🎙 Sign up for The Future of Machine Learning Livestream!
Sign up
🗞️ Signup for Our Newsletter
Sign Up

Episode 121:

Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

January 11, 2023

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas welcome back Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry, Co-Founders of Materialize, for part two of this great conversation. During the episode, Arjun and Frank dig into the technical details of Materialize including data flow, what it takes to build a model for users to interact with, incremental computation, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Defining data flow (2:31)
  • Are there limitations in timely data flow operation and/or building operators? (8:20)
  • Areas of incremental computation that are having an impact today (17:10)
  • Building a library vs building a product (24:06)
  • Combining delight and empathy into a focus (27:52)
  • Final thoughts and takeaways (32:42)

 

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

About the Podcast

Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

To keep up to date with our future episodes, subscribe to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or the player of your choice.

Sign Up for The Data Stack Show Newsletter

Get a monthly newsletter from The Data Stack Show team with a TL;DR of the previous month’s shows, a sneak peak at upcoming episodes, and curated links from Eric, John, & show guests. Follow on our Substack below.

Sign Up

⚡ Powered by

© RudderStack Inc.