Programming Throwdown Episode 164

Choosing a database for your project with Chris Zipe.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

So Patrick and I have been doing a bunch of solo episodes or duo, duo episodes, you know, non-interview episodes.

It's been really fun.

But every now and then, you know, interview comes across

a plate that is a really spectacular opportunity for us to dive into something that's really

important, especially for folks that are, you're just getting started. You might be in college,

in high school. You might not have a lot of years of experience under your belt. And one of the things that

that I didn't know until much, much later is the power and the usefulness of databases.

I thought databases were for, you know, financial folks or for like people who were like really

professional, people who wore shirts with buttons i thought

databases were for them uh and so as a high school student college student i was uh doing a lot with

data structures that really should have been in databases um so we're going to talk about how to

choose a database for your project and what different databases have to offer and how they can make things a lot easier.

And with me, I have the SVP of Engineering at HarperDB, Chris Zipe.

So Chris, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Thank you.

I am delighted to be here.

Cool.

So before we get into the topic, why don did you tell us a little bit about yourself?

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