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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

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Ingesting Billions of Events: How Heap Scaled Data Pipelines

Code Story podcast episode S4 E7 features Dan Robinson discussing how Heap scaled real-time data pipelines to ingest billions of events, born from frustrations at Facebook and Palantir with getting basic analytics answers. The episode covers Dan's journey from aspiring mathematician at Stanford to co-building Heap, an analytics platform designed to make product usage data more accessible.

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Code Story podcast episode S4 E7 features Dan Robinson discussing how Heap scaled real-time data pipelines to ingest billions of events, born from frustrations at Facebook and Palantir with getting basic analytics answers. The episode covers Dan's journey from aspiring mathematician at Stanford to co-building Heap, an analytics platform designed to make product usage data more accessible.

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data-pipelines · startup · podcast · heap · real-time-data · scaling · technical-founders

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Dan Robinson (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Heap (organization, 0.99) · Facebook (organization, 0.9) · Palantir (organization, 0.9) · Stanford (organization, 0.9) · real-time data pipelines (concept, 0.95) · event ingestion (concept, 0.9) · Boston (location, 0.85) · Code Story (organization, 0.95)

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transcript · language en · status final

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claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 13 Aug 2026