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Portrait of Mikaël Francoeur

Mikaël Francoeur

Software Engineer @ Turso

Mikaël talks about his unusual path from musicology to databases, how open source helped him join Turso, and why reliability matters even more in the AI era.

Interviews Databases Open Source SQLite
Portrait of Franck Pachot

Franck Pachot

Developer Advocate @ MongoDB

Franck talks about his career across databases, his work as a Developer Advocate, and his move from YugabyteDB to MongoDB.

Interviews Databases Postgres MongoDB
Portrait of Bertrand Drouvot

Bertrand Drouvot

Senior Database Engineer @ AWS

Bertrand talks about his career, his move from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and how he joined AWS.

Interviews PostgreSQL Open Source AWS
Portrait of Matt Cornillon

Matt Cornillon

Data Cloud & AI Specialist @ Google

Upcoming interview with Matt Cornillon, significant PostgreSQL contributor at Google.

Interviews Google PostgreSQL Cloud
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