The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Hardware Innovation Begets Software Innovation with Dhruba Borthakur Co-Founder and CTO, Rockset

Episode Date: May 1, 2023

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset.

Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel, where we replay a snippet from the show we just recorded. Costas, are you ready to give people a sneak peek? I am, I suppose. Let's do it. Let's do it. Well, I don't think many people know that RocksDB was originally fueled by the smell coming from a Quiznos that was baking subs next to the Facebook office. But now you have the backstory brought to you exclusively on the Datastack show. No, I think it was great to hear him talk about, you know, Facebook's sort of first office and being in the basement. So many interesting things that we covered. I was just so impressed with, Drew just has maintained a, I would say, like, just a high level of interest and joy in the space and in building things.

After he's seen so much i mean it's cool to hear the stories but you have to imagine that the day-to-day of trying to build that stuff and scale that stuff inside of an organization that's growing like you know facebook you know being a founder uh i mean those are really intense experiences. And he still seems just full of joy and energy. And that brought me a lot of joy. So I think that's the main thing I'm going to take from the episode. How about you? There are many takes, but I'll keep for sure one, which is

how many of let's say like how much of the innovation that we have seen like in software is actually triggered by innovation in hardware this is one of the insights that like I don't think that you can get from someone unless this person has been in this

for a while and doing the stuff that we were talking about today. I think discussing about storage and how storage actually dictates the things that we can do and how this works with Hadoop and how then the SSDs like brought like ROPSDB like all that stuff it just makes me I don't know like I think I'll

be looking into what's new storage technologies are going to be coming in the next like months and years like with much more interest now than before so I'll keep that I'll keep that and Let's arrange to have some action. We will want to talk about Well, thanks for listening many more great shows coming up subscribe if you haven't and we will catch you on the next one.