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Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this issue, we cover: How Akita was founded On cofounders Raising funding Pivoting and growing the company On hiring The tech stack The biggest challenges of building a startup For this article, I interviewed Jean directly. In 2021 and 2022, they also invested into our seed extension round. What happened? How did you hire?

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Building a Data Platform in 2024

Towards Data Science

How to build a modern, scalable data platform to power your analytics and data science projects (updated) Table of Contents: What’s changed? Since 2021, maybe a better question is what HASN’T changed? Streaming Although I briefly mentioned streaming in my 2021 article, you’ll see a renewed focus in the 2024 version.

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DataKitchen’s Best of 2021 DataOps Resources

DataKitchen

Before we shut the door on 2021, we would like to share our most popular DataOps content in hopes that it can help you as you learn about and implement DataOps. Without further ado, here are DataKitchen’s top ten blog posts, top five white papers, and top five webinars from 2021. The DataOps Vendor Landscape, 2021.

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Reducing The Barrier To Entry For Building Stream Processing Applications With Decodable

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Building streaming applications has gotten substantially easier over the past several years. RudderStack Profiles takes the SaaS guesswork and SQL grunt work out of building complete customer profiles so you can quickly ship actionable, enriched data to every downstream team. How can you get the best results for your use case?

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A Reflection On The Data Ecosystem For The Year 2021

Data Engineering Podcast

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management When you’re ready to build your next pipeline, or want to test out the projects you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out our friends at Linode. In 2021, it went mainstream.

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DIA Entries 2021: Judges’ Insight

Cloudera

The 2021 Data Impact Award (DIA) submissions are starting to stream in, and we know many of you are contemplating your entries – which we are excited to see. For further insight, and tips, from the judges, keep your eyes peeled on our social media channels in the build-up to the award entry deadline.

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Build Better Tests For Your dbt Projects With Datafold And data-diff

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data engineering is all about building workflows, pipelines, systems, and interfaces to provide stable and reliable data. In this episode Gleb Mezhanskiy shares some valuable advice and insights into how you can build reliable and well-tested data assets with dbt and data-diff. RudderStack also supports real-time use cases.

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