{"id":"ABxMsPcTRG0","title":"Sharding Talk at Blockchain @ Berkeley | Alex Skidanov | UC Berkeley","description":"The first engineer at MemSQL responsible for building sharding implementations that now powers the likes of Goldman Sachs, Uber, Pinterest, Akamai, and Comcast shares his experiences of building industrial-grade solutions and applying it to blockchain scalability. Near Protocol (http://nearprotocol.com/) has 3 early engineers of MemSQL & multiple winners of ACM ICPC worldwide coding competition who are on the way to building the first working implementation of sharding by state for blockchain infrastructure.\n\nAlex Skidanov (  / alexskidanov  ) walks the audience through how sharding is done in a commercial database space, and what's the missing ingredient in scaling blockchain today.\n\nFollow the latest from NEAR Protocol on, \n\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nGitHub: https://github.com/nearprotocol\nLinkedIn:   / near.  .\nTelegram: https://t.me/cryptonear\nDiscord:   / discord  \n\n#FutureIsNEAR","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2018-10-19T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/ABxMsPcTRG0/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":null,"transcript_synced_at":null,"segments":[],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=ABxMsPcTRG0","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/ABxMsPcTRG0"}