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I participate to EverSQL’s #FREEApril and #FreeMay initiatives, which consists in delivering free 20 minutes consulting gigs. This is a way to help for companies hit by the current health crisis and subsequent economic uncertainty. Collaboration is what made humanity survive bigger problems than covid-19!
In the same spirit, I want to launch an interesting virtual event in May: Two Weeks of Databases (#DB2W).
I will interview interesting persons from the database world, for two weeks. One interview per day, Monday to Friday, at 3pm London time. Each interview will be 40-45 minutes long. The interviews will be streamed on YouTube, and will remain online.
The schedule is a work in progress. The following interviews are confirmed.
Two Weeks of Databases Event Schedule
| DB / Company | Persons | When | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| TerminusDB | Gavin Mendel-Gleason, CTO Cheukting Ho, Technical DevRel Lead | May, 04 | Interview |
| DexterityDB | Dillon Uzar (CEO, cofounder) Alex Sabella (cofounder) | May, 05 | Interview |
| PlanetScale | Morgan Tocker, Community Development Manager | May, 06 | Interview |
| Volga Data Platform | Divya Nagar, Software Engineer @ Vonage Narain Ramaswamy, Software Architect @ Vonage | May, 07 | Interview |
| MongoDB | Asya Kamsky, Principal Engineer, Office of the CTO | May, 08 | Interview |
| MariaDB | Marko Mäkelä, InnoDB Architect | May, 11 | Interview |
| MariaDB | Lightning Interview (10 mins): Andrew Hutchings, Software Engineering Manager | May 11, 4pm | Lightning Interview |
| Percona | Peter Zaitsev, CEO & Founder | May, 12 | Interview |
| SQLite | Richard Hipp, SQLite main author | May, 13 | Interview |
| ScyllaDB | Konstantin Osipov, Software Team Lead | May, 14 | Interview |
| MariaDB | Monty Widenius, CTO @ MariaDB Founder @ MariaDB Foundation | May, 15 | Interview |
The list will be updated as more interviews are confirmed.
For the confirmed interview whose date is already decided, see also the Two Weeks of Databases YouTube channel. You can set a reminder to be notified when the interview starts.
Suggest a question
Do you want to suggest a question for one of the interviewed persons? Just write a comment below!
A few questions for the NoSQL crowd:
Borrowing an expression from Markus Winand – is your NoSQL DBMS a one-trick pony? (Discussed here: https://winand.at/newsletter/2018-12/consistency-cloud-jit .)
On https://nosql-database.org/ there are > 225 DBMSes. Is the NoSQL DBMS landscape too crowded? Must every company in the field really create its own DBMS? Why not unite behind a smaller number of (open-source) solutions? What unique features does your particular DBMS bring to the table that didn’t exist in the field before?
Hi Karl!
Thank you for these very good questions. I’ll probably ask them.
Though, I could modify your second question and extend it to all databases, including relational ones.
Cheers,
Federico
Please feel free to rephrase/modify or discard as you prefer 🙂 I’ll try to think of some more questions later.