Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure, what it takes to build an S3-compatible object store from scratch, and how distributed storage is evolving for the AI era.Follow Ovais:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovaistariqLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovaistariqTigris: https://www.tigrisdata.comFollow Aaron:Twitter/X:  https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Database School: https://databaseschool.comDatabase School YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCT3XN4RtcFhmrWl8tf_o49g  (Subscribe today)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancisWebsite: https://aaronfrancis.com - find articles, podcasts, courses, and more.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction and overview of the episode01:35 - Ovais’s background and introduction to Tigris03:00 - Building distributed databases and infrastructure at Uber06:00 - Uber’s in-house philosophy and massive data scale09:00 - Hardware, power density, and talking to chip manufacturers12:00 - Learning curve of scaling hardware and data centers14:00 - The Halloween outage and lessons from Cassandra16:00 - Building data centers across the world for Uber17:00 - Founding Tigris and the vision for global storage18:45 - How Tigris differs from AWS S320:00 - The architecture of Tigris: caching, metadata, and replication32:00 - Why Tigris uses FoundationDB and its reliability36:00 - Managing global and regional metadata38:00 - How Tigris dynamically moves and caches data41:30 - Building their own data centers and backbone43:45 - Specialized storage for AI workloads46:00 - Small file optimization and real-world use cases49:00 - Snapshots, forking, and agentic AI workflows51:00 - How AI transformed Tigris’s customer base54:00 - Partnership with Fly.io and the distributed cloud ecosystem57:00 - Growth, customers, and focus on media and AI companies59:00 - What’s next for Tigris: distributed file system plans1:01:00 - Technical challenges and building trust in durability1:03:00 - Call to action: try Tigris and upcoming snapshot feature1:05:00 - Advice for engineers leaving big companies to start something new1:06:30 - Where to find Ovais online and closing remarks

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