A conversation with Spencer Kimball, creator of GIMP and CockroachDB

The Stack Overflow Podcast - A podcast by The Stack Overflow Podcast

Spencer Kimball, cofounder and CEO of Cockroach Labs and co-creator of the GIMP image editor, tells Ryan and Ceora about how database technology has evolved to handle massive data volumes, how Cockroach labs came to focus on solving latency issues through serverless technology, and his “relatively gentle” transition from engineer to CEO.