Creating A Unified Experience For The Modern Data Stack At Mozart Data - Episode 242

November 27, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Creating A Unified Experience For The Modern Data Stack At Mozart Data - Episode 242

The modern data stack has been gaining a lot of attention recently with a rapidly growing set of managed services for different stages of the data lifecycle. With all of the available options it is possible to run a scalable, production grade data platform with a small team, but there are still sharp edges and integration challenges to work through. Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman experienced these difficulties firsthand and created Mozart Data to provide a single, easy to use option for getting started with the modern data stack. In this episode they explain how they designed a user experience to make working with data more accessibly by organizations without a data team, while allowing for more advanced users...

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Doing DataOps For External Data Sources As A Service at Demyst - Episode 241

November 27, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Doing DataOps For External Data Sources As A Service at Demyst - Episode 241

The data that you have access to affects the questions that you can answer. By using external data sources you can drastically increase the range of analysis that is available to your organization. The challenge comes in all of the operational aspects of finding, accessing, organizing, and serving that data. In this episode Mark Hookey discusses how he and his team at Demyst do all of the DataOps for external data sources so that you don't have to, including the systems necessary to organize and catalog the various collections that they host, the various serving layers to provide query interfaces that match your platform, and the utility of having a single place to access a multitude of information. If...

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Exploring Processing Patterns For Streaming Data Integration In Your Data Lake - Episode 240

November 20, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Exploring Processing Patterns For Streaming Data Integration In Your Data Lake - Episode 240

One of the perennial challenges posed by data lakes is how to keep them up to date as new data is collected. With the improvements in streaming engines it is now possible to perform all of your data integration in near real time, but it can be challenging to understand the proper processing patterns to make that performant. In this episode Ori Rafael shares his experiences from Upsolver and building scalable stream processing for integrating and analyzing data, and what the tradeoffs are when coming from a batch oriented mindset.

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Laying The Foundation Of Your Data Platform For The Era Of Big Complexity With Dagster - Episode 239

November 20, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Laying The Foundation Of Your Data Platform For The Era Of Big Complexity With Dagster - Episode 239

The technology for scaling storage and processing of data has gone through massive evolution over the past decade, leaving us with the ability to work with massive datasets at the cost of massive complexity. Nick Schrock created the Dagster framework to help tame that complexity and scale the organizational capacity for working with data. In this episode he shares the journey that he and his team at Elementl have taken to understand the state of the ecosystem and how they can provide a foundational layer for a holistic data platform.

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Data Quality Starts At The Source - Episode 238

November 14, 2021 tmacey Comments Off on Data Quality Starts At The Source - Episode 238

The most important gauge of success for a data platform is the level of trust in the accuracy of the information that it provides. In order to build and maintain that trust it is necessary to invest in defining, monitoring, and enforcing data quality metrics. In this episode Michael Harper advocates for proactive data quality and starting with the source, rather than being reactive and having to work backwards from when a problem is found.

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