The Software Process and Measurement Cast 794 features our conversation with Nick Schrock. Nick and I discussed data engineering, AI, and entrepreneurship. As the Founder at Dagster Labs, Nick has the perfect standing to talk about three of the hottest topics of 2024.

Nick’s Bio:

Nick is the Founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, the company behind Dagster, a popular open-source data orchestration platform. Before Dagster Labs, he was a Principal Engineer and Director at Facebook from 2009 to 2017, where he founded the Product Infrastructure team and co-created GraphQL.

After cutting his teeth at Facebook, he pursued his passion for working on engineers’ pain points after hearing that data infrastructure was a big issue. He founded Dagster to address this issue, highlighting how quickly open-source projects were able to make an impact at legacy companies. 

Dagster couldn’t come at a more critical time as data and ML engineering are beginning to drive both human and business decision-making.

Contact Information:

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/schrockn

Website: https://dagster.io/ 

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Re-read Saturday News

Chapter 8 shatters myths!  Once upon a time in a land far, far away, I believed a few of these myths. Ok, it was just about five years ago that I was dissuaded from the last of my misbeliefs. I believe that many of my misconceptions are founded in the collision of words between classical statistics and words Shewhart used for Process Behavior Charts (PBC).

Buy a copy and get reading – Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability.  

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Preface – https://bit.ly/4adgxsC

Week 2: Wilt The Stilt and Definition of Variation – https://bit.ly/4aldwGN

Week 3: Variation and Predictability  – https://bit.ly/3tAVWhq 

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Week 7: Detecting Signals – https://bit.ly/3SjwfdO 

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Week 9: Myths and Other Considerations – https://bit.ly/3SvfgVU 

Next SPaMCAST 

In the Software Process and Measurement Cast 795, why do teams, products, projects and companies exist? Why do we care? (We really should!)  

We will also have a visit from Susan Parente who brings her Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast!