Handling stragglers, failures, and quarantine

In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim from Essence VC and co-host Ian Livingston (Keycard) interviewed Sammy Sdu, CEO of Eventual, a multimodal data processing platform. Sammy shares his journey from AI research and self-driving cars to founding Eventual, discusses the challenges of processing unstructured and multimodal data, and explores the future of data engineering, scalability, and the role of agents in modern data pipelines.

Timestamps:

• 02:47 — Data processing challenges & founding Eventual
• 09:40 — Real-world use cases & business impact
• 24:20 — The future of data engineering & tools
• 40:00 — Closing thoughts & where to learn more