Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge data tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Hive to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. I

Building a Data Lake with Adam Ferrari

Feb 6th, 2024 46m 19s

Starburst is a data lake analytics platform. It’s designed to help users work with structured data at scale, and is built on the open source platform, Trino. Adam Ferrari is the SVP of Engineering at Starburst. He joins the show to talk about S

Rama with Nathan Marz

Dec 28th, 2023 45m 6s

Building scalable software applications can be complex and typically requires dozens of different tools. The engineering often involves handling many arcane tasks that are distant from actual application logic. In addition, a lack of a cohesive

Bonus Episode: SurrealDB with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

Dec 25th, 2023 57m 17s

SurrealDB is the result of a long-time collaboration between brothers Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock. The project has modest origins and started merely to support other projects the brothers were working on. However, over time the project gre

Tracking Drug Smugglers and Migrating Databases with Benny Keinan and Lior Resisi

Dec 7th, 2023 50m 40s

Maritime logistics is the process organizing the movement of goods across the ocean. Historically, this has been a challenging problem because of the multinational nature of shipping, as well as piracy, smuggling, and legacy technology. It’s al

The Right to Be Forgotten with Gal Ringel

Nov 29th, 2023 47m 45s

Data breaches at major companies are so now common that they hardly make the news. The Wikipedia page on data breaches lists over 350 between 2004 and 2023. The Equifax breach in 2017 was especially notable because over 160 million records were

Sofascore with Josip Stuhli

Nov 28th, 2023 49m 48s

If you’re a sports fan and like to track sports statistics and results, you’ve probably heard of Sofascore. The website started in 2010 and ran on a modest single server. It now has 25 million monthly active users, covers 20 different sports, 1

Daytona with Ivan Burazin

Nov 23rd, 2023 47m 50s

Cloud-based software development platforms such as GitHub Codespaces continue to grow in popularity. These platforms are attractive to enterprise organizations because they can be managed centrally with security controls. However, many, if not

GraphAware with Luanne Misquitta

Nov 22nd, 2023 57m 51s

Knowledge graphs are an intuitive way to define relationships between objects, events, situations, and concepts. Their ability to encode this information makes them an attractive database paradigm. Hume is a graph-based analysis solution develo

Chronosphere with Martin Mao

Nov 9th, 2023 48m 8s

Observability software helps teams to actively monitor and debug their systems, and these tools are increasingly vital in DevOps. However, it’s not uncommon for the volume of observability data to exceed the amount of actual business data. This

Streamlit with Amanda Kelly

Oct 24th, 2023 47m 6s

The importance of data teams is undeniable. Most companies today use data to drive decision-making on anything from software feature development to product strategy, hiring and marketing. In some companies data is the product, which can make da

Modern Web Scraping with Erez Naveh

Oct 18th, 2023 57m 29s

Today it’s estimated there are over 1 billion websites on the internet. Much of this content is optimized to be viewed by human eyes, not consumed by machines. However, creating systems to automatically parse and structure the web greatly exten

Observability with Eduardo Silva

Oct 12th, 2023 44m 47s

There are hundreds of observability companies out there, and many ways to think about observability, such as application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and tracing. In a production application, multiple tools are often needed to get

AI and Business Analytics with John Adams

Oct 5th, 2023 30m 3s

It’s now clear that the adoption of AI will continue to increase, with nearly every industry working to rapidly incorporate it into their systems and applications to provide greater value to their users. Business analytics is a key domain that

Highly Scalable NoSQL with Dor Laor

Sep 7th, 2023 36m 27s

ScyllaDB is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL database designed to provide predictable performance at a massive cloud scale. It can handle millions of operations per second at a scale of gigabytes or petabytes. It’s also designed to be compatibl

Database Caching with Ben Hagan

Aug 8th, 2023 35m 36s

Database caching is a fundamental challenge in database management and there are hundreds of techniques to satisfy different caching scenarios. PolyScale is a fully automated database cache. It offers an innovative approach to database caching,

Data-Centric AI with Alex Ratner

Jul 20th, 2023 50m 19s

Companies have high hopes for Machine learning and AI to support real-time product offerings, prevent fraud and drive innovation. But there was a catch – training models require labeled data that machines can digest. As data volumes increase, t

Making Data-Driven Decisions with Soumyadeb Mitra

Jul 11th, 2023 50m 45s

RudderStack is a warehouse-native customer data platform (CDP) that helps businesses collect, unify, and activate customer data from all their different sources. In today’s episode, we’re talking to Soumyadeb Mitra, the founder and CEO of Rudde

Customer-facing Analytics with Tyler Wells

Jun 30th, 2023 51m 38s

The state of Data inside most companies is chaotic. It takes significant time and investment to tame this chaos. When you are a platform provider you are gathering tons of data from the developers using your platform. These developers building

Data Reliability with Barr Moses and Lior Gavish

Jun 12th, 2023 56m 22s

As companies depend more on data to improve digital products and make informed decisions, it’s crucial that the data they use be accurate and reliable. MonteCarlo, the data reliability company, is the creator of the industry’s first end-to-end

Low-Code SQL on dbt Core with Raj Bains from Prophecy

May 26th, 2023 54m 15s

In this podcast episode, we take a look at the intricacies of low-code data pipelines with Raj Bains, the founder of Prophecy.io. Raj shares valuable insights into how performant low-codedata pipelines are revolutionizing industries and transfo

Open-Source Embedding Database with Anton Troynikov

Apr 20th, 2023 32m 37s

Chroma is an open source embedding database that is designed to make it easy to build large language model applications by making knowledge, facts and skills pluggable. Anton Troynikov is the co-founder of Chroma and he is our guest today. This

Data Activation with Tejas Manohar

Apr 13th, 2023 41m 10s

Data Activation is the method of unlocking the knowledge sorted within your data warehouse, and making it actionable by your business users in the end tools that they use every day. In doing so, Data Activation helps bring data people toward th

Self-Service Data Culture with Stemma’s Mark Grover

Apr 7th, 2023 46m 26s

A data catalog provides an index into the data sets and schemas of a company.Data teams are growing in size, and more companies than ever have a data team, so the market for data catalog is larger than ever. Mark is the CEO of Stemma and the co

Streaming Analytics with Hojjat Jafarpour

Apr 6th, 2023 46m 48s

Streaming analytics refers to the process of analyzing real-time data that is generated continuously and rapidly from various sources, such as sensors, applications, social media, and other internet-connected devices. Streaming analytics platfo