Tag: database
Episode 496: Bruce Momjian on Multi-Version Concurrency Control in Postgres (MVCC)
This week, Postgres server developer Bruce Momjian joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) in the Postgres database. They begin with a discussion of the isolation requirement in database transactions (I in ACID); how isolation can be achieved with locking; limitations of locking; how locking limits concurrency and creates variability […]
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 456: Tomer Shiran on Data Lakes
Tomer Shiran, co-founder of Dremio, talks about managing data inside a data lake and the ecosystem of products available for storage and analytics. Shiran and SE Radio host Akshay Manchale briefly explore the historical change in data organization from databases to data warehouses and now toward data lakes, as well as the motivations and use […]
Episode 424: Sean Knapp on Dataflow Pipeline Automation
Sean Knapp, CEO of Ascend.io, discusses data pipelines and data pipeline automation. Sean spoke with Host Robert Blumen about the ubiquity of data pipelines; what data pipelines do; where the data comes from, how it is transformed, where it goes; and what it is used for (analytics, machine learning, reporting, alerting, business intelligence). Semi-automated and […]
Episode 413: Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB
Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs talks about CockroachDB, an open source distributed database system. Host Akshay Manchale spoke with Kimball about his past experience with relational databases that convinced him of the need for a better open source distributed database. . Spencer talks about challenges involved in using a sharded single node […]
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