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    January 15, 2026 · 55 min

    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 even Lambda. Along the…

  • Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir

    December 18, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 Chroma’s shared…

  • Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani

    December 11, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 shifting toward embedded…

  • Just use Postgres with Denis Magda

    December 4, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min

    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. They explore when…

  • Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas

    November 20, 2025 · 60 min

    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 engineering cultures…

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  • Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen

    November 13, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 Simon's time as an engineer…

  • Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq

    November 6, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 to build an…

  • Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe

    October 30, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

    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 concurrent writes…

  • A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef

    October 23, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

    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 principles directly into…

  • PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert

    September 22, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 Postgres are different at a…

  • The database for all your AI needs

    September 16, 2025 · 1 hr 0 min

    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 rich, Python-native…

  • Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov

    August 19, 2025 · 49 min

    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 technical challenges of…

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