The History of the World and How it Scales with Sam Lambert

Aug. 12, 2024

Sam Lambert stops by to talk Unifi networking, cooking meat, microplastics, disease research, the history of the world, scaling at PlanetScale, and why people love PostGres.

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• The ultimate MySQL database platform — PlanetScale
• UniFi - Introduction - Ubiquiti
• Nest Wifi Pro Coverage
• Aztec Empire
• Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Modern PostgreSQL Book

Topics:

• (00:00) - Computers will always let you down
• (00:27) - Falling asleep to self driving Tesla chats
• (02:17) - Using Unifi networking gear
• (12:02) - Cooking meat
• (18:24) - Why are microplastics everywhere?
• (22:55) - Ordering diseases and cells for research from a JC Penny Catalogue
• (30:25) - American history with Adam and Dax
• (34:26) - South American history with Dax
• (38:24) - Could all the data get wiped out and we lose everything?
• (54:52) - Scaling and PlanetScale
• (01:08:48) - Why do people love PostGres?