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On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by the risk data engineering manager at Intuit, Alex Lancaster. Alex has been with Intuit, known for its products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint and more, for 15 years and was part of a recent massive and successful re-architecturing from on prem to cloud-based.Highlights from this week’s episode include:Alex and his role at Intuit (1:51)Data marts at Intuit (2:57)Revolutionary changes in the data engineering space in the past 15 years (6:46)Security in the cloud vs. on prem (12:46)Data architecture at Intuit (15:42)Doing ETLs inside or outside of the database (19:11)How to transition successfully from on prem to cloud. Forklifting vs. re-stacking (23:22)Alex’s application of software engineering skills to data engineering (28:44)Dealing with data engineering challenges related to security and regulation (31:48)Pipelines managed and challenges in data types (36:45)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by the risk data engineering manager at Intuit, Alex Lancaster. Alex has been with Intuit, known for its products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint and more, for 15 years and was part of a recent massive and successful re-architecturing from on prem to cloud-based.Highlights from this week’s episode include:<ul><li>Alex and his role at Intuit (1:51)</li><li>Data marts at Intuit (2:57)</li><li>Revolutionary changes in the data engineering space in the past 15 years (6:46)</li><li>Security in the cloud vs. on prem (12:46)</li><li>Data architecture at Intuit (15:42)</li><li>Doing ETLs inside or outside of the database (19:11)</li><li>How to transition successfully from on prem to cloud. Forklifting vs. re-stacking (23:22)</li><li>Alex’s application of software engineering skills to data engineering (28:44)</li><li>Dealing with data engineering challenges related to security and regulation (31:48)</li><li>Pipelines managed and challenges in data types (36:45)</li></ul>The<a href="https://datastackshow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Data Stack Show</a> is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. 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.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit<a href="https://rudderstack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> rudderstack.com</a>.

23: Migrating from On-Premises to the Cloud with Alex Lancaster from Intuit

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Alex Lancaster about his career, science and higher education, and his book.

Alex Lancaster, co-author of Python For The Life Sciences: A gentle introduction to Python for life scientists