Episode 8: Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, with James Balloch

• What does James do?


• Is Sky a big company?


• What's your favourite file format to read from?


• Favourite format of book to digest?


• East London vs. West London


• What even is Burns Night?


• Deep fried battered scottish things





James is dropping tables like it's hot... in the first week


Big Topic




Data. Big Data. HUGE Data.




What's it like to leave after more than 10 years at one company? Why the change? Why not sooner?


News





1. Instagram hides search results for Democrats (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o)


2. UK digital driving licences (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjjkjy4p8o)


3. BT scraps EV charging scheme, having only installed... one. (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75zwyeq3v9o)


4. Gotta be over 18 to watch porn in the UK from July (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o)


5. AI drugs are on the way (www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/google_deepmind_ai_…)
"Eventually you could imagine personalized medicine where it's optimized, maybe overnight, by an AI system for your personal metabolism"


6. Is Melania Trump's autobiography written using ChatGPT? (www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/DeV5QrX7UL)


7. Hulk Smash Muck and Zuck (www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/free_our_feeds_dece…)


8. AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000 (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnz8rw1xgo)


9. Excel World Championships with 7.5 hour live stream (www.zdnet.com/article/the-excel-world-championship…)


10. Working from home is “not proper work”, according to Lord Rose, of M&S and Asda (www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qww8xdvnwo)



Recommendations


Movies





• Civil War (www.imdb.com/title/tt17279496/)



Music





• The Middlenight Men - Issue 2 (music.apple.com/gb/album/issue-2/1745318732) , rock


• Justice - Cross (music.apple.com/gb/album/justice/259751732) , electronic dance



TV





• Mr. McMahon (www.imdb.com/title/tt33301469/) wrestling, on Netflix


• The Day of the Jackal (www.imdb.com/title/tt24053860/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1) on Sky/NowTV


• Severance season 2 (tv.apple.com/gb/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q…) , Apple TV


• Traitors is finishing this weekend (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0db9b2t/the-traito…) , BBC iPlayer



Podcasts





• The rest is Entertainment (podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertai…)


• Here comes the guilotine, by Frankie Boyle (podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/here-comes-the-guill…)



Special Guest: James Balloch.