From Exabyte Storage to Reactive Backends: Jamie Turner on Building Convex After Dropbox

About this episode

Jamie Turner discusses insights on building distributed systems and scaling storage solutions from his experience at Dropbox and Convex.

Jamie, a seasoned startup founder and former Dropbox engineer, shares insights on building distributed systems, scaling storage solutions, and the impact of AI on infrastructure and application development. Discover practical lessons from scaling Dropbox, the evolution of data storage, and how Convex is shaping the future of app development.

People in this episode

Hosts: Kostas, Nitay

Guest: Jamie Turner

Topics covered

• distributed systems
• scaling storage solutions
• AI impact on infrastructure
• app development
• data storage evolution

Keywords

• distributed systems
• scaling
• AI
• infrastructure
• app development
• data storage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dropbox, Convex

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