What You Missed in 2024 in the World of Databases, with Andy Pavlo
James is joined by Andy Pavlo, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, about the dramatic shifts reshaping the database industry in 2024. The conversation explores how Redis's controversial licensing changes sparked unprecedented community backlash and the fierce battle between Snowflake and Databricks that culminated in a $2 billion acquisition.
Andy also goes into modern testing approaches, particularly deterministic simulation, and why database wars now extend beyond performance metrics. The conversation also touches on the evolution of database education, the rising dominance of Postgres, and how modern testing approaches are reshaping reliability expectations in database development and deployment.
Check out Andy's 2024 retrospective on the world of databases at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20....
The CMU Database Group has a ton of excellent educational content available online if you want to learn more about databases and how they work. One good starting point is the Intro to Database Systems lecture series • #00 - Course Overview & Logistics (CM... .
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