The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Two-Way Sync: The Future of Database Communication with Ruben Burdin of Stacksync

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the Data Stack Show. We are recording live on site in Oakland, California at the Data Council conference. And we have Ruben Berdine from StackSync here, founder and CEO. So welcome to the show, Ruben. Great to be here. Great to be here. Thanks so much.

Well, give us just the quick, you know, 30-second background on yourself. So my name is Ruben. You know, I grew up in France, you know, now I moved to San Francisco. I'm co-founder and CEO at StackSync. So I worked in several startups and medium companies, you know, medium size companies in everything from ETL, reverse ETL, data stack, as well as on AI, you know, before it became something big. Before that, I was, I did a master in computer science, like in Switzerland, and as well a bachelor in business.

Actually, this is where actually I come like with a double perspective on business and data world. That's awesome. So what are the topics we're excited about talking about? Is this convergence I would call it of analytics and operational data and what that looks like? So what's something that you're excited to chat about? Yes, exactly. So what really excites me at the moment is really to see

how what was traditionally you know like analytical data and what was traditionally operational data actually like they really start to merge and actually meet the same level of SLA. So actually to see that a data warehouse can become operational and a database can become analytical and like this is really something which I see coming in many of the small to large size companies. So it's really like a trend really in the industry. And I really think this is here to stay.

Yeah. So this is really something which, which has me. All right, let's dig in. Let's do it. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.