Episode 88:

What Is Data Observability? with Tristan Spaulding of Acceldata

May 25, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Tristan Spaulding, the Head of Product at Acceldata. During the episode, Tristan discusses how to update old technology, defines “data observability,” shares early symptoms of a data drift, and more.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Tristan’s background and career journey (2:43)
  • Updating old technology (11:40)
  • Defining “data observability” (18:44)
  • The primary user of a data observability tool (29:56)
  • Handling an incident (33:01)
  • Why multipliers for data observability (37:06)
  • Early symptoms of a data drift (43:12)
  • Tuning in the context of data engineering (50:11)
  • What keeps Tristan working with data (55:12)

 

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