80% of the code that you write doesn’t work on the first try. And that’s fine. But knowing which 80% is not working and which 20% is working is the actual challenge. After 10 years at Facebook, managing and scaling the Seattle site to over 6000 engineers(!) Vijaye Raji founded Statsig to make observability automated and real-time. How is the semantic layer managed? How was the Statsig team able to build an observability product that handles real-time ever-changing metadata? What are Vijaye’s main takeaways from engineering at Facebook? Tune in.The Data Engineering Show is brought to you by firebolt.io and handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so

Previous guests include: Joseph Machado of Linkedin, Metthew Weingarten of Disney, Joe Reis and Matt Housely, authors of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, Zach Wilson of Eczachly Inc, Megan Lieu of Deepnote, Erik Heintare of Bolt, Lior Solomon of Vimeo, Krishna Naidu of Canva, Mike Cohen of Substack, Jens Larsson of Ark, Gunnar Tangring of Klarna, Yoav Shmaria of Similarweb and Xiaoxu Gao of Adyen.

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• Zach Wilson on What Makes a Great Data Engineer
• Joe Reis and Matt Housley on The Fundamentals of Data Engineering
• Bill Inmon, The Godfather of Data Warehousing