The history and anatomy of Apache Superset

Get the slides: https://www.datacouncil.ai/talks/the-... ABOUT THE TALK Open source projects can become complex living organisms that grow and bring large communities together. As Apache Superset grows to be 4 year old, we look back on the journey that brought the project to where it is today. More generally, we'll explore what it takes to grow an open source project, a community and a movement. We'll look at a retrospective of the design decisions, technology choices and engineering challenges that have shaped Superset. We'll also take a deep look into the current challenges the community is currently facing, and peak at what is ahead. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Maxime Beauchemin recently joined Lyft as a Software Engineer after some time at Airbnb as a data engineer developing tools to help streamline and automate data-engineering processes. He is also the creator and lead committer on Apache Airflow and Apache Superset. He mastered his data-warehousing fundamentals at Ubisoft and was an early adopter of Hadoop/Pig while at Yahoo in 2007. More recently, at Facebook, he developed analytics-as-a-service frameworks around engagement and growth-metrics computation, anomaly detection, and cohort analysis. He’s a father of three, and in his free time, he’s a digital artist. ABOUT DATA COUNCIL: Data Council (https://www.datacouncil.ai/) is a community and conference series that provides data professionals with the learning and networking opportunities they need to grow their careers. Make sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos, including DC_THURS, our series of live online interviews with leading data professionals from top open source projects and startups. FOLLOW DATA COUNCIL: Twitter:   / datacouncilai   LinkedIn:   / datacouncil-ai   Facebook:   / datacouncilai   Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/data-cou... - 🎟️ GET YOUR TICKET TO AI COUNCIL 2026 🎟️ Meet the world's top AI infrastructure minds where architects of AI share what works. Three days of high-quality technical talks and meaningful interactions. → https://aicouncil.com/sf-2026 ⚡ FIND US: X: https://x.com/AICouncilConf LinkedIn:   / aicouncilconf   Website: https://aicouncil.com/