Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t
The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database.
Faster feedback loops make for faster developer velocity (Ep. 499)
If you want a fast highway, you should have fewer cars.
China’s only female Apache member on the rise of open source in China (Ep. 414)
We also cover the good kind of database fragmentation.
Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down
Databases today are built for Big Data. But what happens when the metadata is bigger?
Migrating metrics from InfluxDB to M3
How Aiven moved from storing metrics in one giant InfluxDB to using horizontally-scalable M3.
Markus Stenberg
Staff Software Engineer