Culture talk: What I learned from building a distributed database that never took off

Marton Trencseni - Tue 31 December 2024 • Tagged with techtalk, startup, scalien, scaliendb, paxos, replication

Recently, I delivered a culture talk on Scalien, my old database startup that never took off. I discussed the business, product and some technical challenges and lessons learned from developing ScalienDB, a Paxos-based distributed NoSQL database.

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"The company is all hot air"

Marton Trencseni - Tue 26 April 2022 • Tagged with startups, theranos, wework, scalien

Theranos, WeWork and the startup hustle.

Bayes vs z-test

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