E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with Matt Fuller

Today on the podcast, I interview Matt Fuller, the co-founder of Starburst. Matt has worked in data for years ....

Highlights
[1:00] - How Matt got into data & the C-Store paper which led to him joining Vertica, an early columnar database prior to technologies like Hadoop, HDFS or Parquet
[3:45] - The increasing adoption of OSS data storage tools and the growth of the Hadoop ecosystem that ultimately led up to Presto/Trino
[6:00] - How Matt took the plunge as an engineer-founder to become a co-founder of Starburst and had to wear many different hats across customer support, GTM and product
[10:20] - Matt's experience as a bridge between customer problems and the engineering team, and how to tailor your discussions to the appropriate place in the org that the customer contact sits
[14:20] - How  OSS changes the GTM dynamic of an enterprise product
[16:30] - What Matt is excited about regarding the future of Trino - the lakehouse architecture and open formats for data lakes (like Iceberg), and the Starburst SaaS product (Starburst Galaxy)

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