The Data Engineering Show

By The Firebolt Data BrosBusiness Technology Management

The Data Engineering Show episodes

May 11, 2022 A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture
Growing from a startup to an IPOed and then an acquired company meant that Slack’s sales org was scaling rapidly.
Apun Hiran, Slack’s Director of Software Engineering explains how the data stack and architecture evolved to support this growth with more reliable and timely metrics.

Speaker: Apun Hiran, Director of Software Engineering (Data), Slack
Hosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, CEO and CPO, Firebolt
35 min
May 10, 2022A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture
Growing from a startup to an IPOed and then an acquired company meant that Slack’s sales org was scaling rapidly.
Apun Hiran, Slack’s Director of Software Engineering explains how the data stack and architecture evolved to support this growth with more reliable and timely metrics.

Speaker: Apun Hiran, Director of Software Engineering (Data), Slack
Hosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, CEO and CPO, Firebolt
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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
35 min
April 12, 2022Transitioning Scopely’s 5.5 PB Data Platform to the Modern Data Stack
Should data engineering AND BI be handled by the same people? According to Jonathan Palmer, VP Data Platform at Scopely – YES. By Analytics Engineers.
His team of Analytics Engineers is in the final stages of transitioning 5.5 PBs of data which include 15B evens per day to the modern data stack. Tune in to learn how they did it.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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
32 min
March 22, 2022Getting rid of raw data with Jens Larsson
Why would you create ugly data? According to Jens Larsson, don’t even go near raw data. Jens started off at Google, continued to manage data science at Spotify, caught the startup bug at Tink, and recently joined an exciting new company called Ark Kapital, together with Spotify’s former VP Analytics. Jens explains how he and his team killed the notion of raw data at Tink and walks us through the Google, Spotify and Ark Kapital data stacks.
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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
30 min
February 17, 2022How Zendesk engineers manage customer-facing data applications
This time on the data engineering show, Eldad abandoned his brother Boaz but it’s ok because Boaz got the full 30 minutes to talk to one of the most interesting people in the data space.
Ananth Packkildurai is Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk and runs one of the strongest newsletters in data – Data Engineering Weekly. He talked about data applications at Zendesk and how they’re built, technologies that excite him like data lineage and data catalog, and the best routes for software engineers to get their hands dirty in the data world.
INTERVIEWER: Boaz Farkash.
ZENDESK GUEST: Ananth Packkildura - Principal Software Engineer.

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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
34 min
January 20, 2022How are those data intensive customer facing apps engineered at Gong?
Gong manages hundreds of thousands of videoconferences and millions of emails PER DAY, which add up to hundreds of TBs.
The Data Bros met Yarin Benado, Gong’s engineering manager to understand what is required to move to a modern data stack to support all this, what this stack looks like, and why it all comes down to data quality at the end of the day.
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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
27 min
December 14, 2021How Bolt Engineers Are Designing Its Next-Gen Data Platform
Bolt's ride-hailing app serves 2B users in Europe and Africa and handles 500K queries every day.
Erik Heintare along with Bolt's engineering team is in the midst of designing a new next-gen data platform and is sharing how it's going to solve their biggest data challenges.
Guest: Erik Heintare - Senior Analytics Engineer at Bolt
Hosts: Eldad and Boaz Farkash, AKA The Data Bros
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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
36 min
November 23, 2021How did Agoda scale its data platform to support 1.5T events per day?
Scaling a data platform to support 1.5T events per day requires complicated technical migrations and alignment between hundreds of engineers. What to see how Agoda did it.
Guests:
Amir Arad, Director of Machine Learning, Agoda
Shaun Sit, Senior Dev Manager, Agoda
Hosts:
The Data Bros - Eldad and Boaz Farkash
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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
39 min
October 21, 2021Diving Into GitHub's Data Stack
It’s the mother of all development projects. You use it daily. And so do 65M developers around the world. This time on the Data Engineering Show – A deep dive into GitHub’s data stack. Arfon Smith KimYen (Truong) Ladia shared GitHub’s data engineering challenges and solutions and explained why every developer should know and adopt the ADR protocol.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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
35 min
September 09, 2021Building Data Products For Data Engineers
How does a tech stack that always needs to be at the forefront of technology look like?
Roy Miara from Explorium talks about building data products for the audience that can’t be fooled – Data Engineers.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.

Check out our three most downloaded episodes:
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
40 min

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The Data Engineering Show is a podcast for data engineering and BI practitioners to go beyond theory. Learn from the biggest influencers in tech about their practical day-to-day data challenges and solutions in a casual and fun setting.