Episodes 30
Avg. Duration 1h 10m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 5.0 (4)
Since Jun 2024
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Join database educator Aaron Francis as he gets schooled by database professionals.

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Infinite, shareable volume storage with Hunter Leath, Archil CEO

Jan 15, 2026 55m

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…

Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir

Dec 18, 2025 1h 6m

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…

Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani

Dec 11, 2025 1h 5m

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…

Just use Postgres with Denis Magda

Dec 04, 2025 1h 7m

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…

Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas

Nov 20, 2025 59m

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…

Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen

Nov 13, 2025 1h 6m

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…

Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq

Nov 06, 2025 1h 7m

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…

Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe

Oct 30, 2025 1h 18m

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.…

A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef

Oct 23, 2025 1h 28m

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…

PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert

Sep 22, 2025 1h 6m

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,…

The database for all your AI needs

Sep 16, 2025 1h

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…

Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov

Aug 19, 2025 48m

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…

Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really)

Aug 08, 2025 1h 17m

Want to learn more about SQLite?  Check out my course on SQLite: https://highperformancesqlite.com/?ref=yt  In this episode of Database School, I chat with Glauber Costa, CEO of Turso, about their…

Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale

Jul 01, 2025 1h 7m

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…

PlanetScale Metal

Jun 27, 2025 50m

In this episode, I chat with Richard Crowley from PlanetScale about their new offering: PlanetScale Metal.We dive deep into the performance and reliability trade-offs of EBS vs. locally attached NVMe…

From Prisma Founder to LiveStore: Building local-first apps with Johannes Schickling

May 29, 2025 1h 31m

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.We dive deep into…

How Durable Objects and D1 Work: A Deep Dive with Cloudflare’s Josh Howard

May 14, 2025 1h 14m

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…

20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon)

May 06, 2025 2h

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,…

Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre

Apr 18, 2025 1h 28m

Want to learn more SQLite? Check out my SQLite course: https://highperformancesqlite.com In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing everything is a bad idea and how his new project,…

Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma

Feb 17, 2025 1h 24m

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…

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Database School has published 30 episodes since June 2024, covering topics in Education, Technology.

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Database School is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 10m.

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