Everything Is a Graph (Even Your Dad Jokes) with Roi Lipman

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Corey Quinn interviews Roi Lipman about the role of graph databases and their applications in modern engineering.

In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, host Corey Quinn sits down with Roi Lipman, CTO and co-founder of Falco DB, to unpack the evolving role of graph databases in a world overflowing with data stores. Roi shares his journey from building RedisGraph at Redis to spinning it out into Falco DB, along with his enduring love of the C programming language (dad jokes included). The conversation explores why graph databases remain niche, but powerful, especially for pathfinding problems like supply chains and access management, how vector search became a feature rather than a standalone database, and what AI-assisted development means for modern engineering. Along the way, they tackle open source sustainability, Rust rewrites, AI-generated pull request chaos, and the looming question of where the next generation of senior engineers will come from. Highlights: (00:00) C Language (00:27) Welcome (01:18) Database Landscape Overview (03:17) Why Graph Databases Matter (07:25) AI Built Apps and Data Choices (10:29) How FalcoDB Fits In (12:20) Vector Search as a Feature (16:48) FalcoDB Origin Story (19:54) Open Source Business and Rust Rewrite (25:23) Toy Graph Problems and Closing…

People in this episode

Host: Corey Quinn

Guest: Roi Lipman

Topics covered

• graph databases
• data management
• AI-assisted development
• open source sustainability
• engineering careers

Keywords

• graph databases
• Falco DB
• RedisGraph
• AI development
• open source
• Rust
• supply chains
• access management

Sponsors

Duckbill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Falco DB, Redis, RedisGraph

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