Real-Time Analytics with Tim Berglund

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! On today's episode of the Real-Time Analytics podcast, Tim Berglund interviews Oli Makhasoeva, the Director of Developer Relations at Bytewax. Oli, who joined Bytewax as a founding member just six months ago, shares her passion for making data streaming more accessible for Python users. As a data scientist herself, Oli understands the challenges faced when transitioning batch processes to real-time syste...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! In this episode of the "Real-time Analytics" podcast, Tim Berglund welcomes Olena Kutsenko, a developer advocate with Aiven, to discuss the wonders of Apache Kafka. Tim and Olena reminisce about their early computing days in the '80s (cue nostalgic music), with Olena confessing her love of the ancient programming language, FoxPro. They then dive into Kafka's basics, comparing it to a river of data, excep...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! Are Microservices played out? Has the hype run its course, and now that we can all clearly see that the paradigm has failed to deliver any value, and we can revert to monolithic sanity? Or are we seeing a truly durable shift in the software architecture consensus find its footing and expand in the enterprise, even as the older client-server model continues to prove useful in some circumstances? The onlin...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! Open source is vast and the communities are strong, but understanding it can sometimes be elusive. In today’s episode, Tim sits down with Ken Krugler (President, Scale Unlimited) to talk through his approach to open source. How does he decide on projects to invest in? How does he analyze a community’s strengths? What warnings does he give those who are interested in entering the open source space? The te...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! Who remembers taxis? They were these yellow cars that appeared at random with seemingly inexplicable service charges. You may be more familiar with taxi 2.0: Uber - a platform fully powered by real-time analytics. In this episode, Tim sits down with Rong Rong (Software Engineer, StarTree) to talk about how Uber made use of Apache Pinot, when he came over to StarTree, as well as a deep dive into some Apac...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! When talking about developing Apache Pinot, Mayank Shrivastava (founding engineer, StarTree) says, “We have to keep venturing into areas where we don’t belong.” In this episode, Tim asks Mayank all about his time at LinkedIn, how companies like Uber use this open source technology and how much of real-time analytics was driven by the ever illusive algorithm. From use cases to Apache Pinot internals, this...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! Mr. Debezium (also known as Gunnar Morling, Software Engineer at Decodable) has been in the business of open source for a long time. While working with Debezium at Red Hat for the better part of a decade, he’s seen how all sorts of technologies integrate together and which to use in a variety of use cases. In this episode, Tim talks to Gunnar about his new role at Decodable, if it’s really a “Pinot vs Fl...

Follow: https://stree.ai/podcast | Sub: https://stree.ai/sub | New episodes every Monday! Rachel Pedreschi (Head of Technical Services, Decodable) and Tim have been friends for a long time. So long, in fact, that they make the perfect pair to reflect on the last thirty years of technology and see how things have changed since the 90s. From data warehouses to ETL to this newer world of streaming, these two chat through how technology has adapted to the world around it.

Do you remember the day you could magically see who viewed your profile on LinkedIn? What was once a website for resumes suddenly gave rise to a new category of database: real-time analytics. From building that new database to what makes the open source community so special, Kishore Gopalakrishna (Co-Creator of Apache Pinot™ and Co-Founder & CEO of StarTree) talks about it all in this week’s episode.

Real-time analytics. We've all heard the term, but what does it really mean? It's only fitting that we kick off this podcast with some history and exploration of the term by our host, Tim Berglund (Developer Relations, StarTree).