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September 1, 2022

A ClickHouse Review from a Practitioner’s Point of View

Sudeep Kumar, Principal Engineer at Salesforce considers the shift to Clickhouse as one of his biggest accomplishments

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May 11, 2022

A Deep Dive into Slack's Data Architecture

How the data platform evolved as Slack grew from a startup to an IPOed and then acquired company.

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July 15, 2021

A Technical Deep Dive to Yelp's Data Infrastructure — with Steven Moy

Steven Moy thoroughly explains Yelp’s data architecture under the hood and how it evolved over the past ten years.

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September 13, 2024

A primer on analyzing semi-structured data

This guide will provide you with the fundamental knowledge necessary to handle semi-structured data effectively. 

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December 5, 2022

AWS re:Invent Keynote Recap for Data Professionals

AWS re:invent 2022 was all about building the anticipation and delivering on expectations of us technologists. 

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September 13, 2022

Big Data Analytics for Gaming

In our recent ‘Big Data Analytics for Gaming Workshop’ we let the audience do the talking, here’s a summary of the talk.

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August 8, 2023

Bill Inmon, the Godfather of Data Warehousing

As people in the data industry go, Bill Inmon is among the top, often seen as the godfather of the data warehouse.

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September 9, 2021

Building Data Products For Data Engineers

How does a tech stack that always needs to be at the forefront of technology look like?

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July 26, 2022

Cloud data warehouse costs: Look before you leap

In this post, we look at factors to consider when building a data warehouse.

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February 8, 2023

Data Observability with Millions of Users - Barr Moses

Barr Moses explains how to make sure your data is accurate in a world where so many different teams are accessing it

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Data Rewind: Conversation Highlights from Zach, Matthew, Joe, and Krishnan

This is a special episode of The Data Engineering Show revisiting the best bits from three different fascinating episode

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June 8, 2023

Data engineering from the early 2000s till today - BlackRock

When it comes to data management, have we come a long way since the early 2000s?

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October 21, 2021

Diving 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.

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May 2, 2021

ETL Vs. ELT - Know The Differences

Explore the significant differences between ELT and ETL data integration processes and find the best option for you.

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January 26, 2022

Firebolt Announces Series C Round at $1.4 Billion Valuation to Build the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Cloud Data Warehouse

Demand from engineering teams has skyrocketed since Firebolt emerged from stealth last year

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June 23, 2021

Firebolt Ignites Growth with a $127M Series B Funding Round

Upstart cloud data warehouse sees rapid growth in 2021, plans to double its workforce

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March 22, 2022

Getting Rid of Raw Data with Jens Larsson

Why would you create ugly data? According to Jens Larsson, don’t even go near raw data.

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January 5, 2023

How Amplitude Engineers Process 5 Trillion Real-time Events

Amplitude's cutting-edge data stack and how it processes 5 Trillion real-time events while dealing with mutable data

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June 27, 2021

How AppsFlyer manages scale without sacrificing performance

Appsflyer deals not only with 120 billion events per day, but does so while growing quickly as a company

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December 14, 2021

How Bolt Engineers Are Designing Its Next-Gen Data Platform

Bolt engineers are in the midst of designing a new next-gen data platform

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May 23, 2022

How Eventbrite is Modernizing its Data Stack

An episode about Eventbrite’s data stack modernization process, and how you get engineers to adopt new technologies

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August 24, 2023

How IQVIA Maximizes Analytics Performance for Healthcare

IQVIA deep dive into maximizing impact of BI solutions for faster and more informed decision-making in healthcare.

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June 9, 2022

How Klarna Designed a New Data Platform in the Cloud

Klarna is one of the leading fintech companies in the world, valued at $45B.

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July 14, 2022

How Similarweb Delivers Customer Facing Analytics Over 100s of TBs

According to Yoav Shmaria, VP R&D Platform at Similarweb, the best way to manage data warehouse costs is tagging

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August 3, 2021

How Substack's Data Platform Supports 500K Paying Subscribers

How does Substack's data platform support 500K paying subscribers?

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August 18, 2021

How Vimeo Keeps Data Intact with 85B Events Per Month

How Vimeo handles Data Ops to deal with massive scale?

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February 17, 2022

How Zendesk engineers manage customer-facing data applications

Ananth Packkildurai is Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk and runs one of the strongest newsletters in data

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March 23, 2023

How ZipRecruiter and Yotpo power self-service data platforms that work

How ZipRecruiter and Yotpo build resilient self-service products that keep customers happy and engineers calm

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April 16, 2024

How ZoomInfo transitioned from data graveyards to ROI-driven data projects

Too often expensive resources and manhours are spent on dashboards no one uses, resulting in zero ROI.

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January 20, 2022

How 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.

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November 23, 2021

How 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

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July 6, 2021

How do Canva's engineers and analysts scale data platforms to keep up with growth? — with Krishna Naidu

Canva is one of the hottest, if not the hottest, graphic design platforms out there.

Firebolt Team
September 6, 2023

Joe Reis and Matt Housley on the fundamentals of data engineering

Joe Reis and Matt Housley joined the bros for some much-needed ranting, priceless data advice, and good laughs.

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February 29, 2024

Joseph Machado, Senior Data Engineer at LinkedIn talks best practices

Data engineering should be less about the stack and more about best practices.

Firebolt Team
July 10, 2023

Large scale data engineering at Momentive.ai - Meenal Iyer

Meenal Iyer, VP Data at Momentive.ai, talks about enforcing collaboration in large organizations

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November 29, 2022

Making Observability a Key Business Driver

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

Firebolt Team
March 26, 2024

Matthew Weingarten from Disney Streaming about Data Quality Best Practices

Principles essential for data quality, cost optimization, and data modeling, as adopted by the world's leading companies

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January 1, 2024

Megan Lieu on powerful notebooks that enable collaboration

Megan Lieu about her approach to data advocacy as well as the power of notebooks

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October 3, 2022

PostgreSQL Swiss army knife and The analytics workload

Is Postgres truly the right engine for analytics? 

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January 24, 2024

Professors Joe Hellerstein and Joseph Gonzalez on LLMs

Joe Hellerstein and Joseph Gonzalez inspired generations of database enthusiasts and are now on the show

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October 11, 2022

Semi-structured data modeling

How to ingest, store and query JSON data, for example, is a consistent question on the minds of customers.

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November 28, 2024

Tech Stacks and Tradeoffs: Xudo's Founder on Picking the Right Tools for BI Success

Wouter Trappers shares his slightly unconventional path from philosopher to data consultant and engineer.

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August 4, 2022

The Creator of Airflow About His Recipe for Smart Data-Driven Companies

Max walks the Bros through his recipe for a smart data-driven company, and the genesis of Airflow, Superset & Presto.

Firebolt Team
October 2, 2024

The Resurgence of SQL: Insights from Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn

In The Data Engineering Show, Ryanne Dolan from LinkedIn joins the Bros to discuss LinkedIn's Hoptimator project.

Firebolt Team
April 12, 2022

Transitioning Scopely’s 5.5 PB Data Platform to the Modern Data Stack

Should data engineering AND BI be handled by the same people?

Firebolt Team
November 22, 2023

Transitioning from software engineering to data engineering

Every data team should have at least one data engineer with a software engineering background.

Firebolt Team
June 4, 2024

Vector Databases Won’t Replace SQL - Andy Pavlo

Andy Pavlo, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, delves into database internals and optimization.

Firebolt Team
October 4, 2023

Vin Vashishta explains why we should stop using dashboards

Vin Vashishta, the guy we all love to follow, has never seen a dashboard with positive ROI.

Firebolt Team
April 27, 2023

Zach Wilson on what makes a great data engineer

How good you are at Spark or Flink ≠ how good you are at data engineering. Zach Wilson explains.

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