I recently talked with Julien Verlaguet. Julien is the founder of SkipLabs, a company building infrastructure for reactive applications. Before SkipLabs, Julien spent 9 years at Facebook, where he was a tech lead for Hack and Skiplang. In this interview, we discuss SkipLabs's foundational components: SKDB, SkipStorage, and Skiplang. SKDB is built as a reactive database that features performant materialized views, diffing between databases, and streaming via ephemeral tables. SkipStorage and Skiplang serve as building blocks for SKDB. By the time you hear this, SkipLabs will have launched, so I invite you to check skiplabs.io and skdb.io for more details. In the meantime, please enjoy the following conversation with Julien. Oh, and one final note: I apologize for the tin-can sound from my microphone. Since this recording, I've purchased a better mic, and future recordings will have better audio. Note: I am investor in WarpStream [$], which I mention in this podcast. You can support me by purchasing The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer for yourself or gifting it to new software engineers that you know. I occasionally invest in infrastructure startups. Companies that I’ve invested in are marked with a [$] in this newsletter. See my LinkedIn profile for a complete list. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit materializedview.io