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Episode 120:

Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

January 4, 2023

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry, Co-Founders of Materialize, for part one of this great conversation. During the episode, Arjun and Frank discuss their journey in founding Materialize, comparing working in research vs starting a company, key measurements of databases, different uses of Materialize, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • What is Materialize? (2:43)
  • Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)
  • The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)
  • The MVP for databases (33:49)
  • Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)
  • Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)
  • The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) 
  • Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)

 

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