
Welcome to the Building the Backend Podcast! We’re a data podcast focused on uncovering the data technologies, processes, and patterns that are driving today’s most successful companies. You will hear from data leaders sharing their knowledge and insights with what’s working and what’s not working for them. Our goal is to bring you valuable insights that will save you and your team time when build... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 43 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | How ToEducationTechnology | ||||

In this episode we speak with Justin Borgman, Chairman & CEO at Starburst, which is based on open source Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) and was recently valued at $3.35 billion after securing their series D funding. In this episode we discuss convergenc... more
In this episode we speak with Paul Singman Developer Advocate at Treeverse / LakeFS. LakeFS is an open source project that allows you to transform your object storage into a Git-like repository.
Top 3 takeaways
• LakeFS enables use cases like deb... more
In this episode we speak with Matt Topol, Vice President, Principal Software Architect @ FactSet and dive deep into how they are taking advantage of Apache Arrow for faster processing and data access.
Below are the top 3 value bombs:
• Apache Arro... more
In this episode we speak with Chad Sanderson head of data and early stage startup advisor focused on data innovation @ Convoy and uncover their journey to implementing Amundsen, an open source data catalog.
Below are the top 3 value bombs:
• Data... more
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By focusing on backend infrastructure, Travis selected an undervalued topic full of rich potential for understanding the stories and appreciating the context that data and infrastrucure play in business. Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to more.
Travis has come out of the gate strong with a stellar line-up of data-focused guests. I’m looking forward to watching/listening to more of his content!
Travis does a great job of selecting talent to interview and creating engaging and relevant conversations!
Great insights from professionals in the data space. Thoughtful questions and well delivered answers. It would be helpful to explain some acronyms, I’m not as knowledgeable in data as some of the other listeners. Excited to hear more and would like to know how I could get started in data myself!










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