The $100M Problem: How Lyft's Data Platform Prevents ML Failures with Ritesh Varyani at Lyft · Podcast
Lyft's Ritesh Varyani on building a unified data platform (Spark, Trino, ClickHouse) balancing OSS & AI reliability.
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60 Billion Predictions Daily: Inside Credit Karma’s Agentic Data Layer · Podcast
Maddie Daianu (Head of Data & AI) shares Credit Karma's multi-cloud strategy using BigQuery and an agentic layer.
Block Bad Data Before the Write with Nike’s Ashok Singamaneni
Ashok Singamaneni built Spark Expectations at Nike to enforce data quality and reduce recomputes in production data pipelines.
Postgres vs. Elasticsearch: The Unexpected Winner in High-Stakes Search for Instacart
Learn how Instacart's team moved from Elasticsearch to a custom Postgres setup, improving search efficiency and control.
Is Self-Service BI a False Promise? Lei Tang of Fabi.ai Thinks So
Fabi.ai's Lei Tang on bridging the gap between data teams and business users with intelligent AI systems
Building Uber's AI Assistant: How Genie Revolutionizes On-Call Support with Paarth Chothani from Uber · Podcast
Uber's AI Genie resolves on-call pains using internal data. Spark powers its infrastructure; LLMs revolutionize databases.
From Zero to 100M Users: Inside Notion’s Data Stack and AI Strategy with Sumit Gupta
Learn how Notion's Lead BI Engineer, Sumit Gupta, uses AI to revolutionize data workflows and generate customer insights.
How Rising Wave Is Redefining Real-Time Data with Postgres Power · Podcast
Explore cutting-edge PostgreSQL innovations, distributed database architecture, and cloud-native data processing solutions with YingJun Wu of Rising Wave.
Beyond Database Optimization with AI · Podcast
Explore the innovative evolution of DuckDB and AI-driven database tech solutions with CEO DuckDB Labs, Hannes Mühleisen.
Revolutionizing Data Governance with DataStrato’s Unified Open Source Approach · Podcast
Discover DataStrato’s unified open-source approach to data governance and simplifying data management with Lisa Cao.
AI and Data Movement: Trends and Best Practices with Estuary’s Daniel Pálma · Podcast
Explore the world of data engineering and marketing, real time data integration, AI and data movement with Daniel Pálma.
AI and Data Change Management with Chad Sanderson, CEO Gable AI · Podcast
In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, Chad Sanderson explores the world of data change management.
Tech Stacks and Tradeoffs: Xudo's Founder on Picking the Right Tools for BI Success · Podcast
Wouter Trappers shares his slightly unconventional path from philosopher to data consultant and engineer.
Data Rewind: Conversation Highlights from Zach, Matthew, Joe, and Krishnan · Podcast
Dive into key highlights from Firebolt's Data Rewind conversation series.
The Resurgence of SQL: Insights from Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn · Podcast
In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn joins the Bros to discuss LinkedIn's Hoptimator project.
Vector Databases Won’t Replace SQL - Andy Pavlo · Podcast
Andy Pavlo, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, delves into database internals and optimization.
How ZoomInfo transitioned from data graveyards to ROI-driven data projects · Podcast
Too often expensive resources and manhours are spent on dashboards no one uses, resulting in zero ROI.
Matthew Weingarten from Disney Streaming about Data Quality Best Practices · Podcast
Principles essential for data quality, cost optimization, and data modeling, as adopted by the world's leading companies
Joseph Machado, Senior Data Engineer at LinkedIn talks best practices · Podcast
Data engineering should be less about the stack and more about best practices. While tools may change, foundational principles will remain constant.
Professors Joe Hellerstein and Joseph Gonzalez on LLMs · Podcast
Joe Hellerstein and Joseph Gonzalez inspired generations of database enthusiasts and are now on the show
Megan Lieu on powerful notebooks that enable collaboration · Podcast
Megan Lieu about her approach to data advocacy as well as the power of notebooks, especially when they enable collaboration
Transitioning from software engineering to data engineering · Podcast
This time on The Data Engineering Show, Xiaoxu Gao is an inspiring Python and data engineering expert with 10.6K followers on Medium.
Vin Vashishta explains why we should stop using dashboards · Podcast
Vin Vashista, the guy we all love to follow, has never seen a dashboard with positive ROI. He met the bros to talk about replacing BI dashboards with analytics.
Joe Reis and Matt Housley on the fundamentals of data engineering · Podcast
Joe Reis and Matt Housley joined the bros for some much-needed ranting, priceless data advice, and good laughs.
Bill Inmon, the Godfather of Data Warehousing · Podcast
As people in the data industry go, Bill Inmon is among the top, often seen as the godfather of the data warehouse.
Large scale data engineering at Momentive.ai - Meenal Iyer · Podcast
Meenal Iyer, VP Data at Momentive.ai, talks about enforcing collaboration in large organizations
Data engineering from the early 2000s till today - BlackRock · Podcast
When it comes to data management, have we come a long way since the early 2000s?
Zach Wilson on what makes a great data engineer · Podcast
After years of data engineering experience at Airbnb, Netflix, and Facebook, Zach Wilson is now focused on spreading the knowledge in EcZachly
How ZipRecruiter and Yotpo power self-service data platforms that work · Podcast
How ZipRecruiter and Yotpo build resilient self-service products that keep customers happy and engineers calm
Data Observability with Millions of Users - Barr Moses · Podcast
Barr Moses explains how to make sure your data is accurate in a world where so many different teams are accessing it
How Amplitude Engineers Process 5 Trillion Real-time Events · Podcast
Amplitude's cutting-edge data stack and how it processes 5 Trillion real-time events while dealing with mutable data
Making Observability a Key Business Driver · Podcast
80% of the code that you write doesn’t work on the first try. But knowing which 80% is not working is the real challenge
A ClickHouse Review from a Practitioner’s Point of View · Podcast
Sudeep Kumar, Principal Engineer at Salesforce considers the shift to ClickHouse as one of his biggest accomplishments.
The Creator of Airflow About His Recipe for Smart Data-Driven Companies · Podcast
Maxime Beauchemin, the CEO & Founder at Preset and Creator of Apache Superset and Airflow, told the Data Bros about his recipe for a smart data-driven company.
How Similarweb Delivers Customer Facing Analytics Over 100s of TBs · Podcast
According to Yoav Shmaria, VP R&D Platform at Similarweb, the best way to manage data warehouse costs is tagging
How Klarna Designed a New Data Platform in the Cloud · Podcast
While many corporations are “stuck” on-prem, Klarna made the move and today is a cloud-only company. Gunnar Tangring explains how.
How Eventbrite is Modernizing its Data Stack · Podcast
An episode about Eventbrite’s data stack modernization process, and how you get engineers to adopt new technologies
A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture · Podcast
How the data platform evolved as Slack grew from a startup to an IPOed and then acquired company.
Transitioning Scopely’s 5.5 PB Data Platform to the Modern Data Stack · Podcast
Should data engineering AND BI be handled by the same people?
Getting Rid of Raw Data with Jens Larsson · Podcast
Why would you create ugly data? According to Jens Larsson, don’t even go near raw data.
How Zendesk engineers manage customer-facing data applications · Podcast
Ananth Packkildurai is Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk and runs one of the strongest newsletters in data
How are those data intensive customer facing apps engineered at Gong? · Podcast
Gong manages hundreds of thousands of videoconferences and millions of emails PER DAY, which add up to hundreds of TBs.
How Bolt Engineers Are Designing Its Next-Gen Data Platform · Podcast
Bolt's ride-hailing app serves 2B users globally and handles 500K queries daily. Erik Heintare sharing how it's going to solve their biggest data challenges.
How did Agoda scale its data platform to support 1.5T events per day? · Podcast
Scaling a data platform to support 1.5T events per day requires complicated technical migrations and alignment between hundreds of engineers.
Diving Into GitHub's Data Stack · Podcast
It’s the mother of all development projects. You use it daily. And so do 65M developers around the world.
Building Data Products For Data Engineers · Podcast
How does a tech stack that always needs to be at the forefront of technology look like?
How Vimeo Keeps Data Intact with 85B Events Per Month · Podcast
How Vimeo handles Data Ops to deal with massive scale
How Substack's Data Platform Supports 500K Paying Subscribers · Podcast
How does Substack's data platform support 500K paying subscribers?
A Technical Deep Dive to Yelp's Data Infrastructure — with Steven Moy · Podcast
Steven Moy, Software Engineer at Yelp, has joined the Data Bros to discuss Yelp's Data Infrastructure on the Data Engineering Show Podcast.
How do Canva's engineers and analysts scale data platforms to keep up with growth? — with Krishna Naidu · Podcast
Canva is one of the hottest, if not the hottest, graphic design platforms out there. How are they handling growth? Krishna Naidu answers told the data bros.
How AppsFlyer manages scale without sacrificing performance · Podcast
Alexandra Sudilovski, Senior BI Expert at AppsFlyer, told the The Data Engineering Show how AppsFlyer manages scale without sacrificing performance.