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Kimball: Mandate to open source is weaker than when Cockroach started
“The mandate to open source is not nearly as strong as it was when we started Cockroach.”
Stewart: CockroachDB beats Amazon Aurora heads-up in single data centers
“We're still winning heads up versus Amazon Aurora in single data centers.”
Stewart: Cockroach Labs adopted BSL, open-sourcing code after three years
“One of the big things we did is we did change our open source license. So it's still source available. It's still free, but we moved from Apache to a license called the business source license. Which is just like Apache, you can use the software, you can redis…”
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…”
Stewart: Dropping CS and PM requirements speeds up product manager hiring
“Because I can hire product managers a lot faster than someone that says, Hey, you already have to be a product manager or you have to have a computer science background.”
CockroachDB publishes all source code openly without a closed enterprise edition
“We don't have a, an enterprise edition that's closed source. All of our source code is, is available. It's all in the same GitHub repo.”
Stewart: Cockroach Labs lacked telemetry before building managed cloud service
“So we don't look at the data that is in the database, but you know, where are people getting stuck when they're signing up? How long is it taking them to run that first query? That's information that was completely lost to us when we were just offering the ope…”
Nate Stewart: Cockroach Labs product team has about 25 people
“So the product team right now is about 25 people.”
Stewart: Google Spanner paper provided the foundation for CockroachDB
“With some breakthroughs in computer science, there was the Google Spanner paper that came out, and it said, hey, you can get transactions. You can have these types of guarantees in a distributed environment, and that was really the foundation for the work that…”
Cockroach Labs ran 10,000-warehouse TPC-C benchmarks under active chaos testing
“We've actually run TPCC, 10 K, we probably could run 50 K, but it's actually expensive for us to run 50 K, but 10 K with chaos, and what chaos is, it's kind of like the Netflix model, where you actually bring nodes down.”