The Data Engineering Show

In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, the bros, Eldad and Benjamin are joined by Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn to discuss the innovative Hoptimator (H2) project. This conversation reveals how LinkedIn has improved its data pipelines by automating the setup and management of complex workflows.


Together they cover:

• Automated Data Pipelines: Ryanne explains how Hoptimator allows users to create and manage data pipelines using just a simple SQL SELECT query, streamlining the process of setting up Kafka topics, Flink jobs, and schemas.
• Integration with Kubernetes: The project utilizes Kubernetes to handle infrastructure tasks, treating Kubernetes as a database for managing state. This integration simplifies the orchestration of data workflows and automates routine tasks.
• Consumer-Driven Model: Ryanne discusses the shift from a producer-driven to a consumer-driven data model, emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing consumer needs to reduce engineering complexity and optimize data systems.
• Future of Data Engineering: The conversation touches on the ongoing experimental nature of Hoptimator and its potential to transform data engineering practices, highlighting its impact on LinkedIn's data infrastructure.

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SQL’s slow. SQL’s stupid. We hear these claims every time a new shiny tool enters the market, only to realize five years later when the hype dies down that SQL is actually a good idea. 

In this super techie episode of the Data Engineering Show, Andy Pavlo, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, joins the bros to delve into database internals and optimization. 

Andy discusses leveraging ML for autonomous database optimization, using Postgres for practical applications, tuning production databases safely, and why SQL is here to stay.

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Too often expensive resources and manhours are spent on dashboards no one uses, resulting in zero ROI. Philip Philip Zelitchenko, VP of Data & Analytics at ZoomInfo met the bros to talk about adopting product management principles to ensure data projects have value, and provide an unfiltered peak into ZoomInfo’s data stack and unique tech culture. 

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Matthew Weingarten, Lead Data Engineer at Disney Streaming, talks about principles essential for data quality, cost optimization, debugging, and data modeling, as adopted by the world's leading companies.

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Data engineering should be less about the stack and more about best practices. While tools may change, foundational principles will remain constant. Joseph Mercado, Senior Data Engineer at LinkedIn, is on The Data Engineering Show to talk about principles that are key to success, leveraging AI for automation, and adopting software engineering methods. 

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Joe Hellerstein is the Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and Joseph Gonzalez is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. 

They’ve inspired generations of database enthusiasts (including Benji and Eldad) and have come on the show to talk about all things LLM and RunLLM which they co-founded.

If you consider yourself a hardcore engineer, this episode is for you.

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There are two types of data influencers on LinkedIn:

1. Those who talk directly about the products and companies they work for
2. Those that provide more general guidance, tips and opinions 

Can influencers actually be passionate about the products they’re developing and straightforwardly talk about them without sounding salesly? 

We’re kicking off 2024 with the amazing Megan Lieu on a new Data Engineering Show episode.

Megan is one of those influencers that combine the two approaches, and with almost 100K followers, her content seems to be resonating with many data folks. 

She talked to the bros about her approach to data advocacy as well as the power of notebooks, especially when they become broader and enable collaboration.

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Every data team should have at least one data engineer with a software engineering background. This time on The Data Engineering Show, Xiaoxu Gao is an inspiring Python and data engineering expert with 10.6K followers on Medium. 

She’s a data engineer at Adyen with a software engineering background, and she met the bros to talk about why both software and data engineering skills are so important.

Without software engineering skills you’ll be limited to the rigid capabilities of your stack. But without data engineering skills you’ll find it hard to be cost effective and see the bigger picture.

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Vin Vashista, the guy we all love to follow, has never seen a dashboard with positive ROI. This time on The Data Engineering Show, he met the bros to talk about the difference between BI dashboards and analytics that actually introduce knowledge. It’s no longer just about the data volume, it’s about quality and relevance.

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After co-writing the best-selling book ‘Fundamentals of Data Engineering’, Joe Reis and Matt Housely joined the bros for some much-needed ranting, priceless data advice, and good laughs. So why are we still talking about providing business value and dashboards, even though we don’t really have anything new to say? If there are so many great tools in the data stack, why are we still so troubled? How can we focus more on things like data governance and data quality that’ll actually push the industry forward?

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