About AndiAndi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi’s focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry’s leading data platform for businesses. Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.Links Referenced:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andigutmans/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/andigutmans

TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Sysdig. Sysdig secures your cloud from source to run. They believe, as do I, that DevOps and security are inextricably linked. If you wanna learn more about how they view this, check out their blog, it's definitely worth the read. To learn more about how they are absolutely getting it right from where I sit, visit Sysdig.com and tell them that I sent you. That's S Y S D I G.com. And my thanks to them for their continued support of this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. This promoted episode is brought to us by our friends at Google Cloud, and in so doing, they have gotten a guest to appear on this show that I have been low-key trying to get here for a number of years. Andi Gutmans is VP and GM of Databases at Google Cloud. Andi, thank you for joining me.Andi: Corey, thanks so much for having me.Corey: I have to begin with the obvious. Given that one of my personal passion projects is misusing every cloud service I possibly can as a database, where do you start and where do you stop as far as saying, “Yes, that’s a database,” so it rolls up to me and, “No, that’s not a database, so someone else can deal with the nonsense?”Andi: I’m in charge of the operational databases, so that includes both the managed third-party databases such as MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and then also the cloud-first databases, such as Spanner, Big Table, Firestore, and AlloyDB. So, I suggest that’s where you start because those are all awesome services. And then what doesn’t fall underneath, kind of, that purview are things like BigQuery, which is an analytics, you know, data warehouse, and other analytics engines. And of course, there’s always folks who bring in their favorite, maybe, lesser-known or less popular database and self-manage it on GCE, on Compute.Corey: Before you wound up at Google Cloud, you spent roughly four years at AWS as VP of Analytics, which is, again, one of those very hazy type of things. Where does it start? Where does it stop? It’s not at all clear from the outside. But even before that, you were, I guess, something of a legendary figure, which I know is always a weird thing for people to hear.But you were partially at least responsible for the Zend Framework in the PHP world, which I didn’t realize what the heck that was, despite supporting it in production at a couple of jobs, until after I, for better or worse, was no longer trusted to support production environments anymore. Which, honestly, if you can get out, I’m a big proponent of doing that. You sleep so much better without a pager. How did you go from programming languages all the way on over to databas