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.
Jun 4, 2024
42 min
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.
Apr 16, 2024
39 min
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.
Mar 26, 2024
27 min
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.
Feb 29, 2024
25 min
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.
Jan 24, 2024
46 min
There are two types of data influencers on LinkedIn:1. Those who talk directly about the products and companies they work for2. 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.
Jan 1, 2024
31 min
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.
Nov 22, 2023
29 min
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.
Oct 4, 2023
35 min
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?
Sep 6, 2023
42 min
As people in the data industry go, Bill Inmon is among the top, often seen as the godfather of the data warehouse. In this Data Engineering Show episode, Bill Inmon talks about surviving rabbit holes throughout the evolution of data, the data modeling renaissance, and why ChatGPT is not Textual ETL.
Aug 8, 2023
30 min
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