Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO
Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, explains how they’re building a “universal storage engine” that sits between your apps and S3—making an S3 bucket behave like a fast, POSIX-compatible disk for containers,...
15 Jan 55min
Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir
Hammad Bashir, CTO of Chroma, joins the show to break down how modern vector search systems are actually built from local, embedded databases to massively distributed, object-storage-backed architectu...
18 Dec 20251h 6min
Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani
In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how MotherDuck hosts it in the cloud, and why analytics ...
11 Dec 20251h 5min
Just use Postgres with Denis Magda
In this episode, Aaron talks with Dennis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres!, about the wide world of modern Postgres, from JSON and full-text search to generative AI, time-series storage, and even me...
4 Dec 20251h 7min
Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas
In this episode, Gajus Kuizinas, co-founder and CTO of Contra, joins Aaron to talk about building the engineering world you want to live in, from strict runtime-validated SQL with Slonik to creating h...
20 Nov 202559min
Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen
In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on object storage. They di...
13 Nov 20251h 6min
Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq
Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure,...
6 Nov 20251h 7min
Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe
In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible journey from prison to rewriting SQLite in Rust. The...
30 Okt 20251h 18min
