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

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)

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