Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, with James Balloch

• What does James do?
• Is Sky a big company?
• What's your favourite file format to read from?
• Favourite format of book to digest?
• East London vs. West London
• What even is Burns Night?
• Deep fried battered scottish things

James is dropping tables like it's hot... in the first week

Big Topic

Data. Big Data. HUGE Data.

What's it like to leave after more than 10 years at one company? Why the change? Why not sooner?

News

1. Instagram hides search results for Democrats
2. UK digital driving licences
3. BT scraps EV charging scheme, having only installed... one.
4. Gotta be over 18 to watch porn in the UK from July
5. AI drugs are on the way "Eventually you could imagine personalized medicine where it's optimized, maybe overnight, by an AI system for your personal metabolism"
6. Is Melania Trump's autobiography written using ChatGPT?
7. Hulk Smash Muck and Zuck
8. AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000
9. Excel World Championships with 7.5 hour live stream
10. Working from home is “not proper work”, according to Lord Rose, of M&S and Asda

Recommendations

Movies

• Civil War

Music

• The Middlenight Men - Issue 2, rock
• Justice - Cross, electronic dance

TV

• Mr. McMahon wrestling, on Netflix
• The Day of the Jackal on Sky/NowTV
• Severance season 2, Apple TV
• Traitors is finishing this weekend, BBC iPlayer

Podcasts

• The rest is Entertainment
• Here comes the guilotine, by Frankie Boyle