Neha is a Founding Engineer at Startree and a core committer to the Apache Pinot project. In this episode, Neha will give us an update on the growth of the Pinot project and community. We’ll chat about some new features in Pinot (like tiered storage support) and learn how Pinto has adapted to the current trends in data along the way as the project has grown

About our guest:
Neha Pawar is a Founding Engineer at StarTree ( startree.ai/), which aims to democratize data for all users by providing real-time, user-facing analytics. Prior to this, she was part of LinkedIn's Data Analytics Infrastructure org for 5 years, working on Apache Pinot - a realtime distributed OLAP data store & ThirdEye - an anomaly detection and root cause analysis platform. She is passionate about big data technologies and real-time analytics databases. Neha is an Apache Pinot PMC and Committer. She has made numerous impactful contributions to Apache Pinot, with a focus on real-time streaming integrations, ingestion and storage. She actively fosters the growing Apache Pinot community & loves to evangelize Pinot by making entertaining video tutorials & illustrations. When not sipping Pinot, you can find Neha jamming with her husband, painting or hiking with her dogs.

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• DC_THURS on the Evolution of Pinot ( Download)
• DC_THURS on Data Monitoring ( Download)
• DC_THURS on Trino ( Download)
• How Apache Pinot Began ft Kishore G. (StarTree) Ep. 2 | Real-Time Analytics Podcast w/ Tim Berglund ( Download)
• The Pinot Chronicles: Amy Wesselman ( Download)
• DC_THURS on DataHub w/ Shirshanka Das (Acryl Data) ( Download)
• DC_THURS on Streaming Data Systems w/ Eric Sammer (Decodable) ( Download)
• Approximating Large Multi-set Cardinalities using Apache Pinot (Pinot Meetup Sep 02, 2020) ( Download)
• DC_THURS on Federated Learning w/ Nathalie Baracaldo (IBM) ( Download)
• Building Real-Time Analytics Applications Using Apache Pinot ( Download)
• Keynote: Tim Berglund, VP Developer Relations, StarTree | There is No Modern Data Stack | RTA Summit ( Download)
• Intro to Apache Pinot: Real-Time Data Ingestion to Insights ( Download)
• Apache Pinot Features: Lookup Join & Subquery ( Download)
• Intro to Apache Pinot ( Download)
• Keynote: Kishore Gopalakrishna, StarTree | Riding the Data Wave in Real-Time | RTA Summit '22 ( Download)