Python Devs - What's the Difference Between Dask and Spark?

Matthew Rocklin is Founder & CEO of Coiled, a company that sits on top of open-source Dask which makes Python highly scalable for data scientists. Coiled makes Dask enterprise-ready and gives users access to faster cluster startup times, savings on cloud costs, and allows them to run their Python workloads faster.

Coiled has raised $26M from investors including Bessemer and Costanoa.

In this episode, we discuss the creation of Dask, the decision to start a company around it, the challenges that come with company building, and much more!