This episode of Club Soda features the data team of FirstParty, recorded live at a speakeasy in downtown New York, where data teams and practitioners gathered.

The topic is data products and the conversation centers on FirstParty's mission to provide businesses with the capabilities to maximise the value of their data assets.

Your host Maarten Masschelein is joined by Jolie McDonnell (Data Scientist), Ben Sgro (VP Engineering), and Tommy Dodge (Director of Analytics). 

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• Learn more about FirstParty
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• From Soda, the data quality platform to enable data teams to find, analyze, and resolve data issues.

Maarten is in conversation with Ramón Medrano, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google. 

In this conversation Maarten and Ramón discuss how the principles and practices of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can be applied to the practices of Data Reliability Engineering and data quality management. They deep-dive into four topics - SLOs, lineage, debuggability, and how to operate as a team - from the book Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, co-authored by Ramón’s manager, Jennifer Petoff. 

As the book explains how Google’s SRE team builds, deploys, monitors, and maintains some of the largest software systems in the world, Maarten and Ramón’s conversation explores how data practitioners can apply some of the best practices, processes, and thinking, when it comes to data and systems.

• More about our host, Maarten Masschelein
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• Learn more about the chosen charity, Open Arms
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• From Soda, the provider of data reliability tools and observability platform to enable data teams to find, analyze, and resolve data issues.

Meet Ramón Medrano, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Inspired by the book, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, our host Maarten will explore and discuss how the practice of using software to automate IT infrastructure tasks such as system management and application monitoring - can be adopted and applied to the practice of data management. Hear Maarten and Ramón get the conversation started with introductions.

• More about our host, Maarten Masschelein
• Read the transcript of this episode
• Learn more about the chosen charity, Open Arms
• Connect with us on social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
• From Soda, the provider of data reliability tools and observability platform to enable data teams to find, analyze, and resolve data issues.