Moving up a level of abstraction with serverless on MongoDB Atlas and AWS (Ep. 552)
The cost bottleneck is your mind!
The cost bottleneck is your mind!
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it.
Spencer Kimball, cofounder and CEO of Cockroach Labs and co-creator of the GIMP image editor, tells Ryan and Ceora about how database technology has evolved to handle massive data volumes, how Cockroach labs came to focus on solving latency issues through serverless technology, and his “relatively gentle” transition from engineer to CEO.
Sharding was one of the first ways databases were distributed to improve performance. Recent innovations have made it one of the best.
NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?
A small group of four people wrote the code that kicked off what is now a massive business. Hear the story from CTO Eliot Horowitz.