Shows
The GeekNarratorWhat is TigerStyle? Principles behind TigerBeetle ft. JoranFor memberships: join this channel as a member here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mGuY4g0mggeUGM6V1osdA/joinSummary:In this captivating episode, we sit down with Joran Dirk Greef, the mastermind behind Tiger Beetle, a groundbreaking financial transactions database. Joran shares his journey of innovation, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of creating a system that is not only faster but also safer. Dive into the philosophy of Tiger Style, a unique methodology that emphasizes quality and performance, ensuring that software development is both efficient and effective. Joran's insights into trust, discipline, and the relentless pursuit of...
2025-11-161h 32
The BugBash PodcastFixing five "two-year" bugs per daySome bugs are so rare, they can take years to track down and fix. What if you could find and fix five of them per day? For Joran Dirk Greef, the creator of the TigerBeetle database, that's not a wild dream — it's how his team works every day. While most people think building a new database takes a decade, Joran's team built TigerBeetle in just three and a half years. The key is a unique philosophy for writing software called "Tiger Style".Joran joins the show to share the secrets behind their speed and safety. You...
2025-10-011h 10
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceThe 1000x faster financial database (Interview)In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
2025-04-031h 40Changelog InterviewsThe 1000x faster financial databaseIn July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
2025-04-031h 40Changelog Master FeedThe 1000x faster financial database (Changelog Interviews #635)In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) suspects.
On this episode, Joran joins Jerod to explain how TigerBeetle got so fast, to defend its resilience and durability claims as a new market entrant, and to stake his claim at the intersection of open source and business. Oh, plus the age old question: Why Zig?
2025-04-031h 40
The Bearhug Experience(Funding Recap #16) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 7/29/24Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:
1. Cowboy Clean Fuels, led by Ryan Waddington, has raised approximately $13 million in Series B funding. Cowboy Clean Fuels utilizes depleted coal bed methane wells to generate carbon-negative renewable natural gas using agricultural byproducts.
2. Star Catcher, led by Andrew Rush, has raised a $12.25 million Seed funding round. Star Catcher aims to build a space-based energy grid, eliminating power constraints for satellites by developing space-based energy beaming services.
3. Mytra, led by Chris Walti, has raised a $78 million Series B funding round. Mytra builds software-defined robotics for warehouses, auto...
2024-10-2409 min
Software Engineering DailyBuilding a Fast Financial Transactions Database with Joran GreefOnline transaction processing, or OLTP, is designed for managing high volumes of short, fast, and concurrent transactions, such as data entry and retrieval operations. OLTP systems solve the problem of efficiently handling numerous simultaneous transactions, making them essential for sectors like banking and retail.Joran Dirk Greef is the Founder and CEO of TigerBeetle, which is developing an open-source financial transactions database focused on mission critical safety and performance. He joins the podcast to talk about the TigerBeetle's technology and problems it solves.Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the...
2024-09-1259 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE132: From General Purpose to Specialized DatabasesJoran Dirk Greef is Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle, the open source financial transactions database. Their project, also called tigerbeetle, has over 7K stars and is a database designed for mission-critical workloads and performance.
TigerBeetle has raised $6M from investors including Amplify.
In this episode, we discuss why general purpose databases don't scale for high volume transactional workloads - and the need for specialized databases generally, open source vs. source available, the enterprise commercial stack of management, monitoring, security, and identity, their unique take on monetization & more!
2024-05-1040 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedJamstack Radio - Ep. #144, Financial Accounting Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetleIn episode 144 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle. This conversation explores financial transaction databases and the importance of building trust at the intersection of open source and business. Joran shares the invaluable lessons he learned from his early days as a self-taught developer as well as his journey founding TigerBeetle.
2024-03-2830 min
Jamstack RadioEp. #144, Financial Accounting Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetleIn episode 144 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle. This conversation explores financial transaction databases and the importance of building trust at the intersection of open source and business. Joran shares the invaluable lessons he learned from his early days as a self-taught developer as well as his journey founding TigerBeetle.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-03-2830 min
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #144, Financial Accounting Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetleIn episode 144 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle. This conversation explores financial transaction databases and the importance of building trust at the intersection of open source and business. Joran shares the invaluable lessons he learned from his early days as a self-taught developer as well as his journey founding TigerBeetle.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-03-2830 min
Software HuddleBuilding a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software FoundationZig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C.Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us through the ins and outs of Zig -- how was it created, what problems is it trying to solve, and where is it being used. We heard Joran Dirk Greef rave about Zig during our TigerBeetle episode, and there are a lot of passionate Zig fans out there. Zig has some really unique aspects, particularly the comptime keyword that allows for running arbitrary code at compile time.
2024-03-091h 10Software HuddleDistributed Financial Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetleIn this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused on correctness and safety while hitting orders of magnitude more performance than other solutions in the space.We touch on various topics like what makes TigerBeetle orders of magnitude more performant, io_uring, the choice of Zig for TigerBeetle, protocol aware recovery, VOPR and so on.
2023-10-241h 03
Developer VoicesDatabases, Ambitions, and a Testing Silver Bullet? (With Joran Dirk Greef)How far would you go to get the kind of database you want? How deep into the stack would you dive to re-architect a system for the kind of performance, reliability and scale you believe in? Today's guest has decided to go all in, as he’s tackling the database problem from the fsync up. In this week’s Developer Voices we talk to Joran Dirk Greef, whose ambitions—combined with the lacklustre performance of his project's payment system—have led him to build a new database called TigerBeetle, that tackles some meaty problems. They’re attempting to build a...
2023-10-041h 06