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Episode Synopsis
Hey Everyone,
In this episode I discuss Twisp's journey with Mike Parsons, CTO and Co-Founder of Twisp. We have discussed how they ended up building a cloud native distributed ledger database on top of DynamoDB, why they chose DynamoDB? what were the challenges they faced and many highly technical and very interesting topics.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction - Twisp - CTO and Co-Founder Mike Parsons
03:01 What do we mean by a Distributed Ledger Database?
07:13 Is it similar to Blockchain?
08:32 Challenges faced with Relational Database setup
19:39 Why DynamoDB was the right choice?
24:40 What was the scale you were building for?
26:05 Who uses a Ledger database?
29:30 What are the basic primtives in a ledger database?
33:55 Is every primitive Immutable? How is it stored?
38:07 Impact of Immutability on Data storage
41:33 How does idempotency work in Twisp?
44:53 How did you provide ACID guarantees on top of DynamoDB?
52:30 How do you ensure correctness?
57:13 Interesting real world usecases where Twisp is used.
01:02:33 Are you planning to build even higher level primitives?
References:
Clocks: https://cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/... and http://rystsov.info/2018/10/01/tso.html
TicToc: https://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/...
Hekaton Paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea...
Hermitage Test suite: https://github.com/ept/hermitage
Online Async Schema Change in F1 : https://static.googleusercontent.com/...
Designing Data intensive Applications: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/...
P Programming language: https://github.com/p-org/P
Twisp: https://www.twisp.com/
AWS Dynamo DB: https://aws.amazon.com/pm/dynamodb/?t...
Connect with Mike:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parsnips/
Follow me:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegeeknarrator
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivalyaa...
Watch other playlists:
Databases: • Modern Databases
Distributed systems: • Distributed Systems
Software Engineering: • Software Engineering
Sofk skills: • Soft Skills
Like, share and subscribe to the channel folks. See you in the other episode.
Cheers,
The GeekNarrator
In this episode I discuss Twisp's journey with Mike Parsons, CTO and Co-Founder of Twisp. We have discussed how they ended up building a cloud native distributed ledger database on top of DynamoDB, why they chose DynamoDB? what were the challenges they faced and many highly technical and very interesting topics.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction - Twisp - CTO and Co-Founder Mike Parsons
03:01 What do we mean by a Distributed Ledger Database?
07:13 Is it similar to Blockchain?
08:32 Challenges faced with Relational Database setup
19:39 Why DynamoDB was the right choice?
24:40 What was the scale you were building for?
26:05 Who uses a Ledger database?
29:30 What are the basic primtives in a ledger database?
33:55 Is every primitive Immutable? How is it stored?
38:07 Impact of Immutability on Data storage
41:33 How does idempotency work in Twisp?
44:53 How did you provide ACID guarantees on top of DynamoDB?
52:30 How do you ensure correctness?
57:13 Interesting real world usecases where Twisp is used.
01:02:33 Are you planning to build even higher level primitives?
References:
Clocks: https://cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/... and http://rystsov.info/2018/10/01/tso.html
TicToc: https://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/...
Hekaton Paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea...
Hermitage Test suite: https://github.com/ept/hermitage
Online Async Schema Change in F1 : https://static.googleusercontent.com/...
Designing Data intensive Applications: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/...
P Programming language: https://github.com/p-org/P
Twisp: https://www.twisp.com/
AWS Dynamo DB: https://aws.amazon.com/pm/dynamodb/?t...
Connect with Mike:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parsnips/
Follow me:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegeeknarrator
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivalyaa...
Watch other playlists:
Databases: • Modern Databases
Distributed systems: • Distributed Systems
Software Engineering: • Software Engineering
Sofk skills: • Soft Skills
Like, share and subscribe to the channel folks. See you in the other episode.
Cheers,
The GeekNarrator
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