and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age viewer discretion is advised hey what's going on guys patreon here once again with another live video and yes i'm still sick fortunately the sore throat has kind of left but my sinuses have opened up like the freaking Niagara Falls so i've been snotting and snorting all day but i'm getting better so welcome to my well yeah this is probably gonna be my last live show for 2021 uh what a wild year this has been been great for the channel hit 10 000 subs uh went to tfcon met a lot of fellow youtubers a lot of good friends you know it's been a it's been a good year as far as being a collector and we've had some great figures come out and uh so per i guess it's the youtuber rule is we always put out at the end of the year our top 10 list of figures now my top 10 list is going to be figures that i've purchased this year not necessarily that they've been released this year but ones that i purchased so there may be a g1 in here or something from way down the line and just for some extra added fun i'm also going to add in my top five disappointing figures of the year it's not that these figures are bad they're just not what i was expecting so everybody in the chat we got 13 people watching that's my lucky number i was born on a third friday of the 13th love it jason wade cox fits 19 iaconis galvatron 86 who have i missed daniel maynard your wreck gar was a good one so keep in mind too that all of these it's my opinion so don't be offended if i pick something that you didn't like you didn't think was great it's part of the fun and that's why i wanted to do it live because i think it'd be neat when okay i pull out a figure okay this is one of my top 10 disappointments and then you in the chat tell me why it's your favorite or something like that so i think it was a really cool way to do this and what i might do also tomorrow if i'm feeling a little bit better is film a regular top 10 list of these figures and put it out there just as a regular video all right so we got about 15 people in the chat or 15 people watching so if you want to we'll go ahead and get started with my top five disappointments of 2021 and like i said it's not that they're bad figures i was just expecting a little bit more and number five for my top five disappointments is the arc here now as i said this isn't a bad figure but compared to the other titans he just doesn't have that playability he's got a great robot mode i wish he came with a gun or something he's got all kinds of little guns all over him but it would have benefited if he could have rotated these around you know that i think that would have been really really cool it's his alt mode that kills me yes it's the arc it's so cool to have the arc but mine it won't stay together you try to fly around you know try to display it and it just cracks right down the middle you got these two damn triangle pieces that always pop off so i mean like i said it's a decent figure but i was expecting more especially when you look at scorponok and metroplex and omega supreme great robot mode a great alt mode that you could actually interact with and then you got the arc great robot mode and it's a spaceship that falls apart on you so there is my number five disappointment number four disappointment this may hurt some of you guys dinobot now before you start throwing things at your monitor listen to me i love dinobots robot mode it is dead on to how he looked in the cartoon his raptor mode kills me first off he has no front teeth whatsoever and what is up with this look in in dino mode i hate that robot mode is fantastic but he's disappointing for me for the raptor mode and that's pretty much all there is to say about dinobots next up you know how hard it was to display all of these figures without you seeing them so i got stuff all over the place here uh what is next oh number three and i think number three will be on a lot of people's lists kingdom rhinox this i don't know this figure they should have just re-released the thrilling 30 rhinox because that was such a better figure than this guy this one doesn't really look like he did in the cartoon and the weapons suck they look like little pizza cutters when you first got them now mine has the larkin layer upgrade kits on which greatly enhances the weapons but still doesn't do much for the figure and this is one of the worst transformations that i think we have got this year i just i hated his transformation it sucked it just really sucked so there's my number three rhinox and keeping with the kingdom line another figure that i was really looking forward to and when i got him i was really disappointed because he just didn't look anything like he did in the cartoon because he was one of my favorite characters and that's beast wars scorponok i think they just fumbled the ball with this guy first off he looks nothing like he did in the cartoon he's got these horrible little shop of horror claws i don't understand why put the teeth in the claws like that the transformation you know you got the feet sticking out in weird places and you just balance it i mean they can't even hold himself up on these legs the insect legs have no articulation whatsoever and i don't know this is one of the ones i was really really looking forward to and once i got him i was like man this guy sucks so that's my number two scorponok and i am pretty sure if you follow my channel if you follow the sit rep you know what my number one disappointing figure was for 2021 and that's kingdom tracks i love tracks i've always loved tracks great character great toy one of my favorite g1 toys couldn't wait to get this guy and getting him out of the box when i first got him he was missing a wheel which automatically pissed me off and then he just has a horrible transformation the robot mode looks great the leg transformation i mean the way the feet i mean look at that that sucks now i know like larkin and burt you know they got that uh fixed where you can squeeze these legs together but still doesn't really help that much with the transformation in the way that looks i just think that looks terrible and when you transform into car mode the hood does not stay together and what's funny i actually have the toy hacks decals for him so i'm hoping maybe i can tweak something to make him look a little bit better but this this figure right here just that is my number one disappointment of 2021 hey let me see here before we get into the top 10 favorites he had the worst luck with has to i did i had a super megatron had two right treads warpath who almost made the list he came with a flawed pin that wasn't pushed in all the way what else happened oh i had the 10th anniversary megatron break on me so yeah i had a terrible time with has to has has to ask excuse me i can't talk i've got lots of cold medicine to me right now so it might make it may get interesting as we go on especially you know cheers so with 33 people watching right now maybe it's time to get in the top 10 and excuse me one second i'm going to turn my air conditioner on it is freaking what december 30th here in west virginia and it is 60 degrees outside what the hell oh jason wade cox with a super chat jason thank you so much let's see what shall we give jason i know one of one of our favorites this is the new one here you go jay thank you oh dear jesus ah i was hoping to have the air conditioner on before before that stopped oh this is gonna feel a lot better uh 80 here in florida we got tracks as probably a lot of these figures are fixable kind of but still these transformations and i don't know what it was with kingdom and the freaking leg transformations warpath had a horrible leg transformation rhinox had a horrible leg transformation tracks had a horrible leg transformation am i going to get the battle cross time two packs i haven't yet but they're still available so i i may i don't know do i have a star convoy generation select i do not i never did get that one i i missed out on him okay so let's get into my top 10 i know that's what we're all here for as i said if you're coming in late these top 10 figures are not figures that came out this year but they're 10 figures that i bought this year and starting off with number 10 which makes up for kingdom scorponok is the transform element stinger warrior they knocked it out of the park with this little figure he is cartoon accurate he is die cast metal he i mean he looks great awesome posibility the legs height up in the back so much better than this guy here and look at the hollow bits notice no hollow bits on this guy so yeah they they killed it with this guy and i think he was only like 40 bucks he's just an awesome looking figure he's got the removable missiles or no no take it back the missiles aren't removable but you can collapse them up in his pincher so you don't see him so that is really really cool and oh hey michael d hit me with a super sticker michael thank you so much what shall we give you well let's get this i know uh this one's always popular with everybody was some are you still going to review the i'm still toy hacks in the arc he is currently in the process of being toy hacks the uh the toy hacks came in and how these other figures come in so i'm working on it so january i really don't have any new figures at all coming in january so probably a lot of toy hacks and maybe i'm going to get some more g ones in front of the camera i really want to get the combatic on shot all right so that was number nine so oh elites just want to say thank you for being an inspiration elites thank you so much i appreciate it let's see elites what shall i give you there we go the one that started it all oh am i planning on getting blaster if i can get one yeah well yes by all means i want to i want to get a blaster i have him pre-ordered but the pre-order says april but i know he's hitting shelves now so who knows i know that he's being found in targets now i don't have a target but we'll see um what else was gonna say oh if you saw my a little short video i posted earlier not only are they releasing blaster as the last of the kingdom line they're gonna re-release him in the legacy line so if you're gonna miss out on him you'll be able to pick him up once again which i think is pretty cool blaster and uh galvatron all right so speaking of galvatron my number nine top 10 figure of the year i can get him here is energon galvatron i found this guy on mccarrie for a steal the guy said hey i'm selling cheap he's complete the electronics don't work i was able to take the battery compartment apart poured a little uh apple cider vinegar in there clean the terminals and he works like a charm i don't have a battery in it right now i never keep batteries in my figures but this is an awesome figure it's big it's beefy it's solid they do not make figures like this anymore i mean he's got tons of articulation very g1 looking i remember when was it energon megatron came out it was this figure but done up in white and everybody back in the infant days of the internet are like hey and why didn't they just make that galvatron and lo and behold they recolored him and there he is as galvatron uh one complaint i had with this figure he has a sword i don't think i don't know if i can get it out or not yeah he's got a sword that attaches to the tank so he can wield the sword like so or flip it around like this but all they had to do was add a peg and he could hold it in his hand and the peg wouldn't have interfered at all with the way the sword goes in here because it goes in deep enough and the way it transforms it wouldn't have gotten away so man i wish they had a peg for the sword but other than that great figure heavy duty figure easy transformation bad-ass looking the ship mode and yeah i love this guy this is an awesome awesome transformer so that was my number nine i can feel the sweat rolling down my forehead freaking 30th of december all right next up uh number eight i put number eight on here an hour ago i have this list ready to go looking through the collection pulling these figures down i thought oh i forgot about that guy and he's got to be on the list because he's so awesome and i blame bert to stormtrooper for this this is my g1 reproduction browning figure this is a ko might as well say it's a ko of the generation one browning figure that was never released here in the states now finding an original browning will cost you a small fortune but this ko if you saw my review this is a damn near perfect figure it's got the die cast metal it's got the chrome it's got the ratchet joints it has the firing mechanism when he turns into the gun this is a beautiful figure and look at the chrome look how he catches the light i love this guy he is so much fun yeah especially when you pop in one of the little bullets and fire it into wheelie if you have to yeah this is a really really cool figure and my number eight number seven i know some of you people may be like why is this guy so low on my list but i have my reasons number seven is kingdom rodimus prime this is a great rodimus prime figure i love the robot mode i love the vehicle mode i like how rodimus looks in hot rod mode as i call it was just in car mode but what knocks him down on the list for me is the fact that this trailer does nothing but sit in my storage cabinet i have nowhere to display this whatsoever and not to mention when i got the trailer i couldn't get it to stay hooked together i actually had to take some super glue and super glued around the tabs a little bit let it thicken up and then once it thickened up it stays together really well but it kind of sucks when you get a hasbro figure and you have to fix it straight out of the box to get it to work right so that's why he's a little lower on my list but still this is a damn fine figure and i think right now i saw on amazon he's back at retail again so there is my number seven rodimus prime number six is a recent purchase and he really big surprise for me because at first when he was first announced i wasn't going to pick him up because i thought he's just gonna be an oversized version of a figure we already have that's really not that great so my number six is kingdom tygetron this figure wowed me i hardly found any faults with this guy one he comes with the gut gun that cheetor should have came with and it's painted you got a little pink there for the guts you got the gun you got the tail whip that doesn't have the blade on the end the face sculpt is damn near perfect to the cartoon transformation is different than cheetor's i was expecting to be the same there's some extra panels you put on and the only reason that this figure got knocked down a couple notches on my list is when you transform it to tiger mode the heels from the robot mode stick out from the thighs so if they could have found a way to fix that this figure would have been a lot higher on the list and it's a shame now i see him uh show for me now this is a great figure so yeah if you you see one of these guys pick him up you are not going to be disappointed all right number five the first and only studio series 86 figure on my list now i went through all the studio series 86 figures and they're all great except maybe blurring cup i'm there they're way down on my spectrum but they all had some faults that kind of kept them from going on the list except for this guy i love studio series 86 wreck guard they knocked it out of park with this figure he looks exactly like he did in the movie he transforms well the motorcycle mode's great usually a motorcycle transformer sucks i mean they just cannot get it right they nailed it with wreck guard but pay attention as i learned in my review to make sure and i just realized i don't even have the wheels on him he does have one wheel that's wider than the other the wide wheel goes in the back the narrow wheel goes in the front but yeah i love this guy and then i believe it's larkin hooked me up with a blaster for him to really complete the look so there is my number five studio series 86 wreck guard number four number four was my first big purchase of 2021 as i said in my christmas haul review during christmas my family never knows what to get me because i always buy this stuff as soon as they see it i get it so they always get me amazon gift card so i had a nice supply of amazon gift cards you know and i was able to finally pick up siege omega supreme this is a great figure i love this guy he is so heavy you compare him to the arc here i mean look look at this and the playability on this guy is awesome i mean he is cartoon accurate very well articulate i love the tank mode but what keeps him a little lower on my list is his base mode is too small he needed to have the oval tracks that expanded the base mode some i mean the tank you know how the g1 the tank would roll around the rocket base with this one the tank is going around the circle probably about that big maybe about as big as a basketball and that just killed me this should have been a much larger base but man the figure the tank and the rocket are awesome so that is my number four siege omega supreme where are we at now top three here's we're getting excited i am not here i'm not an omega supreme fan he's one of the best titans i agree i was never a huge omega supreme fan as far as g1 was concerned i didn't like the character and he was one of the last g1s that i bought about a complete one actually it wasn't too bad he has there's one broken clip on him i need to replace one of these times oh yeah i've seen those there are there are extra tracks i actually had somebody give me some but i got rid of my table so i have nowhere to display omega with those extra tracks all right top three anybody will place some bets what's going to be in the top three well top three is a kingdom figure that was part of the first wave that totally blew my mind when i got this guy out of the box and transformed him i was like hell yes if this is what kingdom is going to bring us this is going to be an amazing line and i'm talking about kingdom cyclonus i love this figure great bot mode outstanding vehicle mode i mean we've had cyclonus with of course g1 you had the classics version which was okay is decent then you had the horrible the combiner wars version and then this guy just killed it my only complaint and it's just a nitpick of mine i don't like the face sculpt i think the chin is way too long now i know if rodamus primal was on here he'd take a pair of snips and cut that chin off and sand it down but i don't trust my customizing skills that good so he's got a toy hacks goatee but yeah that's my only issue with cyclonus i don't like the face sculpt and that's why he's number three but still this is a great figure and like i said after opening him up i was really expecting so much out of the kingdom line but it was just the whole kingdom line was just hit or miss along the way so there was my number three excuse me the more the more i talk the more as crap gets stirred up all right number two now number two here was one i saw it announced and it was like an immediate buy i had there was no question no hesitation i bought this as soon as this thing was announced and i'm talking about transformers generation selects comic version of galvatron one this galvatron i didn't have to fix the shoulders i didn't have to take the battle damage off and he is my galvatron that i grew up with as i mentioned before where i lived i didn't get the cartoon so my transformers fiction growing up was the comic series and that's where this version of galvatron made his appearance and though the cartoon galvatron that we're used to old purple galvatron was insane in the cartoon his insanity didn't match holy candle to this guy's this guy was brutal evil and this this is my galvatron and i love this figure the stickers that came with him were absolute garbage i put them on just for the review and immediately took them off so i'm really looking forward to what toy hacks can do for this guy because they did a great set for the regular version of galvatron so here we are i have to clear some space here for my number one figure of 2021 another total surprise i'm gonna read the chats a little bit let let the anticipation build up a little bit let's see yeah there we go unlike most tf lines would say the best till last can't even live with some of its strongest figures they sure did they sure did and one of the ones that really surprised me again was huffer huffer was a great little figure especially the fact it's huffer i mean who would i we got cartoon version toy version cartoon yeah yeah i dig it all right so without further ado let's get to my number one figure of 2021 and this was one of those figures that it just appeared out of nowhere i saw it on facebook then i saw it on youtube and then i got together with all the con bros and we got the king sniper ksr 01 sniper rifle bot and i love this toy i have had so much fun since i got this guy now when i first got him i was scared to death because kato ordered this figure too and kato broke his pretty much right out of the package and of course he reviewed it anyways like hey i'm gonna review it maybe a piece of shit but i'm gonna review it so after watching his i was scared to mess around with this guy so when i transformed him a couple times i was like really delicate with him but the more and more i start messing with him this is a solid figure i know in my review a lot of people like it looks like a piece of trash i can assure you this is not it's a solid figure it's got good ratchets i mean it's got great articulate listen to that i mean it's so cool it's got that double knee bend on the ratchets great pain applications the whole barrel right here for the sniper rifle is die cast metal i figured out how to attach all of the weaponry on him in the first video i did i i couldn't figure it out but the more and more i messed with this figure this is how he's displayed on my display he's holding the weapon like a gatlin gun he's got the bipods up to his wrists so they look like wrist cannons the scope is up here mounted on his shoulders like a missile launcher i love this figure this was a a surprise and one i really didn't think i was going to get because i ordered it from ali express and i've never ordered from ali express before and i think it was like three weeks he was in my hand now he wasn't packed well he was in his box and uh the box was just wrapped up in like as it was like a giant envelope so the box took some damage but the figure inside was perfect now one issue i did have with him is the trigger mechanism if you saw my video the trigger wouldn't activate the spring when you when you cock him to fire yes this as a sniper rifle actually fires so the trigger mechanism needed a little touch up so i was able to tweak that took me like five minutes to fix and now he is perfect so that may be a shock to a lot of you all but this is my number one figure of 2021 but my god i love this guy he is so much fun i've transformed him back and forth over and over again don't even have any fear of breaking him now oh check it out you look right through the scope see how cool that is so yeah that is awesome and one problem is he's holding that gatlin gun he's a little top heavy there we go oh deluxe thank you so i complete you man all right deluxe he hit us with a super chat so let's do the group oh dear jesus what a fun time i miss you guys so much that was such a blast so there we have it there's my top 10 figures and top five disappointments of 2021 i hope you guys enjoyed so now we'll spend some time in the chat see what's going on uh the autobot clones did not get enough attention actually they got a lot of attention they were at wall greens and they were at amazon and they they keep popping up for sale on amazon favorite repaint i got this year oh without a doubt right here this was my favorites and then i was really impressed with uh road ranger i like that repaint of huffer though i've been debating on uh turning him into a decepticon because of the collars and the bot or the e hobby set that that whole recolor is based on was destrons they were originally bad guys anyway so i may fix that kato dine in the background's funny i know that that's a lot of time but you just watch him going over and over again i need to look that up you guys were talking about bot con in the chat and uh i was out of town we went out of town to get dealing a beta fish he got a fish tank for christmas so we went out town to go to a pet store and get him a beta fish hey johnsy do i have has lab unicron i do in a box i have yet to open i have nowhere to put him bot con where was it met nashville tf con yes it was you and you only met us for a couple hours the weirder the better yes ram jet awesome figures so they're trying to read it it's nashville in august that's damn that's that's pretty soon now that's the first bot con we've had in a while right oh god that's a hard question what was the best decal set that i've got this year hmm man that's a good i don't know there there's been some good ones i mean recently one of my favorites is what they did with earth rise barricade they really improved the look to him now i cannot wait to see what they've done to rodamus here because i know as far as inside the trailer you know it's so plain kind of like way earth rise primes was they're giving him all the computer screens and all that cool stuff so i can't wait to see that deep fake uh slow decay once a deep fake you got it brother let's see oh child things are get brighter then bring it down hard what are you doing dance off bro all right bug bites yeah the bug bite was a good one monster yes that was a great set they took the dead optimus prime set and they went creative and made their own character using the dead optimus prime as a quintessan drone or quintessan zombie it was awesome yes loud obnoxious and that's the packaging you're going to see when you're heading into walmart or target you take that turn into that action figure out you're gonna see that glorious neon purple packaging you're like yes legacy figures then you're gonna be like oh it's just same one over and over again all right well guys that's pretty much it for my top 10 list my wife is in bed i left my kid downstairs by himself watching tv is that i'll be upstairs for a moment i will uh do a quick live show for you guys wanted to show off my top 10 of everything and of course the list was really hard to come up with because there was a lot of great figures and like i said uh with studio series 86 i almost put the dino bots on here didn't put grimlock on because grimlock was missing his front teeth slag had the big gaps in the horns there's just little nitpick things that didn't put them on the list but still a ton of great figures i don't think i had one figure this year that i was completely disappointed in i mean just one where you're like i just wasted my money on this all of them had some redeeming quality even old tracks here who's a piece of shit in car mode a piece of shit to transform he looks great in robot mode so i dig him i mean i dig him as robot mode probably won't well yeah we'll have transform again for the toy hacks decal set so guys like i said this is probably gonna be my last live stream until um the new year and i want to thank you personally for uh coming on to my channel subscribing to my channel interacting with with me in the chats and the group chats and the set reps and commenting on my videos and helping me reach my goals that i set for myself over the years and it just it means a lot to me and for something that i just started on a whim i never ever ever thought that this would blow up into what it is and i'm just hoping it just goes on to bigger and better things and i i love it and it's all because of you guys because you are the reason i do this because it's fun i really enjoy hanging out with you guys so that's pretty much it i don't want to get all slobbery and emotional with you guys but you guys you mean a lot to me i don't stress that enough in these videos but you do and i thank you so so much so guys i hope you enjoyed the video uh don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe this is patriot prime


Good morning from New York City. Lisa Martin and John Furrier with theCUBE. We are at AWS Summit NYC. This is a series of summits this year, about 15 summits globally, and we're excited to be here, John, with about 10,000 folks. It's crowded, New York is packed, big showing here at AWS Summit, so it's super exciting. Super exciting, just a little bit before the keynote, and we have our first guest. Kevin Farley joins us, the Director of Strategic Alliances at MariaDB. Kevin, welcome to the program. Thank you very much, appreciate you guys having us. So, all of us out from California to NYC, lots of us. We came out with Warner Volgals coming up, which should be some good news, hopefully. Talk to us about MariaDB's SkySQL Cloud Native Version released a couple years ago. What's going on? Yeah, well, SkySQL for us is really a bet on the future. I think when we think about what the company's real mission is, it's just creating a database for everyone. It's any cloud, any scale, any size of performance, and really making sure that we're able to deliver on something that really kind of takes advantage of everything we've done in the market today. If you think about it, there's not very many startups that have a billion downloads, and 75% of the Fortune 500 are already using our service. So what we're really thinking about is, how do we bridge that gap? How do we create a natural path for all of these customers? And if you think about not just MariaDB, but anyone else using the SQL query language, all the MySQL people, what I think most Andy Jassy, TK, anyone says, you know, it's about 10% of the market currently is in the clouds. 90% of a total addressable market that hasn't done it yet. So creating cloud modernization for us, I think it's just a huge opportunity. You guys have a great history with AWS. I want to just step back. You mentioned some stats on success. Can you scope the size and track record of MariaDB for us real quick and set the table? Because I think there's a bigger picture going on that we've been tracking for the past 13 years of the address is the role of the database has always been one of those things where they didn't believe a one database fits all things. You guys have been part of that track record, scope the size and scale of MariaDB, the uses, the use cases, and some of the successes. Yeah, I mean, like I said, some of the stats are already throughout there. So, you know, it is pervasive. I think it was the best way to put it. I think what you look at with the database market really became is very siloed, right? I think there was a lot of unique solutions that were built and delivered that had promise, but they also had compromise. And I think what you look at the landscape of a lot of Fortune 500 companies, they have probably 10 to 15 different database solutions, right? And they're all doing unique things, they're difficult to manage, they're very costly. So what MariaDB is always kind of focused on is how do we continue to build more and more functionality into the database itself and allow that to be a single source of truth where application developers can seamlessly integrate applications. So then the theme of this event in New York City, which is scale dot dot dot anything, must align quite well with Maria and your objectives. I mean, honestly, I think when I think of the problems that most database companies face, customers, I should say, it really comes down to performance and scale. Most of them, like MariaDB, like you said, it's like the car you know and love. You've been driving it for years, you're an expert at it, it works great, but it doesn't have enough range. It doesn't go fast enough. It's hitting walls that modern data requirements are just breaking. So scale for me is the favorite thing to talk about because what we launched is MariaDB Expand, which is a pluggable storage engine that is integrated into SkySQL and it really gives you dynamic scale. So you can scale in, you can scale out, it's not costly compute to try to get for seasonality so you can make your Black Friday numbers. It's really about the dexterity to be able to come in and out as you need in a share nothing architecture with full failover, self-healing, high availability, married to the cloud for full cloud scale. And that's really the beauty of the AWS partnership. Can you elaborate a bit more on the partnership? How long have you guys been partners? Where is it now? Anything exciting coming out? It's actually been a wonderful ride. They've really invested from the very beginning. We went for the SaaS factory so they really brought a lot of resources to bear. And I think if you're looking at why it works, it's probably two things. I think the number one thing is that we share one of the core tenants and it's customer obsession. In an environment where there is co-opetition, you have to find paths for how do you get the best thing for the customer. And the second is pretty obvious, but if you look at any major cloud, their number one priority is getting large mission critical workloads into their cloud because the revenue is exponential on the backside. So what do we own? Large mission critical workloads. So if you marry that objective with AWS, the partnership is absolutely perfect for driving true revenue growth scale and revenue across both entities in the partner ecosystem. Kevin, talk about the hybrid strategy because you're seeing cloud operations go hybrid, Amazon announced, state of the art announced, outpost like four years ago. Now edge is super hot. So you're seeing like most of the enterprise is saying, okay, I love cloud, love the cloud database, but I got the on-prem hybrid cloud operations. So it's not just proprietary operations, it's cloud ops. How do you guys fit into that? What's the story? We actually, there's all these new deliverables, outposts come out with a promise. What we have is a reality right now. One of the largest networking companies, which I can't mention yet publicly, we want a really big SkySQL deal, but what they had manufacturing plants, they needed to have on-prem deployment. So MariaDB naturally syncs with SkySQL. It's the same technology. It works in perfect harmony. So we really already deliver on the promise of hybrid, but of course there's a lot more we can grow in that area and certainly thinking about outposts and other solutions is definitely on the longer-term road map of what could make sense for us in our customers. What are some of the latest things that you guys are doing now that you weren't doing a few years ago that customers should know about, the audience should know about? I mean, I think the game changer, we're always innovating. I mean, when you're the company that writes the code, owns the code, we can do hot fixes, we can do security patches, we can always do the things that give you real-time access to what you need. But I think the game changer is what I mentioned a little bit earlier. I think it's really the holy grail of the cloud. It's like, how can we take the SQL query language, which is well over 50% of the open source market, right? And how do we convert that seamlessly into the cloud? How do we help you modernize on that journey and expand gives you the ability to say, I can be a small startup. I got my C round. I don't want to manage databases. I can use the exact same service as the largest Fortune 100 company that has massive global scale and needs to be able to drive that across the globe. So I think that's the beauty is that it's really a democratization of the database. At least, you know, we've been covering the big data space for 10 years. Remember, all those different conversations had to do those days and, oh, they have big data. But then it's like too hard to set up. Then you had that kind of period where you saw a spark and data lakes emerge. Then you said, now, it almost seems like now more than ever, there's a data revolutions back. It was almost like a lull in the market a little bit. Yeah, I'm going to democratize data science. Now you got data. So now it just seems to be an explosion at that level. What's your analysis on that? Because you've been in the weeds and in this market for 10 years, okay? And nothing really changed. It's just now it's more ready. What's your observation? Why has it happened? I think that's a really good question. And I love it. Because I mean, what the promise of things like Hadoop and NetNew technologies, sort of, it was always out there, but it required this whole NetNew lift. And how do I do it? How do I manage it? How do I optimize it? The beauty of what we can do with MariaDB is that SkySQL is what you already know and love, right? And now you can deliver a data lake on S3, right? You can pull that data. And we also have the ability to do both analytical data and transactional data from the same database. So you can write applications that can pull column store data up into your application, but you can also have all of your asset transactions which are absolutely required for all of your mission critical business. So I think that we're seeing more and more adoption. You've seen other companies start to talk about bringing the different elements in, but we're the only ones that really do it. And SQL standardizing that front end, even better than ever before, all the stuff under the covers is all being connected. That's the awesome part, Israel, is you're literally doing what you already know how to do, but you blow it out on the back end married to the cloud. And that I think is the real revolution of what makes usability real in the data space. And I think that was always the problem before. When you're in partner conversations, you mentioned co-opetition. So I think when you're in partner conversations and customer conversations, there's a lot of competition out there. Everyone's got their own key messages. What are the key differentiators that you're saying, AWS, MariaDB together better, and here's why? Yeah, I think that certainly you start with the global footprint of AWS, right? So what we rely on the most is having the ability to truly deal with global customers in the availability zones that can optimize performance from them. But then when we look at what we do that really changes the game, it comes down to scale and performance. We actually just ran a Sysbench test against Cockroach. It also does distributed SQL. Absolutely, the results were off the charts. So we went public and said, we have an open challenge. Anyone that wants to try to beat, expand in SkySQL, if you can, we'll put $25,000 towards charity. So we really are putting our money where our mouth is on that challenge. So we believe the performance because we've seen it and we know it's real. But then it's really always about data scale. Modern data requirements are breaking the mold of sharding. They're breaking the mold of all these band-aids that people have put in these traditional services and we give them future. We future-proof their investments so they can say, I can start here, but if I end up being a startup that becomes Airbnb, I'm already built to blow it out on the back end. I can already use what I have. Speaking of startups being the next Airbnb, if you look at behind us here, you can see this is a really packed event in New York City. Events are back, but the ecosystem here is even flourishing. So Dave and I and Lisa were observing that we're still kind of in a growth mode at the time. So yeah, there's some market forces, headwinds for the big unicorns overfunded, public companies, maybe the valuations are a little bit off, but there's still a surge of new innovations, new companies coming out of this. And it's all around data and scale. It's all around new names we've never heard of. What's your take on them and reaction to that? Another awesome segue is in addition to the public clouds, I managed the ecosystem. And one of the things that we've really been focused on with SkySQL is making it accessible, API accessible. So if you're a company that has a huge MariaDB footprint, change data capture might be the most important thing for you to say, we want to do this, but we want you to stay in sync with our environments. Things like monitoring, things like BI, all of these are ecosystem plays and current partners that we have that we really think about, how do you holistically look at not only the database of what it can do, but how does it deliver value to different segments of the customer base or just your employee base that are using that stuff? So I think that's huge for us. What, you know, one of the things that we talk often about is that every company these days, regardless of industry, has to be a data company. Yep. You've got to be able to access the data, glean insights from it and act on it quickly, whether it's manufacturing, retail, healthcare. Are there any verticals in where MariaDB really excels? So certainly we excel in areas like financial services, it's huge, DBS Bank in APAC, one of our biggest customers. Also one of the largest Oracle migrations, probably the that we've ever done. A lot of people trying to get off Oracle, we make it seamless to get into MariaDB. You can think about Samsung cloud and their entire consumer cloud is built on MariaDB. Why? It's integrated with expand, right? Seasonality, so there's customers like that that really bring it home for us as far as service now, tech sector, right? So these are all different ones, but I think we're really strong in those areas. So this brings up a good point. Dave and I coined a term called super cloud at re-invent and Lisa and Dave were at multiple events, we were together at events and so a lot of people are getting behind this because this multi-cloud sounds like something's broken. So we call it super cloud because customers are building on top of ecosystems like MariaDB and others, not just AWS. So AWS does all the capex and provide the value. So now people are having this new super cloud moment where we're saying we can get all the benefits of cloud scale without actually being a cloud. So this is where the next gen layer comes. What's your reaction to super cloud? Do you think it's a thing? Well, I think it's a thing in the sense from our perspective as an ISV, we're laser focused on making sure that we support any cloud and we have a truly multi-cloud platform. But the beauty of that as well is from a single UI, you're able to deploy databases in different clouds underneath that you're not looking at so you can have performance proximity but you're still driving it through the same SkySQL UI. So for us, it's unequivocally true and I think it's only ISVs like MariaDB that can deliver on that value. Because you're enabling. We're enabling it, right? We partner, we build on top of everything, right? So we can access everything underneath. And they can then build on top of you. Sure, exactly, and that's exactly where it goes, right? So that, I think in that sense, the super cloud is actually already somewhat real. It's interesting, you look at the old IT spend, they take a big company, I won't say a name, but a leader and a vertical. They have such a big spend, now they can leverage that spend in with the super cloud model, they then could become a service provider in the vertical. Capital one's doing it, you're seeing Goldman Sachs doing it. They have the power on the spend that they're leveraging in for their business and servicing their vertical and the smaller players. Do you see that trend? Well, I think that's the reality is that everyone is getting this place where if you're talking about sort of this broader super concept, you're talking about global scale, right? That's, in order to deliver a backbone that can service that model, you have to have the right data structure and the right database footprint to be able to scale. And I think that's what they all need to be able to do and that's what we're really well positioned with SkySQL. To enable companies, as we talked about in a minute ago, to truly become data companies and to be competitive and to scale on their own, where are your customer conversations? Are they at the C-suite level? Has that changed in the last couple of years? That's actually a really great way to state that question because I think you would've traditionally probably talked more to the DBAs, right? They're the people that are having headaches, they're having problems, they're trying to solve. We see a lot of developers now, tons, right? They're thinking about, I have this new thing that I need to do to deliver this new application and here's the requirements and the current model's broken. It doesn't optimize that. It's a lot of work and it's hard to manage. So I think that we're in a great position to be able to take that to that next phase and deliver. And then of course, as you get deeper in with AWS, you're talking about CIO level, CISO level. They need to understand how do you fit into our larger paradigm? And many of these guys have hundreds of million dollar commits with AWS, so they think of their investment in the sense of a cloud stack. And we're part of that cloud stack, just like AWS services. So those conversations continue to happen certainly with our larger customers because it truly is married. It is and they continue to evolve. Kevin, thank you so much for joining me. You're welcome, it's great. John and me talking about what's going on with MariaDB. Thank you, John. Thank you, Lisa. On behalf of MariaDB, it was wonderful. We appreciate it. Excellent, fantastic. We enjoyed it as well. For John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE live from New York City at AWS Summit NYC. John and I will be back with our next guest in a minute.


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Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com here with Nina Kovner Hi, so happy that I get to sit down and talk to you I'm actually really happy because this is one of my last interviews of the day and I love the energy that you bring At the end so tell me so passion squared net Is your website? Yes, you do a lot of things for the hair industry and for hairdressers and just people in general So let's talk about your company at first just so that everybody has a good idea of what you do and who you do it for Awesome. Well, thank you Matt as always Love hanging out with you. Yes So yeah passion squared I it's an empowerment business. Okay, so I empower owners primarily in professional beauty and wellness okay industry and they work with hairdressers and Creative people awesome. Yeah, so and you when did you launch the company? What year was it? 2000? Then a bit Wow 2012 okay 11 12 was it really? Yeah, okay. I thought it was a little bit earlier than that So you so you launched the company? Well, we we weren't working on it for a while Okay, yeah, so you but you've been doing the consulting thing for quite a while Right. No, not really. I mean I left my career, right at Paul Mitchell in 2009. Okay, so I spent a little time Working with Robert, right, you know in San Diego and then from there. I I just started Kind of digging deep into what was next. Okay. What was next in business? What was next in marketing? I was already a big fan of the social and digital space For a lot of reasons, but I began to really dive in and study it for passion Square probably in 2011 okay, and what was your goal when you launched passion Square? What were you trying? I wanted such a good question I wanted to help empower the people that I loved. Okay. That's all I wanted to do, right, you know We're here at vegan and I was just sharing, you know with the kids earlier This is my second career. It's my second kind of act and I just really wanted to do something that fed my soul, you know and The fact that I get to wake up every morning and and help empower the people that I love that that there's no Agenda other than that. Right. It's really what I do why I do it And it's my passion. What would you say is one of like the? like being a salon owner I Would imagine like a lot of saunas have the same type of issues What do you think is the biggest thing that the saunas are all asking the same question right? Ah, you know I think that there's definitely themes, you know, and This is nothing really new. It's not tied to the social and digital space, you know, it's really none of that Culture and leadership. I think continued to remain a challenge For different reasons like people motivated or attracting even attracting people are building a culture or Keeping a culture strong. Yeah, and that ties to leadership and communication and you know creative folks inherently are not always The ones that love to have really tough conversations. Yeah, and so, you know courage Courage is a big part of that And I work with my clients every day, you know in the areas of courage and communication because So many of the problems that we have are just tied to simply Being afraid. Yeah to have the talk that I don't really the talk that gives me a stomach ache Yeah, the talk that I really don't want to have to have with you And so that you know, whether it's client challenges, right? clients abusing policies or agreements or no shows or you know Abuse in that inform or its team, you know team whatever behaviors it all comes down to that So that's definitely one thing and the other thing which just fits perfectly with my entire life is just marketing Understanding that they have an opportunity to actually build a brand of long-term value, right?  Yeah, you know, yeah And so really helping people understand that there's a way to generate incredible value and legacy just based on Taking a little bit more time and being more mindful about Those steps we take in being an owner or in reinventing or remodeling or re Anything you know exactly. Yeah, so so I think what's cool about your company is that you are connected to them like you it's it's not a company where you're You know, you're paying a subscription and you might talk to somebody randomly like people say to me that they they wait for you You send text messages every morning. Yeah, yeah to all the people that are part of your yeah So so that's really cool. And what if what has been the big response from from that kind of stuff? Well, I mean, you know You know what I have a better question. I'm gonna lose it. What would you say? Based on what you do for people, how can you transfer that into the salon world where a Like how you send a text message to people every day How could you translate that into the salon world to where people could do that? Maybe for their clients or maybe as a business Instead of just the text messages that say hey, you have a five o'clock, right? Maybe there's something better that people well, you know, that's that's a really good question The the text message program that I have it's called awesome a day, but it's included in my awesome school my a school coaching program so The reason that I did it and where I think it can actually add value in it on any level like you said is that So much of what we do in life is up here.  Yeah, but no matters what's happening Let's just have a moment to just gain some perspective or to do some gratitude practice or to whatever, right? So where I think that could be beneficial and add value to clients is the same reason. Yeah, right whether it's like I just launched a The text program for teams so owners can buy You know text for the entire team the same thing owners could do that for their clients Right, and I think because the world is so noisy I think because all the benefits of social also bring us the bummer of social, right? Which is sometimes we get a little too caught up in the noise and the drama Particularly with so many horrible things happening in the world right now and the and the election season It's just kind of like this. It's all coming not awesome energy all the time Right, and so this is a way to put out Awesome energy. It's a way to add value to you know As the great Simon Sinek says it's people don't buy what you do they buy why you do it Then I'm a firm believer and subscriber to that philosophy. So, you know, yeah, everyone can give a good haircut But what's that value add, you know, how are you? creating more value in your clients lives outside of That day of experience and and that could be a lot of different ways that could be a whole take-home thing You know, right? There's a lot of different ways to extend that experience outside of that hour, right and and definitely Something that we should always be thinking of you know in terms as marketers as business people. That's very cool Yeah, so so how do people so if you go to passion square dot net is that can you sign up? Yeah, you just go to passion square net this thing. Yeah shop I really think that people should I think it's a great thing to sign up for and it's also So and you've built kind of a community within that right so people can ask Questions a kind in my in my awesome school in my a school coaching group, which is for owners We have a secret Facebook group. So I'm accessible 24-7. Yeah with boundaries, of course, you know I always take a good 24 hours out of the week for just myself. But yeah, I mean, it's fantastic I do workshops. We do a lot of stuff in that group but the thing that kind of the why behind how I designed it was that I wanted to make it so affordable that No one would ever leave and by never leaving I can help them be accountable Because so many times we get all geeked out and excited about some workshop. We attended or some class We're like and then You know and and because the you know creative small business owners have a lot on their plate myself included It's nice to have someone hold this accountable. It's nice to have someone to be kind of the Yeah, you know and that's me That's the role that I get to play for my clients that are in our group and it's just beautiful It's a beautiful thing like I I want to be by their side Every day if need be and in a way that's affordable and easy and accessible. So that's awesome Yeah, it's really it's the greatest thing like that. I have the honor of doing every day Well, it's very cool. And if you guys get a chance go check it out passion square net I'll post the link in the comment or the in the description and People can go follow you there and also on Instagram, right? You're always yeah, Instagram is not chat or my to definitely Yeah, yeah, and you have some stuff coming up so people can see dates of where you're speaking. I do Yeah, I do Lots of things happening. Yeah, so We're doing something together. Yeah in Miami in Miami. Yeah coming up. I deal on October In October Miami so that'll be really cool so if you guys are in Miami definitely check out Nina there and And that's pretty much it but I always enjoy sitting with you and Thank you to American Salon. Thanks Americans on Gordon. Thank you to Matt I always have to tell the story, but you guys I met I met this incredible human when he was just at graduating beauty school It's very true in Vegas actually in Vegas. And I just every time I see you every time I sit down with you I'm so proud of you. Thank you.  It's been 12 years. I think about yeah, it's crazy time flies But I'll grown up. Yeah, but and we're completely doing different Which is why it's so great. It's an elevate an evolution of everything. So thank you, Nina American salon check out American salon And also free salon education calm. Yes, and passion squared net. Yes. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you on the next video


When I celebrate the 4th of July, I celebrate my freedom. The celebration of our country's independence. Not all about cookouts and fireworks and families coming together. When I celebrate the 4th of July, I'm celebrating all the hard work, the brothers and sisters that before me and after me have done to protect us and keep our freedom. You really need to take a moment in that day and really just give respect for those who stand up and put their hand up and serve our country. And it's definitely honoring and humbling for me to know that this country has another 4th of July that can celebrate another independence through the hard work and sacrifices of veterans and those who are still serving.


Hey guys shave every 1,000 here. Just gonna do a quick vlog for you. I'm gonna I'm gonna run a speed test on my PC and Then I'll show you how to clear your Browsing history while I'm here. I'm kind of curious. It seems like it's lagging a little bit So I want to see if my If I'm getting the speeds I'm supposed to be getting I should be getting a hundred So let's check it out. Let's run a speed test Go speed test and always go by okla. Is it okla? Okay, now let's hit go and let's see what her speeds are running seems to be running okay right now, but It just a little while ago seemed like it was kind of want to Kind of slow down on me for some reason, but Okay, download speed we're getting right around That's pretty impressive What 113 and what we getting for upload speeds? I can I can go up to 500 I think here where I'm at and I mean I think it's 100 300 and 500 so Okay, so that's not too bad. So that's running pretty good. All right.  See these three dots right up here Right where the monkey's at click is three dots. I've dropped down menu come down to where it says history All right now go over here click on your history and All your history things will come up. Here we go speed test All right, as you can see I watch a lot of YouTube. I've got a lot of stuff on here. I have not Deleted it for a while Okay, so Once you get to here Right over here to the left of your screen right there where the monkey's going Says clear browsing data Okay, so I'm gonna click on that and it'll give you all this stuff I want my password saved so I'm not gonna but you can pick or choose whatever you want to clear So I'm just I've already got it set the way. I want it. So there's all them settings there So I'm gonna go ahead and clear the data and we're gonna let that clear and there we go It should all be clear. So let's check our history again Right here Nope, your browsing history Appears here. So we cleared it Okay, so we're back up here on this Let's see Let's see if it's running even faster. Let's go to YouTube And see how quick it brings it up See it just seems to me like with them kind of speeds. It should be a lot faster than what it is but You know, I go I may have to do some work on the computer You know, I haven't run maintenance on it for a little while. So There you go.  I mean, I know a lot of people the reason why I'm doing this is some people don't know how to do that I've looked up some things on when I was having computer problems with monkey's new computer and there was a lot of Issue people people just didn't know how to clear their their cash and stuff And so anyway, that's clear your browsing data and it should run faster. Let's go ahead You know what? Let's go ahead and check the speed again See what it was I think we had 113 and 11. I think let's run it again and see it's good a speed test Go to this And let's run it again just for the heck of it and see if it's any better I think we had 113 on it. So see what we get now my little monkey pointer It's kind of lagging a little bit, but that you know It could be in my computer, but it seems like here we're running fairly decent That's 100. Let's see what the download upload speed is So it's pretty consistent. So I'm probably just going around a maintenance clean the computer up Check for D frag and I will go from there, but anyway, that's how you do it guys so remember Thanks for watching and Jay bear the myth the man the legend I'm gone for now guys. Bye. Bye. Have a good one


You're very confident in your skill set. You've got to be because at first I wasn't like this, like probably like a year or two ago I wasn't like this. So I'm trying to step into that confidence range and see how far it'll take me. It's confidence and not cognizance though. I just want to clear that up. What changed that gave you that confidence? Showing myself that I can do it on all these different levels. We play some good competition at too long and we play some really good competition weekend and week out because any given week you can lose if you're not locked in. Experiencing all these bowl games and experiencing these senior bowls and the combine, interacting with all these people and like, dang, I'm the same. If it's different, it's a plus in my direction, but like I said, I'm humble. You attribute a lot of your success to your dad. Why is that? Because he never gave up on me. We've been through our highs together and we've been through our low, low, low, lows together. He was the man that was on my side the whole time. He never left me. Even when nobody else said they believed in me, everybody going to say they believe in me now. But even when nobody else said they believe in me, he kept pushing it in my head and he told me he believed in me, he showed me because he had every right to leave and it was just me and him for a long, long time. What's the number one lesson that you've learned throughout your career? You gotta always be yourself. You're going to have to adjust on the fly. Off set, eye to the right. Going to run spears that way. Nice hole. Jumps over a man to the 25, to the 20, to the 15, to the 10, to the 5. And zone. Touchdown. Titans. Taji Spears. Taji Spears.  What is that moment going to be like for you? It's crazy because I'm trying to take it all in. That's like, let's go a little bit before that. I got the opportunity to play in the NFL. I don't know too many people that's from my hometown that can say that. That's doing it. I'm very appreciative for that.  I'm going to have probably like the whole city there. So it's going to be amazing and I plan to have a big game.


Thank you. I'm excited to present about one of the Linux Foundation projects called Delta Lake. I'm a developer advocate at Databricks, where I help developers and data practitioners built on the open source technologies like Delta Lake, Spark, MLflow, and help implement data and AI use cases. I had a keynote this morning where I talked about lakehouses, how it emerged as the new modern data architecture because it adds reliability, performance, quality features on top of existing data lakes so that you can make sense out of your data and use it for critical decision making. So thank you for all who attended. One of the most important part of that was Delta Lake, which is the foundation of lakehouses. So before diving into the project, let's look at why do we care. One work morning I opened my email which was surprisingly flooded with a lot of emails and that is because our system had errors. So our data centers had issues running the applications. The first thing that came into my mind was let's look at what happened within 24 hours because I had access to the data center logs, I had access to the system data, I was able to pull all that information and we saved a huge amount of time on resolution. Does that resonate with you? This is just one of the problems which data allows us to solve. And there are many other use cases where data could be very useful for critical decision making. So organizations today have a lot of data, whether it's customer data or web data coming from sensors, from IoT devices. Because of growing volumes of data that requires a scalable storage, they already have adopted the system called data lakes. And the promise of data lakes is that you can take all your data whether it's unstructured or structured and dump them into a file system over S3 Google cloud storage or Azure blob storage. And this is really a powerful concept when you compare it to the traditional databases. Because in traditional databases, you have to come up with a schema and a lot of pre-processing and cleaning. So what a data lake allows you to do is forego that whole process and just start collecting everything. Because sometimes you don't know why that data is valuable until much later. And if you don't store that data, then you have lost it. Think about many powerful use cases that you could have improved your businesses, brought innovations if you had access to that data. But unfortunately what happens when you collect all that data in data lakes is the data at the beginning of the pipeline was bad quality, which in turn means that more advanced processes that relied on the bad quality data, it significantly flows through the entire pipeline. So machine learning models and AI which were built on top of that data now becomes unreliable. As a consequence, data science and business leaders who were really trying to extract meaningful information out of their data, they were not able to do so. So why does this happen? Why is it so difficult to get the quality and reliability on data lakes? To answer this, I will walk through some of the challenges that we have seen working with data practitioners over and over again. Through this talk, I will talk about data engineering challenges, the solutions that it has to offer through modern data technologies and open source projects. And I will talk about how and where Delta Lake fits in the picture. And most importantly, if you find that technology useful, I will share the ways where and how you become a part of it. So let's talk about those data engineering challenges. The first challenge that I talked about was data reliability. For example, if a team upstream changes any kind of data or schema without letting you know, that might break your pipeline or cause an entire production job to fail if writing that data into Delta Lake. And this is one of the many instances where my cluster failed. What happens then? Maybe the cluster failed because you relied on an EC2 spot instance and that spot instance now is lost. So when a job fails halfway through, now you have to think about that corrupted data because it failed through in the middle. Now you have all the half data and so on. So that needs to be cleaned up. So the data engineers are then responsible for deleting any corrupted data, check any remaining data for correctness and set up a new right job because the systems are not capable of doing it. This is time consuming both in terms of data engineers time as well as your cloud compute costs. Other reliability challenge is lack of schema enforcement. Data validation is very vital for any data engineering pipeline because machine learning and AI applications dependent on it. And if there is no way to gauge whether something about data is broken or inaccurate, the versus you cannot identify data errors in the beginning of the pipeline. So you can corrupt the whole pipeline. So data lakes doesn't offer any kind of schema enforcement or data quality. This is a screenshot from one of my projects where I have a parquet table with over 14,000 rows and four columns. And now I have a streaming job that appends the data into this table. Let's see what happens after my stream query is run. So looks like my streaming job then through. However my table now has 51 records and it has two extra columns that I didn't expect. So what really happened there? What happened is that when the streaming query started adding new data to the parquet table, it did not properly account for existing data in the table. Furthermore, the new data files that are written out accidentally had two extra columns in the schema. So when reading the table, the two different schema from two different files were merged together and thus it unexpectedly modified the schema of my entire table. With increasing amount of data that is collected in real time, companies also need the ways to reliably perform updates, merges and deletes so that it can remain up to date all times. With traditional data lakes, it can be incredibly difficult to perform simple operations like these and to confirm that they occurred successfully. This is how it happens in legacy data pipelines. To insert or update a table, a data engineer has to find new rows to be inserted. Then they have to identify what rows they should be replaced by or updated. Identify all the rows that are not impacted by the insert or update. Create a new temp table based on all these insert statements now that delete the original table with the wrong records and then you have to rename the temp table, drop the temp table. So all these sort of reprocessing as entire tables or partitions needs to be overwritten in each run for dates, inserts and deletes. So those are some of the problems that I have seen. I don't know if that resonates with you. Hopefully it does. So how are we solving those reliability and quality problems? We need something so that data can be reliable and used for production applications. This is why I'm excited to tell you that some of the very talented engineers built Delta Lake that tackles these problems. So Delta Lake is an open source storage format that solves data reliability problems that data lakes historically presented and it does that through all massive amount of properties that it offers but most importantly asset transactions. So Delta supports major features like asset transactions, schema enforcement, schema evolution, unified batch and streaming, open format, scalable metadata, TML operations, data versioning, etc. So it can offer all the reliability and data management for high quality data pipelines through these features. So let's dive into Delta's architecture and how it achieves reliability through these features. Delta Lake file structure actually consists of two main components. The first component is the data objects. The data objects are stored as parquet files in the scalable storage like S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage. Second component is the scalable transaction log. One of the really cool properties of Delta Lake is that it's as highly available as cloud data lakes. So you automatically get all the same availability, scalability and flexibility that cloud providers have already baked into their flagship service. So all the metadata for a Delta table is stored in a separate folder under the root directory of my project. So what I'm showing here is the actual directory structure of our Delta Lake. There's basically a writer head log that we maintain in S3 where we have an entry for each version of the table, every transaction that we are committing. So each entry in here actually tells you all the files that are a part of specific table version. In practice, sometimes it's not easy to have all the millions of files maintained in this folder. So we have Delta Lake, Delta log folder under the root directory of my project name. So if we dive one step further under the Delta log directory, you can actually notice that there are a bunch of JSON files and each file has a version number with pre-leading zeros. This files have meaningful transaction information like indexes and statistics to ensure that you have all the metadata about every commit and every change that happened in the table. And Delta Lake also periodically takes checkpoints in the same log folder. You can see that there are some checkpoints added and it is sort of like a shortcut to fully reproduce a table state. And why this is useful is because it allows a query engine to avoid reprocessing what could be thousands of tiny inefficient JSON files. So let's further explore how these files are created and how you can actually use this metadata information. So whenever a user performs an operation to modify a table such as insert, update or delete, Delta Lake actually breaks down that operation down into a series of discrete steps composed of one or more actions. Those actions are then recorded in the transaction log, which we saw earlier, and it's recorded as ordered atomic units known as commits. What atomic means is in DeltaTable, either a data file is stored in completeness or it won't store it at all. It will fail. And through these commits, you can access any historical version of that data. So I will show you how it is useful later on in a slide. So we got an understanding of how the logs are stored. Delta Lake allows the same logs to be accessed by multiple users and also allows readers and writers to perform actions at the same time. And you know, you might see like how does that happen? And this is fine because no one is going to see any changes until you have successfully committed a change. And log says that the table is now this version of the table. So basically this is made possible by snapshot isolation property of Delta Lake. So with that, readers can now read a consistent snapshot of a DeltaTable at any given time, even in the face of different concurrent rights. In this figure, for example, one of the query is actually doing an insert and another one is updating the table with the file 003.parkay. But only one of them, those actions will succeed. Either a reader will be able to see 001 plus 002.parkay or only 003.parkay. Now, what happens when multiple writers want to update the same table? We talked about readers and writers at the same time. Now, let's talk about multiple writers. Because Delta Lake has optimistic concurrency control, multiple writers can concurrently modify a DeltaTable by agreeing on the order of changes. For example, when you have a query like this one where there are two writers trying to modify a DeltaTable with 002.json, only one of their changes will succeed and other change will fail. In this case, writer 002 with 002.json will be successful because of the agreement of order of changes. Now, let's talk about how to maintain the quality of data pipelines. We saw how it handles reliability. So what happens when somebody changes your source system? It is going to break a report or downstream application. And whenever that happens, we should be alerted of those kind of situations. So if you remember my screenshot from earlier where I discussed about Parquetable, how it unexpectedly modified the whole schema and completely wiped out my original records. Let's understand how Delta solves this. So I perform the same operation, but this time on DeltaTable. After running the query, it fails. And you might see this as a failure, right? No, but this is an expected failure since Delta Lake intentionally wants to block this because schema of the new data did not match the schema of the original table. Schema enforcement, also known as schema validation, is a safeguard in Delta Lake that ensures that data quality by rejecting rights to a table that do not match the original existing schema of the table. Like the front desk manager at a busy restaurant, they only accept reservations, only allowing whether one has the reservation or not and rejecting you if you don't have a reservation. Similarly, Delta Lake checks whether each column in data is inserted into the table is on the list of expected columns or not and rejects any rights that doesn't exist, whose column doesn't exist. So errors like this allows me to work on the schema fixing and I can fix my whole entire pipeline without corrupting my entire data. Moreover, the schema evolution feature of Delta Lake allows users to easily change the table's current schema so that you can now accommodate changing data over time. And there are two modes it supports, append and override. So you can just give dot options schema merge schema and it will understand that this is a merge schema and it won't actually replace the whole file. It will add separate records as well as separate two columns. Now that's about how Delta Lake works behind the scenes. If you remember, I talked about versioning and how it solves some of the use cases. So let's look at those. So Delta data versioning is one of the most helpful features in a lot of different ways we have seen, you know, with regulations as well as auditing. If there is data, of course, somebody wants to audit it, right? So as we saw earlier, Delta automatically versions the data that you store in your data lake. So you can now access any historical version of that data. This data management simplifies your data pipeline by making it easy to audit, reproduce experiments or rollbacks. So as I said, auditing data changes, which is critical both in terms of data compliance as well as simply debugging to understand how data has changed over time. So earlier I showed that Delta Lake has some indexes and statistics. How that information can be used here is as Delta Lake records every action that has been performed, it also in the schema or metadata captures the files that were impacted and so on. So you can use describe history and see all the commits and look at the history of table changes. That's how you can solve the audit. Second feature is reproduce experiments. During model training, data scientists run various experiments with different parameters on different data. And when scientists revisits their experiments after a period of time to reproduce the models, typically the source data has been modified by somebody else, right? And a lot of times, the changes were caught unaware of and upstream data teams can actually sometimes modify without even telling you. So Delta Lake time travel capabilities works well in conjunction with another popular Linux foundation project called MLflow. So for reproducible machine learning training, you can simply log a timestamp URL to that path as an MLflow parameter so that you can track all the changes, versions of the data which was used for training and so on. So that capability of time travel allows you to go back in earlier stages and settings for those datasets and reproduce earlier models. And to do that, you also have to make sure that that data historical has been retained somewhere.  Third important feature is use cases rollbacks. So data pipelines can sometimes write bad data for downstream consumers. This can happen because of issues ranging from architecture, intertablities to messy data and bugs in the pipeline. And time travel in Delta Lake actually makes it easy for rollbacks in case of bad rights. How it does that? Like for example, if a GDPR writes a bad record in your table, accidentally a user data is modified. Now you can fix the pipeline by going back to that version before that change happened and restore it. So very powerful capability. So we talked about data reliability. How does Delta Lake solve the performance issue? So when we are working with large files and massive dataset, you have got to get some bugs and run data pipelines efficiently, right? So one of the features in Delta Lake is data skipping. And how it saves you some bugs is when you write data into a Delta Lake table, it automatically collects that statistic I told you about. But it also collects minimum and maximum values out of each column. So this can be very useful during reading of a Delta table where you can skip reading the files that are not matching specific condition. For example, if you have different set of groupings, it will skip the groups and only look for the groups where that data could be present. So in the example here, our query is actually looking for events triggered by user ID 24,000. And you can see those groupings here, file1.parkae, file2.parkae, and file3.parkae. In those first two groupings, user ID 24,000 will not be found. So it will skip those two groupings and look for file3.parkae. So it's easy for Delta to skip the records that don't match the query condition. And you save a lot of bugs now. Another cool feature is generated columns. Let's say you have a table that have a timestamp. We deal with a lot of timestamps, right? Because we have to find records from specific dates and years. So you don't have to write partition by timestamp. That would result in way too many partitions. Instead, you want to particularly partition by date. You can just do a column adjustment that takes the timestamp and converts it into a date. But you need to do that manually. So I remember my SQL days when I had to deal with a lot of timestamps and different tools did not match this query format.  But Delta Lake has this feature called generated columns, which automatically calculates those dates and timestamp values for you. So users don't have to provide those inputs when writing to the tables. Another feature which is in progress that community is working on is z-ordering. And z-ordering is a way to co-locate the data in the same file under a partition or directory. This co-locality is automatically used by Delta Lake data skipping algorithm that we saw earlier to dramatically reduce the amount of data that needs to be scanned. To z-order data, you simply need to specify the columns that you need to z-order by. And query will look for the most common columns and can find the data or columns in the same file rather than having to look at multiple files. So these two features, data skipping and z-ordering of Delta Lake allows you to only touch a subset of files and prevents you from having to scan the entire table. And this saving of scanning entire table could be very crucial when you are dealing with massive datasets more than terabytes and terabytes. So there are many more useful features that I didn't get to cover, but all the information is available on the blogs on Delta IO website. And with the advent of all the features that we just walked through, Delta is now available everywhere you want to use it for. And that's because we released the Delta standalone few months ago. So it can integrate well with other ecosystem projects. And also it's available from a wide variety of languages, a wide variety of services, and there are some popular connector tools for data engineers that it integrates with. So you can query on many different databases. And also Delta Lake is multi-cloud. So it operates on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. There are many more useful features as you see on this slide. Here is the summary slide for you to actually show that how our community has worked on bringing innovation to Delta Lake. And now we are at Delta Lake 1.2. It's being a long journey and very exciting and thrilling journey to get here ever since the Delta Lake was open sourced in April of 2019 at the Spark Summit, which is now a data AI summit. So you can go to the Delta IO website again and check out our blogs or release notes and you will find each of these features and how they are used. And we are not done. The community is always looking and working to bring more innovation to data engineering. And these are some of the features that community is working on. You can stay tuned with the updates on our roadmap through GitHub where we discuss all the features and track progress there. And open source projects cannot be here without thriving community of users and developers. So lots of organizations have adopted and are contributing to Delta Lake. This is just a subset of many organizations that are running workloads on Delta Lake. And the work that they are doing is very transformational. Collectively, more than an exabyte of data gets processed per day on Delta Lake. And we have an engaged, very active community of Slack users, which is more than 6,000 now. Very exciting. And more than 50,000, 50 companies have contributed to Delta Lake. So while we have exciting momentum going on in the community, I want to encourage you to get involved.  Check us out on Slack. Check us out on YouTube channel where you will find tech talks, live Q&As, demos. There's a mailing list if you want to get involved with the actual code. You can always join on GitHub. So in GitHub, there is a contributing guide. You can start with good first issues if you are new to the project. You can participate in the roadmap discussions or any other issue discussions there. Some threads have like 32 plus communications. Jesus. Or you can create a pool request directly if you have a solution or code that you want to add to the project. And usually our committers and contributors always have discussion and give examples for the codes. We also host community office hours every two weeks where people can join live and ask questions about Delta Lake or any questions about what is coming up. It's live and recorded for those who cannot attend live. And last call out, we have Data and AI Summit next week where there are over 17 sessions just on Delta Lake. And of course, since it's a Data and AI Summit, you get to hear a lot of use cases from different companies as well as different projects that community is working on. And just on Delta Lake specific, Michael Ambers is also going to give a keynote and some cool AMAs with the committers as well as we are celebrating Delta Lake's third birthday party. So you can join in person in San Francisco or you can totally join it from the comfort of your couch online for free. Thanks a lot for joining me today. And yeah, I can take any questions you may have. Yes. Yeah, I'm curious. So I think that the way the Part Day files sort of manage the data and the ability to go back in time and, you know, gradually to branch off, makes sense. When you go ahead and update the schema of your table, is that helpful? When you update the schema of your table, is that also in sort of a similar format, something comparable? Is it part of one of the next update Part K files?  Yeah, that's a good point. So every change that you do, whether it's a schema change or a data change, it will add a new version of commit to that Delta Lake folder, Delta log folder. And you see that you remember I showed you the Delta log directory as well as data files. So it will keep all those changes in the Delta log directory. So whenever you are retaining older version, it will show that older version as the current version. But whatever data was updated before the retention, it will also store the log of that. So in case if you again want to go back, you can do that. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? Hi, virtual audience. Do you have any questions? Awesome. Well, oh yeah, please. First off, thank you for presenting my question. So if I heard you correctly, so there is a retention policy then on the Delta log. Okay. Yeah. So typically, there is a retention policy as well as vacuum. So retention policy is 30 days. So anytime you have a changes to data, it will store it for 30 days. Of course, you can play around with retention. There's a specific command you can give either to retain only for seven days because maybe your organization doesn't want to keep historical data. So you can always play around with that. Yeah. Okay. And there is another retention, another thing I would say, let's say if you have deleted the data. So actually, it doesn't take all the data away. It will store that deleted data for seven days. So it will still allow you to retain that data in case somebody accidentally deleted it. So after seven days, it will automatically get rid of that deleted data. But if you do want to not keep that seven-day deletion policy, you can always vacuum at zero retention. So it will completely remove that data. So when you say vacuum, that's like the hard delete. Yes, exactly. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Good question. Any other questions? Awesome. Well, hopefully I'll see you in like some of the Delta sessions or maybe like if you can get involved in the community. But thank you all for attending. Appreciate it.