World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one

Markus Dreseler

Building a planetary-scale DBMS requires radically different engineering than academic research. Learn why defensive programming, petabyte-scale telemetry, and obsessive reliability beat rapid prototyping in the real world.

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