THE ARCHITECHT SHOW

Pryon founder and CEO Igor Jablokov explains how his company makes it easier for enterprises to access their important data by utilizing augmented intelligence and efficient language models. He also discusses where AI is headed both in the enterprise and in our personal lives thanks to advances in models, chip architectures, and more.

Hex Technologies co-founder and CEO Barry McCardel talks about how his company is attempting to simplify the data science workflow—notebooks, collaboration, storytelling, sharing, you name it. And with a focus on security, something for which the founding team developed an affinity during their time at Palantir. McCardel also discusses the (hopefully) novel experience of growing an early-stage startup during a pandemic.

Datalogue co-founder and CEO Tim Delisle discusses how his company is trying to remake data integration for large enterprises, by taking advantage of Kubernetes, good UX, and a focus on performance and security. Delisle also shares his take on why the big data movement might have missed the boat.

Spring Health co-founder and chief product officer Adam Chekroud explains his company's platform for helping employer's offer quality mental health care to their employees. Chekroud, who's professionally trained in the field, also discusses how employers can do more to encourage mental health, how social media can affect mental health, and how COVID-19 and recent civil rights movements are causing effects both good and bad.

The Architecht Show returns (!) with Replicated co-founder and CEO Grant Miller talking about how his company is enabling KOTS, or Kubernetes-Off-the-Shelf software. We dive into a number of topics around this, including the pitfalls of relying too heavily on SaaS, the popularity of Kubernetes itself, and how laws like Europe's GDPR are forcing companies to rethink how and where they manage user data.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta explains the economics of cloud computing and IT, in general -- based on what he's seeing from Apptio's large collection of enterprise users. While cloud spending is still relatively low as a piece of the overall pie, it's increasing fast as a result of SaaS adoption, and trends such as digital transformation and even artificial intelligence. Aside from sheer usage, Gupta also discusses the effects of complexity on IT budgets, as companies struggle to figure out how efficiently they're utilizing services and get control of zombie or credit-card subscriptions.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Jean-Michel Franco, a product marketing director at data-integration vendor Talend, joins host Derrick Harris to talk about the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. Franco and Harris discuss the controversial data-privacy law, which was enacted in May 2018, and how enterprises are dealing with its requirements around data usage, locality and security. 

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Kelsey Hightower -- Google staff engineer, senior developer advocate and all-around cloud-native superstar -- talks about his journey into cloud-native computing techniques and how he uses what he's learned to help companies make the right decisions for their needs. Among many other topics, Hightower gives his thoughts on open source startups, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and the importance of spending time with technologies (even competitive ones) before offering opinions on them.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Diffbot CEO Mike Tung talks all about the value, workings and business of knowledge graphs, and how Diffbot grew its graph to around 1 trillion interconnected facts. Knowledge graphs are critical to many aspects of our digital lives -- including smart assistants and web web search -- and have value across industries ranging from retail to intelligence. Tung also explains the relationship between knowledge graphs and AI, and why crawling and structuring the web's countless facts is a compute-intensive job.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Malong Technologies CTO Matt Scott discusses a wide range of artificial intelligence issues, including AI adoption in China and whether the AI talent crunch (and associated sky-high salaries) is a long-term thing. Primarily, though, Scott talks about his company's work on weakly supervised learning, which is helping it not only win computer vision contests, but also scale its computer vision products more easily across customers and industries.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Ihab Tarazi -- CTO of cloud computing startup Packet, and former CTO of Equinix -- discusses architectures and applications for edge computing. Among other things, he explains why it makes sense to build compute infrastructure at the city level, or even business level inside plants, malls or arenas (it's about data volume as well as latency). And, of course, Tarazi tackles the upcoming 5G rollout and how compute and network providers will need to work together to marry their innovations in a useful manner.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Capital One vice president of cloud strategy Bernard Golden and AVOA strategic adviser Tim Crawford discuss the current state of cloud computing and the trends driving companies to -- and away from -- the public cloud. Golden suggests cloud adoption today is, to use a baseball analogy, in the second inning, with many changes still to come. Among the topics they cover as part of this debate are edge computing, private cloud, Kubernetes and the opportunities for large cloud providers to expand their presence. This episode is sponsored by Capital One.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Trifacta co-founder, UC-Berkeley professor and overall database guru Joe Hellerstein talks about the state of enterprise data -- from wrangling it to analyzing it. Hellerstein hits on a number of topics, including his work with Trifacta and the ongoing data-prep issues that inspired it; why the world keeps getting new types of databases; and how cloud computing is reshaping database architecture and adoption. Hellerstein also explores open source software and why Trifacta made the decisions it made around commercializing the Data Wrangler project.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Cockroach Labs co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball talks all about CockroachDB, his company's open source take on the Google Spanner database, and the experience of building an enterprise software company in today's IT landscape. Among other things, Kimball discusses how SQL keeps evolving to meet changing needs (such as geographically distributed transactions); taking advantage of Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native; figuring out the right open source license; and whether the company's name scares people away.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Rubikloud CTO Waleed Ayoub tackles a wide range of artificial intelligence issues, including how his company uses the technology to help retailers make their operations more efficient. Ayoub also discusses choosing reliable and scalable machine learning techniques over sexy ones; working with customers' legacy data systems; how Rubikloud uses the cloud to scale and standardize its engagements; and how Canada, where the company is based, can become the epicenter of AI.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Oren Teich, Google's director of product management for serverless, discusses how we evolved to a world of functions-as-a-service and how developers should think about using this new capability. Teich, who was previously COO at Heroku and whose product responsibilities include Google App Engine, also talks about the recent history of abstractions -- from IaaS to PaaS to containers -- including mistakes that were made, and why they're all still important tools.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show -- recorded live at the Capital One campus in Richmond, Va. -- Tim Hwang, director of the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, discusses a broad range of topics related to building ethical artificial intelligence systems. Issues range from avoiding algorithmic bias and doing smart data collection to specific concerns for areas such as banking, criminal law and consumer applications. Hwang's project is a collaboration between Harvard's Berkman-Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab, and Hwang himself previously led public policy for AI and machine learning at Google.  This episode of the ARCHITECHT Show is brought to you by Capital One.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman explainn the Bandwidth Alliance -- a Cloudflare-led initiative to slash the cost of moving data from one cloud service to another. The duo discuss the downfalls of so-called data egress fees, and how eliminating or drastically reducing them between mutual Cloudflare and Bandwidth Alliance members can help users take advantage of all the cloud has to offer. Of particular note are the smaller players that benefit, such as Backblaze, Packet and DigitalOcean, but also the involvement of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Amplify Partners' Sunil Dhaliwal discusses a wide range of issues, starting with his firm's new $200 million fund focused on investing in technical founders. In addition to highlighting the opportunities and risks of that strategy, Dhaliwal also tackles a wide range of issues, including: the state of the database market; identifying good artificial intelligence startups; how big data became went from ideas to infrastructure; and the ongoing evolution of open source business models.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Heptio co-founder and CTO Joe Beda discusses a litany of cloud-native topics, including his roles helping to create Kubernetes and Compute Engine while at Google. Aside from going in depth on those two projects, Beda also shares his thoughts on where the container space is headed; the role of serverless computing; the still-tricky art of doing open source right; and straddling the lines between developers, operators and executives when it comes to building, marketing and selling enterprise software.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, IBM's Jason McGee (VP and CTO, IBM Cloud) and Ruchir Puri (chief architect, IBM Watson) explain why Kubernetes can be an ideal platform for running deep learning and AI workloads. Among other topics, the two go into detail on an open source project called FfDL (Fabric for Deep Learning), how businesses are taking advantage of advances in AI and application architecture, and ever-expanding set of hardware platforms targeting AI.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Dan Kohn (executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and Sarah Novotny (head of open source strategy for Google Cloud Platform) discuss some recent Kubernetes news and CNCF survey results. Among other topics, the two also share their insights into how and why companies are adopting cloud-native technologies in 2018, break down the different definitions of multi-cloud, and consider which projects will ultimately emerge from a crowded serverless computing space.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Hilary Mason -- now GM of machine learning at Cloudera, and formerly founder of Fast Forward Labs, chief scientist at Bitly and more -- discusses a breadth of topics related to artificial intelligence, including what's exciting today in enterprise AI and machine learning, and how to discern the wheat from the chaff in AI research. Mason also goes into depth on the topic of data ethics, explaining why we're at a day of reckoning and how companies and data scientists can go about getting their ethics in order.

In this week's episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Rob Bredow -- SVP, executive creative director and head of Industrial Light & Magic -- discusses how technology is changing the way that special effects and production are done in the movie industry. Bredow discusses the recently launched Academy Software Foundation, which is a joint open-source effort between the Motion Picture Academy and the Linux Foundation, as well as artificial intelligence, large-screen televisions and frame-by-frame analysis of trailers by online fans. He also talks about some of his favorite movies to work on during his decades-long career.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Jason Hoffman discusses all things edge computing -- from the business of operating cellular infrastructure to the applications where it really makes sense. Hoffman is currently the CEO of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary MobileedgeX; he previously led cloud efforts at Ericsson and was co-founder and CTO of early cloud computing provider Joyent. He also gives his take on the role of the large cloud providers as the edge shapes up, and shares a vision of an augmented reality future that doesn't involve being tethered to a headset or looking through your phone.

In the episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, GeekWire cloud and enterprise editor Tom Krazit joins host Derrick Harris to talk about a busy few weeks in the cloud computing world. Among other things, they discuss Amazon's rumored data center switch, Alibaba's rising status and Google's complicated relationship with China.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Gabe Monroy, head of product for cloud-native computing at Microsoft Azure, goes deep into the world of cloud-native computing. Monroy discusses his time in the PaaS space at Deis and EngineYard (and how that evolved into the container movement), and how the Kubernetes/CNCF communities are able to play nice with each other given all that's at stake. He also discusses the art of building managed Kubernetes services, Microsoft's GitHub acquisition, the role of serverless computing and more.

This episode originally aired on Aug. 17, 2017: In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Elastic founder and CEO Shay Banon talks about the evolution of Elasticsearch—from an open source side project (the first iteration was a recipe-search app for his wife) to popular big data tool to the core of a company worth nearly a billion dollars. He also shares his thoughts and strategies on the growth of Elastic, which, somewhat under the radar, has expanded to include multiple products and employ hundreds of people around the world.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, IBM Cloud general manager Don Boulia and Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson share their insights into how enterprises and mainstream companies are adopting technologies such as cloud computing, containers and artificial intelligence. The pair also weigh in on blockchain and its applications beyond cryptocurrency, including protecting the food supply chain. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB, Neo4j and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden discusses the changing nature of big data technologies and business models, particularly as architectural models like IoT, edge computing, cloud computing and containers impart their influence on data processing. Bearden also explains how these trends and others are reshaping open source business models, and how GDPR has customers looking for answers. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB, Neo4j and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, GitLab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij discusses his company and the open source project behind it, both of which received a lot more attention lately on the heels of Microsoft announcing its acquisition of GitHub. Sijbrandij explains the evolution of GitLab into a full devops platform, and also shares his thoughts on the GitHub acquisition, the power of Kubernetes as an infrastructure platform, managing serverless applications, and what the company learned after a prolonged database incident in 2017. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB, Neo4j and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Streamlio co-founders Karthik Ramasamy and Matteo Merli discuss their company's new streaming data platform, which is built atop Apache Heron, Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper -- technologies the two helped develop while at Twitter and Yahoo, respectively. They explain how the underlying technologies differ from more well-known open source projects -- including Apache Kafka -- and the ideal use cases for the type of performance Streamlio claims. Additionally, GeekWire cloud and enterprise editor Tom Krazit is on to discuss Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub. Tom and host Derrick Harris analyze why the deal happened and what this might mean for Microsoft, it cloud competitors and the world of GitHub alternatives. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB, Neo4j and Replicated.

This episode originally aired on Aug. 18, 2017. The news segment has been edited out, so it is just the interview. The episode seems particularly timely now given the ongoing discussion about AI and the economy, but also because of the current debate over the limitations of deep learning. In this episode of the ARCHITECHT AI Show, Derrick Harris speaks with Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas of Fast.ai, where they teach popular online courses aimed to get students up and running with deep learning. Among other things, Howard and Thomas discuss the promise of deep learning and early student successes (including Hot Dog, Not Hot Dog app from Silicon Valley), as well as the threat of job losses from AI and how seriously we should take Elon Musk's AI warnings.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Timescale founders (and TimescaleDB creators) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss their company, which began life as an internet of things platform, and the popular time-series database that serves as its foundation. And while time-series data certainly has a place in IoT, Kulkarni and Freedman explain how developers and companies across many industries are using TimescaleDB for everything from monitoring to security. Other topics include data privacy, GDPR and succeeding commercially with an open source database. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Condé Nast CTO Ed Cudahy discusses a wide array of topics, ranging from standardizing development across 20+ publications (thanks in part to Node.js and Amazon Web Services) to how the publishing giant is using computer vision to step up its game for consumers and advertisers -- especially for its fashion titles. Cudahy also talks about Condé Nast's use of the open source Presto technology for analyzing data, getting the paywall right financially and technologically, and much more. This episode begins with an introduction to a new artificial intelligence startup called AI Reverie (disclaimer: I am an adviser), which is generating synthetic data for training deep learning models, by building photo-realistic environments. I speak with co-founder and CEO Daeil Kim, who was previously a data scientist at the New York Times.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Atlassian head of infrastructure Mike Tria discusses the company's years-long effort to re-architect the hosted versions of its JIRA and Confluence applications using Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services. Interestingly, however, while Tria says AWS was definitely the right choice for Atlassian when it began this migration, he has seen Google make very big strides in the past few years and it is on his radar as Atlassian's cloud usage evolves. He also talks broadly about the idea of multi-cloud architectures and how microservices and Kubernetes can make that a reality. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Gremlin co-founder and CEO Kolton Andrus discusses the company's approach to chaos engineering, a practice he helped pioneer during his years at Amazon and Netflix. Andrus also explains how chaos engineering is now catching on inside many smaller startups and mainstream enterprises that recognize the importance of keeping their applications online -- a goal that can be complicated by the unique failure patterns of cloud and microservices architectures. This week's episode is sponsored by MongoDB and Replicated.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Zillow Chief Analytics Officer Stan Humphries discusses about a wide range of topics, including his unique path from policy scholar to web analytics exec, and how an explosion data helped Zillow grow into the business it is today. Humphries, who helped create the company's Zestimate tool for predicting home values, also shares some insights into how deep learning -- and computer vision, in particular -- helps Zillow further improve its accuracy. It does this in part by analyzing images to extract richer information (e.g., how well a home is maintained, price of appliances, etc.) than simply relying on square footage, neighborhood and standard home-buying data. This episode is sponsored by Datadog and MongoDB.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Apache Kafka co-creator (and Confluent co-founder) Jay Kreps returns to talk about a wide range of topics, including an uptick in Kafka alternatives both open source and commercial. Among a range of other things, Kreps also shares his thoughts on "big data" IPOs, what type of open source project makes a good business, and why enterprise IT is becoming a driving force in software innovation. This episode is sponsored by Datadog and MongoDB.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, SWIM.AI co-founder, Chris Sachs, and CTO, Simon Crosby, discuss their new company that just emerged from stealth mode and is bringing artificial intelligence to edge devices. Sachs and Crosby explain how they're able to train and run deep learning models on distributed networks of low-power processors, and how they use unsupervised learning to make sense of "gray data" -- data streaming off of sensors that might not have clear value, except for helping to predict future events in those systems. 

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Neo4j founder and CEO Emil Eifrem discusses the sustaining value of graph databases, more than a decade since the first release of Neo4j and terms like "social graph" and "knowledge graph" became commonplace. Eifrem also talks about the business of NoSQL and details the 5 factors -- focus, pervasiveness, ecosystem, data, vertical integration -- he believes can help infrastructure companies compete against similar offerings from large cloud providers. Before the Eifrem interview, host Derrick Harris speaks with Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman about his company's new partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral to provide cheap, fast, and decentralized cloud storage and compute resources. You can listen to  / read about earlier interviews with Budman and Packet CEO Zachary Smith here: Backblaze CEO on the economics of cloud storage and the business value of blogging Packet CEO Zachary Smith on the business of a bare metal cloud

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Stephan Ewen discusses the open source stream-processing system Apache Flink (which he helped create) and the commercial platform data Artisans (of which he's co-founder and CTO) is building around it. Ewan covers some of the major use cases for stream processing and some of Flink's biggest users -- including Alibaba -- and the challenges of standing out against, and sometimes working alongside, established projects such as Apache Spark, Apache Storm and Apache Kafka.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Red Hat's director of OpenShift product strategy Brian Gracely discusses a range of issues around Kubernetes and containers, including the company's recent acquisition of CoreOS. Among other topics, he also covers the rise and future of serverless computing, the nature of enterprise IT adoption, and the enduring importance of the operating system.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, internet of things expert Stacey Higginbotham joins host Derrick Harris to discuss a wide range of topics regarding edge computing and the evolution of IoT infrastructure. Higginbotham discusses Cloudflare's edge computing plans, the blurry nature of the actual edge, who stands to win and los from custom AI chips, and why 5G might not be the IoT savior it's made out to be.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Stitch Chief Algorithms Officer Eric Colson discusses the company's pervasive use of algorithms to power everything from recommending outfits to optimizing warehouse logistics. Colson, who was previously VP of data science and engineering at Netflix, also shares his definitions of statistical analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and his take on when each one should be applied. Stitch Fix is also using machines to actually help design new clothing, and Colson weighs in on the limits of machine creativity.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Etsy CTO Mike Fisher talks about Etsy's technology footprint and how the company uses it to optimize the experience for buyers, sellers and the Etsy's developers. Among other things, Fisher discusses how Etsy's unique data and user behavior influence its machine learning methods; why the company is looking at cloud and microservices after years of resistance; balancing convenience and safety in security practices; and the importance of understanding your users.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Sara Crowe -- the data analysis program director for non-profit Polaris -- discusses how that organization is using data analysis to help combat human trafficking. Crowe discusses some of the techniques Polaris uses to untangle what can be complex networks of abuse, and how it then works with law enforcement to act on what is discovered. She also explains how Polaris partners with the tech industry on both tools and training, the double-edged sword of the internet, and need for better methods of gathering and formatting web text.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Deepti Srivastava, lead product manager for Cloud Spanner at Google, discusses that service's new multi-region capabilities and Google's promise of 99.999% availability. She also shares some thoughts on the best use cases for Spanner and other cloud databases; the importance of database options in choosing a cloud provider; and the evolution of database technology that got us here -- "here" being geographically distributed, ACID-compliant SQL databases configurable with just a few clicks.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Embodied Intelligence co-founder and chief scientist Pieter Abbeel talks about the newly launched company's mission to simplify the training of industrial robots using an artificial intelligence software layer and virtual reality headsets. Additionally, Abbeel, who's also a professor at UC-Berkeley and has worked at OpenAI, discusses the benefits of different research models and the economic effects of automation, and gives some guidance for companies trying to make sense of the fast-moving AI landscape.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, IBM Fellow Bala Rajaraman discusses the company's new IBM Cloud Private offering, which leverages Kubernetes in order to help customers containerize and manage their legacy applications. Rajaraman also discusses the value of cloud-native architectures in general, and walks listeners through the differences between platforms like Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry and serverless, and where each one shines.

In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Hashicorp CEO Dave McJannet discusses his company's recent $40 million funding round, a result he credits to a maniacal focus on building specific products and making users happy. McJannet, who previously led marketing efforts at companies including SpringSource and Hortonworks, also shares his thoughts on evolving open source business models over the last decade, and on what it's like to both compete with and capitalize on the growing excitement around Kubernetes.