Andi Gutmans, General Manager and Vice President, Engineering at Google, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss all things database innovation at Google Cloud. Andi explains why significant surges of customers are switching from legacy proprietary databases to open APIs, and how Google is taking a pragmatic approach to understanding the main characteristics of the workloads their customers need to address and building the best services around those. Andi also reveals his thoughts on the worst and best database options, as well as how developers can future-proof their development by starting small without having to reengineer and reprovision as their projects scale.