The Joe Reis Show

Joe Reis

What happens when a best-selling author and "recovering data scientist" gets a microphone? This podcast. I'm Joe Reis, and each week I broadcast from wherever I am in the world, sharing candid thoughts on the data, tech, and AI industry. Sometimes it's a solo rant. Other times, I'm chatting with the smartest people I know. If you're looking for an unfiltered perspective on the state of AI, data, and tech, you've found it.

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The Joe Reis Show

Episodes (347)

Tuesday From ODBC to ADBC: Modernizing the Data Stack for AI and Analytics w/ Ian Cook
Friday Freestyle Fridays - The State of Data Engineering in 2026, Book Writing, and More
Wed Feb 11th Vibe Coding, Agents, and The Future of Streaming Data w/ Paul Dudley and Ricky Thomas (Streamkap)

The Joe Reis Show

Feb 17, 2026
50¼ minutes
46 MB

Why are we still using row-based protocols like ODBC and JDBC in a column-oriented world? In this episode, I sit down with Ian Cook, co-founder of Columnar and a long-time Apache Arrow contributor, to discuss the critical infrastructure changes needed to speed up modern analytics and AI. We dive deep into the technical bottlenecks of legacy standards - specifically the "serialization tax" of converting columns to rows and back again - and how ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) solves this by keeping data columnar from end-to-end. Ian also shares his insights on the intersection of tabular data and...

The Joe Reis Show

From ODBC to ADBC: Modernizing the Data Stack for AI and Analytics w/ Ian Cook

Joe Reis

00:00 -50:16