From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.
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Notes & Links
Interview
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This is Ship It! | 00:27 |
| 2 | 00:52 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 02:45 |
| 3 | 03:46 | Our upcoming talks | 04:34 |
| 4 | 08:20 | Welcome Pete Naylor 👀 | 03:07 |
| 5 | 11:27 | Pete's intro to tech | 02:12 |
| 6 | 13:39 | The early Internet | 03:40 |
| 7 | 17:19 | Travelling plans | 00:48 |
| 8 | 18:07 | Firefighter background | 02:38 |
| 9 | 20:45 | Switching to databases | 01:01 |
| 10 | 21:58 | Sponsor: Timescale | 02:17 |
| 11 | 24:19 | Managing Amazon | 12:57 |
| 12 | 37:16 | Favorite job | 01:48 |
| 13 | 39:04 | Outside influences in tech | 03:57 |
| 14 | 43:08 | Sponsor: System Initiative | 03:31 |
| 15 | 46:45 | Pete's current endeavor | 05:07 |
| 16 | 51:51 | Wrong decisions | 02:48 |
| 17 | 54:39 | Stored procedures | 01:15 |
| 18 | 55:55 | Database hot takes | 02:59 |
| 19 | 58:54 | Scaling a relational database | 03:26 |
| 20 | 1:02:20 | Networking is hard | 05:14 |
| 21 | 1:07:35 | Improvements in data centers | 04:03 |
| 22 | 1:11:38 | This is a horrible idea | 01:50 |
| 23 | 1:13:28 | Thanks for joining us! | 01:00 |
| 24 | 1:14:27 | Outro | 00:52 |
