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Database SchoolCreating a Postgres platform with Monica & Tudor from Xata.ioWant to learn more Postgres? Check out my Postgres course: https://masteringpostgres.com. Production ready Postgres for teams that ship fast: https://xata.io In this interview, I talk with Monica Sarbu and Tudor Golubenco from Xata about their journey from Elastic to founding Xata. We deep dive on building a Postgres hosting platform, handling schema changes, and how they've made their free tier economical. Links Mentioned: Xata.io: https://xata.io/ The economics of a Postgres free tier: https://xata.io/blog/postgres-free-tier Follow Monica & Tudor: Monica on Twitter: https...2024-10-071h 01
Optimize All The ThingsDatabases, Drive, and Diversity - Lessons from Xata's CEO Monica SarbuMonica Sarbu, the CEO and founder of Xata.io, talks to us about her inspiring journey from getting into tech to building Xata - the serverless database platform for modern apps. We chat about the founding of her first company, Packetbeat, its acquisition by Elastic, and her time as a director there. We talk about mentoring, diversity, and hiring engineers that have high agency. We also cover some of the technical decisions at Xata - we even chat a bit about the Zig programming language :)Where to find more about Monica and Xata:...2024-07-231h 02
ConTejas CodeMonica Sarbu, CEO Xata: Building a Postgres Platform, an All-Female Board, and ~50% Gender DiversityLinks- Codecrafters (sponsor): https://tej.as/codecrafters- Xata: https://xata.io- Tupu: https://tupu.io- Monica on X: https://x.com/monicasarbu- Tejas on X: https://x.com/tejaskumar_SummaryMonica Sarbu, the founder and CEO of Xata, shares the story of founding Xata. She discusses the challenges of being a woman founder in a male-dominated industry and the importance of open source in her career. Monica also talks about the transition from being a founder to...2024-07-151h 37
Dev Propulsion LabsMonica Sarbu - XataThis week's guest is Monica Sarbu, Founder and CEO at Xata, a serverless database platform powered by PostgreSQL. Prior to that, she worked on an open-source monitoring solution called Packetbeat which was acquired by Elastic in 2015. She is also the co-founder of tupu.io, a non-profit initiative that offers free mentorship to women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups in the tech industry.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.https://evilmartians.com/2023-11-3033 min
Console DevToolsServerless databases, with Monica Sarbu (Xata) - S04E10In this episode, we speak with Monica Sarbu, CEO of Xata. We start with the philosophy behind serverless databases, why developers shouldn't need to think about relational databases, search, and analytics, whether the performance hit of accessing a database over HTTP matters, and how database branching works. She also talks about Xata’s plans for a global database, the company’s focus on UI developers, and what other databases are doing wrong.Hosted by David Mytton (Console) and Jean Yang (Akita Software).Things mentioned:Xatatupu.ioElasticPlanetScaleQuicker serverless Postgres connectionsCloudflare WorkersAirtableXata ChatGPT integrationApple Mac ...2023-06-2929 min
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketXata with Monica SarbuIn this episode, we talk about Xata, the serverless database that feels like a spreadsheet. CEO and Founder, Monica Sarbu, joins us to talk about the work the Xata team is doing to fix the DX story around databases, the future of data, and more.
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https://twitter.com/monicasarbu
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Can I get that software in blue?Episode 14 | Monica Sarbu, Founder/CEO @ xata.io Serverless Database | Female Founders and VCsEpisode #14 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you!
Your hosts Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel are joined by our former Elastic colleague Monica Sarbu, Founder and CEO of xata.io, a modern serverless database meant to make life very easy for developers.
Monica tells us about the vision for her new database company which recently raised a $30M Series A funding round. W...2022-06-1053 min