PODCAST: Stream Processing, Observability, and the User Experience with Eric Sammer

This episode of Open||Source||Data features an interview with Eric Sammer, CEO of Decodable. Eric has been in the tech industry for over 20 years, holding various roles as an early Cloudera employee. He also was the co-founder and CTO of Rocana, which was acquired by Splunk in 2017. During his time at Splunk, Eric served as the VP and Senior Distinguished Engineer responsible for cloud platform services. In this episode, Sam and Eric discuss the gap between operating infrastructure and the analytical world, stream processing innovations, and why it’s important to work with people who are smarter than you.