Episode
SE Radio 243: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Nov 20, 2015 · 57 min
Slava Akhmechet and Jeff Meyerson discuss RethinkDB, an open source database for the real-time Web. RethinkDB pushes data to the application rather than requiring the application to poll the database for updates. The discussion begins with the question of why databases need to be rethought–why is it better to build JSON-pushing into the database layer rather than the application layer? Slava…