09: Building the Operating System for Work with Ivan Kanevski of Slapdash

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Slapdash co-founder Ivan Kanevski. Slapdash describes itself as the operating system for work. Slapdash emphasizes reducing the time people spend controlling their computer in relation to the time they spend expressing their intent.

Key topics discussed were:

• Starting Slapdash and expanding on tools from working at Facebook (3:31)
• Being client agnostic and working with the tools that people bring to the job (7:35)
• Distinctions between mouse-centric and keyboard-centric users (12:58)
• Slapdash’s approach to collecting data (16:08)
• Building Slapdash to scale and using Postgres (19:45)
• Using a graph model and a focus on efficiency (24:50)
• Challenges of reducing latency (29:35)
• Opening up Slapdash to be programmable (38:17)

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