127: The Anatomy of a Data Lakehouse with Alex Merced of Dremio

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Alex’s background in the data space (2:41)
• Comics and Pop Culture Blending with Finance training (5:20)
• What is a data lake house? (7:36)
• What is Dremio solving in for users? (11:21)
• Essential components of a data lake house (16:35)
• Difference between on-prem and cloud experiences (33:53)
• What does it mean to be a developer advocate? (41:31)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (49:02)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

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