The PRQL: WebAssembly: The Future of Cloud Workloads Made Simple with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies

01/08/24 • 4 min

The Data Stack Show

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies.

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies.

Previous Episode

171: Machine Learning Pipelines Are Still Data Pipelines with Sandy Ryza of Dagster

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

The role of an orchestrator in the lifecycle of data (1:34)
Relevance of orchestration in data pipelines (00:02:45)
Changes around data ops and MLOps (3:37)
Data Cleaning (11:42)
Overview of Dagster (13:50)
Assets vs Tasks in Data Pipeline (19:15)
Building a Data Pipeline with Dexter (25:40)
Difference between Data Asset and Materialized Dataset (28:28)
Defining Lineage and Data Assets in Dagster (29:32)
The boundaries of software and organizational structures (37:25)
The benefits of a unified orchestration framework (39:56)
Orchestration in the development phase (45:29)
The emergence of analytics engineer role (51:53)
Fluidity in data pipeline and infrastructure roles (52:40)

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Next Episode

172: How WebAssembly is Enabling the Third Wave of Cloud Compute with Matt Butcher of Fermyon Technologies

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Matt’s background and journey with Fermyon (2:32)
WebAssembly and enhanced security models (3:43)
The IOT Startup and Google Acquisition (10:49)
Google's Early Containers (11:50)
Scaling and anticipating requests (20:22)
Introduction to WebAssembly and its importance (23:32)
The Benefits of WebAssembly (30:57)
Comparison of Virtual Machines, Containers, and Micro VMs (33:12)
The Importance of Fast Startup Times in WebAssembly (37:39)
Metaphysics and software development (42:12)
The importance of effective communication in code development (43:18)
The challenges and progress of WebAssembly (47:40)
Requirements of different teams and different jobs (52:17)
Final thoughts and takeaway (53:14)

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.