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EP 12Released May 10, 2025

Data Modernisation with AI — Challenges & Opportunities

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Dr. Rupesh Chandra

Primine CTO & AI Lead

Dr. Rupesh Chandra guides research in cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. He specializes in designing enterprise scale agentic workflows and machine learning systems.

Welcome to another episode of The Primine Podcast! Today, host Sarah Jenkins sits down with Dr. Rupesh Chandra to explore the complexities of data modernization and how artificial intelligence acts as both an accelerator and a challenge.

Many organizations jump straight into AI without clean data, resulting in hallucinated insights or performance bottle-necks. Dr. Chandra explains why schema conversion, data deduplication, and streaming ingestion pipelines are critical precursors to AI enablement.

We also discuss how enterprise technology leaders can calculate the exact cost-benefit ratio of moving data environments to cloud structures like Snowflake and BigQuery, and why standardizing SQL interfaces preserves vendor flexibility.

Episode Key Takeaways

  • 1Migrating relational databases to distributed schemas without downtime.
  • 2How FinOps practices prevent runaway analytics pricing.
  • 3Integrating machine learning directly at the database layer (In-DB ML).
  • 4The shift from static queries to autonomous AI database agents.

Episode Transcript Highlights

00:05

Sarah Jenkins: Welcome everyone to another episode of The Primine Podcast. Today we are talking about engineering challenges.

00:25

Dr. Rupesh Chandra: Thanks Sarah. When looking at this problem, many teams jump straight into the application layer without realizing the structural bottlenecks underneath.

01:05

Sarah Jenkins: That's a great point. How does that translate into long-term cloud scalability and efficiency?

01:40

Dr. Rupesh Chandra: Well, it's about minimizing network latency, designing standard schemas, and choosing the right compute locations.

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