August 12, 2022
Spencer Kimball, cofounder and CEO of Cockroach Labs and co-creator of the GIMP picture editor, tells Ryan and Ceora about how database expertise has developed to deal with huge knowledge volumes, how Cockroach labs got here to concentrate on fixing latency points via serverless expertise, and his “comparatively light” transition from engineer to CEO.
Spencer Kimball, cofounder and CEO of Cockroach Labs and co-creator of the GIMP picture editor, tells Ryan and Ceora about how database expertise has developed to deal with huge knowledge volumes, how Cockroach labs got here to concentrate on fixing latency points via serverless expertise, and his “comparatively light” transition from engineer to CEO.
Episode notes:
Spencer was one of many authentic creators of open-source, cross-platform picture modifying software program GIMP (GNU Picture Manipulation Program), authored whereas he was nonetheless in school. He went on to spend a decade at Google, plus two years as CTO of Viewfinder, later acquired by Sq..
In 2014, he cofounded Cockroach Labs to again his creation CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Database sharding is important for CockroachDB: “a vital a part of how Cockroach achieves nearly every thing,” says Spencer. Learn up on how sharding a database could make it sooner.
Like many engineers who discover themselves within the C-suite, Spencer went from full-time programmer to full-time CEO. He says it’s been a “comparatively light” evolution, however he can at all times return.
Like a number of you on the market, Spencer began programming on a TI-99/4, the world’s first 16-bit house laptop.
Join with Spencer on LinkedIn or be taught extra about him.
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Tags: cockroachDB, database sharding, databases, GIMP, serverless, sharding, the stack overflow podcast, TI-99/4
