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Michael Stonebraker is a prodigy in this field. He did something very rare - he took a concept deep within the academia and made it a blockbuster product in the
by papito 4y ago
Michael Stonebraker is a prodigy in this field. He did something very rare - he took a concept deep within the academia and made it a blockbuster product in the real world.
The man writes small databases for fun over a weekend, I mean, come on.
His interview on Software Engineering Radio is still one of the best episodes I have listened to. Decades of wisdom, right there:
https://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebraker/ https://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebr...
- apavlo 4y ago> The man writes small databases for fun over a weekend, I mean, come on. I am a student of Mike. He is a great man, but he would not call himself a programmer.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoWhat would he call himself then?
- riceart 4y agoMike, usually.
- arminiusreturns 4y agoThis is the reason I am so fascinated with both voltdb and scidb... having read the articles he and his teams were pushing (more for volt and their commercial side) I saw that he was in a different league than others and the insights and comments he made about nosql and variants resonated deeply as a sysadmin type who has to suffer the slings and arrows of so many db systems.