Get Kafka-Nated S2E3: Yingjun Wu on Streaming Databases, SQL-First Processing, and Real-Time Data

Mar 12, 2026

March 11th, 4PM GMT

Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company building a distributed SQL database for stream processing, with over a decade of experience spanning academic research and large-scale production systems. In this episode we'll be sitting down for a coffee and a conversation with Yingjun's about what a streaming database actually is, how message brokers and streaming databases fit together in real-world architectures, and what his journey from database researcher to founder has taught him.

Host: Hugh Evans
Special Guest: Yingjun Wu