The Future Database: Recent Episodes
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Humans have always had a need to organize information. We’re doing a deep dive into the history and future of database technology and how builders have leveraged data and collaboration to innovate throughout time. The Future of the Database is brought to you by PlanetScale, a serverless database built for developers. At PlanetScale we are obsessed with building the database of the future and are excited to share the journey with you all.
Traveling by air hasn’t always been this simple or accessible. Can you imagine how long it would take to book a flight—or any type of service for that matter—if all information was stored on pieces of paper that had to be organized and accessed manually? Today we’ll explore how the invention of the Sabre flight reservation system revolutionized both the computer database and the air travel industry.
Today, most of us associate the term PC with the phrase “personal computer”. But did you know that until the mid-20th century, PC actually referred to punched cards?
Predominantly used from 1890 until the late 1970s, paper punched cards were the primary method of data storage and processing in manufacturing facilities and offices.
To explore the evolution of this important precursor to the modern database, let’s take a brief journey back to a time before data processing was a purely digital endeavor.
What if we told you that the origins of Bitcoin started a few hundred years ago? This is the story of how a small island in the pacific ocean invented one of the earliest systems of money and record-keeping that is surprisingly similar to the technology we use today.
Join us as we take a deep dive into learning more about the Yapese, a group of people living on an island in the pacific that created one of the world's oldest monetary record-keeping systems called the RAI Stones.