#48 How Can We Define DevRel in the Tech World? Tech Insights with Mehdi Ouazza

DataTopics Unplugged

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Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!
In this episode, we're thrilled to have special guest Mehdi Ouazza diving into a plethora of hot tech topics:

• Mehdi Ouazza's Insights into his career, online community and working with DuckDB and MotherDuck.
• Demystifying DevRel: Definitions and distinctions in the realm of tech influence (dive deeper here).
• Terraform's Licensing Shift: Reactions to HashiCorp's recent changes and its new IBM collaboration, more details here.
• Github Copilot Workspace: Exploring the latest in AI-powered coding assistance, comparing with devin.ai and Cody
• Snowflake's Arctic LLM: Discussing the latest enterprise AI capabilities and their real-world applications. Read more about Arctic - what it excels at, and how its performance was measured
• More legal kerfuffle in the GenAI realm: The ongoing legal debates around AI's use in creative industries, highlighted by a dispute over Drake’s use of late rapper Tupac’s AI-generated voice in diss track & the licensing deal between Financial Times and OpenAI
• Future of Data Engineering: Examining the integration of LLMs into data engineering tools. Insights on prompt-based feature engineering and Databricks' English SDK
• AI in Music Creation: A little bonus with an AI generated song about Murilo, created with Suno

Capíttulos

1. #48 How Can We Define DevRel in the Tech World? Tech Insights with Mehdi Ouazza (00:00:00)

2. Data Topics With Special Guest Mehdi (00:00:02)

3. Exploring Developer Relations and Roles (00:12:57)

4. Developer Relations in Tech Companies (00:21:08)

5. Tech Influencers and Monetization Trends (00:29:47)

6. Technology Acquisition and Open Source Impact (00:38:15)

7. Discussion on Enterprise AI and Snowflake (00:51:38)

8. Licensing Deals With OpenAI (01:00:26)

9. Data Pipeline Development Challenges and Tools (01:14:37)

10. Song Generation Technology Discussion (01:18:35)