07: Discussing Data Engineering Best Practices with IFTTT’s Peter Darche

In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds connect with IFTTT data scientist Peter Darche. IFTTT is a free platform that helps all your products and services work better together through automated tasks. Their discussion covered a lot of ground involving their data stack, their use cases and clearing up once and for all how to pronounce the company’s name.

• Background on IFTTT (2:12)
• Peter tells the proper way to pronounce IFTTT (3:34)
• An overview of IFTTT’s technological architecture (6:14)
• The uses of data and analytics at IFTTT (8:04)
• Constructing the data stack (10:11)
• Dealing with challenges (15:20)
• Best practices for communicating with internal teams about the data (23:04)
• Discussing functional data engineering (26:05)

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