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Jeff Kao
Principal engineer at Radar who led development of HorizonDB, a Rust-based geospatial database backed by RocksDB; experienced in backend and data infrastructure engineering with a background at companies like Foursquare and PagerDuty.
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Jan 8, 2026
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Radar with Jeff Kao
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Jeff Kao, a Principal Engineer at Radar and mastermind behind HorizonDB, dives into the evolution of a Rust-based geospatial database that supersedes Elasticsearch and MongoDB. He highlights the challenges of scaling data infrastructure and the motivation for adopting Rust due to its performance and ergonomic design. Topics range from the intricacies of geospatial indexing with Hilbert curves to using RocksDB for efficient data storage. Jeff also discusses the journey of rapid prototyping and the significant cost reductions achieved, all while maintaining high throughput and low latency.
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