Database School
by Try Hard Studios
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Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO
Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO
About this podcast
Join database educator Aaron Francis as he gets schooled by database professionals.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 30 episodes
- Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO · 55 min · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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 · Episode 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…
