Data Radicals

Mar 05 2025 44 mins 1

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Cloud costs are skyrocketing, and for data teams running AI inference, Spark jobs, and big data workloads, optimization is no easy task. Tuning these workloads for efficiency without disrupting production is a major challenge—but what if there was a better way?

In this episode of Data Radicals, Satyen Sangani sits down with Jeff Chou, CEO and co-founder of Sync Computing, to explore a revolutionary approach to cloud optimization. Sync’s closed-loop tuning engine continuously fine-tunes workloads in real-time—without manual adjustments. The result? 50-60% cost savings on Spark jobs and massive efficiency gains for AI workloads.

Listen to his episode to learn:

Why declarative computing is the future—letting engineers define their desired outcomes instead of manually configuring infrastructure.
How Sync Computing slashes cloud costs by dynamically adjusting resources in production, ensuring efficiency without sacrificing reliability.
The game-changing impact of Sync’s partnership with NVIDIA to optimize GPU workloads, where the stakes—and costs—are even higher.

If you’re managing cloud workloads, this conversation is a must-listen. Discover how cutting-edge AI-powered optimization is reshaping efficiency for Databricks, AI inference, Spark, and beyond.

*Satyen is an investor of Sync Computing

*Satyen’s narration was created using AI

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“ We have this high-level thesis we call Declarative Computing. Which the idea is, let's flip the story, instead of a human having to pick the resources and pick all these configurations. That's really hard. Most people don't know any of that stuff, but what people do understand is the outcome. How long did it take? How much did it cost? What was the latency? These are very understandable. These metrics are tied much more to the business, I would say. Our whole thesis is why can't we flip the story? Why can't you declare the outcomes that you want?” – Jeff Chou

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Time Stamps

*(04:10): What is analog computing? How can it minimize energy consumption?

*(13:06): What is declarative computing? Scaling compute, minimizing costs

*(21:32): Optimizing cloud compute (and the challenges of vendor lock-in)

*(31:23): The need for high reliability in production

*(39:14): The future of compute: Specialization

*(43:00): Satyen’s takeaways

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