Software Architecture Conference 2025 Talk: What Does “Cloud Native” Mean for Databases? Let’s Look at Code and Find Out!

Our CEO, Robert Hodges, is presenting the talk What Does “Cloud Native” Mean for Databases? Let’s Look at Code and Find Out! at the Software Architecture Conference 2025, which will be live-streamed across platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Twitch, and CSharp TV.

Data lakes on open table formats like Iceberg are a popular way to manage large datasets for analytics, data science, and AI. This talk explains how data lakes work and how to adapt open source analytic stacks to use them. First, we’ll tour projects like Arrow, Iceberg, and Unity Catalog that make data lakes possible. Next, we’ll see how analytic engines like DuckDB, ClickHouse, and Spark are adapting. Finally, we’ll survey a few projects that enable applications written in Python, Golang, or Rust to deliver fast queries. You’ll have to build the app yourself, but this talk will show you a path to use data lakes and open source successfully.