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The episode features an interview with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo discussing the challenges and innovations in database management and cloud infrastructure.

Share Episode                     We talk with Ragic CEO Jeff Kuo about Semantic Web origins, dodging DDoS attacks, and the absolute horror of a database that randomly deletes its own files. He revisits how a 25-year-old master's thesis on the Semantic Web evolved into a massive spreadsheet-driven database builder. It's the one better Airtable alternative.           Rather than forcing non-technical users into complex two-layer SQL architectures, Ragic utilizes a highly flexible, graph-based data model. Achieving this performance meant abandoning traditional ORMs to build a custom graph indexing engine on top of Berkeley DB, a key-value store. This custom implementation came with brutal growing pains, including a terrifying bug that would randomly delete the wrong data files. To survive, Ragic's team shares with us just exactly how they had to hijack the internal implementation to avoid these sorts of problems.           When we get down to it, we review how they dealt with critical DDoS against their…

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Hosts: Will Button, Warren Parad

Guest: Jeff Kuo

Topics covered

• Semantic Web
• DDoS attacks
• database management
• cloud migration
• data models

Keywords

• Semantic Web
• DDoS
• database
• cloud migration
• graph-based data model
• Berkeley DB
• Ragic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ragic, Berkeley DB, Airtable

Places: Taiwan

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