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Chris Zetter: Building a Database to Better Understand Maintainability

Maintainable by Robby Russell

Nov 18, 202500:49:41Technology

Episode Summary In this conversation, Robby sits down with software engineer and author Chris Zetter to explore what building a relational database from scratch can teach us about maintainability, architectural thinking,...

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