Episode 51:

Democratizing AI and ML with Tristan Zajonc of Continual

September 1, 2021

Joining Eric and Kostas this week on The Data Stack Show is Tristan Zajonc, the cofounder and CEO of Continual. Continual is offering early access to its operational AI layer for cloud data warehouses at continual.ai.

Notes:

  • Tristan’s background with Cloudera and the need for continual operational ML and AI (3:15)
  • How the complexity of Continual is hidden behind a simplicity of use (14:48)
  • Focusing on data that lives within a data warehouse (18:43)
  • Understanding features in the ML conversation (22:47)
  • The three layers of Continual (26:11)
  • The importance of SQL to Continual (30:19)
  • Caching layers and the data warehouse centric approach (38:28)
  • Betting on the warehouse being a central component of data stack architecture (43:34)

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