Keynote – Data Gravity Is Real—But You Can Bend It (Readyset)

Data wants to stay where it is. Yet in modern applications, we continuously defy this with pipelines, streams, and staging layers. This talk questions that premise. Can we rethink locality and latency by inverting how data systems are composed? By treating the operational database as the source of truth and the query engine, we explore a pattern that eliminates redundancy, complexity, and delay. Real-world examples will illustrate the cost of unnecessary motion—and the gains when you stand still.