Category: Talks

  • SQream DB at CMU – How we approached building a GPU database

    Earlier in October, Jake (SQream’s architect) and myself flew to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to give a talk as part of their Hardware Accelerated Database lecture seminar. It was great fun, and we even got to speak to a bunch of research students on their research topics. They had great ideas, which I’m sure…

  • How do you write good error messages?

    How do you write good error messages?

    Developing software in a start up has exposed me to some pretty bad error messages. Back when the company had little to no customers, this wasn’t a big deal. However, our recent influx of new customers requires a little more attention in curating proper error messages. I gathered all of our developers and we did…