OpenStreetMap US

Radar CTO Tim Julien shares the internals behind HorizonDB, Radar’s geospatial datastore. Learn how Radar designed a high-throughput, low-latency datastore for search and geocoding use cases—covering architecture, performance, and key lessons.

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Tim Julien

Previously VP of Engineering at Bonobos and Director of Engineering at Foursquare. Tim Julien is CTO at Radar, the #1 geolocation platform.

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