Episode
Show notes and transcript:
https://www.serverlesschats.com/104
On this episode, Jeremy chats with Patrick McFadin about why the world is headed toward data services and away from databases, how this better enables "zero day developers", why a shortage of specialists makes this even more necessary, and much more.
This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets (https://www.cbtnuggets.com/) and Fauna (https://fauna.com/).
Timestamps:
00:00 - Opening Credits
00:31 - Introduction
00:42 - About Patrick McFadin
02:04 - Shifting open-source services to using databases as a service
04:45 - Utilizing data as a service to mitigate the fragility of custom data layers
09:31 - Moving straight from code to data, with a very simple API interface, to enable the idea of the zero day developer
11:24 - Alternatives to ORMs to reduce complexity of accessing databases
12:37 - Finding solutions around vendor lock-in without building up tech debt
14:46 - Thanks to our sponsor, CBT Nuggets
15:57 - The skillsets developers need to navigate the different databases companies are implementing
19:13 - Identifying developers with the needed skillset to specialize for different databases
21:38 - Mitigating data lock-in when using databases as a service
24:42 - DataStax Stargate and its ability to route to multiple databases
25:38 - The possibility of Stargate and projects like it establishing a standard across all clouds and onto all databases
28:10 - Teaching developers to work in a more NoSQL environment
30:55 - The current and future relevance of SQL
32:44 - Thanks to our sponsor, Fauna
34:16 - The idea of making data accessibility more altruistic, whatever the developer skill level and knowledge
35:34 - About DataStax Astra, the hosted version of Cassandra
37:22 - Astra as both single and multiple tenancy models
40:30 - The authentication method for Astra
42:01 - Astra’s ability to create multiple tokens with different levels of permission
42:55 - Astra’s data backup, data exporting, etc.
44:00 - Patrick’s final thoughts on databases vs. data services
46:01 - The K8ssandra project and episode wrap-up
48:10 - End credits