📍 Venue: Google Munich – Safety Engineering Center
📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, June 17 | 18:30–21:00
📌 Address: Erika-Mann-Straße 33, 80636 München
‼️ IMPORTANT: Please, make sure to use your real name and bring your ID to the event. Google folks mentioned they will be checking IDs at the entrance to get past security. We (unfortunately) will have to move people without full names from RVSP.
After a packed May session, we're back in June with another deep dive into the Iceberg lakehouse ecosystem, featuring two speakers and practical insights into building high-performance real-time analytics.
Yingjun Wu – Founder & CEO at RisingWave Labs
Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company developing a distributed SQL database designed for stream processing and real-time analytics. With over a decade of experience in the field, Yingjun has previously worked as a software engineer on the Amazon Redshift team at AWS and as a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the National University of Singapore and was a visiting Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Talk: Building a Real-Time Lakehouse on Iceberg (Without Losing Your Mind)
Abstract:
Everyone makes streaming sound simple - until you try bolting it onto your batch pipeline and it blows up. This talk skips the marketing gloss and gets into the real work: how to make batch and streaming actually play nice. I'll walk through the essentials, then get into the messy parts - compaction, primary key updates, exactly-once delivery, and keeping your compute bill from spiraling. You'll learn how to plug RisingWave into your existing stack and get real-time results without rewriting everything. It's based on what we've seen in production - real problems, real fixes, no buzzwords.
Georg Kreuzmayr – Software Engineer at Firebolt
Georg Kreuzmayr is a software engineer at Firebolt, focusing on high-performance data processing and distributed systems. He is also the founder of TUMuchData. Georg pursued his bachelor's and master's degrees at TUM, where he specialized in database systems.
Talk: The Story of When Fire(bolt) Meets Ice(berg)
Abstract:
In this talk, we take a look under the hood of Firebolt and dive into the challenges we had to solve to bring a free-to-use production-grade data warehouse to the market. Furthermore, you will learn about our efforts to support high-performance, low-latency analytics on the lakehouse architecture.
🗓 Agenda:
- 18:30 Doors Open
- 18:40 Welcome
- 18:45 Talk #1: Yingjun Wu
- 19:30 Pizza & Networking 🍕
- 20:00 Talk #2: Georg Kreuzmayr
- 21:00 End
