Ziade+Ford: Our Lives in a Database

[Rich Ziade] Your money’s not in a safe deposit box at the bank.

[Paul Ford] No, it’s in a database.

[Rich Ziade] It’s a row in a database, right?

[Paul Ford] Yes, so much of our lives are rows in databases. It actually probably should scare us all day long…Because have you ever seen what engineers do? Have you ever met a [data base engineer]? Yeah, it’s not good.