Nitay Joffe

The best database tuning setting sometimes comes from an obscure DBA Stack Exchange thread, not the manual. Immanuel Trummer had LLMs read both, shrink the search space, then let reinforcement learning finish the job. link below

OCSF is not just about putting security events into the same shape. The harder work is standardizing semantics and values so defenders spend less time cleaning data. link to episode below

Pulling a big result set from Snowflake into Tableau isn't network-bound. It's CPU-bound — burning cycles converting columns to rows and straight back to columns. @ian.columnar.tech of Columnar on ADBC, and the 10-100x you get by deleting that step. link below

Traditional databases were "sold on the golf course" — to purchasing departments, not developers. @hannes.muehleisen.org on how that blind spot created the gap between pandas and Spark that @duckdb.org walked right into. Episode link below

Software has solved "it works on my machine," but data pipelines are still the Wild West. 🤠 Hussain (xorq) breaks down why the research-to-prod gap persists, why Feature Stores struggled, and how applying "lock files" to data can finally fix reproducibility. link below

“Parquet is great… until GPUs, multimodal data & million-column schemas show up.” The creator of pandas/Arrow @wesmckinney.com digs into Arrow vs Parquet, new columnar + table formats, DataFusion/DuckDB, metadata headaches, and what AI coding agents mean for open source infra. Episode link below

What happens when a query engine lead goes deep into edge storage design? Josh explains how Cloudflare’s durable objects enable global, consistent state without the pain of infra. Great listen on serverless, multiplayer, AI agents, and building apps that don’t need a backend. Link below

How does a simple tool evolve into a billion-dollar platform? Erik Swan, co-founder of Splunk, shares insights on: Starting with a focused “hammer” before scaling The “physics of business” in go-to-market strategies Navigating product-led growth and network effects Link below

Join us as we chat with Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, about transforming database views through incremental materialization. Learn how Epsio’s approach enhances performance and integrates seamlessly with existing systems. #DataInnovation. Link below

Join us as we chat with Viktor Kessler about revolutionizing metadata management. From Data Mesh challenges to Lakehouse solutions, and the creation of Lakekeeper for Apache Iceberg, discover strategies to make data functions profitable. Link below.