Talk by Andrew Lamb on "Cloud Data Lakes" at the MiDAS Seminar and CS561 Guest Lecture at BU (April 17, 2025)
Abstract: In this talk, Andrew will review the architecture of recent cloud analytic database systems, the trends driving these architectures (e.g. cheap durable Object Storage, elastic compute), the common features in such systems (disaggregated storage, caching layers, metadata stores).
Bio: Andrew currently works in Rust on InfluxDB 3.0, focused on query processing, the Apache DataFusion query engine and the Apache Arrow ecosystem. He serves on the Apache DataFusion PMC (2024 Chair), and on the Apache Arrow PMC (2023 Chair), and actively contributes to the Apache Arrow DataFusion query engine and the Apache Arrow Rust implementation. He earned a BS and MEng in Course VI from MIT. More details are available at http://andrew.nerdnetworks.org/