In this episode of Brainwaves, Alex chats with Bruce Momjian, a member of PostgreSQL's core development team, at the PGConf Local meetup in Philadelphia, July 2017. They discuss Bruce's background with PostgreSQL, some of the history of PostgreSQL’s development, how community support helps drive the database's evolution, and the importance of Postg…

In this episode of Brainwaves, Baron Schwartz and Jay Ennis -- VividCortex's CEO and VivdCortex's VP of Product Development -- join Alex to discuss some of the concepts that help engineering teams operate and build safely. Jay and Baron talk about what they aim to protect and avoid when setting up safety protocols for a team, and they discuss why s…

In this episode of Brainwaves, we discuss how technologies like Amazon Lambda and 3D XPoint -- when integrated into centralized services -- can have a rippling effect on the industries around them. Also... Half-Life 3 confirmed??www.vividcortex.comRelated Links:- Amazon's Lambda Info: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/- "Serverless with Lambda": https:…

In this episode of Brainwaves, we discuss the recent Amazon S3 outage and consider what it might -- and might not -- imply about cloud storage in general.www.vividcortex.comRelated Links:-S3 Outage Postmortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/- Timeline of AWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services- S3 Status: https://st…