Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• The concept of composable at a lower level of data infrastructure (1:28)
• New architectures and components that allow developers to build databases (3:44)
• Pedro's background and experience in data infrastructure (6:18)
• The Spectrum of Latency and Analytics (12:59)
• Different Query Engines for Different Use Cases (16:32)
• Vectorized vs Code Gen Data Processing (19:33)
• Vectorization and Code Generation (21:21)
• Examples of Vectorized Engines (24:33)
• Rewriting Execution Engine in C++ (27:22)
• Different Organization of Presto and Spark (33:17)
• Arrow and its Extensions (37:15)
• The similarities between analytics and ML (44:33)
• Offline feature engineering and data preprocessing for training (48:00)
• Dialect and semantic differences in using Velox for different engines (50:01)
• The convergence of dialects (52:23)
• Challenges of substrate and semantics (53:18)
• Future plans for Velox (58:09)
• The discussion on evolving Parquet (1:03:38)
• The integration of the relational model and the tensor model (1:07:29)

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