Abstract
What if everything you know about building distributed systems is backwards? What if instead of putting databases at the bottom of your architecture stack, you put them at the center—not just storing data, but actually orchestrating your application logic, managing your workflows and their state, and providing reliability guarantees? A system that treats PostgreSQL not just as your database, but also as a durability layer for your application runtime. Instead of the typical pattern of building orchestration layers on top of databases, we compile workflow logic directly into database operations.
Drawing from our experience scaling systems at Reddit and Netflix and years of research at Stanford and MIT, this talk will discuss various use cases showing how using the open source Transact library from DBOS and durable computing concepts creates more reliable systems while reducing cost, processing time, and operational complexity.
Speaker
Jeremy Edberg
CEO @DBOS, Inventor of Chaos Engineering, Tech Editor for 'AWS for Dummies', Previously Founding Reliability Engineer @Netflix and Ops @Reddit
Jeremy is an angel investor and advisor for various incubators and startups, and the CEO of DBOS. He was the founding Reliability Engineer for Netflix and before that he ran ops for reddit as its first engineering hire. Jeremy also tech-edited the highly acclaimed AWS for Dummies, and he is one of the six original AWS Heroes. He is a noted speaker in serverless computing, distributed computing, availability, rapid scaling, and cloud computing, and holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.
Speaker
Qian Li
Co-founder, Architect @DBOS, Stanford CS Ph.D., Co-organizer of South Bay Systems
Qian is the co-founder of DBOS and co-leads engineering. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Christos Kozyrakis, and worked closely with Matei Zaharia (CTO of Databricks and creator of Spark) and Mike Stonebraker (creator of Postgres) on the DBMS-oriented Operating System (DBOS) academic project, which is the foundation of DBOS, Inc. She has broad interests in computer systems, databases, architecture, and abstractions for efficient and reliable cloud computing. Prior to joining Stanford, she received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from Peking University.
Date
Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom A
