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In this episode of Hub & Spoken, host Jason Foster welcomes Sam White, the multi-award-winning Founder of Freedom Services Group and Global Founder of Stella Insurance Australia.  Sam shares her journey of building Stella Insurance, the challenges and opportunities of creating a digital-first insurance company, the importance of customer experience, and how Stella Insurance is reimagining financial services from a female perspective. Sam also discusses the impact of regulatory changes, the role of AI in the insurance industry, and the significance of diversity in business. This is a real gem of an episode, especially for entrepreneurs and business leaders interested in digital transformation, insurance innovations, and diversity in leadership.  Follow Sam: linkedin.com/in/samwhiteentrepreneur/ Follow Jason: linkedin.com/in/jasonbfoster/ *****    Cynozure is a leading data, analytics and AI company that helps organisations to reach their data potential. It works with clients on data and AI strategy, data management, data architecture and engineering, analytics and AI, data culture and literacy, and data leadership. The company was named one of The Sunday Times' fastest-growing private companies in both 2022 and 2023 and recognised as The Best Place to Work in Data by DataIQ in 2023 and 2024. Cynozure is a certified B Corporation. 

Title: Introduction to TiDB: Scale Out Like NoSQL, Enforce Data Integrity Like SQL, All Without Manual Sharding

Date: October 10, 2024 Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM PT

Please use this link to register in order to reserve your seat: https://www.pingcap.com/event/scale-out-like-nosql-enforce-data-integrity-like-sql-all-without-manual-sharding/

Over the last few decades, organizations with data intensive workloads have largely turned to SQL and NoSQL. However, while these databases solve the immediate problem of scale, they make major sacrifices in data integrity, hard-to-detect data corruption, application complexity, rigidity, and resistance to data change.

TiDB is an open source, distributed SQL database that evolves this story in major ways. Its multi-writer architecture allows for scaling throughput linearly while maintaining strong ACID compliance. By decoupling storage and compute, TiDB’s compute layer is stateless and independently scalable. This means improved fault tolerance over similar systems, lightning fast compute scale-out, and a better use of resources.

In this webinar, PingCAP Solution Architect Sam Dillard shares the design goals and architecture of TiDB, and how it leverages these to keep performance stable as it horizontally scales—not just in online traffic but in schema changes as well. You’ll discover:

• Real-world customer stories from such innovative companies as Pinterest, Databricks, LinkedIn, and others
• How TiDB scales transactional workloads without sacrificing performance or ACID compliance
• How TiDB maintains developer flexibility by supporting high frequency of schema changes
• Key use cases in Financial Services, E-Commerce, Gaming, and SaaS

Speaker:

Matthew Penaroza Matthew Penaroza is a Senior Solution Engineer at PingCAP, where he designs and architects solutions for TiDB users. An authoritative voice on database technologies, he has authored several articles and white papers on Amazon Aurora and TiDB, contributing valuable insights to the tech community. Matthew works with some of TiDB’s largest enterprise customers in North America, including Airbnb, showcasing his pivotal role in driving technological adoption and innovation at scale.

We hope to see you there!

HighlightsCountry superstars headlined this past weekend’s Stagecoach festival in Indio, California...but who played the early afternoon slots and what does their data look like?Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday May 2nd 2019.Stagecoach & Non-HeadlinersStagecoach, “California’s Country Music Festival”, wrapped up this past weekend in Indio, on the same grounds that Coachella had been on the couple weeks prior.While superstars Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean headlined each day of the weekend festival, what about the non-headliners? Who are they and how are they doing?Billed last and in the smallest print on the Stagecoach lineup poster, Becca Mancari, Charley Crockett and Ruby Boots had their chance to make their mark in early afternoon performance slots on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.Ruby Boots is a Nashville-based Australian with a more edgy indie rock/Americana sound and seems to be the most junior of the three, with 16K monthly listeners and 2K followers on Spotify. Mancari sports a softer, acoustic folk persona and has the most monthly listeners at 183K and the best listener to follower ratio at 45.Native Texan Charley Crockett goes for a retro album art look to accompany his Southern blues sound, and has the most followers at 17K and the highest Spotify Popularity Index score at 51.An interesting takeaway emerges when looking at all three artists’ current playlists: Spotify seems to be the only platform really giving emerging country artists editorial attention.Mancari, for example, is currently on 10 Spotify editorial playlists, including Infinite Acoustic at 2M follows, Acoustic Love at 1.4M and Evening Acoustic at 1.3M. Ruby Boots and Crockett are each on four editorial playlists themselves, while all three are on anywhere from 53 to 71 playlists total on the platform if including third-party curators.Apple Music and Deezer however, feature none of the emerging country artists on any editorial playlists, which suggests less of a sensitivity towards the genre’s budding talent.Amazon Music is somewhere in the middle: the tech giant’s platform includes all three artists on their official Stagecoach 2019 playlist, while Mancari features on Best Folk Songs of 2017 and Autumn Folk Sunset, while Crockett features on New in Blues and Americana Soul.In terms of Stagecoach effects, Ruby Boots seems to have gained the most from her live performance: she saw a 74% increase in Spotify monthly listeners in Los Angeles since the day before last weekend, while Mancari only saw 20% and Crockett saw the least at 14%.However, what the three artists all have in common is Instagram follower demographics: their male to female balance is about half, while their majority ethnicity is mostly White / Caucasian in the 80 and 90 percentiles.Congratulations to these three artists on their big Stagecoard weekend and hopefully we’ll see more of them in the months to come.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday May 2nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow!