The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Self-Driving Technology and Data Infrastructure with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Sammy Sidhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventual.

Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel, where we replay a snippet from the show we just recorded. Kostas, are you ready to give people a sneak peek? I am, of course. Let's do it. Let's do it. Kostas, talking with Sammy, what an incredible story, right? If you are in a Tesla and you're driving down the highway

and you let go of the wheel and the car is safely carrying you at 70 miles per hour without you giving the vehicle any input, Sammy is a huge part of why that's possible because of what he's worked on. And I can't tell you how much I love that he drives an old BMW from the 90s that's a stick shift, and he works on it himself as sort of a car guy, which is so great. I mean, that sort of wonderful, wonderful story doesn't come along every day. So that was possibly my favorite part of the episode. But I also just really appreciated his thoughtful perspective on just the problem of dealing with complex data in general.

And I was astounded by when, towards the end of the episode, when we talked about like, okay, you have imagery for Instagram and self-driving cars. And obviously,'s like, oh yeah, this is still really early innings for sort of solving problems around complex data. So excited to see what eventual grows into. Yeah, a hundred percent for me. Okay. It was like an amazing opportunity that's like talking with him because first of all we talked a lot about like things that are how to that like very interesting to me especially and i don't mean just like about like

data infrastructure because okay eventual at the end is like the vision there's like to build a new type of data warehouse that can be used by ML people that are working with non-tabular data. But it's interesting to see how many times, no matter what we were talking about, we ended up talking about the developer experience and how important this is and how also silent this developer experience can be. I think what he said and what he said about the Pandas ecosystem was incredible.

Yeah. I would never like to hear something like that. So tooling is important. It's like the foundations that we need if we want to accelerate progress. Right. And that's what like what I really talking with Sami because he gave some very deep insights

of why tooling and developer experience is important and how this can be addressed and how eventual is doing it, right? For the use case that they have in their minds

and the problems that they are trying to solve. So let's have him back to the show again soon. I'm sure we have more to talk about with him. Indeed. Well, subscribe if you haven't, tell a friend, and we will catch you on the next one.