Database School
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- Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO · 55 min · Épisode 31Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, explains how they’re building a “universal storage engine” that sits between your apps and S3—making an S3 bucket behave like a fast…
- Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir · 1 h 6 min · Épisode 30Hammad Bashir, CTO of Chroma, joins the show to break down how modern vector search systems are actually built from local, embedded databases to massively distributed…
- Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani · 1 h 5 min · Épisode 29In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how MotherDuck hosts it in the…
- Just use Postgres with Denis Magda · 1 h 7 min · Épisode 28In this episode, Aaron talks with Dennis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres!, about the wide world of modern Postgres, from JSON and full-text search to generative AI…
- Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas · 60 min · Épisode 27In this episode, Gajus Kuizinas, co-founder and CTO of Contra, joins Aaron to talk about building the engineering world you want to live in, from strict runtime-validated SQL…
- Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen · 1 h 6 min · Épisode 26In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on…
- Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq · 1 h 7 min · Épisode 25Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s…
- Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe · 1 h 18 min · Épisode 24In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible journey from prison to…
- A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef · 1 h 28 min · Épisode 23In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on a deep dive of on how…
- PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert · 1 h 6 min · Épisode 22Sam Lambert, my former boss at PlanetScale, talks to me about PlanetScale moving from a MySQL company to now also having a Postgres offering. Sam shares why PlanetScale decided…
- The database for all your AI needs · 1 h 0 min · Épisode 21Marcel Kornacker, the creator of Apache Impala and co-creator of Apache Parquet, joins me to talk about his latest project: Pixeltable, a multimodal AI database that combines…
- Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov · 49 min · Épisode 20I chat with Lev Kokotov to talk about building PgDog, an open-source sharding solution for Postgres that sits outside the database. Lev shares the journey from creating PgCat to…
- Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really) · 1 h 17 min · Épisode 19Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out my course on SQLite: https://highperformancesqlite.com/?ref=yt In this episode of Database School, I chat with Glauber Costa, CEO of…
- Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale · 1 h 7 min · Épisode 17Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and co-founder of PlanetScale, joins me to talk about his time scaling YouTube’s database infrastructure, building Vitess, and his latest…
- PlanetScale Metal · 50 min · Épisode 16In this episode, I chat with Richard Crowley from PlanetScale about their new offering: PlanetScale Metal. We dive deep into the performance and reliability trade-offs of EBS vs…
- From Prisma Founder to LiveStore: Building local-first apps with Johannes Schickling · 1 h 31 min · Épisode 15Johannes Schickling, original founder of Prisma, joins me to talk about LiveStore, his ambitious local-first data layer designed to rethink how we build apps from the data layer…
- How Durable Objects and D1 Work: A Deep Dive with Cloudflare’s Josh Howard · 1 h 14 min · Épisode 14Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins me to explain how Durable Objects and D1 work under the hood—and why Cloudflare’s approach to stateful serverless…
- 20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon) · 2 h 0 min · Épisode 13In this episode of Database School, I talk with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon and longtime PostgreSQL hacker, to talk about 20+ years in the Postgres community, the…
- Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre · 1 h 28 min · Épisode 12Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing everything is a bad idea and how…
- Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma · 1 h 24 min · Épisode 11Prisma started as a GraphQL backend and pivoted into one of the most widely used ORMs in the world. Now, they’ve launched Prisma Postgres, and CEO Søren Bramer Schmidt is here to…







