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A Dist Sys Programmer’s Journey into AI

Piotr Sarna18 minutes
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In This NoSQL Presentation

This talk explores the culture shock of transitioning from distributed databases to AI. While AI operates at massive scale, distributed storage and compute remain essential. Discover key differences, unexpected parallels, and how database expertise applies in the AI world.

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Piotr Sarna, Founding Engineer, poolside

* Founding Engineer @poolside, hacking fun AI things at scale
* Ex-maintainer of ScyllaDB and Seastar
* Ex-Staff @Turso
* Maintainer of libSQL
* Wrote a few patches for the Linux kernel

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