Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged
Cockroach Labs released the serverless version of its eponymous database for general availability last week.took the opportunity to catch up with CTO Peter Mattis – a Google veteran who is also behind open source image editing softwareMattis started the Cockroach project with former UC Berkeley roommate Spencer Kimball around eight years ago. They also worked together at photo-sharing startup Viewfinder.
It started as an open source project, but after some VC interest Kimball and Benjamin Darnell – co-founder and chief architect – started the company and Mattis joined a couple of months later. Cockroach Labs was incorporated in February 2015."Square was nice but it was probably going to be fun to do this thing we were passionate about," Mattis says.
While the DBaaS takes care of the specifying servers and operating systems for the database, the serverless version also avoids engineers provisioning clusters for the database itself, allowing them to scale up and down as they need, only paying for what they use.
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