Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Data contracts express the commitments data teams make to others in the company about data freshness, format, & consistency - again drawing parallels to the service-level agreements in core engineering. Security systems govern access to databases akin to secrets management & identity access management solutions do in the cloud.

Software Engineering 209

Software Engineering Engineering AI Data 209

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 228

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

He says the IT department of the future will be like the HR department for AI agents We’ll be managing and ’training’ these agents to work with our data Transition: This change starts first within the engineering org Slide 9 Clearing: Historically, there’s been a divide between software engineering and AI/ML teams.

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Software Engineering 100

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Data Lakehouses provide the crucial piece of infrastructure for foundation models to securely and efficiently access both structured and unstructured data with governance intelligently wrapped around it. Just terrible performance…), (3) there’s no real security / governance, and (4) data quality controls don’t exist.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130