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Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB

by Adam Storm cockroachlabs.com published 2020-11-17

I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs. A little ironic when you consider I quit my job building IBM Db2 to work on CockroachDB.

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