Lately, I’ve been learning how to trade options. Although there’s data and programming involved in options trading, it isn’t as technical as data engineering or software engineering. However, it reflects the current state of learning, whether that’s data engineering...
Another month, another episode! In this episode of Unapologetically Technical, I interview Matteo Merli the co-creator of Apache Pulsar and CTO of StreamNative. We talk about his interest in creating communication protocols and how that morphed into creating Apache...
Unapologetically Technical is finally back with a new episode! In this episode of Unapologetically Technical, I had the pleasure of interviewing Neil Avery from Liquidlabs. We discussed his experiences creating grid computing systems at major banks like Royal Bank of...
Confluent had their Current Conference (Videos: day one and day two). There were many announcements that both technologists and investors need to know about. Confluent had two moats (replication and Confluent Cloud), and now they anticipate three moats (replication,...
There has been quite a bit of writing covering GPT and LLMs from data science and business perspectives. I haven’t seen much from the data engineering side. Let me share my perspective, having been in data and AI for a while and using LLMs before they became popular....
Unapologetically Technical is back with a new episode! You surely wouldn’t want to miss this episode because we’re going deeply into Spark Structured Streaming with this week’s guest, Karthik Ramasamy, the head of Streaming at Databricks. In this...
