Listen "120: Materialize Origins: A Timely Dataflow Story with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry"
Episode Synopsis
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:What is Materialize? (2:43)Frank and Arjun’s journey in data and what led them to the idea of Materialize (6:22)The good and the bad of research in academia vs starting a company (25:20)The MVP for databases (33:49)Materialize’s end-to-end benefit for the user experience (43:03)Interchanging Materialize in warehouse and cloud data usage (48:25)The trade-offs within Materialize (1:00:02) Final takeaways and previewing part two of the conversation (1:09:25)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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