Recent Episodes
Episode 473: Mike Del Balso on Feature Stores
Mike Del Balso co-founder of Tecton discusses Feature Stores and how it helps operationalize Machine Learning. Akshay spoke with Mike about data engineering challenges to connect signals that make a feature from various data sources to a Machine Learning Model during training and to serve it in production. Mike talks about challenges faced by engineering […]
Episode 472: Liran Haimovitch on Handling Customer Issues
Liran Haimovtich, CTO of Rookout, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of handling customer issues. The discussion covers types of customer issues; handling of issues by a customer-facing support team; how customer support can resolve issues; when issues cannot be resolved by support; escalation path to engineering; how issues are transferred from direct support […]
Episode 471: Jason Meller on Choosing the Right Tech Stack for a Greenfield Project
Jason Meller, CEO and CTO of Kolide, discusses the strategies and heuristics for finding a tech stack for your next startup or project. Host Adam Conrad spoke with Meller on the basics of modern tech stacks, understanding trade-offs for these stacks as well as use cases for each choice, and then took a deep dive […]
Episode 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
L. Peter Deutsch of Aladdin Enterprises and formerly of Sun Microsystems joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss the fallacies of distributed computing. Peter retold the history of the fallacies themselves and corrected some frequent misattributions and misunderstandings regarding their origin. The discussion also addressed interrelationships between the fallacies and changes in the relevance of particular […]
Episode 469: Dhruba Borthakur on Embedding Real-time Analytics in Applications
Dhruba Borthakur, CTO and co-founder of Rockset, discusses the core requirements of real-time analytics, how it differs from traditional analytics, and the use cases that benefit from it. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Dhruba about the evolution from Batch to streaming to real-time analytics and the relation to big data. They also explored how people […]
