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In this episode Tim Berglund talks with Colt McNealy, founder and CEO of Little Horse, about building a Kafka‑based platform for orchestrating microservice workflows and AI agents. Colt describes how his early experience debugging monolithic code with GDB contrasted with the opacity of modern distributed systems, leading him to create a durable execution and workflow engine that leverages Kafka Streams as a commit log. He explains the distinction between durable execution (caching side‑effects for retries) and workflow orchestration, and how Little Horse captures low‑level and high‑level events in Kafka to enable real‑time anomaly detection and automated responses. The discussion also touches on the broader debate over Kafka versus traditional databases and the rise of Rust and AI hype in the developer community.
In this episode, Ivan Poupyrev, CEO of Archetype AI, explains that "physical AI" goes far beyond robotics, embedding foundation‑model intelligence into everyday devices—from washing machines to HVAC systems—and enabling them to communicate and optimize as a unified system. He outlines...
In this episode, Petra Durnin, a veteran CRE researcher and tech‑to‑impact strategist, explains why the industry’s biggest hurdle isn’t more tools but cleaner, more integrated data. She walks through her career trajectory, from a temp analyst to leading data and...
In this episode, Ryan interviews Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft, about the rapid evolution of Microsoft's database offerings, including SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, and how they fit into a unified Azure data platform....
In this episode, Rohan Bhasin of Fortellix and Dan Gural of Voxel51 discuss how autonomous‑vehicle (AV) teams can transform massive drive‑log datasets into high‑fidelity simulations using neural reconstruction, scenario‑driven data curation, and NVIDIA‑accelerated pipelines. They explain how these tools enable...
In this re‑aired episode, John interviews Ben Rogojan, owner of Seattle Data Guy, about how data teams can demonstrate value amid tighter budgets and rapid AI advances. They discuss shifting from output‑focused metrics like dashboards to outcome‑driven results, the importance...
In this episode, Viktor Gamov interviews Jeremy Custenborder of Confluent about his journey from a paper boy to a leader in large‑scale systems, focusing on his experience keeping MySpace operational at massive pre‑cloud scale. Jeremy explains how he built custom...
In episode #345, DataFramed hosts Adel Nehme and Richie Cotton sit down with Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, to explore how organizations can foster a culture of continuous innovation. Solis emphasizes the importance of aligning innovation with...
In this episode, Adam Miskiewicz, Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb, explains how the company built Viaduct, an open‑source data‑oriented service mesh and GraphQL platform that unifies a central schema across millions of microservices. He details the architectural principles—centralized schema, consistent...
In this episode, Tim Wilson, Val Kroll, and Spotify product manager/data scientist Mårten Schultzberg discuss the limits of focusing solely on win rates in experimentation and introduce a broader "learning rate" metric that captures wins, regressions (avoiding bad outcomes), and neutral...
In this episode, Tim Berglund chats with data infrastructure veteran Richie Artoul about his unconventional path—from running a LAN gaming café to building log storage at Datadog and now leading WarpStream at Confluent. Richie shares the technical and cultural challenges...
In this 34‑minute episode, Juan and Tim unwind over a beer to discuss recent developments in the data landscape and share their key takeaways from Data Day Texas. They cover topics such as the hype around AI versus real monetary...
In this episode, Adi Polak interviews Bryan Oliver of Thoughtworks about his journey from building swimming pools to engineering massive GPU racks for AI workloads. Oliver explains the technical and operational challenges of running $3M GPU data centers, focusing on...
In this episode, Unity Stoakes interviews Robin Roberts, CEO of datosX Digital Health Labs, about transforming digital health validation from a bottleneck into a catalyst for adoption. Roberts explains how datosX leverages tier‑1 health system partnerships to run regulatory‑grade validation...
In episode #289 the hosts discuss the essential role of business acumen for data and analytics professionals, defining it as both a grasp of general business fundamentals (finance, marketing, P&L) and deep knowledge of one’s own organization and industry context....
In this episode, Armin Ronacher warns that AI agent psychosis could be making us collectively uneasy, while Dan Abramov breaks down the AT Protocol as a social filesystem for decentralized apps. RepoBar is highlighted as a tool that surfaces your...
In this episode, Tim Berglund interviews Sophie Blee‑Goldman of Responsive about her journey from a Google internship to becoming a specialist in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. They dive into the technical challenge of scaling a Kafka Streams application for...
In this episode Ben Lorica interviews Ben Luria, CEO and co‑founder of Hirundo, about the rising importance of machine unlearning for enterprise AI systems. They explore how organizations can remove or forget specific data points from trained models to comply...
In this episode, Kevin Ball talks with Institute for Justice attorney Michael Soyfer about the rapid expansion of surveillance technologies such as automated license‑plate readers, facial‑recognition cameras, and predictive policing tools across U.S. municipalities. Soyfer explains the Fourth Amendment challenges...
In this episode, Kevin Appleby and data‑analytics expert David Whitcombe explain how a "data cube"—a unified, governed layer that pulls together ERP, CRM, and operational data—gives CFOs a single source of truth that drives higher valuations in private‑equity exits. By...
In this episode Michael Kennedy talks with Vincent Warmerdam about DiskCache, a SQLite‑backed, dictionary‑like cache that persists to disk and works safely across threads and processes. They explain how DiskCache’s @cache.memoize decorator and FanoutCache sharding enable cheap, high‑performance caching for...
In this episode, Viktor Gamov interviews Dhiraj Suri of Confluent about his journey from a software developer at NetApp to a systems engineering leader focused on stream governance. Dhiraj explains how he tackled the challenge of integrating fragmented tools at...
