Real-Time Analytics... Supercharging AI and Observability with StarTree | Episode #97
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Did you know every time you order food, book a ride, or even check who viewed your profile, real-time analytics is powering your experience behind the scenes?
In this episode of Great Things with Great Tech, we dive deep into the power of real-time analytics with Kishore Gopalakrishna, CEO and Co-founder of StarTree. StarTree leverages Apache Pinot, a high-performance real-time analytics database, revolutionizing how leading companies like Uber, LinkedIn, Walmart, and Etsy provide instant insights and personalized experiences at massive scale.
Kishore shares his journey from a gaming enthusiast fascinated by distributed systems to building mission-critical platforms at Yahoo and LinkedIn, eventually creating Apache Pinot. Discover how StarTree is powering billions of real-time queries per week, enabling businesses to enhance customer interactions, optimize operational decisions, and supercharge modern AI and observability.
Key Takeaways:
- How real-time analytics transform industries, enabling instantaneous insights and rapid decision-making.
- The evolution from traditional databases to highly efficient columnar, real-time analytics systems.
- Real-world applications of Apache Pinot, from consumer apps to enterprise observability and operational excellence.
- How real-time data is accelerating innovations in AI, specifically through Real-Time Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- The future of analytics: seamless data ingestion, enhanced concurrency, and the growing demand for sub-second response times.
Links & Resources:
Web StarTree: https://startree.ai
Kishore Gopalakrishna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kgopalak/
Apache Pinot: https://pinot.apache.org
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that every time you order food, book a ride or even check whose view |
| 0:04.3 | to your LinkedIn profile, powerful real-time analytic engines are making it happen in |
| 0:09.3 | millisecond. |
| 0:10.3 | Do you ever wonder what it takes to really run those platforms? |
| 0:13.2 | Apache Pinot does just that, handling billions of queries every week from the top web platforms |
| 0:19.4 | in existence. |
| 0:20.4 | In this episode of Great Things with Great Tech, I'm joined by Kishore Gopalha Krishna, |
| 0:25.0 | CEO and co-founder of Star Tree, to explore how real-time analytics is reshaping entire |
| 0:31.8 | industries, powering next generation AI agent and transforming observability. |
| 0:37.1 | In the age of data and AI, it's never |
| 0:39.1 | been more important to access, process and leverage data in real time. This is episode 97 of |
| 0:45.7 | Great Things with Great Tech with Star Trek with Star Trek. |
| 0:53.5 | Hey, Kishore, welcome to the show and thanks for joining. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a great time to be talking about real-time data analytics as I said in my intro. |
| 1:02.3 | Before we get into Star Tree and everything that you've done, it's a great journey but let's |
| 1:06.7 | let's go back in time to start about that journey. And what got you into computing? Where were your |
| 1:12.2 | early days? I believe you from Bangalore. Just give us a little bit about yourself as a bit of a background. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey, you ended up in the States working for LinkedIn and now founding a really innovative company |
| 1:23.1 | in real-time data analytics. That's awesome. Thank you so much, Anthony, for having me on the show. |
| 1:28.6 | It's a pleasure. |
| 1:30.3 | I think if I had to talk about how I got to you, |
| 1:33.1 | I think that itself will be another episode. |
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