“My eyes just roll whenever I see a table just full of numbers – they don’t mean anything to me, I don’t immediately grok it. But if I see a line plot, I get it, right away.”

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“The world is increasingly disconnected, if you think about dealing with things like mobile devices that flap in and out of connectedness.”

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“I found Spark and I was really excited because I’m a functional programming nerd, and it was written in Scala.”

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"It’s a great world to be a developer in. If you’re a developer today, you have so many tools and so many options."

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“I really think that data science is like design in the sense that it’s a way of thinking.”

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“The more you’re comfortable with this idea that everything is going to fail, the more you realize that it's a natural process of distributed systems, and it helps you write and architect better code.”

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“Every vendor will advertise that their system is better – that’s nice, I understand you need to sell your thing, but what am I gaining as a user and what am I sacrificing as a user by choosing your product?”

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“Systems are giving up correctness for latency, and I’m arguing that stream processing systems have to be designed to allow the user to pick the tradeoffs that the application needs."

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“We still need to see in the long run how much of community and industry adoption is there. Because at the end of the day, these are the single two most important things which define and determine the success of any platform.”

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“We want people to be able to pick up whatever tool it is and really push themselves to get something done with it in a short amount of time, because that’s ultimately what they need to do as a data engineer in the industry.”

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