148: Exploring the Intersection of DAGs, ML Code, and Complex Code Bases: An Elegant Solution Unveiled with Stefan Krawczyk of DAGWorks episode artwork

EPISODE · Jul 26, 2023 · 57 MIN

148: Exploring the Intersection of DAGs, ML Code, and Complex Code Bases: An Elegant Solution Unveiled with Stefan Krawczyk of DAGWorks

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:Stefan’s background in data (2:39)What is DAGWorks? (3:55)How building point solutions influenced Stefan’s journey (5:03)Solving the tooling problems of self-service at an organization (11:44)Creating Hamilton (15:53)How Hamilton works with definitions and time-series data (19:34)What makes Hamilton an ML-oriented framework? (23:39)Navigating the differences between ML teams and other data teams (26:27)Understanding the fundamentals of Hamilton (28:25)Dealing with types and conflicts in programming (33:18)How Hamilton helps improve pipelines and maintaining data (37:11)Why unit testing is important for a data scientist (44:54)The ups and downs of founding building a data solution (46:32)Connecting with DAGWorks and trying out Hamilton (50:01)Final thoughts and takeaways (52:46)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Stefan Krawczyk, the Co-Creator of Hamilton and Co-Founder of DAGWorks. During the episode, Stefan shares his journey working in data for NextDoor, StitchFix, and others on his journey to founding DAGWorks. The conversation also includes much discussion around Stefan’s creation of Hamilton, how the platform works with definitions and time-series data, how it improves pipelines, what makes Hamilton an ML-oriented framework, the importance of unit testing, and more.

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