Wow: @petermattis has quite the history in shipping: co-created GIMP, built Gmail’s original backend, shipped Google’s Colossus, and is the cofounder and CTO at Cockroach Labs. We talked distributed DBs: Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:42 Peter’s path into tech 04:00 Building GIMP 09:30 Working on Gmail at Google 14:51 Google’s infra: google3, build files, Bazel, and Colossus 21:30 Distributed storage bottlenecks 23:59 Latency, throughput, and availability 30:04 Contributing to libraries 41:52…