Data Exchange Podcast (Episode 168): Zongheng Yang, Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley

Zongheng Yang, a researcher in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, a multi-year research initiative that utilizes distributed systems, programming languages, security and machine learning to separate the services that a company requires from the choice of a specific cloud.
**Sections**
What is Sky Computing? - 00:00:47
Introduction to SkyPilot - 00:04:32
SkyPilot from an end user's perspective - 00:07:08
The importance of being able to do things across regions (within the same cloud provider) - 00:10:16
What the current version of SkyPilot is able to optimize - 00:13:56
Data gravity - 00:18:21
Data gravity and the Skyplane project - 00:21:53
Support for Batch vs Streaming workloads - 00:22:46
Serverless technologies and SkyPilot - 00:26:08
SkyPilot: some example use cases - 00:28:42
SkyPilot roadmap - 00:36:13