The people behind the databases
Long-form interviews with the people who build databases and the tools around them: how they got here, and what they have learned.
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NewAlex Padula
Founder & Architect @TidesDB
Alex talks about teaching himself to code, building storage engines from first principles, creating TidesDB, and why you shouldn't lose your skills to AI.
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Alex Padula
Founder & Architect @TidesDB
Alex talks about teaching himself to code, building storage engines from first principles, creating TidesDB, and why you shouldn't lose your skills to AI.
Cornelia Biacsics
Principal Program Manager @Microsoft
Cornelia talks about moving from marketing into the PostgreSQL world, co-founding the Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education, and starting a user group in Vienna.
Elisa Usai
Senior Delivery Manager @dbi services
Elisa talks about her move from Italy to Switzerland, taking the lead of the database team at CHUV hospital, and why women's representation in tech matters.
Flora Barriele
Oracle Database@AWS EMEA Black Belt
Flora shares her journey from system administration to becoming a DBA in Switzerland, joining Oracle, her thoughts on AI, and why staying true to yourself matters in tech.
Yves Colin
Customer Engineer Data Management @Google
Yves talks about thirty years in databases, his path from DBA and architecture roles to AWS and Google, his involvement with PostgreSQL France, AI, and advice for juniors.
Damien Clochard
Co-founder & Product Owner @Dalibo
Damien talks about twenty years of PostgreSQL, building Dalibo as a cooperative, PostgreSQL.FR, open source governance, Rust, PGRX, and the future of data in the AI era.
Ege Güneş
Team Lead, Kubernetes Operators @Percona
Ege talks about moving from law to software, discovering open source, building database operators at Percona, and why Linux and distributed systems matter for database engineers.
Matt Cornillon
Data Cloud & AI Specialist @Google
Matt talks about his path through Oracle and PostgreSQL, his work with Postgres France, joining Google, and why database people need to engage with AI.
Cedric Villemain
President / CEO @Data bene
Cedric talks about growing into PostgreSQL through Overblog, building Data Bene after 2ndQuadrant France, and why critical thinking matters even more in the AI era.
Mikaël Francoeur
Software Engineer @Turso
Mikaël talks about his unusual path from musicology to databases, how open source helped him join Turso, and why reliability matters even more in the AI era.
Franck Pachot
Developer Advocate @MongoDB
Franck talks about his career across databases, his work as a Developer Advocate, and his move from YugabyteDB to MongoDB.
Bertrand Drouvot
Senior Database Engineer @AWS
Bertrand talks about his career, his move from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and how he joined AWS.
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