In this episode of Unapologetically Technical, I interview Abhishek Chauhan. He's the CTO and Co-founder at Grainite.

We'll talk about how he's only early in adopting new technologies. This started with being at Sun Microsystems in the very early days of Java and adopting the cloud early on at Citrix.

We talk about how his experiences with transactions and reliability at Citrix made him take a look at a better way of handling it. This motivated him to create and found Grainite. This includes an in-depth discussion of the current exactly-once systems and their current pitfalls, while comparing it to how Grainite works.

00:00:00 Intro
00:06:33 Graduating From IIT
00:11:20 Acquiring and Being Acquired
00:20:21 Early Days of Java
00:33:42 What Is Grainite?
00:52:50 How Grainite Works
01:17:29 Understanding Distributed Transactions
01:15:50 Ordering and Timestamps
01:32:30 Why Should I Believe It's Possible
01:42:20 Technical People Learning Business
01:45:37 Why Found Another Company?