working at these large companies including work in data engineering, data science, and other fields. Eric and Josh also discuss high-quality data and the process to get it, auction code, usage patterns and complexities in search, and more.

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.