Join Open||Source||Data producer Audra Montenegro as she and Sam cover highlights and takeaways from the ten episodes of season two. And get a sneak peak of what's in store for season three!

Join CEO of Featureform, Simba Khadder as he talks with Sam about how versioning, immutability, and sharing will accelerate ML workflows. Tune-in on state of the art collaboration in data teams, and the power of focusing on your north star.

How can we make data 10X more accessible for data-driven people within data-driven companies? Tune in to Mark and Sam discussing probabilistic product management, and the emerging metadata ecosystem.

How can we evolve an expanding ecosystem of data technologies while making sense of the whole? Tune in to LinkedIn DataHub, and Acryl Data founder,&nbsp;Shirshanka Das, as he and Sam have a discussion on metadata at the center and specialization at the edge to sustainably scale data governance.

Data discovery is one of the hardest problems to solve in data management in general and comes up as a major pain point in most data mesh discussions. Tune in to this all-star expert panel recorded in collaboration with the Data Mesh community, and hosted by a previous Open||Source||Data podcast guest, Paco Nathan of&nbsp;<a href="http://derwen.ai/">Derwen.ai</a>. Paco engages panelists, Shinji Kim (Select Star), Sophie Watson (Red Hat), Mark Grover (Stemma), and Shirshanka Das (Acryl Data) in a 60-minute discussion on not only Data Mesh, but other data strategies and process needs for the data discovery future.

It’s 2 AM - do you know what your models are doing? Listen to Elena Samuylova as she talks with Sam&nbsp;about how to bridge the critical gaps between data scientists, engineers, and business managers using tooling and empathy.&nbsp;Learn how to design for ​ diverse expectations, and more!

What's the future of open source and distributed systems? Google Fellow &amp; VP of Infrastructure Eric Brewer, Observable CEO Melody Meckfessel, and DataStax Chief Strategy Officer Sam Ramji explore the state of the art, the near future, and grand challenges for the next decade in cloud-native data.

​​​​​​Dealing with data hyperabundance, solving economic problems for businesses and changing lives for the better. Tune-in to Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners, Jocelyn Goldfein as she and Sam have a discussion around engineering leadership, organizational graph structures, and productization of AI.

What if you could version object storage just like code? Tune in to Einat Orr as she explains how CI/CD and data lineage are being transformed through versioning data, enabling sandboxes, safe rollbacks, and coherent history.

Learn how an accelerating abundance of data can be harnessed through telemetry. Tune-in while Shinji Kim and Sam explore opening data to more users, PageRank for tables, and pragmatic use of data lineage to find value.

Barr Moses discusses with Sam about bringing DevOps into Data Engineering, building a data startup, and letting joy guide your way to creating impact. Learn how being data-driven depends on systems of people and trust.

Wrapping up Season 1, Open||Source||Data producer Audra Montenegro Carter joins Sam Ramji in a conversation about the inspiration and behind-the-scenes production of the podcast, touching upon the top takeaways and lessons learned with Season 1 guests from AWS, Microsoft, Deloitte, Observable, and much more.

Join Data Institute's Managing Director, Jesse Anderson to learn how data teams are changing in response to the overwhelming demand for data products. Tune in as he and Sam discuss bringing software engineering into the domain of data - and why he wrote&nbsp;<a href="https://www.datateams.io/">Data Teams</a>.

Join Dave and Sam as they discuss data sets evolving from finite to infinite, and finding the needle in the haystack with math. Listen to Dave talk about cutting edge data problems and the essential need for curious people.

Data Science player and coach, Author, and Venture Amplifier Paco Nathan talks with Sam Ramji about Hybrid AI, mathematical reversibility, and using AI to solve knowledge problems that the exponential growth of data will create for years to come. Join these two as they discuss how you can bring multiple data disciplines together using empathy and math.

Analytics manager, and Women in Data podcast producer and host Karen JEAN-FRANCOIS walks us through the differences between Data Science and Analytics. Join her and Sam as they discuss valuable skills you’ll need when transitioning to a career in Data Analytics. Hear Karen’s perspective on the benefits of thinking differently and having a mentor to guide you through transitions.

Stanford Professor and Co-Founder /&nbsp;Director of WiDS, Margot Gerritsen joins Sam Ramji in a conversation about how a data community provides global connectivity, and how learning is all about seeking discomfort with uncertainty and ambiguity. Learn how data is the new gold, but rather than sitting on the mine - share the wealth through a career in Data Science.

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With data comes DBAs and with Kubernetes comes SREs. Listen in as Patrick McFadin and Sam discuss what’s in store in 2021 for Data on Kubernetes, how experienced DBA roles can evolve into very effective SREs, and why today is THE day to learn Kubernetes.

From a 10-page white paper to creating one of the first University OSPOs - Stephen Jacobs will take us through the 12 years of work it took him to launch a program like Open@RIT. Join Stephen and Sam as they discuss the impact an OSPO&nbsp;has on students' futures, as well as a University's surrounding communities.

Beyond The Data Lake&nbsp;was Director of Emerging Technologies at ThoughtWorks,&nbsp;Zhamak Dehghani's 2017 paper that was a guiding light for Sam Ramji at another point in his career. Listen to how a Data Mesh allows the composition of multi-model data across an organization and beyond.

How do we create free and open data sets that are trustworthy? Microsoft Azure’s Principal Program Manager Lachlan Evenson and Sam Ramji discuss standards for accessing data, and the magic that can happen with data on Kubernetes.

Sam invites Rachel Chalmers, an investor, advisor, and technology industry analyst for over 20 years, for a candid conversation about the DevOps culture of shared purpose and blamelessness. Sam and Rachel explore how process, trust, and care for each other creates more innovation and gives us the opportunity to change and grow as human beings.

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Matt Asay shares his journey through open source and behind-the-scenes stories on what gives these communities their strength: its people and their voices.

Behind every great product is a great story. Sam invites Google Staff Technical Writer Patricia Boswell to discuss her role of technical writing in software and the importance of using narrative as a North Star when designing a product.

What can we learn from cloud-native development and how can we share that with developers, engineers, product owners, and product managers of the new world? Join DataStax Chief Strategy Officer and 25-year open source veteran, Sam Ramji, as he interviews open source innovators who are shaping the future of open source data, open source software, data on Kubernetes, data in DevOps, data in AI, and much more.

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Available Episodes

Season 2 Finale and Recap with Open||Source||Data Producer Audra Montenegro

Embeddings, Feature stores, and MLOps with Simba Khadder

Abundance, Metadata, and Automation with Mark Grover

Metadata, Communities, and Architecture with Shirshanka Das

Guests Bios

Simba Khadder

Mark Grover

DATA MESH LEARNING Community

Shirshanka Das

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