Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Introducing Arjun and how he fell in love with databases (2:51)
• Looking at what Materialize brings to the stack (5:28)
• Analytics starts with a human in the loop and comes into its own when analysts get themselves out and automate it (15:46)
• Using Materialize instead of the materialized view from another tool (18:44)
• Comparing Postgres and Materialize and looking at what's under the hood of Materialize (23:16)
• Making Materialize simple to use (32:33)
• Why Materialize doubled down on writing 100% in Rust (35:43)
• The best use case to start with (42:03)
• Lessons learned from making Materialize a cloud offering (44:22)
• Keeping databases to the cloud for low latency (48:31)
   

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