In this podcast episode, Ralph and I interview Ben, the CEO and founder of Popsink. Ben shares his background, starting his data journey at Amazon and later becoming the head of data at SIXT, a well-known European car rental company. Ben explains that the motivation behind creating Popsink was frustration with the current data tools, particularly in the realm of serving operations and facing the complexities of serving end users. He wanted to go beyond traditional table-based approaches and create a more optimal solution. Popsink aims to provide a familiar experience for users from the database world, implementing technologies like Flink for transformation, Connect for CDC (change data capture), and Red Panda for event bus purposes.

Overall, this podcast episode gives insights into the origin story of Popsink and its goal of revolutionizing the data industry by offering a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for serving operations and delivering data to end users.

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