Episode 76:

Why a Data Team Should Limit Its Own Superpowers with Sean Halliburton of CNN

February 23, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Sean Halliburton, a staff software engineer at CNN. During the episode, Sean talks about how access to data creates more appetite for data, building a robust SDK, how to approach desire for self-service options, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

 

  • Sean’s career journey (3:27)
  • Optimization and localized testing results (7:49)
  • Denying potential access to more data (13:46)
  • Other dimensions data has (18:32)
  • The other side of capturing events (20:55)
  • Data equivalent of API contracts (25:03)
  • SDK restrictiveness for developers (27:40)
  • How to know if you’re still sending the right data (30:38)
  • Debugging that starts in a client of a mobile app (36:08)
  • Communicating about data (38:36)
  • The next phase of tooling (41:49)
  • Advice for aspiring managers (45:21) 

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