E02: Metadata Architecture w/ Shirshanka Das

Shirshanka Das spent a decade leading data architecture at LinkedIn where he was the co-creator of DataHub, Apache Gobblin, Databus, Espresso and other high scale data infrastructure projects. Today he is the co-founder and CEO of Acryl Data, listen and learn what problems they are seeking to solve.

Highlights:
[1:10] Leaving LinkedIn and starting Acryl 
[4:33] Datahub growth 
[8:12] Where will the data catalog market segment be in 5 to 10 years?
[12:07] Unlimited context within the operating system 
[16:08] Organizations adopting the right thinking behind metadata 
[21:00] Is the data catalog a stand alone category of data infrastructure 10 years from now?

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