Hubert's Podcast

In this podcast Ralph and I interview a former colleague of mine, Kai , who has extensive experience in the data streaming and real-time events space. Kai highlights the top five trends for data streaming with Kafka and Flink, including data sharing, data contracts for governance, serverless stream processing, multi-cloud adoption, and the use of generative AI in real-time contexts. We discuss the...

In this podcast, we interview Arjun Narayan , Frank McSherry , and Nikhil Benesch from Materialize. Ralph and I are writing a book on streaming databases and seeking expert insights from Materialize on topics rarely discussed in the field. We begin by exploring the distinction between operational and analytical workloads, highlighting the importance of real-time or near-real-time results for opera...

In continuing the Filipinos in Tech series, in this episode, I interview Marlo Carrillo and Ron Guerrero currently at Databricks but previously from Cloudera. We reflect on the significance of the Balikbayan box, symbolizing resilience and the importance of remembering their roots. We share personal and emotional stories of their own families' journeys to America, the struggles they faced, and the...

The founders of Deep Haven created the company to monetize technology from their previous company and diversify their capabilities in the capital markets. They found a gap in the market for a data system that met their needs, so they developed DeepHaven to provide a live data stack that integrates with Kafka and other data sources. Deephaven Community Core is an open-source project that is a real-...

Another episode of “Filipinos in Tech.” This time I interview Al Domingo , senior director of solutions engineering, Americas Strategic at Confluent (and a long time friend). Al and I share a love of real-time data and music (guitars specifically) but we also share pride in our heritage as Filipinos. We also reflect on our experiences as Filipinos in the tech industry. We discuss the cultural expe...

This is the first of a series of podcasts about Filipino Americans in the tech industry, with our guest Keith Oliver Rull sharing his immigration experience and career journey. We discuss the stress and struggles faced by Filipino immigrants, their hard work and sacrifices, and the lack of Filipino representation in the tech industry. The conversation touches upon the impact of colonial mentality...

In this podcast interview, I discuss federated systems with Peter Corliss, the Director of Product Marketing for StarTree . Peter will be presenting at a meetup next Tuesday: Peter explains the emergence of federated systems from the evolution of web development and the need to define the backend workings of front-end websites. They also explore the definitions of terms like stack, platform, and c...

In this podcast interview, the founders of Aklivity , John and Leonid , discuss their journey from working on WebSocket at Kaazing to starting Aklivity. Aklivity aims to support event-driven architectures, particularly those based on Kafka. They also highlight the lessons they learned at Kaazing, emphasizing the importance of meeting clients where they are and using familiar tools and APIs. We del...

In this podcast interview, Sai , the CEO and co-founder of PeerDB , discusses his background and motivations for creating the company. He noticed that customers using existing ETL tools for data movement with Postgres often faced issues and ended up building in-house solutions. This inspired him to start PeerDB, a data movement tool optimized for Postgres. The initial use case for PeerDB is real-t...

In this podcast, Ralph and I interview Micah Wylde the founder and creator of Arroyo , a stream processing platform. Micah talks about the challenges of current stream processing tools being too difficult for end-users. These challenges motivated him to create Arroyo to make stream processing accessible to everyone. Micah also delves into the importance of the Dataflow paper by Google, explaining...

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 c...

In this podcast, I’m joined by Ting and Jove at Current 23 at the StartupHub. Ting and Jove are two founders of Timeplus, a streaming database company. Timeplus recently announced their open source version, called Proton, under Apache Linux 2. It provides a docker image for easy setup on laptops. While the SAS version focuses on usability with a user-friendly interface and community-based deployme...

Speedb (pronounced “speedy bee”) is an embedded key-value storage engine that is a fork of RocksDB. At Current23, I caught up with the founders as they introduced many features on top of RocksDB and managed a large community of RocksDB and Speedb users. They emphasize the project's open-source nature and the community's acceptance of contributions. Their current work focuses on performance improve...

In this podcast, Ralph, my co-host and I interview Eric Broda. In this interview with Eric Broda, co-author of the book "Implementing Data Mesh," the focus is on the technical aspects of implementing a data mesh. The interview touches on the book's content, emphasizing its technical and hands-on nature, providing tools, frameworks, and code to help organizations implement a data mesh successfully....

In this podcast episode, host I interview Robert Zych, a software engineer at Raft with nearly 20 years of experience in software and data engineering. Robert talks about his engineering background and why he is so passionate about the Apache Pinot project. Robert explains that Apache Pinot is a game changer in real-time analytics, offering scalability, performance, and powerful features like UPSE...

30-Second Summary: Tim Sehn on Dolt and Data Management In this interview, Tim Sehn discusses Dolt, a revolutionary data management system. Dolt challenges traditional data sharing barriers by proposing the concept of "renting data" as easily as renting a computer. Dolt's novel approach involves Prolly trees, enabling lightning-fast data access. With use cases spanning from version control for com...

Our guest today is Gilad Kleinman, CEO of Epsio. Epsio has emerged from the world of academia with over a decade of experience dedicated to one mission: optimizing database queries. With the explosion of data in OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) databases and the increasing complexity of queries, our guest emphasizes the need to keep things simple. But that's not all. They're on the path to rev...

Our guests today are the co-founders of WarpStream: Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl. WarpStream is a company that's creating waves in the world of data streaming and storage. Their innovative approach to distributed systems has caught the attention of tech enthusiasts everywhere. Richie, one of the co-founders, is no stranger to the tech world, with an impressive background that includes stints at M3...

Today, we have an exclusive interview with a visionary in the field, Hojjat, the CEO of DeltaStream and one of the original creators of ksqlDB. DeltaStream is at the forefront of revolutionizing data processing with its serverless stream processing platform. One of the key challenges Hojjat highlights is the management of multiple clusters, which can become a cumbersome task for many organizations...

In this episode, we talk to Seth Wiseman the Director of Field Engineering at Materialize and Apache Flink Committer about streaming databases. He is not a fan of the term streaming database - "Streaming is just an implementation of a database." Enter Materialize. The name itself carries the promise of a new era. The market is growing hungry to understand the potential of materialized views. While...

In this enlightening podcast episode, we delve into the world of stream processing and cloud-native solutions with two key figures from Quix: Michael Rosam, Founder and CEO, and Tun Shwe, VP of Data and DevRel. Quix Streams is a game-changing cloud-native solution that harnesses the agility of Python for stream processing, all wrapped up in a lightweight library. The conversation with Michael and...

Ralph M. Debusmann and Hubert Dulay interview Mihai Budiu and Leonid Ryzhyk from Feldera The Feldera Continuous Analytics Platform , or Feldera Platform, in short, is a fast computational engine and associated components for continuous analytics over data in motion. Feldera Platform allows users to configure data pipelines as standing SQL programs (DDLs) that are continuously evaluated as new data...