1. What is a database? A first-principles overview
2. What's ACID, and why is it necessary?
3. Why Distributed DBs? What are the use-cases?
4. Attempt to introduce the idea of distributed databases as a necessary evil due to scale demands
5. What does that scale look like?
6. What are the problems?
7. Uncertainty in network, randomness, etc
8. What's CAP?
9. The 2-generals problem and Consensus
10. A Brief overview of Raft
11. What are some of the latest innovations in the field?

The aim of this talk is to provide a high-level overview of the entire field, and hopefully interest some people in learning more about the field in general.