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

The Data Stack Show

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)

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