Easier Stream Processing On Kafka With ksqlDB

Summary In this episode Kostas Pardalis talks about Fenic - an open-source, PySpark-inspired dataframe engine designed to bring LLM-powered semantics into reliable data engineering workflows. Kostas shares why today’s data infrastructure assumptions (BI-first, expert-operated, CP ...  Show more

Summary In this episode Goutham Budati about his Data–Perspective–Action framework and how it empowers data teams to become true business partners. Gautham traces his path from automating Excel reports to leading high‑impact data organizations, then breaks down why technical exce ...  Show more

I’m a big believer that database systems share similar core fundamentals at their storage layer and understanding them allows one to compare different DBMS objectively. For example, How documents are stored in MongoDB is no different from how MySQL or PostgreSQL store rows. Ev ...

The communication between backend applications and database systems always fascinated me. The protocols keep evolving and we are in constant search for an efficient protocol that best fit the workload of Backend-DB communication.

In this episode of the backend engineeri ...

MongoDB, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, or any other database manages concurrency control differently. There are two methods, pessimistic and optimistic, both have their pros and cons. Let explore how different databases implement this and what is the effect on perf ...

Algorithms & Data Structures are critical to Backend Engineering however it really depends on what kind of application and infrastructure you are building. In this video I want to go through the following   1 Backend Engineers are two types - Integrating Existing ...