{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Database School","title":"Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4f8bb99d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4047,"description":"Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure, what it takes to build an S3-compatible object store from scratch, and how distributed storage is evolving for the AI era.\nFollow Ovais:\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/ovaistariq\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovaistariq\nTigris: https://www.tigrisdata.com\nFollow Aaron:\nTwitter/X:  https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis \nDatabase School: https://databaseschool.com\nDatabase School YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCT3XN4RtcFhmrWl8tf_o49g  (Subscribe today)\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondfrancis\nWebsite: https://aaronfrancis.com - find articles, podcasts, courses, and more.\nChapters:\n00:00 - Introduction and overview of the episode\n01:35 - Ovais’s background and introduction to Tigris\n03:00 - Building distributed databases and infrastructure at Uber\n06:00 - Uber’s in-house philosophy and massive data scale\n09:00 - Hardware, power density, and talking to chip manufacturers\n12:00 - Learning curve of scaling hardware and data centers\n14:00 - The Halloween outage and lessons from Cassandra\n16:00 - Building data centers across the world for Uber\n17:00 - Founding Tigris and the vision for global storage\n18:45 - How Tigris differs from AWS S3\n20:00 - The architecture of Tigris: caching, metadata, and replication\n32:00 - Why Tigris uses FoundationDB and its reliability\n36:00 - Managing global and regional metadata\n38:00 - How Tigris dynamically moves and caches data\n41:30 - Building their own data centers and backbone\n43:45 - Specialized storage for AI workloads\n46:00 - Small file optimization and real-world use cases\n49:00 - Snapshots, forking, and agentic AI workflows\n51:00 - How AI transformed Tigris’s customer base\n54:00 - Partnership with Fly.io and the distributed cloud ecosystem\n57:00 - Growth, customers, and focus on media and AI companies\n59:00 -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QPpKhRBWtM56k1sC7Y7j7aqGy8sd-XKWw6mEKgA1jmw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmRl/ZTM5ZTAxOTMzNTgy/MmJmZTA4MWE1ZjMw/YjE4Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}