Spencer Kimball Pt. 2: Competing with Big Clouds

<ul> <li>Adopting BSL to defend against AWS</li> <li>a "truly serverless" experience for Cockroach</li> <li>A perpetually free relational database - what Gmail did to email</li> <li>4 scales for cloud: Free tier -&gt; sustained throughput -&gt; sole tenancy for scale -&gt; dedicated multitenancy cluster (for the big enterprise)</li> <li>it turns out that developing a multitenant hosted service also helps develop for large enterprise that wants <em>dedicated</em> multitenant service</li> </ul><p><br>Audio source: <a href="https://changelog.com/founderstalk/75">https://changelog.com/founderstalk/75</a></p><p>Blogpost: <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/">Why we're relicensing CockroachDB</a></p><p>Share/Comment via Tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1376470276918050818">https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1376470276918050818</a></p><p><strong>Spencer Kimball: </strong>[00:00:00] The real challenge is how do you build and deliver cockroach as a service? And that's that's where I think the future of our success is going to be made or lost. And it's a, it's a transition right now.</p><p>The world's biggest companies. They want to run a relational database themselves. They want to self hosted. They want to buy software licenses. They might want to put it in private data centers or hybrid across private and public clouds. On the other hand in five years, even those companies much less, every other startup and high growth tech company, you know, they're all going to be using databases as a service in 10 years.</p><p>The entire world will be, so we have to not just win where we originally set out to build cockroach DB , the way that you might run Oracle or Postgres, or my SQL if you're running yourself. But we have to also now succeed with Amazon as a direct competitor and Google and Microsoft at these big clouds that are offering databases as a service and doing quite well with those businesses.</p><p>So how do we deliver Cockroach as a database as a service and effe