Episode
Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin
Signals and Threads · Jun 24, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express their true preferences. He put those ideas into practice at Google, where he worked on ad serving, before joining Jane Street’s database infrastructure team. In this episode, Ron and Jacob discuss Superstore, a distributed columnar database now…