Introduction

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Michael’s background and journey in data (0:33)
• The origin story of Druid (2:39)
• Experiences and growth in Data (8:08)
• Druid's evolution (21:46)
• Druid's architectural decisions (26:32)
• The user experience (30:06)
• The developer experience (35:14)
• The evolution of BI tools (40:55)
• Data architecture and integration (47:53)
• AI's impact on BI (52:26)
• What would Mike be doing if he didn’t work in data? (56:27)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (57:02)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

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