Database Seminar - James Cowling February 10, 2025 4:30pm — 5:30pm Location: Virtual Presentation - ET - Remote Access - Zoom Speaker: JAME COWLING, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Convex https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcowling James Cowling is CTO and cofounder of Convex, the open-source reactive database for app developers. James was Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox and tech lead on projects including their multi-exabyte geo-distributed storage system, multi-homing Dropbox infra, and building database systems that handle millions of queries per second. James received his PhD at MIT specializing in large-scale distributed transactions and consensus protocols. Rumor has it he has a cover band with his cofounders. This talk is part of the SQL or Death? SeminarZoom Participation. See announcement. Event Website: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-death-larry-ellison-was-right-kinda-typescript-stored-procedures-for-the-modern-age/ Add event to Google Add event to iCal