In this episode, we speak with DeVaris Brown, he is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa, which is a data platform that enables organizations to build real time data pipelines in minutes not months. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, and Zendesk. In this episode we will be talking about all things data ingestion. Top 3 Value Bombs:  Data ingestion should be in real time to provide the most flexibility across your use cases. Real time ingestion is not as complex as it used to be - many tools i.e. Meroxa simplify this processStand on the shoulders of giants - take advantage of open source technologies and build on top of them. Make your data extendable to be able to be consumed from various destination types.