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Episode 140

May 31, 2023

with Davor Bonaci

 – Executive Vice President, DataStax

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Davor Bonaci, the Executive VP at DataStax. During the episode, Davor discusses his journey in working stream processing at Goggle and his journey in founding Kaskada. The conversation also includes discussion on recommendation engines, how to improve stream and batch processing, what Kaskada is doing to solve key pain points in the space, democratizing and operationalizing ML, and more.

Episode 139

May 24, 2023

with Aditya Parameswaran

 – Associate Professor, UC Berkeley & Co-Founder, Ponder

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Aditya Parameswaran, Associate Professor at UC Berkeley & Co-Founder of Ponder. During the episode, Aditya discusses the zoo of data languages including a 101 on Pandas, why builders should be adapting to users, exploring what Ponder is solving in the data space, interesting theories on the way things should operate in the industry, and more.

Episode 138

May 17, 2023

with A.J. Hunyady

 – Founder and CEO, InfinyOn

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with A.J. Hunyady, Founder, and CEO of InfinyOn. During the episode, A.J talks about his experience with Hadoop and the challenges he faced with getting data out of the ecosystem. He also discusses the need for innovation in the data industry, real-time data, streaming, IoT, the benefits of Rust, and more.