59: Making ETL Optional with Justin Borgman of Starburst Data

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Starburst Data is Justin’s second startup (2:42)
• Starburst focuses on doing data warehousing analytics without the need for the data warehouse (4:14)
• Multi-cloud solutions among merger and acquisition use cases (8:32)
• Ways the stack is increasing in complexity (12:25)
• Comparing essential components of a data stack from 2010 to now (15:01)
• The future of ETL (27:36)
• The best maturity stage for an organization to implement Starburst (31:27)
• Starburst connectors (36:55)
• Monetizing enterprise solutions while promoting open source ones (41:52)
• The history of Presto and Trino (45:37)
• Benefits of a decentralized data mesh (49:53)

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