Jan 15, 202655 minS0
<p>Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, explains how they’re building a “universal storage engine” that sits between your apps and S3—making an S3 bucket behave like a fast, POSIX-compatible disk for containers, servers, and...
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Join database educator Aaron Francis as he gets schooled by database professionals.
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What has Database School covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO" (15 January 2026, 55 minutes), "Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir" (18 December 2025, 67 minutes), and "Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani" (11 December 2025, 65 minutes).
How often does Database School publish?
Database School publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 72 minutes across 30 episodes.
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- Dec 18, 20251h 7mS0
<p>Hammad Bashir, CTO of Chroma, joins the show to break down how modern vector search systems are actually built from local, embedded databases to massively distributed, object-storage-backed architectures. We dig into...
- Dec 11, 20251h 5mS0
<p>In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how MotherDuck hosts it in the cloud, and why analytics workloads are...
Episode #28
Just use Postgres with Denis Magda
Dec 4, 20251h 8mS0<p>In this episode, Aaron talks with Dennis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres!, about the wide world of modern Postgres, from JSON and full-text search to generative AI, time-series storage, and even message queues...
- Nov 20, 20251 hourS0
<p>In this episode, Gajus Kuizinas, co-founder and CTO of Contra, joins Aaron to talk about building the engineering world you want to live in, from strict runtime-validated SQL with Slonik to creating high-ownership...
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- Nov 13, 20251h 7mS0
<p>In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on object storage. They dive deep on...
- Nov 6, 20251h 7mS0
<p>Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure, what it takes...
- Oct 30, 20251h 18mS0
<p>In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible journey from prison to rewriting SQLite in Rust. They dive deep into...
- Oct 23, 20251h 28mS0
<p>In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on a deep dive of on how TigerBeetle brings double-entry accounting...
Episode #22
PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert
Sep 22, 20251h 7mS0<p>Sam Lambert, my former boss at PlanetScale, talks to me about PlanetScale moving from a MySQL company to now also having a Postgres offering. Sam shares why PlanetScale decided to move to Postgres, how MySQL and...
Episode #21
The database for all your AI needs
Sep 16, 20251 hourS0<p>Marcel Kornacker, the creator of Apache Impala and co-creator of Apache Parquet, joins me to talk about his latest project: Pixeltable, a multimodal AI database that combines structured and unstructured data with...
- Aug 19, 202549 minS0
<p>I chat with Lev Kokotov to talk about building PgDog, an open-source sharding solution for Postgres that sits outside the database. Lev shares the journey from creating PgCat to launching PgDog through YC, the...
Episode #19
Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really)
Aug 8, 20251h 18mS0<p>Want to learn more about SQLite? <br>Check out my course on SQLite: https://highperformancesqlite.com/?ref=yt </p><p>In this episode of Database School, I chat with Glauber Costa, CEO of Turso, about their audacious...
- Jul 1, 20251h 7mS0
<p>Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and co-founder of PlanetScale, joins me to talk about his time scaling YouTube’s database infrastructure, building Vitess, and his latest project bringing sharding to Postgres...
Episode #16
PlanetScale Metal
Jun 27, 202550 minS0<p>In this episode, I chat with Richard Crowley from PlanetScale about their new offering: PlanetScale Metal.</p><p>We dive deep into the performance and reliability trade-offs of EBS vs. locally attached NVMe...
- May 29, 20251h 32mS0
<p>Johannes Schickling, original founder of Prisma, joins me to talk about LiveStore, his ambitious local-first data layer designed to rethink how we build apps from the data layer up.</p><p><br></p><p>We dive deep into...
- May 14, 20251h 15mS0
<p>Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins me to explain how Durable Objects and D1 work under the hood—and why Cloudflare’s approach to stateful serverless infrastructure is so unique. We get into...
- May 6, 20252 hourS0
<p>In this episode of Database School, I talk with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon and longtime PostgreSQL hacker, to talk about 20+ years in the Postgres community, the architecture behind Neon, and the future...
- Apr 18, 20251h 29mS0
<p>Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com </p><p>In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing everything is a bad idea and how his new project, Graft, makes...
- Feb 17, 20251h 24mS0
<p>Prisma started as a GraphQL backend and pivoted into one of the most widely used ORMs in the world. Now, they’ve launched Prisma Postgres, and CEO Søren Bramer Schmidt is here to break down the journey, the...
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