Functional Programming and an Ideal Data Stack Building Experience with Holden Karau

This episode features an interview with Holden Karau, an Open Source Engineer at Netflix. Holden is best known for her work on Apache Spark, her advocacy in the open source software movement, and her creation of a variety of related projects including spark-testing-base. Previously, Holden worked at Big Tech companies like Apple, IBM, and Google as a software engineer and developer advocate. In this episode, Sam sits down with Holden to discuss the data analysis stack, functional programming, and the future of open source software data tooling.