The GeekNarrator
By Kaivalya Apte
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Aug 24, 2025
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The GeekNarrator podcast is a show hosted by Kaivalya Apte who is a Software Engineer and loves to talk about Technology, Technical Interviews, Self Improvement, Best Practices and Hustle.
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Many Databases 1 LSM Engine - OpenData
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May 01, 2026 |
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Assertions in production? (TigerBeetle Vol. 3) With Alex aka matklad
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Fastest Browser infrastructure for AI Agents - Kernel
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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TigerStyle with matklad Vol. 2 (Systems Engineering)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Databases and Engineering with @PlanetScale CEO - Sam Lambert
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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What is TigerStyle? Principles behind TigerBeetle ft. Joran
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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What makes Apache Pinot so Fast?
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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You don't need Linux, Docker, k8s? Future with Unikernels ft. NanoVMs
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Modern, ultra fast PostgreSQL engineered from scratch? ft: CedarDB
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Building a new Database Query Optimiser - @cmu
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Fast Observability on S3 with Parseable
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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How does AWS Lambda work?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Breaking Distributed Systems with Kyle Kingsbury from Jepsen
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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How do vector (search) databases work? ft: turbopuffer
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Are your Data Pipelines Complex?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Can Math simplify incremental compute?
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Redpanda - High Performance Streaming Platform for Data Intensive Applications
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Hosted PostgreSQL on bare metal and uni kernel
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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eBPF and continuous profiling with Frederic
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Patterns of Distributed Systems with Unmesh Joshi
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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AWS Aurora Distributed SQL internals with Marc Brooker
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Power of #Duckdb with Postgres: pg_duckdb
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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DBOS internals - Build reliable backends 10x faster
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Database Trends and More with Peter Zaitsev
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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How would you design a database on Object Storage?
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Practical Systems Learning & Verification with Jack Vanlightly
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Database Internals - NileDB Postgres re-engineered for multitenant apps
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Building a continuous profiler with Frederic from Polar Signals
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Database Internals - SlateDB with Chris Riccomini
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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System Design the formal way with FizzBee
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Learnings from building Open Source Distributed Systems with Kishore Gopalakrishna
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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WarpStream: A drop-in replacement for Kafka
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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XTDB - An Immutable SQL Database
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Testing Distributed Systems the right way ft. Will Wilson
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Turso - SQLite for production
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Taking Postgres to the next level with Neon
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Scaling Derived Data for Planet-Scale Applications at Linkedin
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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SuperCharging PostgreSQL for Search and Analytics - ParadeDB (Philippe Noël)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Modern OLAP Database System Design with FDAP (Andrew Lamb)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The ultimate multi-model Database, SurrealDB with Pratim Bhosale
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Demystifying Real-time Analytics, Search and Hybrid Search with Dhruba, CTO @Rockset
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May 17, 2024 |
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Rapidly Simulate Production Traffic ft. Michael Drogalis
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May 17, 2024 |
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High Performance with GraalVM - Alina Yurenko
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May 17, 2024 |
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Taming TimeSeries Data with QuestDB - Javier Ramirez
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Beat the CAP Theorem : Make Distributed consistency simple
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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A Graph Database That You Can Embed - KuzuDB
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Restate - making distributed systems simple with Stephan Ewen
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Volt Active Data: Low Latency Stream processing
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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TigerBeetle: World’s Fastest Financial Transactions Database
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Clean Code Adventures with Uncle Bob
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Durable async/await with Dominik Tornow
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Observability Engineering with Liz Fong-Jones
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Messaging and Streaming with Apache Pulsar - with Matteo Merli
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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VictoriaMetrics internals - Making monitoring simple and reliable at massive scale
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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TiDB Internals with Li Shen
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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AI Powered Database optimisation with Andy Pavlo, Ottertune
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Duckdb Internals with Mark Raasveldt
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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ScyllaDB internals with Felipe Mendes
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Graph Database Internals: @neo4j with Michael Hunger
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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RUST vs C++, Java, Go with Micah Wylde
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Becoming a better engineer - John Crickett
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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YugaByteDB Internals with Franck Pachot
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Accelerating Postgres Queries with Epsio - GIlad Kleinman
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Should you Kubernetes? ft- Anjul Sahu, Founder and CEO CloudRaft
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Diving into Kafka Internals with David Jacot
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Practical System Design for Senior Engineers with Gaurav Sen
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Tim Berglund on Realtime Analytics with Apache Pinot
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Batch vs Realtime Stream Processing - A Deep Dive with Phil Fried from Estuary
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Cassandra 5.0 - ACID transactions and Vector Search
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Designing a Modern Ledger Database with Michael Parsons (CTO and Co-Founder @Twisp)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Serverless Architecture with Yan Cui
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Engineering, Productivity and Learning with Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Functional Programming on the JVM with Daniel from RockTheJVM
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Time Management for Software Engineers
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Building Robust Data Platforms with Francesco Tisiot
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Understanding ksqlDB with Matthias J. Sax
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Building Geo Distributed Applications with Denis Magda
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Change Data Capture (Debezium) With Gunnar Morling
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Java Profiling with Richard Startin
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Kafka Streams Exactly Once Semantics With Matthias Sax
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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DynamoDB Masterclass with Alex Debrie
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Demystifying Non Functional Requirements with Paul Christmann
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Dissecting the Bitcoin Whitepaper with Arpit Bhayani
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Database Internals with Franck Pachot Part-2
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Database Internals with Franck Pachot Part-1
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Kafka, Realtime analytics and Apache Pinot with Tim Berglund Part-2
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Kafka, Realtime analytics and Apache Pinot with Tim Berglund Part-1
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Tiered Storage implementation by StarTree (Apache Pinot) with Neha Pawar
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Effective Code Reviews with Curtis Einsmann
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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System Design Framework for Interviews and beyond with Pratik Pandey
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Apache Cassandra Masterclass with Patrick McFadin
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Site Reliability Engineering Masterclass with Luis Mineiro
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Software Engineering Career Growth with Arasu Shankher
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Distributed SQL and CockraochDB with Jim Walker
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Running Distributed Systems like a Pro with Mayank Shrivastava
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Part-2 API Design Masterclass with Deepak Patil
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Part-1 API Design Masterclass with Deepak Patil
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Building the RIGHT product mindset with Maheep Bhalla
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Distributed Stream processing with Maximilian Michels
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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What it takes to build a Trading API like lemon.markets? CEO Max Linden talks to The GeekNarrator and shares his insights.
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May 20, 2022 |
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Is Monolithic Architecture Bad? Are Microservices always good? - Conversation with Ananth
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May 15, 2022 |
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SLO,SLI and SLA What and why?
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May 11, 2022 |
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Asking good questions to your interviewer
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May 03, 2022 |
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Five things you can do NOW to be 10x productive.
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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How to approach learning to get the job done effectively?
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Propose Technical Ideas Effectively
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Measuring impact and selecting projects with high impact and visibility
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Onboarding to new teams like a Pro and be productive quickly
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Bob’s shocking performance review
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Ingredients of a strong software engineer
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Apr 17, 2022 |