The Sourcegraph Podcast

Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale

Jan 18, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Got You Into Coding and Computers?
01:32 • 1min
3
The Importance of Computer Science
03:00 • 3min
4
How I End Up at PayPal
05:33 • 2min
5
Elon Musk's Career Change
07:57 • 2min
6
The Importance of Honesty
10:13 • 4min
7
The Importance of Selling Your Vision
13:49 • 2min
8
The Importance of Choosing a Platform
15:20 • 3min
9
How I Moved Over to PayPal
17:54 • 2min
10
The Pros and Cons of PayPal
19:24 • 3min
11
How to Fix a Conflict in a Transaction
22:16 • 2min
12
How Sugu Succeeded in Scaling PayPal
24:07 • 2min
13
The Failure of PayPal's Harding Experiment
26:09 • 3min
14
Scaling Out MySQL at YouTube
29:18 • 2min
15
The History of Hard-Distilling MySQL
31:37 • 4min
16
The Common Pain Points of Connection Pooling
36:07 • 2min
17
The Problem With Limit Clauses in Querying
37:41 • 2min
18
How to Protect Your MySQL Cluster From Spamming
39:24 • 2min
19
How to Convince Google to Open Source Your Project
41:31 • 2min
20
Vitez: A Distributed System
43:28 • 3min
21
How to Give a Cool Name to a Project
45:58 • 2min
22
Vitez Started 2010 and Open Sourced in 2012.
47:36 • 2min
23
The Importance of Funding YouTube's Vitez
49:11 • 4min
24
Planet Scale: The Future of Databases
52:52 • 2min
25
The Evolution of Developers in Kubernetes
54:53 • 3min
26
The Problem With Schema Deployment
57:55 • 2min
27
The Problem With Schema Change
59:32 • 3min
28
The Benefits of GitHub Online Schema Deployer
01:02:06 • 3min
29
Slow Me: A Personal Mission
01:04:41 • 2min
30
The Limits of Kubernetes
01:06:23 • 3min
31
Planet Scale: A Mind-Changing Experience
01:09:04 • 3min