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Episode 35:

The Future of Development is Distributed with Jim Walker of Cockroach Labs

May 12, 2021

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Jim Walker, the VP of product marketing at Cockroach Labs, about distributed systems, competing against the speed of light, and making data easy.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

  • Jim background of translating deep technical concepts into understandable English and his work at Cockroach Labs (2:23)
  • The origin of Cockroach Labs and distributed SQL (6:10)
  • Living without Atomic Clocks (10:10)
  • Having the speed of light as the ultimate competitor (13:49)
  • CockroachDB’s users (19:35)
  • Figuring out big data for transactions (25:14)
  • Dealing with failure (35:04)
  • Open source code, community, and consumption (39:26)
  • Making data easy, and what’s next for Cockroach (43:12)
  • Bringing programming into marketing (46:18)

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