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Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.

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Featuring:

• Pete Naylor – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Amazon turns off last Oracle instance

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1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:00:52)

https://fly.io/

3. Our upcoming talks (00:03:46)

4. Welcome Pete Naylor (00:08:20)

5. Pete's intro to tech (00:11:27)

6. The early Internet (00:13:39)

7. Travelling plans (00:17:19)

8. Firefighter background (00:18:07)

9. Switching to databases (00:20:45)

10. Sponsor: Timescale (00:21:58)

https://www.timescale.com

11. Managing Amazon (00:24:19)

12. Favorite job (00:37:16)

13. Outside influences in tech (00:39:04)

14. Sponsor: System Initiative (00:43:08)

https://www.systeminit.com/?utm_source=changelog

15. Pete's current endeavor (00:46:45)

16. Wrong decisions (00:51:51)

17. Stored procedures (00:54:39)

18. Database hot takes (00:55:55)

19. Scaling a relational database (00:58:54)

20. Networking is hard (01:02:20)

21. Improvements in data centers (01:07:35)

22. This is a horrible idea (01:11:38)

23. Thanks for joining us! (01:13:28)

24. Outro (01:14:27)