Ep. 40: Confluent CTO Neha Narkhede on Kafka's role in modern applications
Release Date: 10/19/2017
Bringing usable AI to the enterprise (with Igor Jablokov, Pryon)
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Pryon founder and CEO Igor Jablokov explains how his company makes it easier for enterprises to access their important data by utilizing augmented intelligence and efficient language models. He also discusses where AI is headed both in the enterprise and in our personal lives thanks to advances in models, chip architectures, and more.
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Bridging the last mile in data science (with Barry McCardel, Hex )
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co-founder and CEO Barry McCardel talks about how his company is attempting to simplify the data science workflow—notebooks, collaboration, storytelling, sharing, you name it. And with a focus on security, something for which the founding team developed an affinity during their time at Palantir. McCardel also discusses the (hopefully) novel experience of growing an early-stage startup during a pandemic.
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Bringing the sexy back to data integration (with Tim Delisle, Datalogue)
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co-founder and CEO Tim Delisle discusses how his company is trying to remake data integration for large enterprises, by taking advantage of Kubernetes, good UX, and a focus on performance and security. Delisle also shares his take on why the big data movement might have missed the boat.
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Fast, effective mental health care for employees (with Adam Chekroud, Spring Health)
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Spring Health co-founder and chief product officer Adam Chekroud explains his company's platform for helping employer's offer quality mental health care to their employees. Chekroud, who's professionally trained in the field, also discusses how employers can do more to encourage mental health, how social media can affect mental health, and how COVID-19 and recent civil rights movements are causing effects both good and bad.
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Kubernetes-Off-the-Shelf Software (with Grant Miller, Replicated)
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The Architecht Show returns (!) with Replicated co-founder and CEO Grant Miller talking about how his company is enabling KOTS, or Kubernetes-Off-the-Shelf software. We dive into a number of topics around this, including the pitfalls of relying too heavily on SaaS, the popularity of Kubernetes itself, and how laws like Europe's GDPR are forcing companies to rethink how and where they manage user data.
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Ep. 84: Apptio CEO on where enterprises are really spending their money in the cloud
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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta explains the economics of cloud computing and IT, in general -- based on what he's seeing from Apptio's large collection of enterprise users. While cloud spending is still relatively low as a piece of the overall pie, it's increasing fast as a result of SaaS adoption, and trends such as digital transformation and even artificial intelligence. Aside from sheer usage, Gupta also discusses the effects of complexity on IT budgets, as companies struggle to figure out how efficiently they're utilizing services and get control of zombie...
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Ep. 83: Talking data privacy -- GDPR and beyond -- with Talend's Jean-Michel Franco
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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Jean-Michel Franco, a product marketing director at data-integration vendor Talend, joins host Derrick Harris to talk about the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. Franco and Harris discuss the controversial data-privacy law, which was enacted in May 2018, and how enterprises are dealing with its requirements around data usage, locality and security.
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Ep. 82: Kelsey Hightower on keeping up with cloud-native and helping companies make smart choices
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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Kelsey Hightower -- Google staff engineer, senior developer advocate and all-around cloud-native superstar -- talks about his journey into cloud-native computing techniques and how he uses what he's learned to help companies make the right decisions for their needs. Among many other topics, Hightower gives his thoughts on open source startups, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and the importance of spending time with technologies (even competitive ones) before offering opinions on them.
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Ep. 81: Diffbot's Mike Tung drops knowledge on knowledge graphs
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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Diffbot CEO Mike Tung talks all about the value, workings and business of knowledge graphs, and how Diffbot grew its graph to around 1 trillion interconnected facts. Knowledge graphs are critical to many aspects of our digital lives -- including smart assistants and web web search -- and have value across industries ranging from retail to intelligence. Tung also explains the relationship between knowledge graphs and AI, and why crawling and structuring the web's countless facts is a compute-intensive job.
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Ep. 80: Malong CTO on China, AI talent and doing deep learning with less data
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In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, CTO Matt Scott discusses a wide range of artificial intelligence issues, including AI adoption in China and whether the AI talent crunch (and associated sky-high salaries) is a long-term thing. Primarily, though, Scott talks about his company's work on weakly supervised learning, which is helping it not only win computer vision contests, but also scale its computer vision products more easily across customers and industries.
info_outlineIn this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Confluent co-founder and CTO Neha Narkhede talks about the Apache Kafka's evolution from a scalable message bus into a critical component of modern application architectures. This includes everything from feeding data into machine learning pipelines to analyzing streaming data using the new KSQL feature. Narkhede also discusses the importance of cloud-native architectures and how platforms from AWS to Kubernetes are influencing how Confluent thinks about its business.