The GeekNarrator

In this episode of the Geek Narrator Podcast, Kaivalya Apte engages in an invigorating discussion with Dominik Tornow, the founder and CEO of Resonate. They explore Durable Async-Await, an interesting concept in distributed systems world, along with other nuances of distributed programming. Dominik also talks about the development and execution of Resonate to simplify distributed systems with a fo...

Join host Kaivalya Apte in this episode of The Geek Narrator Podcast as he discusses observability engineering with field CTO at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones. They delve into the importance of observability for software engineers, the role of Honeycomb in popularizing this concept, and how observability has evolved over the years. Liz shares her experiences transitioning from being an SRE at Google t...

In this video I talk about Apache Pulsar with Matteo Merli, CTO at StreamNative. This episode will provide you good insight about how Apache Pulsar works and more importantly differs with the most popular Pub/Sub and streaming platform Apache Kafka. Things like, what enables possibility of 1 million topics? Why is rebalancing not required? How does decoupled storage and compute architecture works?...

Deep Dive into Victoria Metrics with Alex and Roman Join the insightful discussion with Vitoriametrics creators, Alex and Roman, in the Geekneritor podcast hosted by Kaivalya Apte. This episode explores the internals of Victoria Metrics - a highly scalable monitoring solution and time series database. Discover the origins of Victoria Metrics, understand how it evolved, and learn about its unique a...

Join us on a deep dive into the intricacies of TiDB with Li Shen from PingCap. In this episode, Li Shen provides a comprehensive exploration of TiDB, its unique features, and how it tackles scalability and reliability issues commonly associated with MySQL. If you're dealing with struggles in your MySQL cluster and seeking a more dependable and scalable system, TiDB might be the solution for yo...

In this video I discuss Database tuning and Optimisation with Andy Pavlo, OtterTune. Andy is an Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interest is in database management systems, specifically main memory systems, self-driving / autonomous architectures, transaction processing systems, and large-scale...

Deep Dive into DuckDB with CTO Mark Raasveldt Decode the insights of databases with Geek Narrator podcast. In this episode, host Kaivalya Apte converses with Mark Raasveldt, the CTO of DuckDB labs, discussing his journey from being a database enthusiast to creating DuckDB. They delve into how DuckDB, an analytical database, differs from other databases, the design decisions, its internal mechanism...

In this episode we talk about ScyllaDB internals with Felipe Mendes. Chapters: 0:00 ScyllaDB internals with Felipe Mendes 07:51 Write Path - API to Storage 11:40 What makes it faster than Cassandra? 13:39 Optimisations: Sea Star, shard per core architecture 15:49 Optimisations: No Garbage collection and Custom Cache Implementation 18:15 Optimisations: Scheduling groups and IO priority classes 20:0...

In this episode I talk to Michael Hunger from Neo4j about Graph Database Internals (Neo4J) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction and historical context 20:51 Data Modelling 25:16 Problem with SQL for Graph Model 26:21 Cypher - Query Language 28:23 Write Path 31:36 Neo4J Storage Layer 33:51 Graph API on top of Relational Model vs Native Graph Databases 37:05 Create Node Relationships 40:42 What makes Graph D...

In this episode I talk to Micah Wylde about why #Rust could be the best choice for writing distributed systems and how does it compare to #C++, #Java and #Go. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:48 History of Systems Programming 09:42 Is C++ coming back? 13:31 Problems with C++ 16:24 Problems with Java 25:18 Problems with Go 31:21 Why did you choose Rust? 35:19 What makes Rust better? 41:49 Rust canno...

Hello Everyone, In this podcast I have invited John Crickett, who has been a Software Engineer since 27 years, having vast experience in variety of tech stacks. He is known for his newsletter "Coding Challenges" that helps developers build real world applications and becomming a better engineer. 00:00 Introduction 01:17 What made you start Coding Challenges? 03:21 What made you start lea...

Hey Everyone, In this video I talk to Franck Pachot about internals of YugabyteDB. Franck has joined the show previously to talk about general database internals and its again a pleasure to host him and talk about DistributedSQL, YugabyteDB, ACID properties, PostgreSQL compatibility etc. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:26 What does Cloud Native means? 02:57 What is Distributed SQL? 03:47 Is Distri...

Hey Everyone, In this video I talk to Gilad Kleinmann, CEO and Co-Founder of epsio.io, about Epsio and how it helps companies to run queries faster and cheaper. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:09 Defining the problem statement 07:17 What is Epsio ? 09:58 How does Epsio change my architecture? 12:59 Use of CDC 14:05 Where is the query result stored ? (Foreign data wrappers) 15:40 What permissions d...

Hey Everyone, In this episode I talk to Anjul Sahu, Founder of CloudRaft, about all things Kubernetes. There are many common questions that we try to answer. If you ever wondered if you should adopt Kubernetes as a company? or learn Kubernetes as a Developer? or why people fail adopting Kubernetes? Or even if Kubernetes is worth the hype? Then this episode will bring a ton of clarity. Chapters 00:...

In this video I talk to David Jacot who works as a Staff Software Engineer at  @Confluent  and has been a long time Kafka user, committer and PMC member. We covered how Kafka works internally in great depth. We use Kafka for various use cases and it works great, but going one level below the abstraction and truly understanding the protocols, techniques and algorithms used is a fun ride. Chapters:...

In this episode I talk to @gkcs on the Practical system design for Senior Engineers. Gaurav brings in a ton of experience in Competitive Programming, Teaching System Design and working on real world problems at companies like @Uber and Directi. Currently he is running his startup called @interviewready_ that helps folks perform better at Interviews. Do check him out if you haven't. I truly bel...

Hey Everyone, In the 43rd episode I speak with Tim Berglund on Realtime Analytics with Apache Pinot. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:22 What do we mean by analytics and realtime analytics? 05:35 Can we define realtime in millis, seconds or minutes? 08:54 What is the fundamental difference between traditional analytics systems and Apache Pinot? 12:19 Was Kafka one of the reasons Apache Pinot could...

In this video I talk to Philip Fried from Estuary about Batch vs Realtime Stream Processing. Philip brings a ton of experience in the world of data processing and has shared some of the best practices in implementing these systems. We dive deep into the world of data processing, covering batch and streaming systems, their challenges, tradeoffs and use cases. Chapters: 00:00 Batch vs Realtime Strea...

Hey Everyone, In this video I talk to Patrick McFadin from DataStax. We uncovered the new features in Cassandra 5.0 and discussed how ACID transactions are achieved in the new version. This is a deep dive into the features of Cassandra, consensus protocols and how Accord is different as compared to Paxos, RAFT, Spanner and Calvin. Chapters: Cassandra 5.0 - ACID transactions and Vector Search 00:00...

Hey Everyone, In this episode I discuss Twisp's journey with Mike Parsons, CTO and Co-Founder of Twisp. We have discussed how they ended up building a cloud native distributed ledger database on top of DynamoDB, why they chose DynamoDB? what were the challenges they faced and many highly technical and very interesting topics. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction - Twisp - CTO and Co-Founder Mike Parso...

In this episode I talk to Yan Cui, who is an AWS Serverless Hero, all about Serverless technologies. Chapters: 00:00 Serverless Architecture with Yan Cui 01:58 What do we mean by Serverless Architecture? 05:42 What is the core problem Serverless solves? 11:06 Do we need to think differently to be able to use Serverless? 15:27 What is the difference between serverless and managed services? 19:17 Is...

It was an honour to host Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on the podcast. Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his client...

Hey Everyone, In this video I was joined by Daniel Ciocîrlan from https://rockthejvm.com and we discussed Functional Programming concepts in great detail. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:11 What is Functional Programming? How can I start learning? 11:40 Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming 16:08 How should a beginner approach learning Functional Programming? 21:58 Handling Side E...

Hello Everyone, Time Management is a critical skill for Software Engineers and most of us struggle with it everyday. So I and Arpit decided to discuss and share our learnings and experience on time management for Software Engineers. We have discussed about: - How to balance Context Switching? - How to say NO? - How and when to ask for help? - Prioritisation of tasks - Visibility of your work - Doc...

Hey Everyone, In this episode I was joined by Francesco Tisiot who is a Developer Advocate @Aiven. He has shared some interesting insights into how you can build robust data platforms. The approach we have discussed is also described here: https://aiven.io/blog/a-soft-methodology-to-define-robust-data-platforms References:    SOFT : https://aiven.io/blog/a-soft-methodology-to-define-robu...