The Architecture of Grab's Data Lake

So what abstractions do we have as of today? For example, let’s take the resource abstraction (Dagster, Prefect, referred to as an operator in Airflow). You abstract complex environments and connections away with a simple construct like that. You have the immediate benefits of defining that once and using it in every task or pipeline with context.r... See more

You’ve got a vector database that has all the right database fundamentals you require, has the right incremental indexing strategy for your use case, has a good story around your metadata filtering needs, and will keep its index up-to-date with latencies you can tolerate. Awesome.

Your ML team (or maybe OpenAI) comes out with a new version of their... See more

Data bases have gotten so good at this, that the term is almost misleading now. “Base” suggests something rigid, without which the data would slip away. But the data is always there, just bits on a nameless hard disk. The structure and the accessibility that a modern database provides exist completely independently from that hard disk. That’s right... See more