Tractable

Nikhil Benesch, CTO at Materialize, joins me to discuss the evolution of Materialize from its origins at Cockroach to a production-grade system powering companies like Ramp and General Mills. Nikhil shares the the origin story of Materialize, the progress from Streaming Data Warehouse to Operational Data Warehouse, and the the challenges of offering cloud-native solutions. Additionally, Nikhil explains the trade-offs between freshness, consistency, and responsiveness, and discusses future advancements, including spill-to-disk functionality and expanded data inputs and outputs.