Data Federation, Not Centralization, Is What Enterprise AI Needs | Jitender Aswani, Starburst

Jitender Aswani was customer zero for Presto at Meta, where a billion daily active users generated queries that took hours to return. He watched that drop to minutes, scaled the same technology at Netflix across 300 million subscribers, and now runs engineering and security at Starburst, the $3.35 billion platform built on Trino. Full transcript and chapters: https://chainofthought.show/podcast/66-data-federation-not-centralization-is-what-enterprise-ai-needs/ His argument: every enterprise AI project that stalls is fighting the same hidden battle. The agents can query the model fine. They jus