Scale By The Bay 2018: Haoyuan Li Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2018: Haoyuan Li Interview
Sure. My name is Haoyuan Li. People also call me HY. I'm the founder CEO of Alluxio. And our company is in Sunnyvale in the Bay Area. All right. So, we're building open source project also called Alluxio. And essentially we believe in the future is about the data
We're going to get We're going to get into this data era. And in the data era, you have a lot of data applications, data-driven applications. You also have a lot of storage systems like cloud storage, like like on-premise storage, object store, or file system and such. So, what we are building essentially is a new layer between all the data-driven applications and all these storage systems. And in the middle. And this layer essentially this new layer, this new system called Alluxio, essentially virtualizes the data from all different storage systems and present a global namespace with a unified APIs to the data-driven applications. So, that we essentially achieved to make all the data-driven applications only to talk to Alluxio to interact with data from different storage systems in any enterprise environment. They're all very interesting, but I would say data pipeline is more related to us
It's very interesting that particular track. So, like look, we have our software has many many users globally, particularly Fortune 500. are some of the biggest internet financial service companies in the world. So, I'm to share some of the use cases from that angle, how these different companies globally leveraging this new layer in the ecosystem enable faster and easier leveraging their data in their enterprise environment. How they are running Presto, Spark, or like like TensorFlow running our our our systems. I'm I'm I'm I'm very excited to see how other companies what are some new cool things came up in the industry as far as they some new practice. I don't have a particular agenda from that perspective to see what's the what's what's most interesting there. Yeah, I think it's really cool and I my first time I engaging Scala that was probably I mean did my PhD from UC Berkeley
That's my first year at UC Berkeley. I learned about Scala and at the time we're making Spark. And it's a cool language and it made distributed system programming much easier. So, that's the that's the idea and I can see how other languages in the world are taking a learning from the advantage of the Scala and they're trying to adopt those best best practice as well. I I I mean I have I have many friends in this conference. It's hard to tell which is what's the favorite, but I mean I like communicating with the friends here. Mhm.