{"id":3885,"date":"2026-05-09T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:29:12","slug":"how-database-work-pulls-you-deep-into-systems-engineering-podcast-episode-with-adam-prout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"How database work pulls you deep into systems engineering (podcast episode with Adam Prout)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>If you\u2019re into systems programming, or you\u2019ve ever had to think hard about correctness and failure modes, this might be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I had Adam Prout (distinguished engineer at Microsoft, founding architect of Azure HorizonDB) on the Talking Postgres podcast to talk about building database systems and trying to make Postgres and Azure fit together cleanly.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA good systems programmer tends to mean you\u2019re very paranoid. Anything can go wrong\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Shared-storage architecture changes where a lot of the work happens<\/li>\n<li>With Rust, a large class of bugs just won\u2019t compile<\/li>\n<li>Working on databases pulls in a surprising amount of computer science<\/li>\n<li>Startup vs big company tradeoffs show up everywhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also this line: \u201cThe agents are very fast keyboards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Episode (audio + transcript): <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpostgres.com\/episodes\/from-memsql-to-horizondb-an-engineers-journey-with-adam-prout\">https:\/\/talkingpostgres.com\/episodes\/from-memsql-to-horizondb-an-engineers-journey-with-adam-prout<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube (audio): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dsyWz6tcfh0?si=kTMD1eTamlVneVXN\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dsyWz6tcfh0?si=kTMD1eTamlVneVXN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curious if you enjoy hearing about other people&#039;s engineering journeys, and what bits of Adam&#039;s episode you find most fascinating. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/clairegiordano\"> \/u\/clairegiordano <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpostgres.com\/episodes\/from-memsql-to-horizondb-an-engineers-journey-with-adam-prout\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programming\/comments\/1t7qsfi\/how_database_work_pulls_you_deep_into_systems\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programming\/comments\/1t7qsfi\/how_database_work_pulls_you_deep_into_systems\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orijinal Kayna\u011fa Git<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re into systems programming, or you\u2019ve ever had to think hard about correctness and failure modes, this might be interesting. I had Adam Prout (distinguished engineer at Microsoft, founding architect of Azure HorizonDB) on the Talking Postgres podcast to talk about building database systems and trying to make Postgres and Azure fit together cleanly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}