Database Scaling (Deepthi Sigireddi)

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Database Scaling (Deepthi Sigireddi)

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Running software at scale comes with its own challenges. Deepthi Sigireddi, Software Engineer at PlanetScale explained what database scaling consists of. We talked about different types of databases, horizontal and vertical scaling, and how to reason about what to choose. Deepthi also talked about her experience working across companies of different sizes.

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Aug 15, 2019

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Build Real Time Applications With Operational Simplicity Using Dozer: Real-time data processing has steadily been gaining adoption due to advances in the accessibility of the technologies involved. Despite that, it is still a complex set of capabilities. To bring streaming data in reach of application engineers Matteo Pelati helped to create Dozer. In this episode he explains how investing in high performance and operationally simplified streaming with a familiar API can yield significant benefits for software and data teams together. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Designing And Building Data Platforms As A Product: A panel discussion about what constitutes a data platform, how to think about designing one from scratch, and ways that you can evolve your existing data infrastructure into a cohesive experience for all of your stakeholders. by Data Engineering Podcast
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50 | Contributing to Open Source with Brian Douglas: In our very first guest episode, Brian Douglas, Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub, joins us to talk about Open Source projects and the benefits of contributing. by COMPRESSEDfm
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Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI): with Kenneth Auchenberg, Product Lead, Stripe Apps by Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps
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Resilience engineering, learning from incidents and unintuitive perspectives on incident analysis w/ John Allspaw #116: We cover resilience engineering & learning from incidents with John Allspaw, former CTO @ Etsy and current Founder & Principal @ Adaptive Capacity Labs! Co-hosted by Kenji Kiuchi (Head of Quality and Performance @ Postman) this episode also addresses common unintuitive perspectives within resilience engineering, strategies for effective incident response / problem solving, how to identify current sources of resilience, and practical tips for implementing these resiliency tactics in your organization today. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
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#118 How Power BI Empowers Collaboration by DataFramed
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324: What's Your System Look Like: In GTD®, it's important to have a trusted system. But does that mean that you have one app to store everything? In this call we talk about how we have our systems set up -- personal vs business or all combined, using separate apps for specific things... by GTD® Virtual Study Group
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Insights And Advice On Building A Data Lake Platform From Someone Who Learned The Hard Way: An interview with Srivatsan Sridharan, head of data infrastructure at Robinhood, about his experiences building data lake platforms at Robinhood and Yelp, and how to account for organizational and technical needs while moving the business forward. by Data Engineering Podcast
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Ep. 326 | Scaling Enterprise Data and AI Initiatives by OnBase: Smashing Sales and Marketing Misalignments
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83 | An Introduction to Github Actions: In this episode, Amy and James explain Github Actions: what they are, how they work, use cases, and more. Amy also shares some of her personal experience in setting up Github Actions in a recent project. by COMPRESSEDfm
47 min listen
150: Working with design systems by Design Life
33 min listen
Harvinder Atwal: What Happened When MoneySupermarket Embraced DataOps by The Business of Data Podcast
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Guide to Building Cross-Functional Collaboration In Software Engineering by Level-up Engineering
55 min listen
72 | Working with Storybook: In this episode, Amy shares her experience with working with Storybook, the pros and cons, and how it's changed her developer workflow. by COMPRESSEDfm
45 min listen
44 | What does it look like to work on an actual dev team? by COMPRESSEDfm
57 min listen
75 | DevOps and Setting up a CICD Pipeline: In this episode, Amy talks through the details of Dev Operations and setting up a CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipeline on a recent project, using RedwoodJS, Husky, Postgres, Render, and GitHub Integrations. by COMPRESSEDfm
59 min listen
Repeatable Patterns For Designing Data Platforms And When To Customize Them: An interview with Brandon Beidel about his experiences at Red Ventures designing and supporting analytical data platforms for his customers and how he and his team have established a set of useful patterns to make it scalable. by Data Engineering Podcast
47 min listen
The Practical Dev with Jess Lee: Becoming a better developer is easier than ever. With unlimited resources and the ability to connect with other people, we can learn from other developers. Jess Lee, COO at The Practical Dev, explains how they are building a community to help developers. We talked about how developers are engaging and the type of content they are posting on the platform. Jess also explained the technologies used to build The Practical Dev. by The Women in Tech Show: A Technical Podcast
20 min listen
Machine Learning as a Software Engineering Discipline with Dillon Erb - #404: Today we’re joined by Dillon Erb, Co-founder & CEO of Paperspace. We’ve followed Paperspace since their origins offering GPU-enabled compute resources to data scientists and machine learning developers, to the release of their Jupyter-based... by The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
45 min listen
DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble: Happy Thanksgiving! This week, Aja and Brian are talking DevOps with Nathen Harvey and Jez Humble. by Google Cloud Platform Podcast
35 min listen
ADHD as a Superpower with Jess Schalz: Jessica Schalz is a workflow engineer at Transposit, a company that build interactive runbooks for DevOps and SREs to turn alerts into action. Prior to this position, Jessica worked as a security engineer at Remitly, a product security engineer at Target, by Screaming in the Cloud
30 min listen
Do Away With Data Integration Through A Dataware Architecture With Cinchy: An interview with Cinchy CEO Dan DeMers about the benefits of building your systems with a dataware architecture to eliminate the need for ongoing data integration by Data Engineering Podcast
51 min listen
The next evolution to measure & improve developer productivity & experience w/ Abi Noda #132: Abi Noda, Co-founder & CEO @ DX returns to the show to discuss his latest research on measuring & improving developer productivity, and provides a practical, developer-focused framework to give you clear, actionable insights into what to measure and where to focus in order to improve developer productivity. Abi reveals the inspiration behind his whitepaper / research, elements of their new DevEx framework, and how eng leaders can implement it into their org’s practice in order to increase developer productivity. We also cover the evolution of measuring developer experience (including output metrics, DORA & SPACE frameworks) and the benefits / shortcomings of each approach. In addition, learn not only the importance of having a dedicated DevEx team, but also how to implement these insights if your org isn’t ready to have a dedicated team yet. by The Engineering Leadership Podcast
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