Spencer Kimball
9 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2015 by Spencer Kimball · said 10 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Jun 19, 2015 negative
Kimball: Solving strong consistency in application logic does not work
“It's actually an incredibly hard problem. It's incredibly hard to solve it above the database layer, which some people purport to do. You know, they're putting all these kind of checks in. Oh, well, you know, was I at this data center before? Am I at this data…”
Jun 19, 2015 neutral
Kimball: Be suspicious of strong-consistency databases not using Paxos or Raft
“So I'd be very suspicious if you see a database that claims to do this that doesn't use something like Paxos, Which is really the gold standard, and Raft, which just came out in in 2014 which is kind of a reimagined and simpler version of Paxos.”
Jun 19, 2015 negative
Oct 17, 2018 negative
Under 3% of IT failures were resolved within an hour by 2013
“According to the Forrester research. It's gone from, I think in 2000, ah, seven, it was, ah, something like 13, or 30% of failures were resolved in less than one hour. In 2010, it was, ah, 10%, something like that, and in 2013 it was less than three percent.”
Oct 17, 2018
Nov 17, 2022
Kimball: Customers with zero software issues are actually more likely to churn
“You're actually more likely to churn a customer if they never have a problem with your software. Because they look at it and like, why aren't we just using the open source version of this? There's nothing that's wrong with this. We don't need support. What are…”
Nov 17, 2022
Kimball: Early exploratory sales hires usually must be replaced to scale
“As soon as that person starts to figure out what that motion looks like, you're probably going to need to replace them, because the person that can figure that out is not usually the person that can Mentor other salespeople and start to scale an organization a…”
Nov 17, 2022 neutral
Nov 17, 2022
Kimball: Buyers fear cloud vendor lock-in more than database vendor lock-in
“What they're worried about is the vendor lock-in from the hyperscale cloud vendors. They're very worried about that. So the right way to assuage their concerns isn't so much to convince them that they're not going to be locked into your system. It's to convinc…”