The Art and Science of Database Innovation with Andi Gutmans
Publisher |
Corey Quinn
Media Type |
audio
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Publication Date |
Nov 23, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:37:07

About Andi

Andi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi’s focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry’s leading data platform for businesses. 

Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.

Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

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Andi Gutmans, General Manager and Vice President, Engineering at Google, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss all things database innovation at Google Cloud. Andi explains why significant surges of customers are switching from legacy proprietary databases to open APIs, and how Google is taking a pragmatic approach to understanding the main characteristics of the workloads their customers need to address and building the best services around those. Andi also reveals his thoughts on the worst and best database options, as well as how developers can future-proof their development by starting small without having to reengineer and reprovision as their projects scale.

About Andi

Andi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi’s focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry’s leading data platform for businesses. 

Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.

Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

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