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Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs

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What Does Great Problem Definition Look Like?

In cockroach, we had a very high level problem definition. The way the problem was defined, some of the more senior engineers were like, o i've seen this problem before. This is where the novelty came in, because rather than build the same type of cost base optimizer that amazons data basis have, oracle has, we said, let's build it from scratch. What are the costs that we should take into account to day? And how do you find plans that minimize the network latency? So even in a globally distributed environment, we can get you fast results.

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