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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Techtalk: Why are A/B tests the gold standard of causal inference?

Marton Trencseni - Sun 29 September 2024 • Tagged with ab-testing, techtalk, kohavi

Recently, I delivered a techtalk on A/B testing to an audience of non-technical Product Managers and experienced Data Scientists.

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