Episode
Tech Talk: Rethinking databases and Noria with Jon Gjengset
CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Apr 30, 2019 · 59 min
Can we make databases faster and remove the need for caching reads in an external cache? Can we make a distributed SQL based relational database that outperforms memcached? Jon Gjengset and the PDOS team at MIT CSAIL have done just that with Noria. Today I talk to Jon about Noria, about building a database in rust and his efforts to teach people intermediate rust via live coding sessions. Jon…