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Episode 47:

From Data Infrastructure to Data Management with Ananth Packkildurai of Zendesk

August 25, 2021

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas get the chance to talk with Ananth Packkildurai, Zendesk’s principal data engineer and the author of the Data Engineering Weekly newsletter.


Notes:

Highlights from this week’s episode:

  • Ananth’s background (2:51)
  • The evolution of Slack (4:54)
  • Kafka and Presto’s two of the most reliable and flexible tools for Ananth (9:43)
  • How Snowflake gained an advantage over Presto (13:24)
  • Opinions about data lakes (17:23)
  • Core features of data infrastructure (23:22)
  • The tools define the process, and not the other way around (31:30)
  • Defining a data mesh (36:44)
  • Data is inherently social in nature (40:31)
  • Lessons learned from writing Data Engineering Weekly (49:14)

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