Episode 91:

The Future of Streaming Data with Stripe, Deephaven, Materialize, and Benthos

June 15, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Jeff Chao, a staff engineer at Stripe, Pete Goddard, the CEO of Deephaven, Arjun Narayan, co-founder and CEO of Materialize, and Ashley Jeffs, a software engineer at Benthos. Together they discuss batch versus streaming, transitioning from traditional data methods, and define “streaming ETL” as they push for simplicity across the board.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • How we should think about batch versus streaming (6:02)
  • Defining “streaming ETL” (9:34)
  • A brief history of streaming processing platforms (22:07)
  • The birth and evolution of Benthos (28:41)
  • What led Jeff to build a new tool (34:29)
  • Why you shouldn’t share all the data (37:23)
  • Making streaming technologies approachable to engineers (42:09)
  • Breaking out of traditional terminology (52:58)

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