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Date: "2024-11-21"
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# Podcast recording — 2024-11-21
Recorded episode with Hiroshi Tanaka. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: second session with Hiroshi — focused on the technical side of building reliable distributed systems in environments with strict data residency requirements across Asian markets
- Hiroshi detailed the multi-region architecture his team built to comply with data sovereignty laws in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, while maintaining a consistent user experience and reasonable latency
- His practical experience navigating regulatory frameworks that most Western engineers never encounter made this an eye-opening episode — the compliance constraints fundamentally shaped their technical architecture in ways that typical distributed systems content does not cover
- More technically dense than the first episode, which is a good complement; the two recordings together form a comprehensive picture of engineering in the Japanese tech ecosystem
- Key insight: "Data residency is not just a legal requirement — it is an architecture pattern. Once you accept it as a constraint rather than fighting it, your system design becomes clearer"
- Good audio quality; Hiroshi upgraded his microphone since the last recording session

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Hiroshi
- [ ] Draft show notes with a map of data residency requirements he discussed
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]] — link this with the first Hiroshi episode in show notes
