Everything DeVaris Brown said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Data engineering complexity is caused by bad tooling obfuscating the process
“If you really break down what a data engineer is, at the end of the day, that their job is to get data from one place to the next, right? So all you really need to know is three things. Where my data's coming from, where my data's going, and what format does i…”
Open-source data tool creators fail to prioritize product experience
“The open source ecosystem exists, But those people don't necessarily think about like the product experience around how does this technology actually interact with, you know, the goals that people are trying to achieve.”
Meroxa's workforce is 60% Black/Brown, 40% women, and 90% underrepresented executives
“Right now we're, 60% black and brown. 40% women. Our executive staff is 90% underrepresented. We got one white guy out of 10 people.”
Founders who only think about team building after starting are too late
“If at the point you are only thinking about building a team when you start a company, you're already too late.”
Running the JVM at scale is a pain compared to Golang
“Running the JVM at scale is a pain in the ass, and Golang is much more research efficient, and so you can do all these cool things from a single binary.”
Brown: Data tooling market consists mostly of batch point solutions
“The tooling landscape looks like a bunch of point solutions that run in batch and not in real time.”
Meroxa bypasses data warehouses to transform data on every real-time event
“What we do this differently is that we act off of every single event. So every time there's a database transaction, somebody calls your API, they interact with your website that, that makes the API call that talks to the database. We can then transform that da…”
DeVaris Brown: Meroxa will evolve into a real-time application ecosystem
“Once, you know, real-time data is table stakes and everybody's able to use it at a fashion, then we evolve from just a real-time data platform as a service to now we can be a real-time application ecosystem.”
All but four of Meroxa's 27 employees came from Brown's direct network
“We got 27 amazing people on staff. I think all but four of those people came from my direct network.”
Plumber provides more granular stream introspection than native Apache Kafka
“It essentially gives you the ability to introspect streams, and it's super, super granular, super detailed, and it gives you know, better, better information than what you would get natively from Kafka.”
/dev/color has 1,100 Black engineers; Black PMs has 400-500 members
“DevColor has 1100 Black engineers of all skill levels. Black PMs is, I think, like, 405 hundred product managers that are out there.”
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