Episode 46 - A Database that survives anything with Cockroach Labs Spencer Kimball

Spencer Kimball is simply incredible. He started programming after watching War Games, in college he was sick of using awful xwindows photo editors so he co-created GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). He was one of the lead developers for the successor to Larry Page and Sergey Brin' GoogleFS called Colossus, He created a manifesto with fellow engineers around how to do things better. He and his 2 other partners created Cockroach Labs based on this manifesto and CockroachDB a cloud-native SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters (thus the name) The man forgot more about scalable, resilient, and multi cloud datastores then we will ever know. Stick around for this whole interview to learn from someone who will blow your mind with all of his knowledge on distributed databases. In this POPCAST, Spencer takes the time to discuss his journey, his creations, and his company Cockroach Labs.