
Building a Database with Joran Greef
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We Could Never Have Done Tiger Beetle Without Zig
We were literally hitting the limits of nodes, nodes, HTTP. So we had to do stuff there where no database can withstand this many cosmic rays. But then what was interesting was that it was kind of the goal. Like let's make people really uncomfortable that they're not using Tiger Beetle for all their data. It's just corrupt every replica 30% and like the rough protocol can't handle that by design because it always has to elect a pristine leader. We could never have done Tiger Beetle without Zig. There's so many doors opened.
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