Micah Wylde
Founder and creator of Arroyo, a cloud-native streaming processing system; later joined Cloudflare as a principal engineer after Arroyo's acquisition, with deep experience building real-time data platforms at Sift Science and Lyft.
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Dec 9, 2025 • 46min
Ep. #4, Streaming Made Practical with Micah Wylde
Micah Wylde, founder of Arroyo and former engineer at Cloudflare, shares his journey from building fraud detection at Sift Science to creating massive real-time systems at Lyft. He discusses the complexity of streaming systems, emphasizing that schema evolution remains a tough challenge. Micah argues for SQL-first streaming, critiques current CDC tooling, and highlights the importance of treating data outputs as products. He also predicts a shift in data architecture towards open formats and the impact of AI on data consumption.
Jan 25, 2024 • 57min
Arroyo with Micah Wylde
Micah Wylde from Arroyo discusses their real-time data processing engine using Rust, enabling SQL queries on streaming data. They explore Rust's benefits in performance, memory safety, Tokyo framework usage, and challenges in Rust engineering. The episode delves into the future of Rust ecosystem, interaction with other languages, limitations, and industry perceptions.
