Dhillon: Modern web apps require new plumbing for document models
Gaurav Dhillon · a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:58
Gaurav Dhillon, former Informatica CEO and founder of SnapLogic, explains why enterprise software architectural shifts require replacing legacy row-and-column data integration tools.
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“One is the data types fundamentally being different require new kinds of plumbing. You know, this is digital plumbing we're talking about, but you're no longer using rows and columns. You're using a document model. The way the worldwide web works, the way browser talks to a website is the way these applications all function. So I think that's a huge reason to rethink the core engineering that you might be doing, because if you use stuff from the last century, and look, it's good stuff, but it's designed for a certain time at a certain point in time. And where we are today is the data types fundamentally being different as I think a very, very real catalyst of new kinds of technology.”
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