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By Matthew Housley and Tony Baer
We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley.
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18 min
Topics
Database systems, storage engines, query processing, transactions, and database operations.
Major technology platforms, companies, ecosystems, leadership, and competitive behavior.
Building and operating data pipelines, transformations, orchestration, and data platforms.
Formats
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Detailed technical, architectural, or research-oriented examination.
Audience level
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. We welcome Justin Borgman, cofounder and CEO of Starburst, back to the show to discuss data and context. Justin argues that context engineering is a human in the loop process.
Rob Strechay (Lead Analyst, VentureBeat) joins us to discuss the state of enterprise AI. Is the term context graph useful? What role will open weight models play in the enterprise? How are enterprises managing AI costs?
Are we finally going to experience the year of the graph database? We also talk about the evolution of data development, graph visualization, ontologies, and socialization of graph technology. Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning Platform along with over 60K other titles.
We're joined by Miriah Peterson and Matt Sharp to discuss Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Coverage from The Information Domesticating AI, Matt and Miriah's podcast with Chris Brousseau. Get a 20% discount on a one year O'Reilly Learning Platform subscription using the code MATT20.
This is a breaking news episode responding to the announcement that Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the developer of the DuckDB analytics database. (Ep 73)..
Vipin Samar (SVP Database Security at Oracle ) joins us to discuss a database centric approach to securing and enabling agentic AI.
Ryan Dolley joins the show to discuss his work on an upcoming book.
Stephen Messer (cofounder of Collective[i]) joins us to discuss an AI-driven talent shortage, the future of education, non-generative AI and the business prospects of foundation model developers.This episode is a continuation of our conversation in episode 86.
Stephen Messer joins us to argue that we're making a significant cognitive error when we view AI as a shiny new feature to augment existing software and user experiences.
Tiankai Feng (Director of Data and AI Strategy, Thoughtworks) joins us to discuss two of his recent books on the human side of data and AI.