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With Alex Kesling (Founder, Empathic).
Datadog, 620 8th Ave, New York
Feb 05 (Wed) , 2025 @ 06:30 PM
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We're pleased to present Alex Kesling on Apache Arrow DataFusion: a Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine (Read the Paper)

DataFusion represents a new category of database technologies: "deconstructed databases". It's a relational engine on which you can graft any language frontend (with SQL provided out of the box) & point it at any data you want.

How could one technology possibly do the same work as SQLite, PostgreSQL, Pandas, DuckDB, what-have-you all in one package? Let's read the paper & talk about it.

Alex Kesling is the cofounder of Empathic, a new company exploring the intersection of enterprise data infrastructure & agentic AI. He previously worked on Google's Search & Knowledge Graph infrastructure, VR/AR tools for teachers, & a plethora of consulting projects. Alex loves systems design, time series visualization, distributed systems, & that one turkey sandwich the day after Thanksgiving.

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Required: You must have your real name on your account & provide a photo ID at the entrance to attend, per the venue rules. If you are not on the list, you will not be admitted.

Reminder: Papers We Love has a code of conduct. Breaching the CoC is grounds to be ejected from the meetup at the organizers' discretion.

The event will be recorded & made available 1-2 weeks afterwards.

Join us on the Papers We Love Discord - [https://discord.gg/6gupsBg4qp](https://discord.gg/6gupsBg4qp)

Venue:

Datadog
620 8th Ave, 45th Floor
New York, NY 10018 USA
Doors open at 6:30pm EST
Note: Enter the building on 8th Avenue & go to the reception desk on your left

Required: You must have your real name on your Meetup account & provide a photo ID at the entrance to attend, per the venue rules. If you are not on the list, you will not be admitted.
 
 
 
 
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