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Big Ideas in App Architecture

Early Days at Google & Building CockroachDB with Peter Mattis

Dec 20, 2023
47:22
In this best of 2023 episode, Tim Veil talks to Peter Mattis, Co-founder and CTO at Cockroach Labs.
In this conversation, Peter goes way under the hood to talk about how CockroachDB is architected, how that architecture has evolved, and how the architecture will continue to evolve to make developers’ lives easier.
Join us as we discuss:
  • The origins of GIMP and early days at Google
  • How Peter built Pebble & how it compares to RocksDB
  • Lessons learned building Postgres compatibility
  • What the future of “serverless” databases will look like

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