Hashmap on Tap

PODCAST CROSSOVER! The Data Chief Podcast host, Cindi Howson, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel for an exciting podcast episode on data and analytics and what's top of mind for a CDO today. Cindi is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot with an incredible background. Tune in to hear her story and what makes ThoughtSpot a great company to keep an eye on. 

Join Kelly, Chinmayee, and David as they talk DataOps over a cup of coffee. The three discuss their perspectives on DataOps, how they have seen it evolve over the past few years, and what to expect going forward.

Venkatesh Sekar, Senior Architect at Hashmap, joins Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel to enjoy some green tea and discuss his most recent addition to Hashmap's suite of open-source Snowflake utilities, SnowCAT - a simple opinionated approach to data-cataloging and data discovery, processed and served end-to-end in Snowflake. Listen in on the conversation to hear why Venkat created SnowCAT and how it is being used today by Snowflake customers.  

Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, and Venkatesh Sekar, Senior Architect at Hashmap, sip on a green tea and talk about Hashmap's latest open source Snowflake utility, SnowDQ - a simplistic and smart approach to performing data quality checks in Snowflake. Join the conversation to hear why Venkat created SnowDQ and how it's being used.

The Hashmap RTE team sits down with Hashmap On Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel to provide a sneak-peek into their recent 2021 Cloud Data Platform Benchmarking and Analysis where they spent 400+ hours comparing Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, & Databricks using the industry-standard TPC-DC dataset measuring query performance, load rates, transformation speed, and overall cost across 33 dimensions to provide an unbiased perspective and see how they shape up. Listen in to find out how they achieved their in-depth technical analysis.

Anna Abramova, Director of Client Engagements and Partnerships at SqlDBM, joins Kelly to talk about data modeling in the cloud and how SqlDBM has been growing their business and community. Grab a kombucha, tune in, and get to know SqlDBM a little better! 

Arjun Narayan, Co-Founder & CEO of Materialize, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel to discuss how Materialize…well materialized. Arjun’s company is a SQL platform for processing streaming data and they've developed a radical approach to stream data processing. The two discuss use cases as well as new and exciting projects currently being worked on at Materialize. Listen in for an exciting opportunity!

Shiv Girijashankar is a Cloud/Data Engineer at Hashmap and has spent the last 14 years working with Teradata at a variety of clients. Today we are going to get up close on Teradata, learn from Shiv’s experiences, talk about Snowflake as an alternative, and some tips and tricks he has learned over the years.

Barr Moses, Co-Founder & CEO of Monte Carlo, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, for a chai tea and a discussion on data observability and its immense value. Monte Carlo is an ML-based data observability engine that helps enable greater trust in data by preventing and eliminating data downtime and increasing data reliability. Barr and the Monte Carlo team are helping customers solve this painful issue and she shares her experiences from when she first noticed the need for data observability to where the company is today. 

Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Sherwick Min from Epiq Global. Sherwick shares his extensive experience in technology along with powerful insights he's gained along the way. The two discuss changing paradigms in how data is shared, considerations for data ownership in a cloud environment, and how SaaS has revolutionized how we look at "leasing" data platforms.