Arun's experiences at large companies

Arun Gupta: I think one of the biggest advantages of being at a bigger company is that your scope, impact, and outreach is significant, and typically global. Pick any of these companies; they've always had a huge product portfolio and an extremely impressive number of customers have been excited about their tech and products.

Of all the companies that I've worked at, Amazon has the most comprehensive portfolio. The services that we offer include compute, database, containers, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and security. Then you have a range of services within each type, such as relational, document, key/value, cache, time series, and ledger databases. The global availability across 22 geographical regions and 69 availability zones is just mind-blowing. This truly allows us to help customers to innovate and build applications without worrying about the undifferentiated heavy lifting.

At Couchbase, a much smaller...