AI Meets Data Infrastructure: Cost, Performance, and What’s Coming Next — with Barzan Mozafari

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Barzan Mozafari discusses the impact of AI on data teams and the inefficiencies in cloud data platforms.

Barzan Mozafari, CEO of Keebo and former computer science professor, joins us to explore how AI is changing the way data teams work. We talk about the hidden inefficiencies in cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, how reinforcement learning can automate performance tuning, and why the tradeoff between cost and speed isn’t always what it seems. Barzan also shares thoughts on LLMs, the future of conversational analytics, and what data teams should (and shouldn’t) try to build them...

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Guest: Barzan Mozafari

Topics covered

• AI
• data infrastructure
• cloud data platforms
• performance tuning
• cost vs speed
• conversational analytics

Keywords

• AI
• data teams
• cloud platforms
• performance tuning
• cost efficiency
• reinforcement learning
• LLMs
• conversational analytics

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Organizations: Keebo, Snowflake, Databricks

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