50: From Data Infrastructure to Data Management with Ananth Packkildurai

Highlights from this week’s episode:

• Ananth’s background (2:51)
• The evolution of Slack (4:54)
• Kafka and Presto’s two of the most reliable and flexible tools for Ananth (9:43)
• How Snowflake gained an advantage over Presto (13:24)
• Opinions about data lakes (17:23)
• Core features of data infrastructure (23:22)
• The tools define the process, and not the other way around (31:30)
• Defining a data mesh (36:44)
• Data is inherently social in nature (40:31)
• Lessons learned from writing Data Engineering Weekly (49:14)

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