66: How Data Infrastructure Has Evolved and Managing High Performing Data Teams with Srivatsan Sridharan

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00)
• How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04)
• When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35)
• What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07)
• Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14)
• The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09)
• Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25)
• The unique challenge of Fintech vs other consumer industries (45:03)

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.

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