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Nikita Shamgunov is the founder of Neon, an open-source serverless Postgres company. Before Neon, Nikita co-founded MemSQL, now SingleStore, which is valued at over a billion dollars. He has also worked as a VC at Khosla Ventures and held engineering roles at Meta and Microsoft. Nikita is known for his strategic thinking and transparency about his decision-making process.We discuss:The importance of storytelling and providing a clear narrative for your companyWhen to introduce a sales team and how to build a sales and marketing "machine"Pricing strategies, including pricing for storage and compute in the data and analytics spaceThe evolution of revenue models in DevTools: from selling seats and storage/compute to selling tokensLessons learned from hiring MongoDB's VP of Engineering, focusing on improving reliability and building strong team management processesThe benefits of using a high-quality recruiting firm and avoiding the pitfalls of bad hiresBalancing competitiveness with respect for competitors to maintain credibility, particularly in the developer tools marketThe idea of “developing your taste” in product development, inspired by Guillermo Rauch from VercelHow modern dev tools can monetize through seats, storage/compute, or tokens, with tokens currently being the most profitableWhy Nikita advises DevTools founders to understand the business model framework and align it with their strategyThis episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:NeonSingleStore Khosla Ventures Fusion Talent
The world is changing faster than ever. Businesses are drowning in data, yet struggling to extract the insights they need to stay ahead. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the key, but traditional AI models are too slow, too static, and too disconnected from the real world. This is where real-time AI comes in. Real-time AI empowers businesses to make decisions in milliseconds, reacting to changing conditions and seizing fleeting opportunities. It's about more than just analysing historical data; it's about understanding the present and predicting the future, all in the blink of an eye.Imagine a world where customer service agents have access to the most up-to-the-minute information, resolving issues before they escalate. Envision supply chains that dynamically adjust to disruptions, ensuring products are always available. Envision marketing campaigns that personalise experiences in real time, maximising engagement and driving conversions. But real-time AI isn't just about speed; it's also about accuracy. The time to embrace real-time AI is now. Businesses that fail to adapt risk falling behind in an increasingly competitive world. By harnessing the power of real-time data and intelligent agents, enterprises can tap into new levels of performance, innovation, and growth. In this episode, Shubhangi Dua, an editor and tech journalist at EM360Tech, speaks to Madhukar Kumar, the Chief Marketing Officer at SingleStore, about the transformative potential of real-time AI for enterprises.TakeawaysReal-time AI is essential for modern enterprises.The evolution from generative AI to real-time AI is significant.Data accuracy and freshness are critical for AI success.AI agents will collaborate to enhance business processes.Enterprises must manage data silos to improve efficiency.Smaller companies can leverage AI to create innovative solutions.Data governance is crucial for protecting sensitive information.Real-time AI can significantly improve user experience.AI will enable professionals to focus on higher-value tasks.Harnessing data effectively will be a key differentiator for businesses.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Real-Time AI and Its Importance03:03 The Evolution of AI: From Generative to Real-Time05:54 Real-Time AI in Enterprises: Advantages and Examples11:01 The Future of AI Agents and Their Collaboration16:47 Preparing Enterprises for AI: Data Management and Security20:47 Business Advantages of Real-Time AI and Future Opportunities
Nikita Shamgunov is a native of Russia, coming to the US for grad school in 2005. Eventually he worked at Microsoft on the SQL Server product. A fun fact - Nikita quit business school on the first day, and decided to join Facebook and find his future co-founder. All of this worked out, and he and his co-founder built SingleStore, which is one of the highest valued companies at YC. Outside of tech, he was a semi-professional athlete in Ping Pong, achieving the status of Top 10 in Washington State back when he was at Microsoft.Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways.This is the creation story of Neon.SponsorsRapyd CloudSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://neon.tech/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitashamgunov/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard. Jordan's favorite book: The Master and Margarita (Author: Mikhail Bulgakov)(00:01) Introduction(00:08) Founding of MotherDuck(01:12) The Philosophy of Shipping Products at MotherDuck(05:02) Founding Story and Identifying the Market Opportunity(10:57) Building the First Version and Overcoming Early Challenges(12:23) Validating Customer Needs and Asking the Right Questions(18:24) Deciding What Features to Prioritize and Exclude(21:30) Positioning a New Product in a Mature Market(27:36) Overcoming Challenges in Scaling MotherDuck(32:29) Measuring Success of New Features in Enterprise Products(36:20) Structuring the Organization for Effective Execution(41:09) Preparing MotherDuck for the AI Native Era(43:28) Rapid Fire Round --------Where to find Jordan Tigani: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/--------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi
In today's data-driven world, real-time analytics has become a cornerstone for businesses seeking to make smarter, faster decisions. From enhancing user experiences to enabling continuous intelligence, the ability to process data in real-time is transforming industries. Yet, challenges such as legacy systems and the demand for innovative data management approaches persist.This episode explores the evolution of real-time analytics and its crucial role in modern data processing. We delve into how technology is reshaping the way businesses interact with data and the importance of user-centric design in creating powerful data applications.Joining Christina Stathopoulos, Founder of Dare to Data, is Rahul Rastogi, Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore. Together, they discuss the necessity of real-time data in today's fast-paced business environment, tackle the challenges organizations face in adapting to this shift, and highlight how data serves as the foundation for AI-driven innovation. Don't miss this insightful discussion packed with practical strategies and forward-looking ideas!Key TakeawaysReal-time analytics has evolved from a luxury to a necessity.Streaming technologies like Kafka and Spark have revolutionized data processing.Legacy systems are often monolithic and ill-suited for real-time analytics.Modern data platforms enable easier data management and integration.Continuous intelligence requires a solid analytics foundation.User experience is critical for the adoption of data applications.Organizations must treat data as a valuable asset.Data governance and quality are essential for effective analytics.The separation of compute from storage enhances scalability.Real-time processing with low latency improves user satisfaction.Chapters00:00 - Introduction to Real-Time Analytics06:14 - The Evolution of Technology in Data Processing10:09 - Challenges of Legacy Systems14:23 - Innovative Approaches to Data Management18:06 - Building a Foundation for AI Innovations21:27 - User Experience in Data Applications
Madhukar Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer at SingleStore (formerly MSQL), a cloud-native database company that has raised over $300M in funding. In this conversation, we explore the intersection of technical marketing, product-led growth, and the future of AI in marketing: In this episode, we cover: (00:02) Introduction and SingleStore overview (01:56) CMO role and marketing strategy (04:12) Marketing technical products to developers (08:21) Product-led growth initiatives (14:12) Product-led sales and enterprise marketing (17:49) Career transitions and journey (21:14) Skills needed for product marketing (26:12) Marketing spend and channel effectiveness (28:24) Admirable brands and marketing approaches (31:41) Evolution of communication in marketing (35:23) Perspectives on AGI (44:05) Career challenges and overcoming them (47:47) Current influences and recommendations (48:52) Mentors and career guidance (49:53) Key marketing lessons learned Where to find Madhukar Kumar: → Madhukar's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhukarkumar/ Nataraj is the host & creator of Startup Project podcast, he is a full time product manager at Microsoft, early stage investor & advisor. → LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natarajsindam → Twitter: https://x.com/natarajsindam → Email updates: https://startupproject.substack.com/ → Website: https://thestartupproject.io Referenced: - SingleStore: https://www.singlestore.com/ - Apple Marketing - Webflow - dbrand Marketing - Pegasus Documentary - "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch #ProductMarketing #TechMarketing #SingleStore #DatabaseTechnology #DeveloperMarketing #ProductLedGrowth #MarketingStrategy #CMOInsights #B2BTech #EnterpriseMarketing #CareerTransitions #MarketingLeadership #StartupMarketing #CloudComputing #TechIndustry #BrandBuilding #AIinMarketing #MarTech #TechnicalMarketing #EnterpriseSales
In this episode, Madhukar Kumar, Chief Marketing Officer at SingleStore, shares his expertise on effectively integrating AI into marketing strategies. He discusses the challenges marketers face in an increasingly complex digital landscape and how to overcome fatigue from the rapid influx of new tools. Madhukar emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs and leveraging AI to enhance creativity and decision-making. He encourages marketers to stay true to their unique perspectives while navigating change, providing practical insights for driving meaningful growth in their organizations.
HBCU supporters, stand up! It is the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas. It's HBCU HoCo season! Faith and Neysa talk about the HBCU hierarchy, what HBCU was our first choice, and how you can help support a Nashville institution. Join the conversation now and make a donation to TSU:https://epay.tnstate.edu/C20204_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=1&SINGLESTORE=true&CATID=83
On this episode of Marketing Art and Science, Host and CMO Advisor Lisa Martin is joined by SingleStore CMO Madhukar Kumar. Tune into this 30 min discussion, as they explore the symbiotic value of a product-led growth (PLG) strategy on sales and marketing, the dynamic blend of creativity and analytics in marketing at SingleStore, and the influence of AI and emerging technologies on the customer experience. Their discussion covers: Madhukar Kumar's career journey, transitioning from a journalist to a developer to a tech CMO. PLG strategies that tightly align sales and marketing and facilitate conversion of customers from freemium to enterprise models. The evolving landscape of MarTech and its impact on modern marketing strategies, including the integration of creativity and analytics. Insights into the use of AI, gen AI, and emerging technologies in marketing and their influence on the customer experience and key performance metrics.
Join us at our first in-person conference on June 25 all about AI Quality: https://www.aiqualityconference.com/ Peter Guagenti is an accomplished business builder and entrepreneur with expertise in strategy, product development, marketing, sales, and operations. Peter has helped build multiple successful start-ups to exits, fueling high growth in each company along the way. He brings a broad perspective, deep problem-solving skills, the ability to drive innovation amongst teams, and a proven ability to convert strategy into action -- all backed up by a history of delivering results. Huge thank you to AWS for sponsoring this episode. AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/ MLOps podcast #222 with Peter Guagenti, President & CMO of Tabnine - What Business Stakeholders Want to See from the ML Teams. // Abstract Peter Guagenti shares his expertise in the tech industry, discussing topics from managing large-scale tech legacy applications and data experimentation to the evolution of the Internet. He returns to his history of building and transforming businesses, such as his work in the early 90s for People magazine's website and his current involvement in AI development for software companies. Guagenti discusses the use of predictive modeling in customer management and emphasizes the importance of re-architecting solutions to fit customer needs. He also delves deeper into the AI tools' effectiveness in software development and the value of maintaining privacy. Guagenti sees a bright future in AI democratization and shares his company's development of AI coding assistants. Discussing successful entrepreneurship, Guagenti highlights balancing technology and go-to-market strategies and the value of failing fast. // Bio Peter Guagenti is the President and Chief Marketing Officer at Tabnine. Guagenti is an accomplished business leader and entrepreneur with expertise in strategy, product development, marketing, sales, and operations. He most recently served as chief marketing officer at Cockroach Labs, and he previously held leadership positions at SingleStore, NGINX (acquired by F5 Networks), and Acquia (acquired by Vista Equity Partners). Guagenti also serves as an advisor to a number of visionary AI and data companies including DragonflyDB, Memgraph, and Treeverse. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links AI Quality in Person Conference: https://www.aiqualityconference.com/ Measuring the impact of GitHub Copilot Survey: https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentials/measuring-the-impact-of-github-copilot/ AWS Trainium and Inferentia: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/ https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/AI coding assistants: 8 features enterprises should seek: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3694900/ai-coding-assistants-8-features-enterprises-should-seek.htmlCareers at Tabnine: https://www.tabnine.com/careers --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Peter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterguagenti/
This episode continues the conversation with Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore - a Series F startup that provides a cloud-native database built with speed and scale to power real-time applications.Eric and Raj discuss the implications of openly available AI. On one hand, a ton of good will be brought into the world. On the other hand, every new technology comes with its caveats and even the simplest things like booking a flight online can lead to malicious actors scamming people out of their hard earned money.Eric recalls his work with an executive at OpenAI, where he had a sneak peak into what we now know as ChatGPT, and their team was by no means blind to the possibility of their tech being used for the wrong reasons. The team at OpenAI had factored this in, and are cognizant of the fact that they are responsible for safety regulations for their software.Raj speaks on AI regulation, and believes that the biggest governments in the world will regulate AI usage appropriately, as none of them are interested in AI-supported crimes. This doesn't mean that all regulation will be the same, as global superpowers have differentiating viewpoints in their social and governing philosophies, which could cause problems down the line.Change happens faster than we think. Raj uses the analogy of how fast cars replaced horses in the early 1900's, when talking about how quickly the AI revolution can take place. Predictions are typically made drawing comparisons to the past, but as it's been proven time and time again - the future comes quicker than we can possibly imagine, and Raj sees a similar pattern with how AI is disrupting us right now.Tune into the full episode to learn more wisdom about the upcoming AI revolution!HIGHLIGHTS:00:00 What's the true value of AI?03:48 Does tech democratization lead to good or evil?07:02 AI Regulations on social media 09:53 The potential destructiveness of AI12:41 GameStop and Silicon Valley Bank 16:59 Change happens faster than we thinkConnect with Raj - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajvermaceo/Don't forget to subscribe to the Chaos to Clarity Podcast for more invaluable episodes to help you grow your business and stay ahead of the curve! To reach out to Eric, visit ChaosToClarity.io
In this episode, Eric is joined by Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore - a Series F startup that provides a cloud-native database built with speed and scale to power real-time applications.Raj speaks on their journey of finding the problem in their market. They saw how inefficient it is to navigate between multiple data platforms and that data is often too fragmented and spread between too many sources to ensure quality conclusions due to there being too many points of failure. Big tech has a huge data advantage over mid-market competitors due to the fact that leveraging data is super expensive. SingleStore is on a mission to democratize data utilization in smaller companies, which also reflects in their client base - SaaS companies between $10-300 million ARR see the most benefit from implementing SingleStore, and their best performing segment are go-to-market tools, which is a motion that historically doesn't rely on data as much as other parts of the business.Generative AI is changing the way companies utilize data. Raj mentions that in the digital age, generative AI has been in the making for decades. He sees AI being discussed in 3 buckets - first one being that it will help automate easy work, second being that hard tasks will become easy, and third being that the impossible will become possible. He predicts that 50% of software jobs will become automated. Raj is fascinated by what it means for the impossible to become possible. He believes that science will be the sector that will see the most growth from AI, and he speaks on how AI is changing the way we approach medicine. Tune into the full episode to learn more about how SingleStore is democratising data!HIGHLIGHTS:00:00 What does SingleStore do?02:06 The problem SingleStore saw in the market05:38 How agile teams suffer due to inefficient data tools09:21 What keeps incumbency in place? 12:47 How early stage startups can leverage their data16:42 How generative AI is changing the world21:40 AI implications in medicine Connect with Raj - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajvermaceo/ Don't forget to subscribe to the Chaos to Clarity Podcast for more invaluable episodes to help you grow your business and stay ahead of the curve! To reach out to Eric, visit ChaosToClarity.io
Enterprise data architecture is highly complex, databases deeply fragmented and demand for high-speed information flows continues to grow. In this edition of the Tech Disruptors podcast, SingleStore CEO Raj Verma joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst, to discuss the convergence of transactional and analytical databases, enterprises' need for real-time data and analytics and the changing competitive landscape. The two also talk about potential impacts of AI on productivity, the job market and the company's long-term ambitions.
Have you ever paused to consider the rapidly evolving landscape of database technology, especially in the era of cloud computing and serverless architectures? Today's Tech Talks Daily Podcast episode welcomes a visionary in this domain, Nikita Shamgunov, the CEO and Founder of Neon. This pioneering startup is not just altering the Postgres database scene; it's revolutionizing it with serverless capabilities, a transformative step that recently attracted a staggering $40M investment, pushing their total funding to an impressive $100M. Our journey today with Nikita isn't just about numbers and investments. It's a narrative of innovation, determination, and foresight. Before Neon, Nikita laid the foundation of MemSQL (now SingleStore), where he honed his skills as both CTO and CEO. His journey is a remarkable tale, spanning from the learning grounds of a Facebook boot camp to the competitive arena of Silicon Valley, a testament to what vision and perseverance can achieve. In our conversation, Nikita delves into the essence of Neon's innovative architecture. What sets Neon apart is not just its serverless multi-cloud Postgres databases but its ability to simplify complex database functionalities into a straightforward URL. This simplicity is a beacon of hope in an otherwise complex technological landscape. Neon's story is compelling, especially considering its inception only in 2021. Yet, it has redefined what a database provider should be in this short span. With automated management of clusters, storage, and compute functions, Neon offers fresh air in database management. Its generous free tier and scale-to-zero pricing are not just attractive features; they represent a commitment to accessibility and efficiency. The addition of database branching, allowing for instantaneous replication of any database at any point in its lifecycle, positions Neon as a frontrunner for modern development workflows. As we delve into these topics, we also touch upon the broader implications of Postgres in the era of AI and machine learning and how early-stage companies can harness the power of open-source databases. So, what does the future hold for Postgres and serverless databases? Join us in this enlightening conversation with Nikita Shamgunov and discover Neon's potential to reshape this landscape. And remember to share your thoughts: How do you see the role of databases evolving in the future of technology and business?
I sat down with Wes Kennedy, Principal Evangelist at SingleStore, during the AWS Re: Invent event. They discussed topics about SingleStore's role in the tech world and its impact on AI development. Interview Highlights: 1️⃣ AI and Real-Time Applications 2️⃣ SingleStore Now Conference 3️⃣ AWS Jam Session Involvement #data #datascience #aws #awsreinvent2023 #theravitshow
I sat with Takashi Binns, a Partner Engineer at Salesforce, during Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re: Invent. Takashi shared some insights about the partnership between Tableau and SingleStore, Tableau's future with AI, 2024 data predictions, and much more! #data #datascience #aws #awsreinvent2023 #theravitshow
What does the future of generative AI look like? And how critical are databases in shaping this future? I asked intriguing questions to Madhukar Kumar, CMO, SingleStore at AWS Re: Invent. We delved into the importance of real-time data processing in building cutting-edge AI applications. Madhukar shared insights on how immediacy in data handling is becoming increasingly crucial in a world where AI evolves rapidly. Excitingly, Madhukar gave us a glimpse into what SingleStore is pioneering in AI. Their focus on integrating AI seamlessly with database management is not just innovative but also a game-changer in the tech industry. And for those eagerly awaiting news, Madhukar teased some future announcements from SingleStore. While details are under wraps, it's clear that they are pushing the boundaries of AI and database integration. #data #datascience #aws #awsreinvent2023 #theravitshow
Learn how to harness the power of data storytelling to make a real impact on your organization with the CMO of Singlestore, Madhukar Kumar Data leaders are increasingly adopting a product mindset to drive innovation and business value.Data products are becoming essential for providing specific domains of data to specific users while maintaining governance.SingleStore is a real-time data platform that combines SQL and columnar analytics for transactional and analytical use cases. Episode Summary: In this episode of the Data Team Success podcast, host Ross Webb interviews Madhukar Kumar, CMO of SingleStore, to discuss the importance of adopting a product mindset for data leaders and the rise of data products. Madhukar shares his insights on how data leaders can transform their strategies and use data as a key differentiator for their organizations. He also discusses the benefits of using a product mindset for data products and stories, and how this can help data teams move away from a focus on infrastructure and plumbing. Key Points: Data leaders need to be close to the product in order to understand the needs of their customers and develop effective marketing strategies.A product mindset is essential for creating data products that are valuable to users and meet their specific needs.SingleStore is a powerful tool that can help data leaders implement real-time data transformation and revolutionize their data strategies. Show Notes: Introduction:Madhukar is a pioneer in the field of real-time data solutions.He has a wealth of experience in helping organizations use data to drive innovation and business value.Importance of Being Close to the Product:Data leaders need to understand the product in order to develop effective marketing strategies.They need to be able to articulate the value of the product to potential customers.Adoption of a Product Mindset:A product mindset is essential for creating data products that are valuable to users.Data leaders need to think about the product from the user's perspective.Rise of Data Products:Data products are becoming increasingly important for organizations.They provide a way to deliver specific domains of data to specific users while maintaining governance.SingleStore & Real-time Capabilities:SingleStore is a real-time data platform that combines SQL and columnar analytics.It can be used to implement real-time data transformation and revolutionize data strategies. Conclusion: Data leaders are playing an increasingly important role in organizations. By adopting a product mindset and using data products, they can help their organizations achieve their goals and stay ahead of the competition. Additional Resources: Madhukar Kumar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhukarkumar/SingleStore: https://singlestore.com/ Call to Action: Follow Madhukar Kumar on LinkedIn for more thought-provoking discussions on data leadership.Don't miss the next episode of the Data Team Success podcast, where we unravel the mysteries of data storytelling and its impact on the enterprise world. Stay tuned or miss out on the next big step in your career!
SingleStore helps businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data, and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform. The core of all AI, business intelligence, and applications is data — various bits and bytes that come in all different formats. Only when we sift through this data, reason with it, and build on top of it in real-time does it give way to vast amounts of information and knowledge. Connect with Madhukar
Nikolay and Michael discuss companion databases — when and why you might want to add another database management system to your stack (or not), and some specifics for analytics, timeseries, search, and vectors. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Heap were using Postgres + Citus for analytics as of 2022 https://www.heap.io/blog/juggling-state-machines-incident-response-and-data-soup-a-glimpse-into-heaps-engineering-culture Heap recently moved their core analytics to SingleStore (we only spotted this after recording
Today's guest is a developer turned growth marketer and an expert in Product-Led Growth (PLG). He has 18+ years of experience leading product management and marketing teams at companies such as Nutanix, Redis, and DevRev. Madhukar Kumar is the Chief Marketing Officer of SingleStore and a guest lecturer at Duke University on PLG and New The post How to think like the end-user with Madhukar Kumar appeared first on WebMechanix.
Since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3 in late 2022, various industries have been actively exploring its applications. Madhukar Kumar, CMO of SingleStore, discussed his experiments with large language models (LLMs) in this podcast episode with TNS host Heather Joslyn. He mentioned a specific LLM called Gorilla, which is trained on APIs and can generate APIs based on specific tasks. Kumar also talked about SingleStore Now, an AI conference, where they plan to teach attendees how to build generative AI applications from scratch, focusing on enterprise applications.Kumar highlighted a limitation with current LLMs - they are "frozen in time" and cannot provide real-time information. To address this, a method called "retrieval augmented generation" (RAG) has emerged. SingleStore is using RAG to keep LLMs updated. In this approach, a user query is first matched with up-to-date enterprise data to provide context, and then the LLM is tasked with generating answers based on this context. This method aims to prevent the generation of factually incorrect responses and relies on storing data as vectors for efficient real-time processing, which SingleStore enables.This strategy ensures that LLMs can provide current and contextually accurate information, making AI applications more reliable and responsive for enterprises.Learn more from The New Stack about LLMs and SingleStore:Top 5 Large Language Models and How to Use Them EffectivelyUsing ChatGPT for Questions Specific to Your Company Data6 Reasons Private LLMs Are Key for Enterprises
In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict talks to Madhukar Kumar about what a product-led growth strategy looks like in B2B.Marketers in most businesses, especially in the SaaS space, understand their need to collaborate with their product teams to have an effective strategy. However, what B2B marketers might be missing out on is a “product-led” growth strategy, and it might be because they just don't know about how PLG could impact their business. So what exactly are B2B marketers missing out on? In what ways can marketers include a PLG strategy among their wider marketing activities, and how could it uniquely support business objectives?Madhukar Kumar is the CMO of Singlestore, and he has 15+ years of experience in leading product and marketing teams for global organisations. Prior to joining Singlestore, Madhukar has served as Head of Growth and Marketing at DevRev, VP Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, VP Product and Developer Marketing at Redis Labs, and more. In addition to his career, Madhukar has previously guest lectured at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in which he teaches New Product Development. He also is currently writing a book which he publishes chapter by chapter on Substack called “ Growth”.You can find Madhukar Kumar on Linkedin.You can subscribe to Madhukar's Substack here. You can watch full video versions of the podcast on our YouTube channel.Ready to provoke the truth? Get in touch at alan-agency.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this podcast episode, Multimedia Editor Jakub Lewkowicz talks about the evolution of database tech. His guest is Adam Prout, co-founder, and CTO behind SingleStore, previously known as MemSQL.
Chuck and Roxy are back and open the show with a special 5 Mediocre Minutes as they welcome back Bob Walsh (Episode 39) to the show. He talks all about Summer of Littles 5 and the origin of it. He also asks anyone willing to be a host to reach out to him at EMAIL: summeroflittles2@gmail.com WEBSITE: summeroflittles.com TWITTER: @littlessummer2 Next it's time to "Meet the Littles" as our hosts welcome Andy Pollin to the podcast!!! (14:30) BOOK: "The Great Book of Washington DC sports Lists" TWITTER: @andypollin1 FACEBOOK: Andy Pollin RADIO SHOW: The Andy Pollin Show. Then our hosts finish the episode with your emails, notes, and announcements! They disclose the Final 2 Bracket names for The Loyal Littles Bracket Challenge sponsored by Foothills Collective owned by Larry Marshall. (55:00) WEBSITE: foothillscollective.etsy.com INSTAGRAM: @foothillscollective TINY LITTLE SUGGESTION: John Michael Hersey https://secure.touchnet.net/C20893_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=531&SINGLESTORE=true&fbclid=IwAR0TRQUGAq34FHOwbP5FAUdgzmAB9wK98OH4-PCUQv-U7wJKf_xK-oFJUkY SONG: "Narrow Minded" by Bertrands Wish www.bertrandswish.com Podcast Website - www.loyallittlespod.com Podcast Email - WTFCPODNET@GMAIL.COM Twitter:@loyallittlespod Instagram: @theloyallittlespodcast PODCAST LOGO DESIGN by Eric Londergan www.redbubble.com Search: ericlondergan --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loyallittles/support
On parle un tout petit peu de chatGPT mais d'abord des évènements étendus (extended events) sur SQL Server et de leurs capacités à faire remonter des informations précieuses pour le diagnostique voir l'analyse du code. Ensuite nous abordons le benchmark TPCH et la comparaison des performances des bases Cloud comme comme Snowflake, BigQuery, SingleStore et Synapse vs DuckDB. Eric nous parle également des outils permettant se faciliter la vie avec Terraform.
Nikita Shamgunov built a $100M revenue company, before joining Khosla Ventures to invest in other startups. Now he is going at it again, with a new tech startup that has raised $54M in just 16 months. The company, SingleStore, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Prosperity7, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Dell Technologies Capital, and Insight Partners.
Madhukar Kumar, the CMO of Singlestore and a PLG expert, shares his insights on the world of product led growth in this episode. With over 15 years of experience leading global product marketing and product management teams, Madhukar explains how PLG can transform businesses, dispels common misconceptions, and highlights upcoming trends in the field.Key Takeaways:To implement a successful PLG strategy, companies should focus on creating a product that is easy to try, adopt, and use. They should also measure product usage and customer behavior to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth.Common misconceptions about PLG include thinking that it only works for certain types of products or industries, or that it requires a freemium pricing model.In the future, PLG is likely to become even more important as companies continue to move to the cloud and as customers demand products that are easy to use and deliver value quickly. Quote:“It's not as if you either do PLG or you do PLS, it's a combination of both. You talk to your users through the premium product and the trial, but at the same time, there has to be a gradation of experience.”Episode Timestamps:*(1:47) - Madhukar's journey to CMO of Singlestore*(10:11) - The Trust Tree: Madhukar's best marketing secrets.*(29:05) - The Playbook: Singlestore's marketing strategies *(39:15) - The Dust Up: How Madhukar's handled tension *(40:44) - Quick HitsSponsor:Demand Gen Visionaries is brought to you by Qualified.com, the #1 Conversational Marketing platform for companies that use Salesforce and the secret weapon for Demand Gen pros. The world's leading enterprise brands trust Qualified to instantly meet with buyers, right on their website, and maximize sales pipeline. Visit Qualified.com to learn more.LinksConnect with Ian on LinkedInConnect with Madhukar on LinkedInLearn more about SingleStoreLearn more about Caspian Studios
In this episode, Joe discusses the urgent need for businesses to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of technology and data management. Our guest is Raj Verma, the CEO of SingleStore; a cloud-native database software company that specializes in real-time data management at scale. With over 25 years of experience in the global business and technology industries, Verma has a simple but crucial message: “Hurry!” Join us as Verma shares his personal journey and discusses how cloud computing, AI, and other emerging technologies are shaping the future of business and data management. So, whether you're a business leader looking to stay ahead of the curve or a tech enthusiast eager to learn more about the latest developments, you won't want to miss this conversation. Stay tuned for more insights from Raj Verma on the importance of real-time data management and the need for businesses to adapt to change quickly.
Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Eric Velasquez Frenkiel, CEO & Founder of Pomelo, a money transfer platform that's raised over $70 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Innovative Money Transfer: Pomelo uses credit to facilitate international money transfers, reducing transfer fees to zero and providing instant access to funds. Founder's Journey: Eric transitioned from leading SingleStore, a successful database technology startup, to founding Pomelo after identifying a personal need for a better money transfer solution. Military Influence: The responsibility and problem-solving skills Eric gained in the Israeli military significantly shaped his approach to entrepreneurship. Product-Led Growth: Pomelo focuses on a product-led growth strategy, emphasizing customer experience and community engagement. Market Validation: The initial launch saw 125,000 people sign up on the waitlist, validating strong market demand. Regulatory Navigation: Pomelo leverages the Visa and Mastercard networks to provide a secure, transparent money transfer solution, avoiding the traditional pitfalls of cash-based systems. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, VP of Technology Ecosystem at SingleStore, joins host Jake Smith in a conversation about how SingleStore's database technology...[…]
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, VP of Technology Ecosystem at SingleStore, joins host Jake Smith in a conversation about how SingleStore's database technology (SingleStoreDB) unifies transactions and analytics to power real-time business decision-making. Karl-Heinz talks about modern business applications where companies take advantage of SingleStoreDB to bring real-time analytics and data feeds together, driving business impacts. Furthermore, Karl-Heinz shares his view of the future database structure moving towards an architecture that consolidates transactions and analytics to accelerate real-time business insights. For more information, visit: https://www.singlestore.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
On this week's hemp podcast, we talk to Sarah Stephens, CEO of Midwest Hemp Technology, a hemp processing company in Augusta, Kansas, that contracts local farmers to grow hemp grain and fiber to produce hemp seed food and oil, as well as long-strand fiber. Stephens' journey into hemp started with CBD, but she realized that the potential for long-term growth was on the fiber and grain side, especially in Kansas with it's ample farmland and existing agriculture infrastructure. “I grew for CBD the first two seasons, like 95% of all licenses in Kansas were designated for,” she said. “And I was going to some of these events and farmers were talking about walking their fields and pulling out males and drip tape. And it just did not equate to what I see as traditional production farming.” While overall fiber and grain acreage in the Sunflower State is still relatively low, there is increasing interest among farmers. Midwest Hemp Technology is one of several hemp processors in Kansas, including South Bend Industrial Hemp and Prairie Band Ag. Stephens said the Kansas Department of Agriculture is supportive of the hemp program and she gets the sense that the state wants it to succeed, but the department's hands are sometimes tied when it comes to regulations. “But I see them advocating for rural changes and easing of restrictions and more commonsense approaches,” she said. Midwest Hemp Technology https://www.midwesthemptech.com/ "Harvest & Hemp on the Horizon" 4th Annual Kansas Hemp Conference Q4 Webinar Register here: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21797_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=34&CATID=519&SINGLESTORE=true News Nuggets UN report on hemp marks path to an $18 billion global industry https://hemptoday.net/un-report-on-hemp-marks-path-to-an-18-billion-global-industry/ UN Report on Hemp https://unctad.org/webflyer/commodities-glance-special-issue-industrial-hemp Update: SD Hemp Industry Is On The Grow https://www.yankton.net/community/article_6630eaf8-751c-11ed-923e-8b7e55627eb9.html Newly formed global hemp body names Australian on inaugural board https://www.cannabiz.com.au/newly-formed-global-hemp-body-names-australian-to-inaugural-board/ Thanks to our Sponsors: IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/ New Holland Ag https://agriculture.newholland.com/nar/en-us
This episode features an interview with Suresh Sathyamurthy, CMO of SingleStore. SingleStore helps businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform. Prior to SingleStore Suresh held various product and marketing leadership roles with industry leaders like Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Dell EMC helping build and grow emerging businesses in areas of Security, Data Platforms, and Cloud Services.On this episode Suresh shares his insights into building high-impact partner ecosystems, ways to demonstrate value to your customers, and secrets to non-intrusive marketing.---“You have to focus on fewer, bigger partners at scale, so you can dedicate the time and energy with them. And then over time you're creating proof points and value that other partners are going to look at and say, I want to be a part of that story. Create the energy and evidence that you need for partners to want to be a part of your ecosystem.” - Suresh Sathyamurthy, CMO, SingleStore---Episode Timestamps:*(02:18) - Suresh's role at SingleStore*(02:49) - Segment: Trust Tree*(08:05) - Targeting developers to try your product*(12:05) - Segment: The Playbook*(14:04) - Providing value to users of your product*(20:22) - The value of non-intrusive marketing*(17:35) - Building high impact partner ecosyetems*(37:32) - Segment: Quick Hits---Sponsor:Demand Gen Visionaries is brought to you by Qualified.com, the #1 Conversational Marketing platform for companies that use Salesforce and the secret weapon for Demand Gen pros. The world's leading enterprise brands trust Qualified to instantly meet with buyers, right on their website, and maximize sales pipeline. Visit Qualified.com to learn more.---LinksConnect with Suresh on LinkedInConnect with Ian on LinkedInLearn more about SingleStorewww.caspianstudios.com
SingleStore recently launched the ‘Data Intensity Index' tool to help companies understand how data-intensive their applications are. Using five variables, the Data Intensity Index gives you an assessment of what kind of data infrastructure an application will need to deliver the best user experience. This 3-minute assessment, spread over 10 questions, aims to understand how data is used by the application and calculate the intensity score. Shireesh Thota joins me on Tech Talks Daily to share the story behind the tool and the problems they set out to solve. I also learn more about the data intensity assessment and what it means if you have a high or a low score. We discuss why data-intensive applications need a modern data infrastructure and the five critical components that impact application performance
Nikita Shamgunov is the CEO of Neon, a new company building the next generation serverless Postgres database. Nikita got his PhD in St. Petersburg and worked as an engineer at Microsoft and Facebook before going on to co-found SingleStore, an analytical database company. At SingleStore, Nikita realized the massive size of the transaction databases market and the ubiquity of Postgres, the popular open-source database, all of which led him to found Neon. Neon separates the storage and compute functions to create a truly affordable and compelling cloud native Postgres. In this episode, Nikita talks to us about working with his co-founders Stas and Heikki, incubating Neon at Khosla Ventures (where Nikita is a partner), and the implications of separating compute and storage.
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Jordan Tigani is an expert in large-scale data processing, having spent a decade+ in the development and growth of BigQuery, and later SingleStore. Today, Jordan and his team at MotherDuck are in the early days of working on commercial applications for the open source DuckDB OLAP database. In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Jordan dives into the origin story of BigQuery, why he thinks we should do away with the concept of working in files, and how truly performant “data apps” will require bringing data to an end user's machine (rather than requiring them to query a warehouse directly).
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform and making you a DevOps hero. Show links Laravel 9.18 released Laravel Pint Skip Webpack when testing Validate your app on the frontend with Laravel Dry Run Requests ORM caching package for Laravel A collection of ISO standards as PHP enums Supercharged pipelines for Laravel API integrations using Saloon in Laravel Getting started with Laravel Scout and Meilisearch Running PHPStan on max with Laravel Running SingleStore on Apple Silicon A masteclass in using SingleStore to supercharge your Laravel applications SingleStore driver for Laravel
Jordan Tigani joins the show to chat about what's next for analytical databases. Jordan needs no introduction in this area, having been a driving force in creating the space of modern analytical databases - he was the founding engineer for BigQuery, led product at Singlestore, working on something new at MotherDuck, among other massive accomplishments. #dataengineering #data #analytics
A large fraction of data engineering work involves moving data from one storage location to another in order to support different access and query patterns. Singlestore aims to cut down on the number of database engines that you need to run so that you can reduce the amount of copying that is required. By supporting fast, in-memory row-based queries and columnar on-disk representation, it lets your transactional and analytical workloads run in the same database. In this episode SVP of engineering Shireesh Thota describes the impact on your overall system architecture that Singlestore can have and the benefits of using a cloud-native database engine for your next application.
Nearly seven years after Google released Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, into an unsuspecting world, 5.6 million developers worldwide use it.But that number, from the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual survey, masks a lot of frustration. Kubernetes (K8s) can make life easier for the organization that adopts it — after it makes it a lot harder. And as it scales, it can create an unending cadence of triumph and challenge.In other words: It's complicated.At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Valencia, Spain last week, a trio of experts — Saad Malik, chief technology officer and co-founder of Spectro Cloud; Bailey Hayes, principal software engineer at SingleStore; and Fabrizio Pandini, a staff engineer at VMware — joined Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and myself for a livestream event.
About WesleyWesley Faulkner is a first-generation American, public speaker, and podcaster. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and a staunch supporter of racial justice, workplace equity, and neurodiversity. His professional experience spans technology from AMD, Atlassian, Dell, IBM, and MongoDB. Wesley currently works as a Developer Advocate, and in addition, co-hosts the developer relations focused podcast Community Pulse and serves on the board for SXSW.Links Referenced: Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesley83 Polywork: https://polywork.com/wesley83 Personal Website: https://www.wesleyfaulkner.com/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Finding skilled DevOps engineers is a pain in the neck! And if you need to deploy a secure and compliant application to AWS, forgettaboutit! But that's where DuploCloud can help. Their comprehensive no-code/low-code software platform guarantees a secure and compliant infrastructure in as little as two weeks, while automating the full DevSecOps lifestyle. Get started with DevOps-as-a-Service from DuploCloud so that your cloud configurations are done right the first time. Tell them I sent you and your first two months are free. To learn more visit: snark.cloud/duplo. Thats's snark.cloud/D-U-P-L-O-C-L-O-U-D.Corey: What if there were a single place to get an inventory of what you're running in the cloud that wasn't "the monthly bill?" Further, what if there were a way to compare that inventory to what you were already managing via Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation, but then automatically add the missing unmanaged or drifted parts to it? And what if there were a policy engine to immediately flag and remediate a wide variety of misconfigurations? Well, stop dreaming and start doing; visit snark.cloud/firefly to learn more.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I am joined again for a second time this year by Wesley Faulkner. Last time we spoke, he was a developer advocate. And since then, as so many have, he's changed companies. Wesley, thank you for joining me again. You're the Head of Community at SingleStore, now. Congrats on the promotion.Wesley: Thank you. It's been a very welcome change. I love developer advocates and developer advocacy. But I love people, too, so it's almost, I think, very analogous to the ebbs and flow that we all have gone through, through the pandemic, and leaning into my strong suits.Corey: It's a big deal having a ‘head of' in a role title, as opposed to Developer Advocate, Senior Developer Advocate. And it is a different role. It's easy to default into the world of thinking that it's a promotion. Management is in many ways orthogonal to what it takes to succeed in an actual role. And further, you're not the head of DevRel, or DevRelopers or whatever you want to call the term. You are instead the Head of Community. How tied is that to developer relations, developer advocacy, or other things that we are used to using as terms of art in this space?Wesley: If we're talking about other companies, I would say the Head of Community is something that's under the umbrella of developer relations, where it's just a peer to some of the other different elements or columns of developer relations. But in SingleStore specifically, I have to say that developer relations in terms of what you think about whole umbrella is very new to the company. And so, I consider myself the first person in the role of developer relations by being the Head of Community. So, a lot of the other parts are being bolted in, but under the focus of developer as a community. So, I'm liaisoning right now as helping with spearheading some of the design of the activities that the advocates do, as well as architecting the platform and the experiences of people coming in and experiencing SingleStore through the community's perspective.So, all that to say is, what I'm doing is extremely structured, and a lot of stuff that we're doing with the efficacy, I'm using some of my expertise to help guide that, but it's still something that's kind of like an offshoot and not well integrated at the moment.Corey: How has it changed the way that you view the function of someone who's advocating to developers, which is from my cynical perspective, “Oh, it's marketing, but we don't tell people it's marketing because they won't like it.” And yes, I know, I'll get emails about that. But how does it differ from doing that yourself versus being the head of the function of a company? Because leadership is a heck of a switch? I thought earlier in my career that oh, yeah, it's a natural evolution of being a mediocre engineer. Time to be a mediocre manager. And oh, no, no, I aspired to be a mediocre manager. It's a completely different skill set and I got things hilariously wrong. What's it like for you going through that shift?Wesley: First of all, it is kind of like advertising, and people may not think of it that way. Just to give an example, movie trailers is advertising. The free samples at the grocery store is advertising. But people love those because it gives an experience that they like in a package that they are accustomed to. And so, it's the same with developer relations; it's finding the thing that makes the experience worthwhile.On the community side, this is not new to me. I've done several different roles, maybe not in this combination. But when I was at MongoDB, I was a technical community manager, which is like a cog in the whole giant machine. But before that, in my other life, I managed social and community interactions for Walmart, and I had, at the slow period, around 65, but during the holidays, it would ramp up to 95 direct reports that I managed.It's almost—if you're a fan of The Princess Bride, it's different than fighting one person. Sometimes it's easier to fight, like, a squad or a gang of people. So, being Head of Community with such a young company is definitely a lot different than. In some ways, harder to deal with this type of community where we're just growing and emerging, rather than something more well-established.Corey: It probably gives you an interesting opportunity. Because back when I was doing engineering work as an SRE or whatever we call them in that era, it was, “Yeah, wow, my boss is terrible and has no idea what the hell they're doing.” So, then I found myself in the role, and it's, “Cool. Now, do all the things that you said you would do. Put up or shut up.”And it turns out that there's a lot you don't see that our strategic considerations. I completely avoided things like managing up or managing laterally or balancing trade-offs in different ways. Yeah, you're right. If you view the role of management as strictly being something that is between you and your direct reports, you can be an amazing manager from their perspective, but completely ineffective organizationally at accomplishing the goals that have been laid out for you.Wesley: Yeah. The good thing about being head of and the first head of is that you help establish those goals. And so, when you take a role with another company saying, “Hey, we have headcount for this,” and it's an established role, then you're kind of like streamlining into a process that's already underway. What's good about this role specifically, a ‘head of,' is that I help with not only designing what are the goals and the OKRs but deciding what the teams and what the team structure should look like. And so, I'm hiring for a specific position based on how it interacts with everything else.So, when I'm coming in, I don't say, “Well, what do you do?” Or, “How do you do it?” I said, “This is what needs to be done.” And that makes it so much easier just to say that if everything is working the way it should and to give marching orders based on the grand vision, instead of hitting the numbers this quarter or next quarter. Because what is core to my belief, and what's core, too, of how I approach things is at the heart of what I'm trying to do, which is really great, in terms of making something that didn't exist before.Corey: The challenge, too, is that everyone loves to say—and I love to see this at different ways—is the evolution and understanding of the DevRel folks who I work with and I have great relationships with realizing that you have to demonstrate business value. Because I struggle with this my entire career where I know intrinsically, that if I get on stage and tell a story about a thing that is germane to what my company does, that good things are going to happen. But it's very hard to do any form of attribution to it. In a different light, this podcast is a great example of this.We have sponsors. And people are listening. Ideally, they aren't fast-forwarding through sponsor messages; I do have interesting thoughts about the sponsors that I put into these ads. And that's great, but I also appreciate that people are driving while they're listening to this, and they are doing the dishes, they are mowing the lawn, and hopefully not turning up the volume too loudly so it damages their hearing. And the idea that they're going to suddenly stop any of those things and go punch in the link that I give is a little out to lunch there.Instead, it's partially brand awareness and it is occasionally the, “Wait. That resonates exactly with the problem that I have.” So, they get to work or they get back in front of a computer and the odds are terrific they're not going to punch in that URL of whatever I wound up giving; they're going to type in whatever phrases they remember and the company name into Google. Now—and doing attribution on something like that is very hard.It gets even more hard when we're talking about something that is higher up the stack that requires a bit more buy-in than individual developers. There's often a meeting or two about it. And then someone finally approaches the company to have a conversation. Now, does it work? Yes. There are companies that are sponsoring this stuff that spend a lot of time, effort, and money on that.I don't know how you do that sort of attribution; I don't pretend to know, but I know that it works. Because these people whose entire job is making sure that it does tell me it does. So, I smile, I nod, and that's great. But it's very hard to wind up building out a direct, “If you spend X dollars sponsoring this, you will see Y dollars in response.” But in the DevOps world, when your internal doing these things, well, okay because to the company, I look an awful lot like an expensive developer except I don't ever write production code.And then—at least in the before times—“So, what does your job do? Because looking at the achievements and accomplishments last quarter, it looks an awful lot like you traveled to exotic places on the company dime, give talks that are of only vague relevance to what we do, and then hang out at parties with your friends? Nice job, how can I get that?” But it's also first on the chopping block when okay, how do we trim expenses go? And I think it's a mistake to do that. I just don't think that story of the value of developer relations is articulated super-well. And I say that, but I don't know how to do a much better job of it myself.Wesley: Well, that's why corporate or executive buy-in is important because if they know from the get-go while you're there, it makes it a little bit easier to sell. But you do have to show that you are executing. So, there are always two parts to presenting a story, and that's one, the actual quantitative, like, I've done this many talks—so that output part—I've written this many blog posts, or I've stood up this many events that people can attend to. And then there's the results saying, people did read this post, people did show up to my event, people did listen to my talk that I gave. But you also need to give the subjective ones where people respond back and say, “I loved your talk,” or, “I heard you on Corey's podcast,” or, “I read your blog posts,” because even though you might not understand that it goes all the way down in a conversion funnel to a purchase, you can least use that stand-in to say there's probably, like, 20, 30 people behind this person to have that same sentiment, so you can see that your impact is reaching people and that it's having some sort of lasting effect.That said, you have to keep it up. You have to try to increase your output and increase your sphere of influence. Because when people go to solve their problem, they're going to look into their history and their own Rolodex of saying what was the last thing that I heard? What was the last thing that's relevant?There is a reason that Pepsi and Coke still do advertising. It's not because people don't know those brands, but being easily recalled, or a center of relevance based on how many touchpoints or how many times that you've seen them, either from being on American Idol and the logo facing the camera, or seeing a whole display when you go into the grocery store. Same with display advertising. All of this stuff works hand in hand so that you can be front-of-mind with the people and the decision-makers who will make that decision. And we went through this through the pandemic where… that same sentiment, it was like, “You just travel and now you can't travel, so we're just going to get rid of the whole department.”And then those same companies are hunting for those people to come back or to rebuild these departments that are now gone because maybe you don't see what we do, but when it's gone, you definitely notice a dip. And that trust is from the top-up. You have to do not just external advocacy, but you have to do internal advocacy about what impacts you're having so that at least the people who are making that decision can hopefully understand that you are working hard and the work is paying off.Corey: Since the last time that we spoke, you've given your first keynote, which—Wesley: Yes.Corey: Is always an interesting experience to go through. It was at a conference called THAT Conference. And I feel the need to specify that because otherwise, we're going to wind up with a ‘who's on first' situation. But THAT Conference is the name.Wesley: Specify THAT. Yes.Corey: Exactly. Better specify THAT. Yes. So, what was your keynote about? And for a bit of a behind-the-scenes look, what was that like for you?Wesley: Let me do the behind-the-scenes because it's going to lead up to actual the execution.Corey: Excellent.Wesley: So, I've been on several different podcasts. And one of the ones that I loved for years is one called This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte. Was a big fan of Leo Laporte back in the Screen Saver days back in TechTV days. Loved his opinion, follow his work. And I went to a South by Southwest… three, four years ago where I actually met him.And then from that conversation, he asked me to be on his show. And I've been on the show a handful of times, just talking about tech because I love tech. Tech is my passion, not just doing it, but just experiencing and just being on either side of creating or consuming. When I moved—I moved recently also since, I think, from the last time I was on your show—when I moved here to Wisconsin, the organizer of THAT Conference said that he's been following me for a while, since my first appearance on This Week in Tech, and loved my outlook and my take on things. And he approached me to do a keynote.Since I am now Wisconsin—THAT Conference is been in Wisconsin since inception and it's been going on for ten years—and he wanted me to just basically share my knowledge. Clean slate, have enough time to just say whatever I wanted. I said, “Yes, I can do that.” So, my experience on my end was like sheer excitement and then quickly sheer terror of not having a framework of what I was going to speak on or how I was going to deliver it. And knowing as a keynote, that it would be setting the tone for the whole conference.So, I decided to talk on the thing that I knew the most about, which was myself. Talked about my journey growing up and learning what my strengths, what my weaknesses are, how to navigate life, as well as the corporate jungle, and deciding where I wanted to go. Do I want to be the person that I feel like I need to be in order to be successful, which when we look at structures and examples and the things that we hold on a pedestal, we feel that we have to be perfect, or we have to be knowledgeable, and we have to do everything, well rounded in order to be accepted. Especially being a minority, there's a lot more caveats in terms of being socially acceptable to other people. And then the other path that I could have taken, that I chose to take, was to accept my things that are seen as false, but my own quirkiness, my own uniqueness and putting that front and center about, this is me, this is my person that over the years has formed into this version of myself.I'm going to make sure that is really transparent and so if I go anywhere, they know what they're getting, and they know what they're signing up for by bringing me on board. I have an opinion, I will share my opinion, I will bring my whole self, I won't just be the person that is technical or whimsical, or whatever you're looking for. You have to take the good with the bad, you have to take the I really understand technology, but I have ADHD and I might miss some deadlines. [laugh].Corey: This episode is sponsored in parts by our friend EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB has been powering enterprise applications with PostgreSQL for 15 years. And now EnterpriseDB has you covered wherever you deploy PostgreSQL on premises, private cloud, and they just announced a fully managed service on AWS and Azure called BigAnimal, all one word.Don't leave managing your database to your cloud vendor because they're too busy launching another half dozen manage databases to focus on any one of them that they didn't build themselves. Instead, work with the experts over at EnterpriseDB. They can save you time and money, they can even help you migrate legacy applications, including Oracle, to the cloud.To learn more, try BigAnimal for free. Go to biganimal.com/snark, and tell them Corey sent you.Corey: I have a very similar philosophy, and how I approach these things where it's there is no single speaking engagement that I can fathom even being presented to me, let alone me accepting that is going to be worth me losing the reputation I have developed for authenticity. It's you will not get me to turn into a shill for whatever it is that I am speaking in front of this week. Conversely, whether it's a paid speaking engagement or not, I have a standing policy of not using a platform that is being given to me by a company or organization to make them look foolish. In other words, I will not make someone regret inviting me to speak at their events. Full stop.And I have spoken at events for AWS; I have spoken at events for Oracle, et cetera, et cetera, and there's no company out there that I'm not going to be able to get on stage and tell an entertaining and engaging story, but it requires me to dunk on them. And that's fine. Frankly, if there is a company like that where I could not say nice things about them—such as Facebook—I would simply decline to pursue the speaking opportunity. And that is the way that I view it. And very few companies are on that list, to be very honest with you.Now, there are exceptions to this, if you're having a big public keynote, I will do my traditional live-tweet the keynote and make fun of people because that is, A, expected and, B, it's live-streamed anywhere on the planet I want to be sitting at that point in time, and yeah, if you're saying things in public, you can basically expect that to be the way that I approach these things. But it's a nuanced take, and that is something that is not fully understood by an awful lot of folks who run events. I'll be the first to admit that aspects of who and what I am mean that some speaking engagements are not open to me. And I'm okay with that, on some level, I truly am. It's a different philosophy.But I do know that I am done apologizing for who I am and what I'm about. And at some point that required a tremendous amount of privilege and a not insignificant willingness to take a risk that it was going to work out all right. I can't imagine going back anymore. Now, that road is certainly not what I would recommend to everyone, particularly folks earlier in their career, particularly for folks who don't look just like I do and have a failure mode of a board seat and a book deal somewhere, but figuring out where you will and will not compromise is always an important thing to get straight for yourself before you're presented with a situation where you have to make those decisions, but now there's a whole bunch of incentive to decide in one way or another.Wesley: And that's a journey. You can't just skip sections, right? You didn't get to where you are unless you went through the previous experience that you went through. And it's true for everyone. If you see those success books or how-to books written by people who are extremely rich, and, like, how to become successful and, like, okay, well, that journey is your own. It doesn't make it totally, like, inaccessible to everyone else, but you got to realize that not everyone can walk that path. And—Corey: You were in the right place at the right time, an early employee at a company that did phenomenally well and that catapulted you into reach beyond the wildest dreams of avarice territory. Good for you, but fundamentally, when you give talks like that as a result, what it often presents as is, “I won the lottery, and here's how you can too.” It doesn't work that way. The road you walked was unique to you and that opportunity is closed, not open anyone else, so people have to find their own paths.Wesley: Yeah, and lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice. But there are some things where you can understand some fundamentals. And depending on where you go, I think you do need to know yourself, you do need to know—like, be able to access yourself, but being able to share that, of course, you have to be at a point where you feel comfortable. And so, even if you're in a space where you don't feel that you can be your authentic self or be able to share all parts of you, you yourself should at least know yourself and then make that decision. I agree that it's a point of privilege to be able to say, “Take me how I am.”I'm lucky that I've gotten here, not everyone does, and just because you don't doesn't mean that you're a failure. It just means that the world hasn't caught up yet. People who are part of marginalized society, like, if you are, let's say trans, or if you are even gay, you take the same person, the same stance, the same yearning to be accepted, and then transport it to 50 years ago, you're not safe. You will not necessarily be accepted, or you may not even be successful. And if you have a lane where you can do that, all the power to you, but not everyone could be themselves, and you just need to make sure that at least you can know yourself, even if you don't share that with the world.Corey: It takes time to get there, and I think you're right that it's impossible to get there without walking through the various steps. It's one of the reasons I'm somewhat reluctant to talk overly publicly about my side project gig of paid speaking engagements, for instance, is that the way to get those is you start off by building a reputation as a speaker, and that takes an awful lot of time. And speaking at events where there's no budget even to pay you a speaking fee out of anyway. And part of what gets the keynote invitations to, “Hey, we want you to come and give a talk,” is the fact that people have seen you speak elsewhere and know what you're about and what to expect. Here's a keynote presented by someone who's never presented on stage before is a recipe for a terrifying experience, if not for the speaker or the audience, definitely [laugh] for the event organizers because what if they choke.?Easy example of this, even now hundreds of speaking engagements in, the adrenaline hit right before I go on stage means that sometimes my knees shake a bit before I walk out on stage. I make it a point to warn the people who are standing with me backstage, “Oh, this is a normal thing. Don't worry, it is absolutely expected. It happens every time. Don't sweat it.”And, like, “Thank you for letting us know. That is the sort of thing that's useful.” And then they see me shake, and they get a little skeptical. Like, I thought this guy was a professional. What's the story and I walk on stage and do my thing and I come back. Like, “That was incredible. I was worried at the beginning.” “I told you, we all have our rituals before going on stage. Mine is to shake like a leaf.”But the value there is that people know what to generally expect when I get on stage. It's going to have humor, there's going to be a point interwoven throughout what I tend to say, and in the case of paid speaking engagements, I always make sure I know where the boundaries are of things I can make fun of a big company for. Like, I can get on stage and make fun of service naming or I can make fun of their deprecation policy or something like that, but yeah, making fun of the way that they wind up handling worker relations is probably not going to be great and it could get the person who championed me fired or centered internally. So, that is off the table.Like, even on this podcast, for example, I sometimes get feedback from listeners of, “Well, you have someone from company X on and you didn't beat the crap out of them on this particular point.” It's yeah, you do understand that by having people on the show I'm making a tacit agreement not to attack them. I'm not a journalist. I don't pretend to be. But if I beat someone up with questions about their corporate policy, yeah, very rarely do I have someone who is in a position in those companies to change that policy, and they're certainly not authorized to speak on the record about those things.So, I can beat them up on it, they can say, “I can't answer that,” and we're not going to go anywhere. What is the value of that? It looks like it's not just gotcha journalism, but ineffective gotcha journalism. It doesn't work that way. And that's never been what this show is about.But there's that consistent effort behind the scenes of making sure that people will be entertained, will enjoy what they're seeing, but also are not going to deeply regret giving me a microphone, has always been the balancing act, at least for me. And I want to be clear, my style is humor. It is not for everyone. And my style of humor has a failure mode of being a jerk and making people feel bad, so don't think that my path is the only or even a recommended way for folks who want to get more into speaking to proceed.Wesley: You also mention, though, about, like, punching up versus punching down. And if you really tear down a company after you've been invited to speak, what you're doing is you're punching down at the person who booked you. They're not the CEO; they're not the owner of the company; they're the person who's in charge of running an event or booking speakers. And so, putting that person and throwing them under the bus is punching down because now you're threatening their livelihood, and it doesn't make any market difference in terms of changing the corporate's values or how they execute. So yeah, I totally agree with you in that one.And, like you were saying before, if there's a company you really thought was abhorrent, why speak there? Why give them or lend your reputation to this company if you absolutely feel that it's something you don't want to be associated with? You can just choose not to do that. For me, when I look at speaking, it is important for me to really think about why I'm speaking as well. So, not just the company who's hiring me, but the audience that I'll be serving.So, if I'm going to help with inspiring the next generation of developers, or helping along the thought of how to make the world a better place, or how people themselves can be better people so that we can just change the landscape and make it a lot friendlier, that is also its own… form of compensation and not just speaking for a speaker's fee. So, I do agree that you need to not just be super Negative Nancy, and try to fight all fights. You need to embrace some of the good things and try to make more of those experiences good for everyone, not just the people who are inviting you there, but the people who are attending. And when I started speaking, I was not a good speaker as well. I made a lot of mistakes, and still do, but I think speaking is easier than some people think and if someone truly wants to do it, they should go ahead and get started.What is the saying? If there's something is truly important, you'll be bad at it [laugh] and you'll be okay with it. I started speaking because of my role as a developer advocate. And if you just do a Google search for ‘CFPs,' you can start speaking, too. So, those who are not public speakers and want to get into it, just Google ‘CFP' and then start applying.And then you'll get better at your submissions, you'll get better at your slides, and then once you get accepted, then you'll get better at preparing, then you'll get better at actually speaking. There's a lot of steps between starting and stopping and it's okay to get started doing that route. The other thing I wanted to point out is I feel public speaking is the equivalent of lifting your own bodyweight. If you can do it, you're one of the small few of the population that is willing to do so or that can do it. If you start public speaking, that in itself is an accomplishment and an experience that is something that is somewhat enriching. And being bad at it doesn't take the passion away from you. If you just really want to do it, just keep doing it, even if you're a bad speaker.Corey: Yeah. The way to give a great talk because you have a bunch of terrible talks first.Wesley: Yeah. And it's okay to do that.Corey: And it's not the in entirety of community. It's not even a requirement to be involved with the community. If you're one of those people that absolutely dreads the prospect of speaking publicly, fine. I'm not suggesting that, oh, you need to get over that and get on stage. That doesn't help anyone. Don't do the things you dread doing because you know that it's not going to go well for you.That's the reason I don't touch actual databases. I mean, come on, let's be realistic. I will accidentally the data, and then we won't have a company anymore. So, I know what things I'm good at and things I'm not. I also don't do hostage negotiations, for obvious reasons.Wesley: And also, here's a little, like, secret tip. If you really want to do public speaking and you start doing public speaking and you're not so good at it from other peoples' perspective, but you still love doing it and you think you're getting better, doing public speaking is one of those things where you can say that you do it and no one will really question how good you are at it. [laugh]. If you're just in casual conversation, it's like, “Hey, I wrote a book.” People like, “Oh, wow. This person wrote the book on blah, blah, blah.”Corey: It's a self-published book that says the best way to run Kubernetes. It's a single page; it says, “Don't.” In 150-point type. “The end.” But I wrote a book.Wesley: Yeah.Corey: Yeah.Wesley: People won't probe too much and it'll help you with your development. So, go ahead and get started. Don't worry about doing that thing where, like, I have to be the best before I can present it. Call yourself a public speaker. Check, done.Corey: Always. We are the stories we tell, and nowhere is it more true than in the world of public speaking. I really want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to speak with me about this for a second time in a single year. Oh, my goodness. If people want to learn more about what you're up to, where can they find you?Wesley: I'm on Twitter, @wesley83 on Twitter. And you can find me also on PolyWork. So, polywork.com/wesley83. Or just go to wesleyfaulkner.com which redirects you there. I list pretty much everything that I am working on and any upcoming speaking opportunities, hopefully when they release that feature, will also be on that Polywork page.Corey: Excellent. And of course, I started Polywork recently, and I'm at thoughtleader.cloud because of course I am, which is neither here nor there. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak about this side of the industry that we never really get to talk about much, at least not publicly and not very often.Wesley: Well, thank you for having me on the show. And I wanted to take some time to say thank you for the work that you're doing. Not just elevating voices like myself, but talking truth to power, like we mentioned before, but being yourself and being a great representation of how people should be treating others: being honest without being mean, being snarky without being rude. And other companies and other people who've given me a chance, and given me a platform, I wanted to say thank you to you too, and I wouldn't be here unless it was people like you acknowledging the work that I've been doing.Corey: All it takes is just recognizing what you're doing and acknowledging it. People often want to thank me for this stuff, but it's just, what, for keeping my eyes open? I don't know, I feel like it's just the job; it's not something that is above and beyond any expected normal behavior. The only challenge is I look around the industry and I realize just how wrong that impression is, apparently. But here we are. It's about finding people doing interesting work and letting them tell their story. That's all this podcast has ever tried to be.Wesley: Yeah. And you do it. And doing the work is part of the reward, and I really appreciate you just going through the effort. Even having your ears open is something that I'm glad that you're able to at least know who the people are and who are making noises—or making noise to raise their profile up and then in turn, sharing that with the world. And so, that's a great service that you're providing, not just for me, but for everyone.Corey: Well, thank you. And as always, thank you for your time. Wesley Faulkner, Head of Community at SingleStore. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with a rambling comment telling me exactly why DevRel does not need success metrics of any kind.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.
Data is everywhere, in everything, but how do you know if your company is optimized for a data-driven future? A new term is emerging that might be the best way to tell: data intensity. You'll hear from Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at SAS, and Oliver Schabenberger, Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore, as they define data intensity, share advice to improve data literacy, and discuss why curiosity is key for innovation, employee retention, and more.---------Quotes“I think to the traditionalist…the idea of citizen ‘anything' scares them, you know? It's just different. I think that's where companies, especially modern companies, lean into that uncomfortableness. They lean into it for scale and how to grow. They lean into it for curiosity. When you shy away from the idea of enabling the citizens, then that means you're not feeding fuel to the curiosity that propels us forward.” - Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO, SAS“Data intensity is a manifestation of tech intensity. We ask ourselves, ‘What data resources do we have? What data resources do we need to become more data-driven, and what can we build with it?' It's recognizing that data intensity is increasing everywhere, and that is a good thing. There's more data and we have more uses for data. You want to go from a more descriptive, backward-looking, historical-looking approach to data to a more forward-looking, predictive approach.” - Oliver Schabenberger, Chief Innovation Officer, SingleStore---------Time Stamps:* (1:47) Meet Oliver & Jay, and learn about SAS and SingleStore* (6:45) What is data intensity? * (12:12) Why data intensity can become the new KPI * (15:03) Are CIOs responsible for employees' data literacy?* (22:36) How promoting curiosity can help employee retention * (26:42) What managers can do to improve the employee experience * (29:27) Secrets more CIOs should know * (32:50) Oliver and Jay ask each other questions--------SponsorThis podcast is brought to you by Asana. Asana is a leading work management platform that empowers teams to orchestrate their work — from daily tasks to big strategic initiatives — all in one place. By enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly, Asana helps organizations of all sizes and industries achieve their goals, faster. Learn more at Asana.com.--------LinksConnect with Jay on LinkedInConnect with Oliver on LinkedInLearn more about SASLearn more about the SingleStore
A message from our sponsor Do you struggle with communicating with dev teams and understanding technical terminology and concepts? On episode 98, I hosted Irene Yu, founder of Skiplevel, an on-demand training program that helps professionals and teams become more technical in just 5 weeks... All without learning to code. Learn the knowledge and skills you need to better communicate with devs and become more confident in your day-to-day role with the Skiplevel program. Go to Skiplevel.co and use code OKIP75 to get $75 off the program in the next 30 days. About this Episode An interview with Tessa Kriesel & Wesley Faulkner. Tessa & Wesley are passionate advocates for the craft of Developer Relations (DevRel), building communities and supporting users of products aimed at developers. We talk about a lot, including: What DevRel is, what they love about it and how there's not one boring DevRel person in the world Their journeys into DevRel and whether there's a standard career path for people trying to get into the trade The types of companies that need DevRel teams and how the concept of "developer-first" and "developer plus" products informs when you need to spin up a DevRel team Where DevRel sits within the organisation, the other functions it intersects with and whether it's really just a part of marketing Why it matters that business leaders understand the true value of DevRel rather than seeing them as one team to do just about anything that comes up Whether we need DevRel at all when the vast majority of PMs claim to be technical enough to talk to developers anyway The ways that DevRel and Product teams can work together, some of the things that DevRel teams need from PMs & what they can give back in return And much more! Contact Tessa or Wesley (or both!) If you want to catch up with Tessa, you can reach out to her on Twitter, on Polywork, at TessaKriesel.com or check out Devocate If you want to catch up with Wesley, you can reach out to him on Twitter, on Polywork or check out his podcast Community Pulse.
Raj Verma is the CEO at SingleStore, a database management system that helps modern applications be fast, frictionless, and flexible. When Raj started at SingleStore, he was Co-CEO with SingleStore's founder, Nikita Shamgunov. By building a healthy relationship and friendship with Nikita, Raj was able to lead with the company's founding principles, keeping that essence that makes SingleStore so special. Raj's transition to Co-CEO and later to CEO has as much to do with his mindset and leadership skills as it does with the CEO job description. In this episode, Catherine and Raj talk about Raj's transition from Co-CEO to CEO, why Raj views CEO as a mindset, how Raj leads with “a warrior's mentality and a servant's heart,” the importance of adaptation and change, how to build company culture, and more.Topics Include: - Relationship between founder and CEO - How his partnership with Nikita started - The accountability that comes with being a CEO- Executive coaching- Conscious capitalism - Combining business strategy with culture- The importance of finding you're why- What drives Raj toward success- Adapting to new circumstances - And other topics…Raj Verma is the Chief Executive Officer at SingleStore. He has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software and scaling operations. Before SingleStore, Raj was the CEO, EVP of Global Scales, and COO of TIBCO Software, a company that he helped grow to over $1 billion in revenue. He was also COO at Aptus Software and Hortonworks. Raj holds a BA in computer science from BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore, India. Resources Mentioned: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807060100/ Bad Blood by John Carreyrou: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts: https://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330537
In this episode, host of Out of the Clouds Anne Muhlethaler interviews Wesley Faulkner. Wesley is a first-generation American, public speaker, and podcaster, and he currently works as a Head of Community at SingleStore, co-hosts the developer relations focused podcast Community Pulse and serves on the board for South by Southwest. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and a staunch supporter of racial justice, workplace equity and neurodiversity. A tech enthusiast since his teens, Wesley first trained as an electrical and computer engineer (despite growing up without owning a personal computer himself). He shares the arc of his multipronged career from hardware to software, how being an early adopter of Twitter led him to social media management, and later to ‘dev rel' (or developer relations). The two discuss how Wesley navigated his life and career with a late diagnosis of ADHD and dyslexia, and how he became a passionate advocate for neurodiverse populations in the work environment. His THAT conference keynote, ‘Be like me… different' was a great starting point to discuss how ‘community shapes us', in which Wesley offers his perspective on the evolution of the role of social media manager, what to consider to create a community and his vision for the metaverse. Finally, Wesley offers his thoughts on how organisations can work towards being more inclusive for neurodivergent team members, including by measuring effort, not just success, and encouraging experimentation. A very passionate, in-depth and honest conversation. Happy listening!***Selected links from episode You cand find Wesley on Polywork and on Twitter On LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley83/AMD - https://www.amd.com/enDevRel - or developer relations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_relationsTHAT conference - https://that.us/that-conference/Wesley's keynote 'Be just like me... different' - https://that.us/activities/f0ByacQCrzrCC5kYNsMowhich you can watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/YP7RfeX8xnYThe Workology Podcast with Wesley Faulkner - https://www.peatworks.org/podcast-neurodiversity-intersectionality-a-disclosure-challenge/SMART goals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteriaPriya Parker book - The Art of Gathering You Can Change Other People book - https://bregmanpartners.com/books/you-can-change-other-people/The End of Bias book by Jessica Nordell - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250186188/theendofbiasabeginningDon't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU *** If you enjoyed this episode, click subscribe for more, and consider writing a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, it helps people find us and also helps to secure future guests. Thank you so much for listening! For all notes and transcripts, please visit Out Of The Clouds on Simplecast - https://out-of-the-clouds.simplecast.com/ Sign up for Anne's email newsletter for more from Out of the Clouds at https://annevmuhlethaler.com. Follow Anne: Twitter: @annvi IG: @_outoftheclouds
SingleStore is a multi-use, multi-model database designed for transactional and analytic workloads, as well as search and other domain specific applications. SingleStore is the evolution of the database company MemSQL, which sought to bring fast, in-memory SQL database technology to market. Jordan Tigani is Chief Product Officer of SingleStore and joins the show to talk The post SingleStore with Jordan Tigani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
SingleStore is a multi-use, multi-model database designed for transactional and analytic workloads, as well as search and other domain specific applications. SingleStore is the evolution of the database company MemSQL, which sought to bring fast, in-memory SQL database technology to market. Jordan Tigani is Chief Product Officer of SingleStore and joins the show to talk The post SingleStore with Jordan Tigani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
SingleStore is a multi-use, multi-model database designed for transactional and analytic workloads, as well as search and other domain specific applications. SingleStore is the evolution of the database company MemSQL, which sought to bring fast, in-memory SQL database technology to market. Jordan Tigani is Chief Product Officer of SingleStore and joins the show to talk The post SingleStore with Jordan Tigani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
The Database for the Data-Intensive Era SingleStore is a distributed, relational, SQL database management system that features ANSI SQL support and is known for speed in data ingest, transaction processing, and query processing. SingleStore is the ideal all-in-one database for operational analytics and AI/ML-powered applications that requires fast data ingest, high performance queries and elastic scaling with familiar relational SQL. SingleStore is dedicated to helping businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate innovations.
Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader. Join host Jessica Miller-Merrell, founder of Workology.com as she sits down and gets to the bottom of trends, tools, and case studies for the business leader HR and recruiting professional who is tired of the status quo. Now here’s Jessica with this episode […] The post Episode 344: Neurodiversity and Accessibility With Wesley Faulkner, Head of Community at SingleStore appeared first on Workology.
https://go.dok.community/slack https://dok.community ABSTRACT OF THE TALK We all know that data intensive applications have had explosive growth in the past decade. Data now drives significant portions of our lives, from making sense of IoT swarm data to detecting fraudulent transactions at your bank. As software developers, we all have unprecedented opportunities to build data applications that generate value from these massive datasets. Join Bart Farrell and Joe Karlsson for this talk as we discuss gotchas and best practices of building deploying and scaling data intensive apps. KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK Build a data-intensive application from scratch using only SQL. We will discuss gotchas and best practices of building deploying and scaling a key-value store. BIO Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Database Engineer turned Developer Advocate (and massive data nerd) currently working at SingleStore. He empowers developers to think creatively when building applications with a massive amount of data, through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need. Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid [TikToker]
2021 was a busy year for cloud databases, with startups like Cockroach Labs, DataStax, and SingleStore challenging larger, established vendors like Oracle, IBM, and SAP. And of course the Big 3 cloud providers - Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud.There's a lot of momentum carrying into 2022. A few observations on products and platforms. First, I expect we will see more Exabyte-size databases, which are 1,000 times larger than the petabyte databases that many businesses operate today. We're moving into the realm of extreme data, and that's going to require even greater scalability than most companies are experienced with. That will be a challenge.Second, database migrations from on-premises systems to the cloud will continue to be a major trend, and not always an easy one, which will require new tools and services. Database migrations can actually take weeks and even months to complete.Third, database management is getting easier. Cloud database providers have begun offering fully managed services, "serverless" capabilities, and autonomous databases, all of which reduce the amount of provisioning and hands-on management required.And finally, more business people will begin to pay attention to who has access to data and where data is stored, which means conversations about governance and data distribution will become more of a line of business conversation.A few comments about the competitive landscape. I see 3 major trends."Immovable objects meet irresistible forces." Immovable objects are the deeply rooted vendors like Oracle and IBM, and irresistible forces are the cloud-native startups. These emerging companies are coming on strong, and the old guard must continue reinventing themselves.The Big 3 cloud providers are the new center of gravity for data management. AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have momentum with their portfolios of purpose-built databases, and other cloud services like analytics and AI.And last, Snowflake, with its data cloud model, has leap frogged old style centralized data warehouses. I expect more database providers to offer their own Snowflake-like services.For more on the latest trends in the cloud database market, register for Acceleration Economy's Cloud Database Battleground on January 27, 2022. The digital event will be hosted by John Foley, editor of the Cloud Database Report and database analyst with Acceleration Economy. Registration is free. Participating companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, DataStax, Redis, SingleStore, and Yugabyte. Each vendor will answer the same five questions:How does your database help organizations manage data at scale and speed to lead their industry?When customers talk about becoming a data-driven organization and creating new revenue streams with data, how do you help them make that a reality?What are the top reasons developers and IT teams want to use your cloud database for the first time?In what ways does your cloud database simplify data distribution and sharing across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments?How does your cloud database provide a trusted data environment through access, security, privacy, and governance controls?
DevRel has evolved over the past few years and in this podcast we are talking to the groundbreaking thought leaders who are paving the way for people and organizations who want to follow DevRel best practices. To many people, Developer Relations is the community management for technical audiences, but for others it's a lot more. It's building relationships and fostering trust, it's collecting and relaying feedback to other teams or it's inspiring people to build tools to empower.This week we our guest is Wesley Faulkner. Wesley experience spans multiple facets of the technology industry. With over 20 years of domain knowledge in product marketing, product management, strategic planning and software/hardware implementation, Wesley's ability to communicate advanced concepts to general audiences, stakeholders, and engineers makes him ideal for his role as Developer Relations professional.
About MilesAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.Links: SADA.com: https://sada.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesward Email: miles@sada.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It seems like there is a new security breach every day. Are you confident that an old SSH key, or a shared admin account, isn't going to come back and bite you? If not, check out Teleport. Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all of your infrastructure. The open source Teleport Access Plane consolidates everything you need for secure access to your Linux and Windows servers—and I assure you there is no third option there. Kubernetes clusters, databases, and internal applications like AWS Management Console, Yankins, GitLab, Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, and more. Teleport's unique approach is not only more secure, it also improves developer productivity. To learn more visit: goteleport.com. And not, that is not me telling you to go away, it is: goteleport.com.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Redis, the company behind the incredibly popular open source database that is not the bind DNS server. If you're tired of managing open source Redis on your own, or you're using one of the vanilla cloud caching services, these folks have you covered with the go to manage Redis service for global caching and primary database capabilities; Redis Enterprise. To learn more and deploy not only a cache but a single operational data platform for one Redis experience, visit redis.com/hero. Thats r-e-d-i-s.com/hero. And my thanks to my friends at Redis for sponsoring my ridiculous non-sense. Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I am joined today, once again by my friend and yours, Miles Ward, who's the CTO at SADA. However, he is, as I think of him, the closest thing the Google Cloud world has to Corey Quinn. Now, let's be clear, not the music and dancing part that is Forrest Brazeal, but Forrest works at Google Cloud, whereas Miles is a reasonably salty third-party. Miles, thank you for coming back and letting me subject you to that introduction.Miles: Corey, I appreciate that introduction. I am happy to provide substantial salt. It is easy, as I play brass instruments that produce my spit in high volumes. It's the most disgusting part of any possible introduction. For the folks in the audience, I am surrounded by a collection of giant sousaphones, tubas, trombones, baritones, marching baritones, trumpets, and pocket trumpets.So, Forrest threw down the gauntlet and was like, I can play a keyboard, and sing, and look cute at the same time. And so I decided to fail at all three. We put out a new song just a bit ago that's, like, us thanking all of our customers and partners, covering Kool & the Gang “Celebration,” and I neither look good, [laugh] play piano, or smiling, or [capturing 00:01:46] any of the notes; I just play the bass part, it's all I got to do.Corey: So, one thing that I didn't get to talk a lot about because it's not quite in my universe, for one, and for another, it is during the pre re:Invent—pre:Invent, my nonsense thing—run up, which is Google Cloud Next.Miles: Yes.Corey: And my gag a few years ago is that I'm not saying that Google is more interested in what they're building and what they're shipping, but even their conference is called Next. Buh dum, hiss.Miles: [laugh].Corey: So, I didn't really get to spend a lot of attention on the Google Cloud releases that came out this year, but given that SADA is in fact the, I believe, largest Google Cloud partner on the internet, and thus the world—Miles: [unintelligible 00:02:27] new year, three years in a row back, baby.Corey: Fantastic. I assume someone's watch got stuck or something. But good work. So, you have that bias in the way that I have a bias, which is your business is focused around Google Cloud the way that mine is focused on AWS, but neither of us is particularly beholden to that given company. I mean, you do have the not getting fired as partner, but that's a bit of a heavy lift; I don't think I can mouth off well enough to get you there.So, we have a position of relative independence. So, you were tracking Google Next, the same way that I track re:Invent. Well, not quite the same way I track re:Invent; there are some significant differences. What happened at Cloud Next 2021, that the worst of us should be paying attention to?Miles: Sure. I presented 10% of the material at the first re:Invent. There are 55 sessions; I did six. And so I have been at Cloud events for a really long time and really excited about Google's willingness to dive into demos in a way that I think they have been a little shy about. Kelsey Hightower is the kind of notable deep exception to that. Historically, he's been ready to dive into the, kind of, heavy hands-on piece but—Corey: Wait, those were demos? [Thought 00:03:39] was just playing Tetris on stage for the love of it.Miles: [laugh]. No. And he really codes all that stuff up, him and the whole team.Corey: Oh, absol—I'm sorry. If I ever grow up, I wish to be Kelsey Hightower.Miles: [laugh]. You and me both. So, he had kind of led the charge. We did a couple of fun little demos while I was there, but they've really gotten a lot further into that, and I think are doing a better job of packaging the benefits to not just developers, but also operators and data scientists and the broader roles in the cloud ecosystem from the new features that are being launched. And I think, different than the in-person events where there's 10, 20,000, 40,000 people in the audience paying attention, I think they have to work double-hard to capture attention and get engineers to tune in to what's being launched.But if you squint and look close, there are some, I think, very interesting trends that sit in the back of some of the very first launches in what I think are going to be whole veins of launches from Google over the course of the next several years that we are working really hard to track along with and make sure we're extracting maximum value from for our customers.Corey: So, what was it that they announced that is worth paying attention to? Now, through the cacophony of noise, one announcement that [I want to note 00:04:49] was tied to Next was the announcement that GME group, I believe, is going to be putting their futures exchange core trading systems on Google Cloud. At which point that to me—and I know people are going to yell at me, and I don't even slightly care—that is the last nail in the coffin of the idea that well, Google is going to turn this off in a couple years. Sorry, no. That is not a thing that's going to happen. Worst case, they might just stop investing it as aggressively as they are now, but even that would be just a clown-shoes move that I have a hard time envisioning.Miles: Yeah, you're talking now over a dozen, over ten year, over a billion-dollar commitments. So, you've got to just really, really hate your stock price if you're going to decide to vaporize that much shareholder value, right? I mean, we think that, in Google, stock price is a material fraction of the recognition of the growth trajectory for cloud, which is now basically just third place behind YouTube. And I think you can do the curve math, it's not like it's going to take long.Corey: Right. That requires effectively ejecting Thomas Kurian as the head of Google Cloud and replacing him with the former SVP of Bad Decisions at Yahoo.Miles: [laugh]. Sure. Google has no shyness about continuing to rotate leadership. I was there through three heads of Google Cloud, so I don't expect that Thomas will be the last although I think he may well go down in history as having been the best. The level of rotation to the focuses that I think are most critical, getting enterprise customers happy, successful, committed, building macroscale systems, in systems that are critical to the core of the business on GCP has grown at an incredible rate under his stewardship. So, I think he's doing a great job.Corey: He gets a lot of criticism—often from Googlers—when I wind up getting the real talk from them, which is, “Can you tell me what you really think?” Their answer is, “No,” I'm like, “Okay, next question. Can I go out and buy you eight beers and then”— and it's like, “Yeah.” And the answer that I get pretty commonly is that he's brought too much Oracle into Google. And okay, that sounds like a bad thing because, you know, Oracle, but let's be clear here, but what are you talking about specifically? And what they say distills down to engineers are no longer the end-all be-all of everything that Google Cloud. Engineers don't get to make sales decisions, or marketing decisions, or in some cases, product decisions. And that is not how Google has historically been run, and they don't like the change. I get it, but engineering is not the only hard thing in the world and it's not the only business area that builds value, let's be clear on this. So, I think that the things that they don't like are in fact, what Google absolutely needs.Miles: I think, one, the man is exceptionally intimidating and intentionally just hyper, hyper attentive to his business. So, one of my best employees, Brad [Svee 00:07:44], he worked together with me to lay out what was the book of our whole department, my team of 86 people there. What are we about? What do we do? And like I wanted this as like a memoriam to teach new hires as got brought in. So, this is, like, 38 pages of detail about our process, our hiring method, our promotional approach, all of it. I showed that to my new boss who had come in at the time, and he thought some of the pictures looked good. When we showed it to TK, he read every paragraph. I watched him highlight the paragraphs as he went through, and he read it twice as fast as I can read the thing. I think he does that to everybody's documents, everywhere. So, there's a level of just manual rigor that he's brought to the practice that was certainly not there before that. So, that alone, it can be intimidating for folks, but I think people that are high performance find that very attractive.Corey: Well, from my perspective, he is clearly head and shoulders above Adam Selipsky, and Scott Guthrie—the respective heads of AWS and Azure—for one key reason: He is the only one of those three people who follows me on Twitter. And—Miles: [laugh].Corey: —honestly, that is how I evaluate vendors.Miles: That's the thing. That's the only measure, yep. I've worked on for a long time with Selipsky, and I think that it will be interesting to see whether Adam's approach to capital allocation—where he really, I think, thinks of himself as the manager of thousands of startups, as opposed to a manager of a global business—whether that's a more efficient process for creating value for customers, then, where I think TK is absolutely trying to build a much more unified, much more singular platform. And a bunch of the launches really speak to that, right? So, one of the product announcements that I think is critical is this idea of the global distributed cloud, Google Distributed Cloud.We started with Kubernetes. And then you layer on to that, okay, we'll take care of Kubernetes for you; we call that Anthos. We'll build a bunch of structural controls and features into Anthos to make it so that you can really deal with stuff in a global way. Okay, what does that look like further? How do we get out into edge environments? Out into diverse hardware? How do we partner up with everybody to make sure that, kind of like comparing Apple's approach to Google's approach, you have an Android ecosystem of Kubernetes providers instead of just one place you can buy an outpost. That's generally the idea of GDC. I think that's a spot where you're going to watch Google actually leverage the muscle that it already built in understanding open-source dynamics and understanding collaboration between companies as opposed to feeling like it's got to be built here. We've got to sell it here. It's got to have our brand on it.Corey: I think that there's a stupendous and extreme story that is still unfolding over at Google Cloud. Now, re:Invent this year, they wound up talking all about how what they were rolling out was a focus on improving primitives. And they're right. I love their managed database service that they launched because it didn't exist.Miles: Yeah Werner's slide, “It's primitives, not frameworks.” I was like, I think customers want solutions, not frameworks or primitives. [laugh]. What's your plan?Corey: Yeah. However, I take a different perspective on all of this, which is that is a terrific spin on the big headline launches all missed the re:Invent timeline, and… oops, so now we're just going to talk about these other things instead. And that's great, but then they start talking about industrial IOT, and mainframe migrations, and the idea of private 5G, and running fleets of robots. And it's—Miles: Yeah, that's a cool product.Corey: Which one? I'm sorry, they're all very different things.Miles: Private 5G.Corey: Yeah, if someone someday will explain to me how it differs from Wavelength, but that's neither here nor there. You're right, they're all interesting, but none of them are actually doing the thing that I do, which is build websites, [unintelligible 00:11:31] looking for web services, it kind of says it in the name. And it feels like it's very much broadening into everything, and it's very difficult for me to identify—and if I have trouble that I guarantee you customers do—of, which services are for me and which are very much not? In some cases, the only answer to that is to check the pricing. I thought Kendra, their corporate information search thing was for me, then it's 7500 bucks a month to get started with that thing, and that is, “I can hire an internal corporate librarian to just go and hunt through our Google Drive.” Great.Miles: Yeah.Corey: So, there are—or our Dropbox, or our Slack. We have, like, five different information repositories, and this is how corporate nonsense starts, let me assure you.Miles: Yes. We call that luxury SaaS, you must enjoy your dozens of overlapping bills for, you know, what Workspace gives you as a single flat rate.Corey: Well, we have [unintelligible 00:12:22] a lot of this stuff, too. Google Drive is great, but we use Dropbox for holding anything that touches our customer's billing information, just because I—to be clear, I do not distrust Google, but it also seems a little weird to put the confidential billing information for one of their competitors on there to thing if a customer were to ask about it. So, it's the, like, I don't believe anyone's doing anything nefarious, but let's go ahead and just make sure, in this case.Miles: Go further man. Vimeo runs on GCP. You think YouTube doesn't want to look at Vimeo stats? Like they run everything on GCP, so they have to have arrived at a position of trust somehow. Oh, I know how it's called encryption. You've heard of encryption before? It's the best.Corey: Oh, yes. I love these rumors that crop up every now and again that Amazon is going to start scanning all of its customer content, somehow. It's first, do you have any idea how many compute resources that would take and to if they can actually do that and access something you're storing in there, against their attestations to the contrary, then that's your story because one of them just makes them look bad, the other one utterly destroys their entire business.Miles: Yeah.Corey: I think that that's the one that gets the better clicks. So no, they're not doing that.Miles: No, they're not doing that. Another product launch that I thought was super interesting that describes, let's call it second place—the third place will be the one where we get off into the technical deep end—but there's a whole set of coordinated work they're calling Cortex. So, let's imagine you go to a customer, they say, “I want to understand what's happening with my business.” You go, “Great.” So, you use SAP, right? So, you're a big corporate shop, and that's your infrastructure of choice. There are a bunch of different options at that layer.When you set up SAP, one of the advantages that something like that has is they have, kind of, pre-built configurations for roughly your business, but whatever behaviors SAP doesn't do, right, say, data warehousing, advanced analytics, regression and projection and stuff like that, maybe that's somewhat outside of the core wheelhouse for SAP, you would expect like, oh okay, I'll bolt on BigQuery. I'll build that stuff over there. We'll stream the data between the two. Yeah, I'm off to the races, but the BigQuery side of the house doesn't have this like bitching menu that says, “You're a retailer, and so you probably want to see these 75 KPIs, and you probably want to chew up your SKUs in exactly this way. And here's some presets that make it so that this is operable out of the box.”So, they are doing the three way combination: Consultancies plus ISVs plus Google products, and doing all the pre-work configuration to go out to a customer and go I know what you probably just want. Why don't I just give you the whole thing so that it does the stuff that you want? That I think—if that's the very first one, this little triangle between SAP, and Big Query, and a bunch of consultancies like mine, you have to imagine they go a lot further with that a lot faster, right? I mean, what does that look like when they do it with Epic, when they go do it with Go just generally, when they go do it with Apache? I've heard of that software, right? Like, there's no reason not to bundle up what the obvious choices are for a bunch of these combinations.Corey: The idea of moving up the stack and offering full on solutions, that's what customers actually want. “Well, here's a bunch of things you can do to wind up wiring together to build a solution,” is, “Cool. Then I'm going to go hire a company who's already done that is going to sell it to me at a significant markup because I just don't care.” I pay way more to WP Engine than I would to just run WordPress myself on top of AWS or Google Cloud. In fact, it is on Google Cloud, but okay.Miles: You and me both, man. WP Engine is the best. I—Corey: It's great because—Miles: You're welcome. I designed a bunch of the hosting on the back of that.Corey: Oh, yeah. But it's also the—I—well, it costs a little bit more that way. Yeah, but guess what's not—guess what's more expensive than that bill, is my time spent doing the care and feeding of this stuff. I like giving money to experts and making it their problem.Miles: Yeah. I heard it said best, Lego is an incredible business. I love their product, and you can build almost any toy with it. And they have not displaced all other plastic toy makers.Corey: Right.Miles: Some kids just want to buy a little car. [laugh].Corey: Oh, yeah, you can build anything you want out of Lego bricks, which are great, which absolutely explains why they are a reference AWS customer.Miles: Yeah, they're great. But they didn't beat all other toy companies worldwide, and eliminate the rest of that market because they had the better primitive, right? These other solutions are just as valuable, just as interesting, tend to have much bigger markets. Lego is not the largest toy manufacturer in the world. They are not in the top five of toy manufacturers in the world, right?Like, so chasing that thread, and getting all the way down into the spots where I think many of the cloud providers on their own, internally, had been very uncomfortable. Like, you got to go all the way to building this stuff that they need for that division, inside of that company, in that geo, in that industry? That's maybe, like, a little too far afield. I think Google has a natural advantage in its more partner-oriented approach to create these combinations that lower the cost to them and to customers to getting out of that solution quick.Corey: So, getting into the weeds of Google Next, I suppose, rather than a whole bunch of things that don't seem to apply to anyone except the four or five companies that really could use it, what things did Google release that make the lives of people building, you know, web apps better?Miles: This is the one. So, I'm at Amazon, hanging out as a part of the team that built up the infrastructure for the Obama campaign in 2012, and there are a bunch of Googlers there, and we are fighting with databases. We are fighting so hard, in fact, with RDS that I think we are the only ones that [Raju 00:17:51] has ever allowed to SSH into our RDS instances to screw with them.Corey: Until now, with the advent of RDS Custom, meaning that you can actually get in as root; where that hell that lands between RDS and EC2 is ridiculous. I just know that RDS can now run containers.Miles: Yeah. I know how many things we did in there that were good for us, and how many things we did in there that were bad for us. And I have to imagine, this is not a feature that they really ought to let everybody have, myself included. But I will say that what all of the Googlers that I talk to, you know, at the first blush, were I'm the evil Amazon guy in to, sort of, distract them and make them build a system that, you know, was very reliable and ended up winning an election was that they had a better database, and they had Spanner, and they didn't understand why this whole thing wasn't sitting on Spanner. So, we looked, and I read the white paper, and then I got all drooly, and I was like, yes, that is a much better database than everybody else's database, and I don't understand why everybody else isn't on it. Oh, there's that one reason, but you've heard of it: No other software works with it, anywhere in the world, right? It's utterly proprietary to Google. Yes, they were kind—Corey: Oh, you want to migrate it off somewhere else, or a fraction of it? Great. Step one, redo your data architecture.Miles: Yeah, take all of my software everywhere, rewrite every bit of it. And, oh all those commercial applications? Yeah, forget all those, you got, too. Right? It was very much where Google was eight years ago. So, for me, it was immensely meaningful to see the launch at Next where they described what they are building—and have now built; we have alpha access to it—a Postgres layer for Spanner.Corey: Is that effectively you have to treat it as Postgres at all times, or is it multimodal access?Miles: You can get in and tickle it like Spanner, if you want to tickle it like Spanner. And in reality, Spanner is ANSI SQL compliant; you're still writing SQL, you just don't have to talk to it like a REST endpoint, or a GRPC endpoint, or something; you can, you know, have like a—Corey: So, similar to Azure's Cosmos DB, on some level, except for the part where you can apparently look at other customers' data in that thing?Miles: [laugh]. Exactly. Yeah, you will not have a sweeping discovery of incredible security violations in the structure Spanner, in that it is the control system that Google uses to place every ad, and so it does not suck. You can't put a trillion-dollar business on top of a database and not have it be safe. That's kind of a thing.Corey: The thing that I find is the most interesting area of tech right now is there's been this rise of distributed databases. Yugabyte—or You-ji-byte—Pla-netScale—or PlanetScale, depending on how you pronounce these things.Miles: [laugh]. Yeah, why, why is G such an adversarial consonant? I don't understand why we've all gotten to this place.Corey: Oh, yeah. But at the same time, it's—so you take a look at all these—and they all are speaking Postgres; it is pretty clear that ‘Postgres-squeal' is the thing that is taking over the world as far as databases go. If I were building something from scratch that used—Miles: For folks in the back, that's PostgreSQL, for the rest of us, it's okay, it's going to be, all right.Corey: Same difference. But yeah, it's the thing that is eating the world. Although recently, I've got to say, MongoDB is absolutely stepping up in a bunch of really interesting ways.Miles: I mean, I think the 4.0 release, I'm the guy who wrote the MongoDB on AWS Best Practices white paper, and I would grab a lot of customer's and—Corey: They have to change it since then of, step one: Do not use DocumentDB; if you want to use Mongo, use Mongo.Miles: Yeah, that's right. No, there were a lot of customers I was on the phone with where Mongo had summarily vaporized their data, and I think they have made huge strides in structural reliability over the course of—you know, especially this 4.0 launch, but the last couple of years, for sure.Corey: And with all the people they've been hiring from AWS, it's one of those, “Well, we'll look at this now who's losing important things from production?”Miles: [laugh]. Right? So, maybe there's only actually five humans who know how to do operations, and we just sort of keep moving around these different companies.Corey: That's sort of my assumption on these things. But Postgres, for those who are not looking to depart from the relational model, is eating the world. And—Miles: There's this, like, basic emotional thing. My buddy Martin, who set up MySQL, and took it public, and then promptly got it gobbled up by the Oracle people, like, there was a bet there that said, hey, there's going to be a real open database, and then squish, like, the man came and got it. And so like, if you're going to be an independent, open-source software developer, I think you're probably not pushing your pull requests to our friends at Oracle, that seems weird. So instead, I think Postgres has gobbled up the best minds on that stuff.And it works. It's reliable, it's consistent, and it's functional in all these different, sort of, reapplications and subdivisions, right? I mean, you have to sort of squint real hard, but down there in the guts of Redshift, that's Postgres, right? Like, there's Postgres behind all sorts of stuff. So, as an interface layer, I'm not as interested about how it manages to be successful at bossing around hardware and getting people the zeros and ones that they ask for back in a timely manner.I'm interested in it as a compatibility standard, right? If I have software that says, “I need to have Postgres under here and then it all will work,” that creates this layer of interop that a bunch of other products can use. So, folks like PlanetScale, and Yugabyte can say, “No, no, no, it's cool. We talk Postgres; that'll make it so your application works right. You can bring a SQL alchemy and plug it into this, or whatever your interface layer looks like.”That's the spot where, if I can trade what is a fairly limited global distribution, global transactional management on literally ridiculously unlimited scalability and zero operations, I can handle the hard parts of running a database over to somebody else, but I get my layer, and my software talks to it, I think that's a huge step.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by my friends at Cloud Academy. Something special just for you folks. If you missed their offer on Black Friday or Cyber Monday or whatever day of the week doing sales it is—good news! They've opened up their Black Friday promotion for a very limited time. Same deal, $100 off a yearly plan, $249 a year for the highest quality cloud and tech skills content. Nobody else can get this because they have a assured me this not going to last for much longer. Go to CloudAcademy.com, hit the "start free trial" button on the homepage, and use the Promo code cloud at checkout. That's c-l-o-u-d, like loud, what I am, with a “C” in front of it. It's a free trial, so you'll get 7 days to try it out to make sure it's really a good fit for you, nothing to lose except your ignorance about cloud. My thanks again for sponsoring my ridiculous nonsense.Corey: I think that there's a strong movement toward building out on something like this. If it works, just because—well, I'm not multiregion today, but I can easily see a world in which I'd want to be. So, great. How do you approach the decision between—once this comes out of alpha; let's be clear. Let's turn this into something that actually ships, and no, Google that does not mean slapping a beta label on it for five years is the answer here; you actually have to stand behind this thing—but once it goes GA—Miles: GA is a good thing.Corey: Yeah. How do you decide between using that, or PlanetScale? Or Yugabyte?Miles: Or Cockroach or or SingleStore, right? I mean, there's a zillion of them that sit in this market. I think the core of the decision making for me is in every team you're looking at what skills do you bring to bear and what problem that you're off to go solve for customers? Do the nuances of these products make it easier to solve? So, I think there are some products that the nature of what you're building isn't all that dependent on one part of the application talking to another one, or an event happening someplace else mattering to an event over here. But some applications, that's, like, utterly critical, like, totally, totally necessary.So, we worked with a bunch of like Forex exchange trading desks that literally turn off 12 hours out of the day because they can only keep it consistent in one geographical location right near the main exchanges in New York. So, that's a place where I go, “Would you like to trade all day?” And they go, “Yes, but I can't because databases.” So, “Awesome. Let's call the folks on the Spanner side. They can solve that problem.”I go, “Would you like to trade all day and rewrite all your software?” And they go, “No.” And I go, “Oh, okay. What about trade all day, but not rewrite all your software?” There we go. Now, we've got a solution to that kind of problem.So like, we built this crazy game, like, totally other end of the ecosystem with the Dragon Ball Z people, hysterical; your like—you literally play like Rock, Paper, Scissors with your phone, and if you get a rock, I throw a fireball, and you get a paper, then I throw a punch, and we figure out who wins. But they can play these games like Europe versus Japan, thousands of people on each side, real-time, and it works.Corey: So, let's be clear, I have lobbied a consistent criticism at Google for a while now, which is the Google Cloud global control plane. So, you wind up with things like global service outages from time to time, you wind up with this thing is now broken for everyone everywhere. And that, for a lot of these use cases, is a problem. And I said that AWS's approach to regional isolation is the right way to do it. And I do stand by that assessment, except for the part where it turns out there's a lot of control plane stuff that winds up single tracking through us-east-1, as we learned in the great us-east-1 outage of 2021.Miles: Yeah, when I see customers move from data center to AWS, what they expect is a higher count of outages that lasts less time. That's the trade off, right? There's going to be more weird spurious stuff, and maybe—maybe—if they're lucky, that outage will be over there at some other region they're not using. I see almost exactly the same promise happening to folks that come from AWS—and in particular from Azure—over onto GCP, which is, there will be probably a higher frequency of outages at a per product level, right? So, like sometimes, like, some weird product takes a screw sideways, where there is structural interdependence between quite a few products—we actually published a whole internal structural map of like, you know, it turns out that Cloud SQL runs on top of GCE not on GKE, so you can expect if GKE goes sideways, Cloud SQL is probably not going to go sideways; the two aren't dependent on each other.Corey: You take the status page and Amazon FreeRTOS in a region is having an outage today or something like that. You're like, “Oh, no. That's terrible. First, let me go look up what the hell that is.” And I'm not using it? Absolutely not. Great. As hyperscalers, well, hyperscale, they're always things that are broken in different ways, in different locations, and if you had a truly accurate status page, it would all be red all the time, or varying shades of red, which is not helpful. So, I understand the challenge there, but very often, it's a partition that is you are not exposed to, or the way that you've architected things, ideally, means it doesn't really matter. And that is a good thing. So, raw outage counts don't solve that. I also maintain that if I were to run in a single region of AWS or even a single AZ, in all likelihood, I will have a significantly better uptime across the board than I would if I ran it myself. Because—Miles: Oh, for sure.Corey: —it is—Miles: For sure they're way better at ops than you are. Me, right?Corey: Of course.Miles: Right? Like, ridiculous.Corey: And they got that way, by learning. Like, I think in 2022, it is unlikely that there's going to be an outage in an AWS availability zone by someone tripping over a power cable, whereas I have actually done that. So, there's a—to be clear in a data center, not an AWS facility; that would not have flown. So, there is the better idea of of going in that direction. But the things like Route 53 is control plane single-tracking through the us-east-1, if you can't make DNS changes in an outage scenario, you may as well not have a DR plan, for most use cases.Miles: To be really clear, it was a part of the internal documentation on the AWS side that we would share with customers to be absolutely explicit with them. It's not just that there are mistakes and accidents which we try to limit to AZs, but no, go further, that we may intentionally cause outages to AZs if that's what allows us to keep broader service health higher, right? They are not just a blast radius because you, oops, pulled the pin on the grenade; they can actually intentionally step on the off button. And that's different than the way Google operates. They think of each of the AZs, and each of the regions, and the global system as an always-on, all the time environment, and they do not have systems where one gets, sort of, sacrificed for the benefit of the rest, right, or they will intentionally plan to take a system offline.There is no planned downtime in the SLA, where the SLAs from my friends at Amazon and Azure are explicit to, if they choose to, they decide to take it offline, they can. Now, that's—I don't know, I kind of want the contract that has the other thing where you don't get that.Corey: I don't know what the right answer is for a lot of these things. I think multi-cloud is dumb. I think that the idea of having this workload that you're going to seamlessly deploy to two providers in case of an outage, well guess what? The orchestration between those two providers is going to cause you more outages than you would take just sticking on one. And in most cases, unless you are able to have complete duplication of not just functionality but capacity between those two, congratulations, you've now just doubled your number of single points of failure, you made the problem actively worse and more expensive. Good job.Miles: I wrote an article about this, and I think it's important to differentiate between dumb and terrifyingly shockingly expensive, right? So, I have a bunch of customers who I would characterize as rich, as like, shockingly rich, as producing businesses that have 80-plus percent gross margins. And for them, the costs associated with this stuff are utterly rational, and they take on that work, and they are seeing benefits, or they wouldn't be doing it.Corey: Of course.Miles: So, I think their trajectory in technology—you know, this is a quote from a Google engineer—it's just like, “Oh, you want to see what the future looks like? Hang out with rich people.” I went into houses when I was a little kid that had whole-home automation. I couldn't afford them; my mom was cleaning house there, but now my house, I can use my phone to turn on the lights. Like—Corey: You know, unless us-east-1 is having a problem.Miles: Hey, and then no Roomba for you, right? Like utterly offline. So—Corey: Roomba has now failed to room.Miles: Conveniently, my lights are Philips Hue, and that's on Google, so that baby works. But it is definitely a spot where the barrier of entry and the level of complexity required is going down over time. And it is definitely a horrible choice for 99% of the companies that are out there right now. But next year, it'll be 98. And the year after that, it'll probably be 97. [laugh].And if I go inside of Amazon's data centers, there's not one manufacturer of hard drives, there's a bunch. So, that got so easy that now, of course you use more than one; you got to do—that's just like, sort of, a natural thing, right? These technologies, it'll move over time. We just aren't there yet for the vast, vast majority of workloads.Corey: I hope that in the future, this stuff becomes easier, but data transfer fees are going to continue to be a concern—Miles: Just—[makes explosion noise]—Corey: Oh, man—Miles: —like, right in the face.Corey: —especially with the Cambrian explosion of data because the data science folks have successfully convinced the entire industry that there's value in those mode balancer logs in 2012. Okay, great. We're never deleting anything again, but now you've got to replicate all of that stuff because no one has a decent handle on lifecycle management and won't for the foreseeable future. Great, to multiple providers so that you can work on these things? Like, that is incredibly expensive.Miles: Yeah. Cool tech, from this announcement at Next that I think is very applicable, and recognized the level of like, utter technical mastery—and security mastery to our earlier conversation—that something like this requires, the product is called BigQuery Omni, what Omni allows you to do is go into the Google Cloud Console, go to BigQuery, say I want to do analysis on this data that's in S3, or in Azure Blob Storage, Google will spin up an account on your behalf on Amazon and Azure, and run the compute there for you, bring the result back. So, just transfer the answers, not the raw data that you just scanned, and no work on your part, no management, no crapola. So, there's like—that's multi-cloud. If I've got—I can do a join between a bunch of rows that are in real BigQuery over on GCP side and rows that are over there in S3. The cross-eyedness of getting something like that to work is mind blowing.Corey: To give this a little more context, just because it gets difficult to reason about these things, I can either have data that is in a private subnet in AWS that traverses their horribly priced Managed NAT Gateways, and then goes out to the internet and sent there once, for the same cost as I could take that same data and store it in S3 in their standard tier for just shy of six full months. That's a little imbalanced, if we're being direct here. And then when you add in things like intelligent tiering and archive access classes, that becomes something that… there's no contest there. It's, if we're talking about things that are now approaching exabyte scale, that's one of those, “Yeah, do you want us to pay by a credit card?”—get serious. You can't at that scale anyway—“Invoice billing, or do we just, like, drive a dump truck full of gold bricks and drop them off in Seattle?”Miles: Sure. Same trajectory, on the multi-cloud thing. So, like a partner of ours, PacketFabric, you know, if you're a big, big company, you go out and you call Amazon and you buy 100 gigabit interconnect on—I think they call theirs Direct Connect, and then you hook that up to the Google one that's called Dedicated Interconnect. And voila, the price goes from twelve cents a gig down to two cents a gig; everybody's much happier. But Jesus, you pay the upfront for that, you got to set the thing up, it takes days to get deployed, and now you're culpable for the whole pipe if you don't use it up. Like, there are charges that are static over the course of the month.So, PacketFabric just buys one of those and lets you rent a slice of it you need. And I think they've got an incredible product. We're working with them on a whole bunch of different projects. But I also expect—like, there's no reason the cloud providers shouldn't be working hard to vend that kind of solution over time. If a hundred gigabit is where it is now, what does it look like when I get to ten gigabit? When I get to one gigabit? When I get to half gigabit? You know, utility price that for us so that we get to rational pricing.I think there's a bunch of baked-in business and cost logic that is a part of the pricing system, where egress is the source of all of the funding at Amazon for internal networking, right? I don't pay anything for the switches that connect to this machine to that machine, in region. It's not like those things are cheap or free; they have to be there. But the funding for that comes from egress. So, I think you're going to end up seeing a different model where you'll maybe have different approaches to egress pricing, but you'll be paying like an in-system networking fee.And I think folks will be surprised at how big that fee likely is because of the cost of the level of networking infrastructure that the providers deploy, right? I mean, like, I don't know, if you've gone and tried to buy a 40 port, 40 gig switch anytime recently. It's not like they're those little, you know, blue Netgear ones for 90 bucks.Corey: Exactly. It becomes this, [sigh] I don't know, I keep thinking that's not the right answer, but part of it also is like, well, you know, for things that I really need local and don't want to worry about if the internet's melting today, I kind of just want to get, like, some kind of Raspberry Pi shoved under my desk for some reason.Miles: Yeah. I think there is a lot where as more and more businesses bet bigger and bigger slices of the farm on this kind of thing, I think it's Jassy's line that you're, you know, the fat in the margin in your business is my opportunity. Like, there's a whole ecosystem of partners and competitors that are hunting all of those opportunities. I think that pressure can only be good for customers.Corey: Miles, thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more about you, what you're up to, your bad opinions, your ridiculous company, et cetera—Miles: [laugh].Corey: —where can they find you?Miles: Well, it's really easy to spell: SADA.com, S-A-D-A dot com. I'm Miles Ward, it's @milesward on Twitter; you don't have to do too hard of a math. It's miles@sada.com, if you want to send me an email. It's real straightforward. So, eager to reach out, happy to help. We've got a bunch of engineers that like helping people move from Amazon to GCP. So, let us know.Corey: Excellent. And we will, of course, put links to this in the [show notes 00:37:17] because that's how we roll.Miles: Yay.Corey: Thanks so much for being so generous with your time, and I look forward to seeing what comes out next year from these various cloud companies.Miles: Oh, I know some of them already, and they're good. Oh, they're super good.Corey: This is why I don't do predictions because like, the stuff that I know about, like, for example, I was I was aware of the Graviton 3 was coming—Miles: Sure.Corey: —and it turns out that if your—guess what's going to come up and you don't name Graviton 3, it's like, “Are you simple? Did you not see that one coming?” It's like—or if I don't know it's coming and I make that guess—which is not the hardest thing in the world—someone would think I knew and leaked. There's no benefit to doing predictions.Miles: No. It's very tough, very happy to do predictions in private, for customers. [laugh].Corey: Absolutely. Thanks again for your time. I appreciate it.Miles: Cheers.Corey: Myles Ward, CTO at SADA. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and be very angry in your opinion when you write that obnoxious comment, but then it's going to get lost because it's using MySQL instead of Postgres.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.
Oliver Schabenberger, Chief Innovation Officer of SingleStore, speaks with us in the RIoT Underground to explain how to achieve customer driven innovation by balancing data intensity and complexity through integrating robust tools and features to streamline and simplify data oriented processes. Support the show (http://www.riot.org)
Brandon interviews Jordan Tigani, Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. They discuss Jordan's experience at Google building BigQuery and how to use SingleStore to build data intensive applications. Plus, some good stories on caviar and marathon running. Links Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) A Return to the General Purpose Database (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/) SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com) SingleStore Free Trial (https://www.singlestore.com/managed-service-trial/) Work at SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com/careers/) Contact Jordan @jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn) LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/) Banner Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/11KDtiUWRq4) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.
SHOW SUMMARY:In this episode, Wesley Faulkner from SingleStore and the Community Pulse podcast joins us to talk about neurodiversity and learning differences in technology. Wesley stresses the importance for managers and co-workers to be open to working with and conscientious of those who have learning challenges such as dyslexia and ADHD. Digging even deeper, we address how organizations and programming teams in particular can benefit from recognizing that we ALL have learning differences and that it's those differences that can foster creative & diverse approaches to building meaningful applications.LINKS:Community Pulse Podcast - https://www.communitypulse.io/Wesley Faulkner - Head of Community, SingleStore | Polyworkhttps://www.singlestore.com/Authentic Diversity by Michelle Silverthorn - https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Diversity-Michelle-Silverthorn/dp/0367085674https://askjan.org/CONNECT WITH US:Wesley Faulkner @wesley83Brooke Avery @JediBraveryErik Slack @erik_slack
In this episode of Masters of Community, we speak with Wesley Faulkner, Head of Community at SingleStore, and PJ Hagerty, Head of Developer Relations at Mattermost, and Founder/Chief Community Officer of DevRelate.io. Wesley and PJ are also Co-hosts of Community Pulse. Our host, David Spinks, VP of Community at Bevy and the Co-Founder of CMX, moderated the conversation. David talks with Wesley and PJ about developer relations, developer evangelism, developer engagement, developer community, and the developer relations role of connecting, serving, and supporting developer ecosystems. They also uncover the differences between those terms and how the role of developer relations has evolved. Who is this episode for? Developers, heads of developer relations, software community managers, and developer evangelists. Three key takeaways: 1. Defining developer relations: Developer relations is a term that describes the specialists or teams whose responsibilities include building and developing both online and offline communities. There are many names for developer relations, like developer advocacy, developer community, developer marketing, or developer evangelist. 2. Building developer communities: Companies need to have developer relation teams to provide support and growth to their members. There should be a few dev advocates who can go out and speak to different communities. It's crucial to balance everything and have efficient communication within the community to meet people's needs. The team members need to focus on various aspects of the community. But, the end goal is to incorporate all of those people together as one team. The mission of a Dev Rel is building, understanding, and engaging, and bringing that back into the business to guide the roadmap to get more buy-in and trust. 3. Engaging developers within communities: There is much demand for developers' attention. Many companies offer attention-seeking content for developers, trying to bring them into their communities. Meanwhile, developers are looking for ways to engage with like-minded people and become a part of a supportive community. Dev rels working in the industry know how to communicate, engage, and understand what developers want. Thus, they can satisfy their needs and adapt their form of communication, either by writing blog posts, creating podcasts, workshops, or whatever developers like. Notable Quotes: 1. “Every company now should have a dev rel team. They should have advocates or evangelists helping to talk to people who work in technology.”
The job market for mid-to-senior level software engineers is booming, so where does that leave developers who are just getting started? Software engineer turned developer advocate, Joe Karlsson of SingleStore, chats with Tim Bornholdt of The Jed Mahonis Group about why it's challenging to land that first job after bootcamp, where junior developers have the most value, and what others in the industry can do to support juniors. **Show Links** Rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts | https://constantvariables.co/review Connect with Tim Bornholdt on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/timbornholdt/ Show notes and transcript | https://constantvariables.co Chat with The Jed Mahonis Group about your app dev questions | https://jmg.mn Are you an iOS, Android, or Rails developer? Email us | careers@jmg.mn JoeKarlsson.com | https://www.joekarlsson.com/ Joe Karlsson on Twitter | https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1 Joe Karlsson on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson/
SingleStore raises $80M in Series F to innovate and expand its footprint and team to offer customers more resources and a better choice. The company revealed a 150 percent increase in cloud revenue and a 300 percent growth in customer acquisitions for its cloud service.Zeotap, a SaaS customer intelligence platform, announced a second extension of $11 million to its Series C funding, where it received $18.5 million from SignalFire in the first extension last year. The new extension involved the backing of Liberty Global Ventures.myCOI raised $5M in debt financing from SaaS Capital, a provider of growth debt for B2B SaaS companies. The proceeds would be used to continue innovation, improve customer experience and hire primarily for sales, marketing, product and development departments.ThinkIQ, a digital manufacturing transformation SaaS, has announced the launch of the Alliance Partner Program to assist customers in getting the most out of their strategic technology investments with the firm.PolyAI, a conversational AI company, raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures. PolyAI, according to the company, creates and installs voice assistants for customer service automation that sound like actual people.TrueFort, a company that safeguards zero-trust apps, has secured $30 million in a Series B investment led by Shasta Ventures. The funds will be used to improve company-wide recruiting, go-to-market operations, and a variety of R&D projects.Duda, a professional web development platform for SaaS enterprises and digital agencies, has acquired Snipcart. Duda intends to put a lot of money into expanding the team and improving the basic Snipcart platform's capabilities and features.To further its vision for hybrid work environments, Google announced a series of innovations in the Google Workspace to help employees collaborate equally regardless of location, device preferences, role or language, a press release from Google said. The updates on the G Suite include a rollout of Spaces in the Google Chat for all users, in addition to new meeting enhancements and conferencing hardware for organizations to bridge the gap while navigating hybrid work environments.Sumo Logic, a log management and analytics provider, and IBM announced the availability of Sumo Logic's continuous intelligence platform on the open cloud Red Hat Marketplace to help companies running on the Red Hat OpenShift platform achieve insights into their cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
Wesley Faulkner is a first-generation American. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and ran for Austin City Council in 2016. His professional experience also includes work as a social media and community manager for the software company Atlassian, and various roles for the computer processor company AMD, Dell, IBM, and Daily. Wesley serves as a board member for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) and today is the Head of Community at SingleStore. Resources: Wesley on Twitter: @wesley83FreeCodeCampWesleyfaulkner.comAgainst Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Oliver Schabenberger: How Data, Analytics, Decisions and Intelligence Are Connected [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSOliver Schabenberger is the Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore. He is a former academician and seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of global experience in data management, advanced analytics, and AI. Oliver formerly served as COO and CTO of SAS, where he led the design, development, and go-to market effort of massively scalable analytic tools and solutions and helped organizations become more data-driven. Previously, Oliver led the Analytic Server R&D Division at SAS, with responsibilities for multi-threaded and distributed analytic server architecture, event stream processing, cognitive analytics, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. He has contributed thousands of lines of code to cutting-edge projects at SAS, including, SAS Cloud Analytic Services, the engine behind SAS Viya, the next-generation SAS architecture for the open, unified, simple, and powerful cloud. He has a PHD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityPlease support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:Episode Links: Oliver Schabenberger's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oschabenberger/ Oliver Schabenberger's Twitter: https://twitter.com/oschabenberger?s=20 Oliver Schabenberger's Website: https://www.singlestore.com/ Podcast Details: Podcast website: https://www.humainpodcast.comApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humain-podcast-artificial-intelligence-data-science/id1452117009Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6tXysq5TzHXvttWtJhmRpSRSS: https://feeds.redcircle.com/99113f24-2bd1-4332-8cd0-32e0556c8bc9YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1ragYouTube Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvclFvpPvFM9_RxcNg1rag/videosSupport and Social Media: – Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humain/creators – Twitter: https://twitter.com/dyakobovitch– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humainpodcast/– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyakobovitch/– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HumainPodcast/– HumAIn Website Articles: https://www.humainpodcast.com/blog/Outline: Here's the timestamps for the episode: (00:00) – Introduction(01:38) – From forestry to statistics to Software development to advance analytics(04:07) – To understand the data is not only to build a mental model, but a probabilistic model of how the data came about, and once that model is accepted, as a good abstraction, then it is used to ask questions about the world. (05:39) – Many of the assumptions into our established models and established thinking about industries and supply chains had to be questioned because of unforeseen events like the pandemic. Scenario modeling is not just making a prediction, it must also guide the decisions and the need to provide the right abstractions.(07:19) – There is an approach steeped in mathematical statistics and probability theory. And a more computationally-driven approach which shows how computer science, as a discipline, changed its focus from focus on compute, to focus on data.(10:34) – There are transactional systems, analytics systems, machine learning and data science, all somewhat based on existing technology purpose-built for a certain use case, and what we're seeing is the use cases coming together. These worlds need to come together through a data foundation where the workloads can all converge. Silos and empires that need to be connected.(16:15) – The explosion of neural network technology over the last 15 years due to the availability of big compute and cloud computing has allowed to solve much deeper problems, and we need larger amounts of data to train those models. (16:33) – Modern AI, data-driven AI and machine learning applications recognize patterns. Neural networks are trained to detect patterns. The next generation of models might be more contextual or build out from individual component models where humans can interact with the system and understand how it drives its conclusion, and then correct it.(20:35) – We need to empower all of us to work with data and to contribute to driving the world with data and driving the world with models more. We need to be more data literate. But we also need better tooling that allows low-code and no-code contributions (23:28) – The future of data science is decision science. (25:38) – We have technology at our disposal, that makes us “prosumers” who consume and produce at the same time. And data should be the same way. We should be able to produce what we need based on data, not just consume. (28:28) – Innovation is key to success in technology. Innovation is about turning creativity and curiosity into value, and value has to be tied to the core of what we do, core of the business, core of what our customer needs. (30:51) – The elements of building technology: connectivity, automation and culture.(32:43) – Turn the data into decisions and drive the business, and that is SingleStore's specialty.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
How to Power Enterprises with Intelligent Applications with Jordan Tigani of SingleStore * Jordan Tigani is the Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. He was the co-founding engineer on Google BigQuery. He also led engineering teams then product teams at BQ. * SingleStore powers Comcast with their streaming analytics to drive proactive care and real-time recommendations for their 300K events per second. Since switching to SingleStore, Nucleus Security converted its first beta account to a paying customer, increased the number of scans Nucleus can process in one hour by 60X, and saw speed improvement of 20X for the slowest queries. * To be more competitive in our new normal, organizations must make real-time data-driven decisions. And to create a better customer experience and better business outcomes, data needs to tell customers and users what is happening right now. * With the pandemic accelerating digitization, and new database companies going public (Snowflake) and filing IPOs (Couchbase), the database industry will continue to grow exponentially, with new advanced computing technologies emerging over the next decade. Companies will begin looking for infrastructure that can give real-time analytics -- they can no longer afford to use technology that cannot handle the onslaught of data brought by the pandemic. * True Digital in Thailand utilizes SingleStore’s in-the-moment analytics to develop heat maps around geographies with large COVID-19 infection rates to see where people are congregating, pointing out areas to be avoided, and ultimately, flattening the curve of COVID-19. In two weeks’ time, SingleStore built a solution that could perform event stream processing on 500K anonymized location events every second for 30M+ mobile phones. * Businesses need to prioritize in-app analytics: This will allow you to influence customer's behaviors within your application or outside of it based on data. Additionally, businesses must utilize a unified database that supports transactions and analytics to deliver greater value to customers and business. * Enterprises must access technology that can handle different types of workloads, datasets and modernize infrastructure, and use real-time analytics. Shownotes Links: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani - https://twitter.com/jrdntgn - www.SingleStore.com ( http://www.singlestore.com ) - https://www.linkedin.com/company/singlestore/ - https://www.singlestore.com/media-hub/releases/research-highlights-spike-in-data-demands-amid-pandemic/ - https://www.singlestore.com/media-hub/releases/businesses-reconsidering-existing-data-platforms/ *About HumAIn Podcast* The HumAIn Podcast is a leading artificial intelligence podcast that explores the topics of AI, data science, future of work, and developer education for technologists. Whether you are an Executive, data scientist, software engineer, product manager, or student-in-training, HumAIn connects you with industry thought leaders on the technology trends that are relevant and practical. HumAIn is a leading data science podcast where frequently discussed topics include ai trends, ai for all, computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, data science, and reskilling and upskilling for developers. Episodes focus on new technology, startups, and Human Centered AI in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. HumAIn is the channel to release new AI products, discuss technology trends, and augment human performance. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Oliver Schabenberger is Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore. He is a former academian and seasoned technology executive with more than 20 years global experience in data management, advanced analytics and AI. Oliver formerly served as COO and CTO of SAS, where he lead the design, development and go to-market-effort of massively scaleable analytic tools and solutions and helped organisations become more data driven. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, has co-authored three books, and earned Ph.D and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech. Sponsor Information Visit www.yourheights.com and use acuriouslife10 for a 10% discount. Interview transcript Hadley: [00:00:00] Welcome to the show. Oliver. It's an absolute honor to have you on. [00:00:04] Oliver: [00:00:04] Thank you, Hadley. I'm delighted to be here. I'm delighted to be on a curious life. And I'm curious what we're going to talk about in this podcast. [00:00:13] Hadley: [00:00:13] Well, as you know, like Peter pan shadow, we're going to go off and find the essence of Oliver today. [00:00:20] Oliver: [00:00:20] I'm curious, curious what that essence is. [00:00:23]Hadley: [00:00:23] Let's do it. So, you know, this is a show where we look for a window into the lives of our guests. What makes you tick and, and essentially to understand the essence of you and to understand that the trait of curiosity has impacted your life in Korea. So how we do that is we imagine that we sitting around a campfire sharing stories about our life and tag. [00:00:44] You all right. So where we'll start is where you were born, whether you had siblings, you know, what were your parents like? What was your early life like? And we'll take that all the way through to today and onto tomorrow. But before we do that, the question that I ask all my guests is what does curiosity mean? [00:01:00] Well, I think curiosity is something in eight and all humans to different degrees. To me, it's a quality that relates to exploration, uh, inquisition and learning, you know, the drive to find out about something it's really the pursuit of knowledge. I sometimes call it lifelong learning. Um, but to me, it's about the strive to continuously improve and get. [00:01:26] Better at something. Awesome. [00:01:28] And do you, do you think that's innate in children and suppressed as you get older or just inmate and the individual? I think it's [00:01:36] Oliver: [00:01:36] innate in the individual. Um, but I think you can suppress it and, and you could, could block us around it. And I think we should encourage the opposite. [00:01:46] Um, for example, when we, when we look at the qualities we like to see in individuals, we work for, we went from defining skills to emotional quotient, and today it's also something called the adaptability quotient. And that's really the, your ability to ask what if questions instead of what is right. And so what would happen if, what would happen if your top five customers leave you tomorrow? [00:02:14] How would you deal with this? The ability to explore something. Overexploiting something and there is an immediate sense of, okay, what do I have available as technology right now? What have we built in the past? Let's start with that and build on top of that. That's exploitation, right? That's building on what you already know versus, okay. [00:02:35] Let's step back. Let's get, give our curiosity some room to roam and imagine what it would be. And sometimes you start from marketing, you start from scratch and you can actually get you to, to where you need to go faster because you're not encumbered and you're not weighted down [00:02:54] Hadley: [00:02:54] by preconceptions, I guess. [00:02:56] Oliver: [00:02:56] Yeah. And the things you've built in the past, you know, the assumption that everything I've done before needs to be reflected in what I do now, [00:03:01] Hadley: [00:03:01] that's true. Would you say...
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