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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From Apache Cassandra to Serverless: Exploring Cloud-Native Databases
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Jake Luciani (@tjake) about:
from Commodore 64 to cloud databases,
early programming experiences with Basic and Excel macros,
studying cognitive science and its influence on his career,
transition to computer science,
working at Bell Labs on R language,
developing open-source projects like Night Rider MP3 player,
creating a NoSQL database that led to involvement with Cassandra,
building search API on top of Cassandra,
joining datastax as an early employee,
working on various aspects of Cassandra including compaction and streaming,
challenges of byte buffer implementation,
development of CQL (Cassandra Query Language),
transition from NoSQL to SQL-like interfaces,
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