The Data Stack Show

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds continue their conversation about Ruby, a start-up designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, by talking with the Nashville company’s CTO Sam Bledsoe. This follow-up discussion digs into how their data engineering and marketing setups co-exist and how they rely on Azure.

• Sam’s background and more info about Ruby (2:11)
• Privacy-related challenges at the intersection of banking and medical data (4:33)
• What to expect from using Azure (15:06)
• Breaking down the stack (24:44)
• The need for marketing people with technological skills (36:20)
• Talking Big Query, RedShift, Spark and data virtualization (41:15)
• Biggest changes anticipated in moving as a spin-off from the bank (43:59)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

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On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Nic Discepoli for the first of two conversations about Ruby, a startup where he is the customer analytics lead. This Nashville-based company is designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, often corresponding with a medical event. Their conversation included topics like: 

• Launching Ruby and Nic’s involvement in the company (3:35)
• Realizing that tracking data manually on spreadsheets was no longer sustainable (7:07)
• Rundown of Ruby’s toolset (9:50)
• Challenges with data quality (14:27)
• Using unique IDs and following UTM parameters through the stack (21:04)
• Recalculating customer acquisition cost with data (33:05)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds talk change data capture (CDC) with DeVaris Brown, co-founder and CEO of Meroxa. Their conversation digs into the benefits of utilizing CDC and how Meroxa is using it. Highlights from the conversation include:

• Introduction to DeVaris and Meroxa (3:24)
• Why CDC has more traction today (6:58)
• How CDC is changing the way we build products (12:52)
• Where CDC is playing an important role (21:11)
• The experience that Meroxa delivers (24:42)
• Looking at Meroxa’s sources, technology and data stack (27:28)
• DeVaris’ vision for the company (37:10)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

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In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis connects with Satyam Krishna, a data engineer at Grofers, India’s largest low-price online supermarket. Grofers boasts a network of more than 5,000 partner stores, a user base with three million iOS and Android app downloads, and an efficient supply chain that allow it to deliver more than 25 million products to customers every month. 

Satyam offers insights into how he helped build the data engineering function at Grofers, how they developed a robust data stack, how they’re turning production databases into live event streams using Change Data Capture, how Grofers’ internal customers consume data, and the company made adjustments due to the pandemic. 

Topics of discussion included:

• Satyam moving from a developer to a data engineer (2:43)
• Describing Grofers’ data stack and data lake (6:41)
• Who is consuming data inside the company and what are some of their common uses specific to Grofers? (12:03)
• What are the biggest issues day-to-day as a data engineer? (18:21)
• COVID’s impact on business practices and the data stack (21:28)
• The big problem of data discoverability and metadata cataloging (27:44)
• Completely changing architecture to something that can scale up (33:16)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

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In this episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Utkarsh Gupta, senior engineer of data science at 1mg, India’s largest online healthcare platform.

Together they discussed 1mg’s data infrastructure, its response to the global pandemic and how data drives their product and their business. Highlights from the show included discussions about:

• Utkarsh and 1MG’s background (1:32) 
• 1mg being based on a bedrock of data (4:25)
• Business analytics (5:33)
• Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on business (11:40)
• Description of 1mg’s data stack (16:53)
• Biggest challenges faced and managing collaboration (27:08)
• Opinions on open source technology (40:31)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

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In this episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Alex Dovenmuehle, head of data engineering for Mattermost, an open-source self-hosted communication tool that optimizes dev workflows in highly secure environments. Kostas and Alex discuss:

• Alex's background and experience (2:29)
• Data stack Mattermost is using (9:25)
• How Mattermost built their Data Stack (21:05)
• Using data to understand the story of the customer's journey (24:58)
• Focus on privacy and security (26:33)
• Practical ways Mattermost is using data (37:14)
• What's next for data analytics at Mattermost and wrap up (42:45)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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