Data Talks on the Rocks
How the Weights & Biases Cofounder Created One of AI's Defining Exits
Mike Driscoll interviews Lukas Biewald, co-founder of Weights & Biases. In this conversation, he traces the full arc: from an unpaid internship at a 30-person OpenAI to building one of the definin
Python Was Built for Humans. AI Just Changed Everything.
Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas & co-creator of Apache Arrow, explains his unexpected switch from Python to Go for new projects. His reason: AI coding agents fundamentally changed the trade-offs t
How ClickHouse became one of the fastest-growing databases in the world
Alexey Milovidov — co-founder & CTO of ClickHouse — joins Michael Driscoll to break down why ClickHouse has become one of the fastest-growing databases in the world. This conversation goes deep on
The Semantic Layer Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About
Lloyd Tabb — creator of Looker and co-founder of Malloy — joins Rill Data Co-Founder & CEO Michael Driscoll to unpack one of the most misunderstood problems in modern data engineering. From low-la
DuckDB Won By Refusing to Scale Out
Hannes Mühleisen — creator of DuckDB — joins Rill Data Co-Founder & CEO Michael Driscoll to explain why DuckDB has become one of the fastest-growing databases in the world.
The Modern Data Stack Is Over. Here’s What’s Next.
Matthaus Krzykowski — co-founder & CEO of dltHub — joins Rill Data Co-Founder & CEO Michael Driscoll to break down one of the biggest shifts happening in data engineering right now.
Data Talks on the Rocks 8 - ClickHouse, StarTree, MotherDuck, and Tobiko Data
Michael Driscoll discusses real-time databases and next-generation ETL with a legendary panel of technical founders from ClickHouse), StarTree, MotherDuck, and Tobiko.
Data Talks on the Rocks 7 - Kishore Gopalakrishna, StarTree
This video interview covers Pinot's architectural decisions and actual use cases from Uber, Stripe, and Walmart. It also highlights in depth details on Pinot's real time benefits of freshness, latency, and concurrency.
Data Talks on the Rocks 6 - Simon Späti
In a conversation with Simon Späti, we explore Bluesky’s open social graph, DuckDB’s rise, declarative data systems, and the enduring importance of data modeling.
Data Talks on the Rocks 2 - Vercel and Tabular
Fireside chat with the founders of Vercel and Tabular
Data Talks on the Rocks 1 - Modal Labs, Pinecone, Ask-Y
Vibrant panel discussion featuring Edo Liberty, Erik Bernhardsson, and Katrin Ribant
5 Founders on building authentic data communities
Part 3 of our Modern Data Stack panel posed the question: "How do you build a data community that is authentic and real?" We considered the differences between audiences and communities, as well as differences between developer and user communities.
5 Founders on the biggest unsolved problems of the Modern Data Stack
This next segment of the Modern Data Stack event had five data company founders respond to "the largest unsolved problems in modern data." They considered: What is the ROI of data, or of a dashboard? How do we reduce complexity? and more...
5 Founders define the Modern Data Stack
What does the "Modern Data Stack" really mean? What does it include? We hosted an in-person event in San Francisco to discuss the Modern Data Stack—ETL pipelines, quality monitoring, operational analytics, fast OLAP stores, headless BI, and more...