Postgres is Eating the World | In Conversation with Spencer Kimball & Kelsey Hightower

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In this conversation, Spencer Kimball and Kelsey Hightower dive deep into the evolution of databases — and why PostgreSQL, despite winning the dialect wars, still falls short when it comes to the demands of modern, distributed systems. They also get into the design principles behind CockroachDB: why resilience had to be a first-class citizen from day one. Drawing on lessons from Google, Spencer and Kelsey discuss what it really means to build for scale — where anything that can go wrong will go wrong — and why that mindset demands absolute, resilient solutions. Spencer Kimball is the CEO & Co-founder of Cockroach Labs. Kelsey Hightower is Former Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Speaker, Author, and Open Source Contributor. More about Cockroach Labs: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/