#1767Sualeh Asif@SUALEHASIF996A conversation with @sirupsen on scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases.
0:00 - Scaling Shopify through flash sales and outages 8:13 - How top infrastructure teams collaborated in the 2010s 10:35 - Engineering principles from Logrus and on-call 17:38 - The story behind Simon’s famous-ish blog, Napkin Math 23:05 - Why new database companies keep winning 32:21 - How Simon became a fan of databases 35:45 - AI coding, and where agents still fail 42:10 - Hiring P99 engineers in the AI era 48:45 - What’s next for databases
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Sualeh Asif@sualehasif996A conversation with @sirupsen on scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases. 0:00 - Scaling Shopify through flash sales and outages 8:13 - How top infrastructure teams collaborated in the 2010s 10:35 - Engineering principles from Logrus and on-call 17:38 - The story behind Simon’s famous-ish blog, Napkin Math 23:05 - Why new database companies keep winning 32:21 - How Simon became a fan of databases 35:45 - AI coding, and where agents still fail 42:10 - Hiring P99 engineers in the AI era 48:45 - What’s next for databases