Sean Falconer
@seanfalconer
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AI @ Confluent | ex-Google | Engineer & Storyteller | Snowflake Data Superhero | AWS Community Builder
San Francisco, CA, USA
Joined April 2009
Generative AI can’t reach its full potential with stale data. Join Confluent and @GoogleCloud to learn how to build real-time, event-driven AI systems that think and act instantly. Discover A2A, MCP, and how to turn data in motion into intelligent action live in our upcoming
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Learn how the built-in anomaly detection ML function in Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® enables event-driven AI agents to detect and act on outlier system events faster. Check out our latest blog -> https://t.co/AgbJYGtAOI
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The @StackOverflow team recently released the results of their legendary annual developer survey. Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis worked on this year’s survey and they join @seanfalconer to talk about the results. @StackOverflow
https://t.co/J7HFacVTEt
softwareengineeringdaily.com
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the global...
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New blog post! "How Would You Like Your Iceberg Sir? Stream or Batch Ordered?" Many teams today are trying to unify their streaming and batch pipelines over Apache Iceberg. But physical unification comes with trade-offs: 🔹 Flink streaming mode and other stream processors want
jack-vanlightly.com
Today I want to talk about stream analytics, batch analytics and Apache Iceberg. Stream and batch analytics work differently but both can be built on top of Iceberg, but due to their differences...
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In this episode @GregorVand and @seanfalconer cover the $1.7B Security AI acquisition, @LangChainAI’s valuation, @periodiclabs’s $300M funding, the @awscloud outage, the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal, and more. https://t.co/CgTpjBDyMt
softwareengineeringdaily.com
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech...
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Even a data monster can’t stop the show from going on. See y'all tomorrow at Current NOLA. #current25
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The future of the agentic enterprise runs on real-time data. Join @Salesforce & Confluent live at #Current25 as Gunther Hagleitner and @SeanFalconer share how real-time context powers the next generation of agentic AI systems. Stream it free on 10/29→ https://t.co/S5acVzEGfS
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Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own
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Big news from #FlinkForward Barcelona: #FlinkAgents 0.1.0 is live! Major step for #ApacheFlink and #AI, making agents truly event-driven, scalable, production-ready. Built with #Alibaba, #Ververica, #LinkedIn & #Confluent. The future of #StreamingAI is real-time and stateful.
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AI that thinks fast needs data that moves fast. At #Current25 NOLA, @AnthropicAI's Rachel Lo will join @SeanFalconer on the mainstage to show how Claude + data streaming are changing what’s possible for intelligent systems. Don’t miss it -> https://t.co/kVB0UpgQrM
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Shinji Kim is the founder and CEO of @selectstarhq. She joins @seanfalconer to discuss solving metadata curation challenges, managing data context at scale, using LLMs for SQL generation, emerging trends in metadata management, and more. @shinjikim
https://t.co/EC0okj5Rpq
softwareengineeringdaily.com
A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and...
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In his new article in @TheNewStack, @seanfalconer explores how the flexible intuition of AI, the verifiable structure of knowledge graphs, & real-time awareness from data streaming could lead to a web that machines can understand & act on. Read it here:
thenewstack.io
By connecting logic, learning and live data, the long-held dream of a truly responsive and intelligent agent is finally becoming a practical reality.
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If you’re optimizing pipelines, designing data platforms, or training AI models, you don't want to miss this! Learn how to unify your operational + analytical data, get even more value out of @Snowflake, simplify your AI + analytics workflows, and more: https://t.co/ob3Nz3syS3
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In this episode @GregorVand and @seanfalconer discuss @Meta’s AI gambit, the @windsurf shake up, the UK VPN surge and highlights from Hacker News. https://t.co/ktqaiV2Isy
softwareengineeringdaily.com
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech...
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Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking about what it really takes to build high ownership
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Building CI for the Age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah 🎉 Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of @useblacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub Actions jobs faster and with more visibility with the
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We have the awesome Sam Lambert [@isamlambert] from @PlanetScale back for a third time. Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert 🎉 Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for
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We're back! More SED news with @GregorVand!
In this episode, @GregorVand and @seanfalconer dive into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, its $14B bet on @scale_AI, intense competition in the AI space, and highlights from Hacker News. https://t.co/Ek4jbPBFut
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📢✨🎙️We’re looking for a podcast guest with hands-on experience building production RAG systems. If you can speak to real-world challenges, strategies, and practical tips for RAG system engineering, we’d love to hear from you! Reach us at editor@softwareengineeringdaily.com.
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💡 @seanfalconer joins @PeterStojanovic from @HotTopicsHT to discuss why AI initiatives often fail and how the data-as-a-product approach is key to scalable GenAI and Agentic AI applications. Watch their chat below! ⤵️ https://t.co/VYWUSHOHse
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