Dustin Sallings and James Phillips are two of the smartest guys in the proverbial room. We meet up with them to talk about Membase, the database behind Farmville; With digressions on DevOps, the perils of “auto-failover” and what NOSQL can do for large companies.

Membase, Inc. is now CouchBase, after their acquisition of CouchOne.

You can hear from the CouchOne guys in this other Tape.