RethinkDB, Databases, the Realtime Web (Interview)

Slava Akhmechet joined the show again to catch us up on RethinkDB and the awesome progress they’ve made to power the realtime web. We talked about innovation in databases, compared and contrasted to pub/sub, Pusher, NoSQL, and even The Next Big Thing™ in databases.

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• Slava Akhmechet – Website, GitHub, X
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Show Notes:

• The Changelog #114: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet
• Learn to code like it’s 1996
• How to pick startup ideas
• RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web
• Support Facebook’s GraphQL · Issue #3711 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
• Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
• Build Realtime Apps & Take Websockets To The Next Level - PubNub
• Firebase - Build Extraordinary Apps
• NextGxDx | The Genetic Testing Resource.
• The world’s most wearable camera - Narrative
• Fidelity Investments - Retirement, Funds, and Online Trading
• An overview of C++14 language features

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