The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: The Evolution of Application Orchestration Featuring Viren Baraiya of orkes.io

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Viren Baraiya of orkes.io.

Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. We're here on the Data Stack Show with Viren Bhairia, and it's so great to have you back on the Data Sack show with Viren Bhairia. And it's so great to have you back on the show. Amazing that it's been, I guess we can say years, about a year and a half. So thanks for giving us some time, Viren.

Absolutely. Nice to be here. And thanks for hosting me. Absolutely. Well, you've covered quite a bit of ground since we last talked, but can you just give us a quick overview of what you've been up to for the last year and a half and the company you've been building? Yeah, absolutely. So I remember the last time when we chatted, you know, we were just kind of had to come out of the stealth mode. We were still kind of focusing

on building the product. We were basically taking the conductor and, you know, building Orcus to, you know, make it available on enterprises, on various We were basically taking the conductor and, you know, building Orcus to, you know, make it available on enterprises, on various clouds and of course, yeah. It almost feels like, you know, now decades that now we started this. But yeah, in the last couple of years, you know, we have kind of the built out the product that works in all three clouds, build the partnerships with all the cloud vendors, have customers onboarded,

which is great, keeping us busy. And fortunately or unfortunately, they are across pretty much every time zone. So also keeping us busy and all the time. But it has been an exciting journey building a company from ground up

and going all the way from zero revenue to some revenue absolutely yeah that's amazing and we ran like last time we talked a lot about microservices yeah orchestration of microservices right yeah and orchestration in general comes up like more and more often lately there are like a lot of conversations about when it comes to, let's say, more of the application development layer and this fusion of databases, the transactional systems together with orchestration. And then, of course, there's AI, right? Anyone who has tried to build something around AI, they definitely know that it's all about how to guardrail all these different models and services to achieve a consistent result.

So orchestration is becoming a very hot and interesting topic and broader topic to what we were discussing a year and a half ago. So I'm very excited to talk about that and also hear about like the evolution of orchestra from back then to today right yeah what what about you what's you are excited to talk about today yeah i think as you rightly pointed out right like when you think about orchestration you know the humble roots right orchestration has been around for a long time but lately you know it has kind of taken its own kind of form when it comes to ai and just like everybody else i like i think that's one thing that is very exciting that is happening and you know how that lands with orchestration and you know where

i mean now we hear a lot about ai orchestration, right? That definitely was a thing before, but nobody talked about it. So I think overall, like I think the entire orchestration space is kind of evolving very rapidly. And, you know, where it is going, I think there is certainly an exciting place today to be. Yeah, 100%. So I think we have a lot of very interesting things to talk about. What do you think, Eric? Let's jump in. Let's do it.

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