Brian Holt

Databricks

Brian Holt currently serves as Member of Product Staff at Databricks. With a rich background that includes being a JavaScript engineer and PM at tech giants like Netflix, Stripe, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Reddit, Brian has a keen eye for developer experience and cloud services. Beyond the office, Brian is probably drinking coffee or beer, playing Dota 2 poorly, snowboarding anywhere he can, and playing with his son and dog in Sacramento.

Workshops with Brian Holt

March 10 to 11, 2026 - 9:30am to 4:30pm Central Daylight Time

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Complete Intro to Databases, v2

Brian Holt

Databricks

A practical survey of modern databases. Learn the fundamentals with PostgreSQL, then explore document stores, key-value caches, graph databases, and analytics engines to understand when to reach for each.

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What They're Saying

This "Complete Intro to Linux" course is my new favorite!! I've been using Linux as my main OS for 3 years and I'm just now understanding it. Thank you Frontend Masters and thank you Mr. Brian Holt for this amazing work. I've taken "Complete Intro to Web Dev" and "Complete Intro to Computer Science" with Brian and he is my favorite teacher of all time!

Rami Aljaber

I am so grateful Brian made everything clear about the components that make a container. I think this is an awesome course and deserves all my stars in rating.

Daniel Kpatamia

This v4 iteration of the course, by Brian Holt, is the best one.

Zubia Baig

Man this guy is just amazing!! I was little scared about learning ubuntu and he teaches so flawlessly that every sub-lesson felt so engaging & super helpful. I'd say this is perfect course if you wanna dive deeper into development skills with terminal.

Sagar Singh

Many thanks to Brian for the projects homework! I tried an online course on Web Design and stopped when I realized how the course videos and questionnaires were not enough. In Brian's projects, I really appreciate the balance between the fact it was manageable to complete with what Brian taught us so far, but it was challenging enough to teach me.