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Tactical Data Engineering

Julian Hyde Julian Hyde | Senior Staff Engineer | Google

How do you organize your data so that your users get the right answers at the right time? That question is a pretty good definition of data engineering — but it is also describes the purpose of every DBMS (database management system). And it’s not a coincidence that these are so similar.

This talk looks at the patterns that reoccur throughout data management — such as caching, partitioning, sorting, and derived data sets. As the speaker is the author of Apache Calcite, we first look at these patterns through the lens of Relational Algebra and DBMS architecture. But then we apply these patterns to the modern data pipeline, ETL and analytics. As a case study, we look at how Looker’s “derived tables” blur the line between ETL and caching, and leverage the power of cloud databases.

Julian Hyde
Julian Hyde
Senior Staff Engineer | Google

Julian Hyde is the original developer of Apache Calcite, an open source framework for building data management systems, and Morel, a functional query language. Previously he created Mondrian, an analytics engine, and SQLstream, an engine for continuous queries. He is a staff engineer at Google, where he works on Looker and BigQuery.

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