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It's About Data
By Matthew Housley and Tony BaerTechnology
It's About Data episodes
- Moving Up the Data Stack (with Andy Pernsteiner—VAST Data)
In episode 80, Andy Pernsteiner (field CTO VAST Data) joins us to discuss how VAST has evolved from a storage layer to application backend services, data management and AI infrastructure.The VAST Cosmos Community:https://community.vastdata.com/
20 min - Databricks Summit 2026
Tony reports from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026. Lakehouse/RT, LTAP, Genie One, Omnigent, Unity AI Gateway, and more.
31 min - What's New in Apache Spark?
Lisa Cao (Databricks) joins us to discuss major new features in Apache Spark 4.1, and the continuing evolution of the platform to meet new challenges and serve an expanding user base.
17 min - Data Products That Matter (Florian Douetteau—Dataiku)
We interview Florian Douetteau, CEO and cofounder of Dataiku, about why data is the fuel for AI and how automation can solve the problem of "Shadow Data Products."
19 min - Database Development in The Era of Vibe Coding (with Nikita Shamgunov—Databricks)
Nikita Shamgunov (Databricks) argues that all stateful systems in the future will need to support forking and version control to allow agents to make mistakes. Also on the agenda: wrangling spaghetti data, managing schema drift, and how the Lakebase architecture can outperform dedicated hardware. #artificialintelligence #aiagents #database
18 min - Snowflake Summit 26 (with Juan Sequeda)
Juan Sequeda joins Tony to go over the latest announcements and their broader implications for the industry. CoCo, CoWork, Horizon Context, data sharing, context wars, and more.#artificialintelligence #aiagents
26 min - Spanner, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Sovereignty (Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Google)
Sailesh Krishnamurthy joins us to discuss Google Cloud Spanner Omni, an on-prem option for Google's famous ultra-scalable transactional database. We discuss the engineering challenges of moving to customer hardware, and the broad problem of data sovereignty.
21 min - The Origins of Databricks Lakebase (with Nikita Shamgunov)
Nikita joins us to talk about an idea that he couldn't let go: separating compute and storage in an OLTP database. He cofounded Neon to pursue this technology, which is now the engine behind Lakebase.#database #dataanalytics #agenticai
17 min - Your Data Needs Metadata (with Suresh Srinivas)
Suresh Srinivas (CEO Collate getcollate.io) joins us to discuss his journey from big data to metadata.
20 min - Collapsing the Modern Data Stack for AI (with Amit Sharma)
Much digital ink has been spilt on the death of the modern data stack. Amit Sharma (CEO CData Software ) joins us to discuss a vision for collapsing the modern data stack to better support AI applications.
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About It's About Data
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We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley. Also available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XFbzM-Vn1ztmEQFDVzYCQ