47: Taming the Four Dragons of Data with Sven Balnojan of Mercateo Gruppe
This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Sven Balnojan, product owner (analytics) at Mercateo Gruppe and author of the recent article “How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company”. Their conversation focused on a comparison and contrast of Databricks and Snowflake and discussed what it takes for an open-source project to succeed when a whopping 98% of them fail.
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Show Notes
Highlights from this week’s episode include:
- Sven's Ph.D. in Singularity Theory (2:59)
- The Databricks vs. Snowflake conversation (8:17)
- The difficulty of not just inventing something new, but making it accessible (18:01)
- Databricks and unstructured data (22:22)
- Organizational change responding to technological change (29:27)
- The three-dimensional evolution of a successful open source project (40:31)
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