Programming Throwdown, Episode 152, The Future Database with Sam Lambert.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

This is a super awesome episode.

I'm really looking forward to this.

I actually found out about Planet Scale, which we'll talk about later on, from Googling on the internet,

you know, how to, you know, get a self-managed database. I, you know, burn myself too many

times with trying to maintain my own database. And another thing I always tell folks is

the class I kind of most regret not taking is databases. As people who've

listened to the show for a while, you know, show veterans know, I elected to take all the theory

classes, I took linear algebra, I took all these things. And I didn't take networking or databases

or operating systems or any of these classes that probably would have been extremely

useful. And I feel like I learned most of them on the way, but the one that I really learned

way too late in life was databases. So we are going to talk about, you know, kind of the next

evolution of databases. And, you know, kind of along the way,

we'll dive into kind of the whole history of how people stored things. And we'll, we'll dive

into a lot of that and how we can, you know, continue to make that better and more painless

for engineers. So I'm really excited that we have Sam Lambert on the show. He's the CEO of

Planet Scale and he's here to chat with us about the future of DBs. So thanks for coming on

the show, Sam. Thank you very much for having me. Cool. So maybe just to kind of kick things off

here, what is one of your greatest database horror stories?

You know, everyone talks about the intern that deletes the prod database and stuff like that.

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