Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO (00:55:13)
Hunter 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, POSIX-compatible disk for containers,...
Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir (01:06:43)
Hammad 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, object-storage-backed architectu...
Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani (01:05:15)
In 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 cloud, and why analytics ...
Just use Postgres with Denis Magda (01:07:59)
In 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, time-series storage, and even me...
Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas (00:59:50)
In 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 with Slonik to creating h...
Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen (01:06:48)
In 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 object storage. They di...
Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq (01:07:27)
Aaron 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 hyperscale infrastructure,...
Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe (01:18:28)
In 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 rewriting SQLite in Rust. The...
A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef (01:28:12)
In 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 TigerBeetle brings double-entr...
PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert (01:06:39)
Sam 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 to move to Postgres, ho...
The database for all your AI needs (01:00:07)
Marcel 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 structured and unstructur...
Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov (00:48:53)
I 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 launching PgDog throug...
Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really) (01:17:33)
Want 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 Turso, about their aud...
Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale (01:07:29)
Sugu 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 project bringing shard...
PlanetScale Metal (00:50:08)
In 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. locally attached NVMe ...
From Prisma Founder to LiveStore: Building local-first apps with Johannes Schickling (01:31:40)
Johannes 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 up.We dive deep into e...
How Durable Objects and D1 Work: A Deep Dive with Cloudflare’s Josh Howard (01:14:40)
Josh 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 infrastructure is so uniq...
20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon) (02:00:11)
In 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 architecture behind Neon, ...
Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre (01:28:59)
Want 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 his new project, Graft,...
Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma (01:24:03)
Prisma 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 break down the journe...
Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee (01:09:14)
Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, I sit down with Mike Buckbee to dive into the nitty-gritty of web application firewalls and hi...
Bootstrapping an email service provider (with Jesse Hanley) (01:21:59)
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. In this interview, I talk with Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, about running a lean email service from Japan. ...
Creating a Postgres platform with Monica & Tudor from Xata.io (01:01:21)
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. Production ready Postgres for teams that ship fast: https://xata.io In this interview, I talk with Monica Sarb...
Heroku's glory days & Postgres vs the world, w/ Craig Kerstiens (01:02:46)
Want to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. In this interview, I dive deep with Craig Kerstiens from Crunchy Data into the world of Postgres, covering its...
Ruby on Rails + SQLite with Stephen Margheim (01:43:09)
Want to learn more about SQLite? Check out the full course: https://highperformancesqlite.com Get production ready SQLite with Turso: https://tur.so/af.In this interview, I talk to Stephen Margheim ab...
