Tag: storage
Episode 455: Jamie Riedesel on Software Telemetry
Jamie Riedesel, author of Software Telemetry Book, discusses software telemetry, why telemetry data is so important, and the discipline of tracing, logging, and monitoring infrastructure. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Riedesel about what telemetry is, the different ways to scale it, the tools involved, security and privacy considerations, centralized logging, types of metrics, observability, distributed […]
Episode 446: Nigel Poulton on Kubernetes Fundamentals
Nigel Poulton, author of The Kubernetes Book and Docker Deep Dive, discusses Kubernetes fundamentals, why Kubernetes is gaining so much momentum, and why it’s considered “the” Cloud OS. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Poulton about when to use Kubernetes, the different ways to deploy it, the protocols involved, security considerations, pods, sidecars, the RAFT protocol, […]
Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB
Jay Kreps, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent discusses ksqlDB which is a SQL engine for data in Apache Kafka. Jay talks about stream processing, Kafka and how the data can now be queried with push/pull queries with ksqlDB, similar to a relational database. Jay discusses some of the similarities and differences between SQL databases and […]
Episode 371: Howard Chu On the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)
Howard Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP project, discusses the key technical features of the Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) that make it one of the fastest, most efficient, and safest embedded data stores in the world. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Chu about B+tree data structures, multi-version concurrency control, memory-mapped […]
SE-Radio Episode 285: James Cowling on Dropbox’s Distributed Storage System
James Cowling of Dropbox (architect of their distributed storage system), speaks to Robert Blumen about their move from Amazon’s S3 to their own infrastructure; The show covers: the size, scope and scale of Dropbox’s data management; their experience on Amazon’s S3; why S3 over time did not meet their needs; how the decision was made […]
