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In this episode, we talk with Ian Cook, co-founder and CEO of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow Project Management Committee, about ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) and why the way applications connect to databases is overdue for a rethink.
Ian traces the history from the row-oriented database APIs of the 1990s, ODBC and JDBC, to today's world where nearly eve...
In this episode, we sit down with Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder and CEO of Duck Labs and co-creator of DuckDB, for a wide-ranging conversation about how a self-described outsider ended up reshaping the analytics database world.
Hannes shares how he accidentally fell into databases after moving to Amsterdam, why that outsider perspective helped him spot the “warts” everyo...
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Guillaume Binet, founder of Copper Robotics, to dig into one of the most overlooked problems in modern robotics: the software stack that runs the robots.
Guillaume traces his journey from tinkering with old computers in the 80s and 90s, to telecommunications, to the dot-com era, and finally into more than a de...
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Sergey Arkhangelskiy, founder of Positronic, to dig into the state of physical AI and what it will really take to bring general-purpose robotics into the real world.
Sergey shares his journey from a decade at Google Search, where he worked on ranking and helped build the "Tetris" layer that unified web, image,...
In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Shubham Baldava, co-founder of DataZip and creator of OLake, to trace the evolution of the modern open lakehouse — from the early days of Apache Hudi to today's Iceberg-centric world.
Shubham shares stories from a decade of data engineering at scale, including building near real-time pipelines at Japan...