Databases for AI Workloads
Description
Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion, and more. He was previously the CTO of Splunk, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Cisco for $28 billion. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Yahoo for 14 years.
Tim's favorite book: Infinite Jest (Author: David Foster Wallace)
(00:01 ) Introduction
(00:07 ) Evolution of Databases
(03:17 ) Enduring Business Models in Data Management
(04:41 ) Challenges and Trade-offs in Database Choices
(06:20 ) Modern Database Architecture
(09:06 ) Separation of Storage and Compute
(10:35 ) Role of Indexing in LLM Applications
(13:20 ) Handling Different Types of Data in Databases
(14:50 ) Distributed Databases Explained
(16:20 ) Real-time Data Handling and Requirements
(18:53 ) Architecting Data Infrastructure for AI
(21:29 ) ETL in Modern Data Infrastructure
(24:53 ) AI's Role in Database Optimization
(27:17 ) Network Architecture
(30:13 ) Hardware Improvements and Database Performance
(33:35 ) Technological Breakthroughs and Investment Opportunities
(35:11 ) Rapid Fire Round
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