Decodable

About Decodable

Decodable is a real-time data engineering company that operates a fully-managed, serverless platform designed to simplify stream processing. Founded in 2021 by Eric Sammer and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to make real-time data accessible to any developer or data engineer, eliminating the need for large, specialized data platform teams and complex infrastructure management. Sammer, the CEO, brings extensive experience from his time as VP & Distinguished Engineer at Splunk, co-founder and CTO of Rocana (acquired by Splunk), and an early employee at Cloudera, where he authored the O'Reilly book "Hadoop Operations". This background in high-volume data systems and stream processing directly informs Decodable's mission.

The company's core offering is a serverless platform for real-time data ingestion, integration, analysis, and event-driven service development. It is built upon established open-source technologies, primarily Apache Flink and Debezium, to provide a robust foundation. Decodable's business model is centered on providing this platform as a service, allowing clients to build and deploy data pipelines quickly. The platform is designed for a variety of clients, including those in fintech, retail, and logistics, who need to process data for use cases like fraud detection, inventory management, and package tracking. Revenue is generated on a pay-as-you-go basis, which can be more cost-effective for users than provisioning their own infrastructure.

The platform allows engineers to connect to various data sources and destinations (sinks) using pre-built connectors and to build transformation pipelines using basic SQL, Java, or Python skills. This approach significantly lowers the barrier to entry for real-time data engineering. Key features include the ability to build event-driven microservices, create self-service data meshes, perform real-time data integration, and populate machine learning feature stores. Decodable also addresses data governance and compliance by enabling the masking of sensitive data within streams. The platform offers operational benefits such as automatic configuration tuning, monitoring, and pipeline optimization, along with security and compliance with standards like SOC2 Type II and GDPR. A notable feature is the "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) capability, which allows users to run the Decodable data plane within their own AWS accounts for enhanced control and security.