Michael Eastham

@Yuchenj_UW @alighodsi @pwendell @matei_zaharia Excited to work with you!

Life update: I joined Databricks this week! I thought I’d do another startup after Hyperbolic, but I was surprised by how startup-y Databricks AI is. @alighodsi, @pwendell, @matei_zaharia are in full founder mode. They’re the best founders I’ve met. I like working with people who aren’t “normal” and they definitely aren’t. For example, they invited me to an all-hands before I joined. I’m also impressed by how many former founders are here. @akhilgupta and @hanlintang are incredible leaders. A big bonus: I finally have unlimited Claude Code & Codex tokens! AI adoption on the Databricks AI team is insanely high. Every engineer I’ve met uses AI heavily and shares their own ways to drive agents. Many talented people here. I’m super pumped for this new journey!

@medriscoll @ergestx @kevinmstumpf We have an in-house system (pre-dating our use of DuckDB) which orchestrates everything

@ergestx Maybe @mikeeastham or @kevinmstumpf can weigh in?

Why leverage DuckDB for lightweight ETL pipelines? “Many DuckDB jobs now complete faster than a Spark cluster can start up.”

📢 Snowflake Invests in @TectonAI to Help Make Data Scientists More Productive okt.to/S1KnNu #datascience

It's an exciting day for the Tecton team! We’re thrilled to share that we've secured $100M in a Series C funding round led by @kleinerperkins, Tiger Global, @BainCapVC, w/ participation from @SnowflakeDB @databricks @a16z & @sequoia. Read more here: techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/tec…

I was the guest on Go Time #215 about MLOps in Go! Check it out here: changelog.com/gotime/215

apply() - the ML data engineering conference - is back on February 10! The event is entirely free and virtual. We have a great lineup from companies like Twitter, Etsy, Walmart, Better.com, Snowflake and Databricks. applyconf.com