Building Planetary-Scale Data Systems with Venice • Felix GV & Olimpiu Pop

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. Check out more here: Félix GV - Current Interests: Multi-Planetary Databases, Data Sovereignty & Lifelogging Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist RESOURCES Félix Olimpiu Links DESCRIPTION Félix GV, a former engineer at LinkedIn and architect of the Venice database system, discusses the complexity of building planetary-scale data systems. He explains Venice's unbundled architecture where each component—from Kafka-based pub/sub to RocksDB-powered servers—operates as an independent distributed system. Félix details their rigorous chaos engineering practices, including regular load tests that push data centers beyond normal capacity to ensure reliability. The discussion covers fundamental distributed systems concepts like the CAP theorem and the trade-offs between consistency and availability in multi-region deployments. He also explains why Venice, as a derived data system, deliberately sacrifices strong consistency for high throughput and availability, and concludes by discussing their experimental integration of DuckDB for SQL-based analytics and data exploration capabilities. RECOMMENDED BOOKS Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • William Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • Adi Polak • Scaling Machine Learning with Spark • Mark Needham, Michael Hunger & Michael Simons • DuckDB in Action • Simon Aubury & Ned Letcher • Getting Started with DuckDB • Bluesky Instagram LinkedIn Facebook CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech

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This episode was published on Mar 3, 2026.

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