Tech on the Rocks

Kostas, Nitay

Join Kostas and Nitay as they speak with amazingly smart people who are building the next generation of technology, from hardware to cloud compute. Tech on the Rocks is for people who are curious about the foundations of the tech industry. Recorded primarily from our offices and homes, but one day we hope to record in a bar somewhere. Cheers!

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Tech on the Rocks

Episodes (32)

Tue Aug 4th Feeding the Agents: Fast Structured Data Retrieval with Arrow — Ian Cook, Co-founder & CEO of Columnar
Jul 7th Falling Into Databases: The DuckDB Story with Hannes Mühleisen
Jun 19th Rebuilding the Robot Stack: Why Robotics Needs a New Real-Time OS with Guillaume Binet (Copper Robotics)

Tech on the Rocks

Aug 4, 2026
1½ hours
31 MB

In this episode, we talk with Ian Cook, co-founder and CEO of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow Project Management Committee, about ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) and why the way applications connect to databases is overdue for a rethink. Ian traces the history from the row-oriented database APIs of the 1990s, ODBC and JDBC, to today's world where nearly every analytic database and destination tool is columnar under the hood. He explains why keeping data in a columnar format end to end, using Apache Arrow, can deliver 10x to 100x speedups by turning a CPU-bound...

Tech on the Rocks

Feeding the Agents: Fast Structured Data Retrieval with Arrow — Ian Cook, Co-founder & CEO of Columnar

Kostas, Nitay

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