Innovate to Accelerate

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The journey of Taiga Beetle demonstrates the power of innovation stemming from targeted analysis and experimentation. By focusing on enhancing a central bank payment switch, the team identified significant opportunities for improvement, realizing a potential speed increase of 100 to 1000 times. This discovery arose from their hands-on consulting work, leading to a successful prototype developed quickly within five hours. Such rapid prototyping and responsiveness to insights can lead to broader recognition and validation of innovative ideas.

Online transaction processing, or OLTP, is designed for managing high volumes of short, fast, and concurrent transactions, such as data entry and retrieval operations. OLTP systems solve the problem of efficiently handling numerous simultaneous transactions, making them essential for sectors like banking and retail.

Joran Greef is the Founder and CEO of TigerBeetle, which is developing an open-source financial transactions database focused on mission critical safety and performance. He joins the podcast to talk about the TigerBeetle’s technology and problems it solves.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.