Software Huddle http://softwarehuddle.com/ en-us Join Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer in insightful and in-depth interviews with tech experts, covering software development, entrepreneurship, and technology trends. Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book and a DynamoDB expert as well as AWS Data Hero. Sean Falconer has over 20 years of experience working in research and technology as an engineer, founder, and marketing executive. Sean is a Snowflake Data Superhero. For more on Software Huddle, visit softwarehuddle.com or contact team@softwarehuddle.com. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cccc9532-2a89-11ee-9697-7b9378fca4d7/image/4641cf9070ede470f0eceaefa6da5956.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Software Huddle http://softwarehuddle.com/ no episodic Software Engineering, Technology Deep Dives, and Venture Capital Software Huddle Join Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer in insightful and in-depth interviews with tech experts, covering software development, entrepreneurship, and technology trends. Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book and a DynamoDB expert as well as AWS Data Hero. Sean Falconer has over 20 years of experience working in research and technology as an engineer, founder, and marketing executive. Sean is a Snowflake Data Superhero. For more on Software Huddle, visit softwarehuddle.com or contact team@softwarehuddle.com. Join Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer in insightful and in-depth interviews with tech experts, covering software development, entrepreneurship, and technology trends.

Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book and a DynamoDB expert as well as AWS Data Hero. Sean Falconer has over 20 years of experience working in research and technology as an engineer, founder, and marketing executive. Sean is a Snowflake Data Superhero.

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]]> Software Huddle team@softwarehuddle.com AI and Proactive Reliability with Kolton Andrus Today we're talking with Kolton Andrus, the Founder and CEO of Gremlin, about what happens to reliability when AI is writing most of the code. Kolton helped build the Chaos Engineering practice of both Amazon and Netflix before starting Gremlin. In our conversation we talk about scar tissue, the intuition engineers develop from being woken up at 3:00 AM to fix production outages and how AI doesn't have any of it. It generates code in an afternoon that maybe took a team previously weeks to build, but none of those painful lessons come along for the ride. We dig into why 10x more code might mean 10x more failures. The concept of reliability guardrails, think ethical guardrails, but for keeping your systems up. Why you still have to test in production no matter how good your staging environment is? How Gremlin is rethinking their product for the world where agents, not engineers, are essentially the primary users.And why we're entering a painful, narrow part of the hourglass before AI gets good enough to handle all of this on its own. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we're talking with Kolton Andrus, the Founder and CEO of Gremlin, about what happens to reliability when AI is writing most of the code. Kolton helped build the Chaos Engineering practice of both Amazon and Netflix before starting Gremlin. In our conversation we talk about scar tissue, the intuition engineers develop from being woken up at 3:00 AM to fix production outages and how AI doesn't have any of it. It generates code in an afternoon that maybe took a team previously weeks to build, but none of those painful lessons come along for the ride. We dig into why 10x more code might mean 10x more failures. The concept of reliability guardrails, think ethical guardrails, but for keeping your systems up. Why you still have to test in production no matter how good your staging environment is? How Gremlin is rethinking their product for the world where agents, not engineers, are essentially the primary users.And why we're entering a painful, narrow part of the hourglass before AI gets good enough to handle all of this on its own. Today we're talking with Kolton Andrus, the Founder and CEO of Gremlin, about what happens to reliability when AI is writing most of the code. Kolton helped build the Chaos Engineering practice of both Amazon and Netflix before starting Gremlin.

In our conversation we talk about scar tissue, the intuition engineers develop from being woken up at 3:00 AM to fix production outages and how AI doesn't have any of it. It generates code in an afternoon that maybe took a team previously weeks to build, but none of those painful lessons come along for the ride.

We dig into why 10x more code might mean 10x more failures. The concept of reliability guardrails, think ethical guardrails, but for keeping your systems up. Why you still have to test in production no matter how good your staging environment is? How Gremlin is rethinking their product for the world where agents, not engineers, are essentially the primary users.And why we're entering a painful, narrow part of the hourglass before AI gets good enough to handle all of this on its own.

]]> 3311 no Making Data Agent Ready with Andre Elizondo Today we are talking with Andre Elizondo, the Director of Innovation at Mezmo about their open source agentic harness for SREs called AURA. Mezmo got their start handling observability data at scale. Logs, traces, metrics, the usual stuff. AURA is their answer to a growing problem, as system complexity outpaces humans' ability to make sense of all that data, how do you actually make it actionable for AI agents? We get into their approach to context engineering, essentially making data agent ready before it hits the model. Why they built their own orchestrator in Rust? How they handle memory and self-correction in agent loops? Their take on MCP and where it fits versus Skills and code sandboxing and how the SRE role is evolving as agents become trusted teammates. Visit mezmo.com/aura Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:22:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we are talking with Andre Elizondo, the Director of Innovation at Mezmo about their open source agentic harness for SREs called AURA. Mezmo got their start handling observability data at scale. Logs, traces, metrics, the usual stuff. AURA is their answer to a growing problem, as system complexity outpaces humans' ability to make sense of all that data, how do you actually make it actionable for AI agents? We get into their approach to context engineering, essentially making data agent ready before it hits the model. Why they built their own orchestrator in Rust? How they handle memory and self-correction in agent loops? Their take on MCP and where it fits versus Skills and code sandboxing and how the SRE role is evolving as agents become trusted teammates. Visit mezmo.com/aura Today we are talking with Andre Elizondo, the Director of Innovation at Mezmo about their open source agentic harness for SREs called AURA. Mezmo got their start handling observability data at scale. Logs, traces, metrics, the usual stuff. AURA is their answer to a growing problem, as system complexity outpaces humans' ability to make sense of all that data, how do you actually make it actionable for AI agents? We get into their approach to context engineering, essentially making data agent ready before it hits the model. Why they built their own orchestrator in Rust? How they handle memory and self-correction in agent loops? Their take on MCP and where it fits versus Skills and code sandboxing and how the SRE role is evolving as agents become trusted teammates. Visit mezmo.com/aura

]]> 3109 no Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own company, getting it acquired, and eventually starting his venture capital firm, Engineering Capital. With his strong engineering background, Ashmeet looks for startups that have a technical insight — something unique that gives them an edge over their competitors. This focus on technical insight sets Engineering Capital apart from other VC firms that often emphasize market insight or distribution insight or some other kind of advantage. We talked about AI, Exponential Engineers, Entrepreneurship, and had a lot of fun. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:00:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own company, getting it acquired, and eventually starting his venture capital firm, Engineering Capital. With his strong engineering background, Ashmeet looks for startups that have a technical insight — something unique that gives them an edge over their competitors. This focus on technical insight sets Engineering Capital apart from other VC firms that often emphasize market insight or distribution insight or some other kind of advantage. We talked about AI, Exponential Engineers, Entrepreneurship, and had a lot of fun. Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own company, getting it acquired, and eventually starting his venture capital firm, Engineering Capital. With his strong engineering background, Ashmeet looks for startups that have a technical insight — something unique that gives them an edge over their competitors. This focus on technical insight sets Engineering Capital apart from other VC firms that often emphasize market insight or distribution insight or some other kind of advantage. We talked about AI, Exponential Engineers, Entrepreneurship, and had a lot of fun.

]]> 3200 no Powered by Neurons with Ewelina Kurtys Today we have Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the show. Ewelina has a background in Neuroscience and is currently working at FinalSpark. FinalSpark is using live Neurons for computations instead of traditional electric CPUs. The advantage is that live Neurons are significantly more energy efficient than traditional computing, and given all the energy concerns right now with regards to running AI workloads and data centers, this seems quite relevant, even though bioprocessors are still very much in the research phase.  Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:46:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the show. Ewelina has a background in Neuroscience and is currently working at FinalSpark. FinalSpark is using live Neurons for computations instead of traditional electric CPUs. The advantage is that live Neurons are significantly more energy efficient than traditional computing, and given all the energy concerns right now with regards to running AI workloads and data centers, this seems quite relevant, even though bioprocessors are still very much in the research phase.  Today we have Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the show. Ewelina has a background in Neuroscience and is currently working at FinalSpark.

FinalSpark is using live Neurons for computations instead of traditional electric CPUs. The advantage is that live Neurons are significantly more energy efficient than traditional computing, and given all the energy concerns right now with regards to running AI workloads and data centers, this seems quite relevant, even though bioprocessors are still very much in the research phase. 

]]> 2553 no Lessons from Building AI Agents with Rafal Wilinski Today we're talking with one of our favorite engineers, Rafal Wilinski. Rafal has been on the cutting edge of AI development in the last few years as he has led AI teams at Zapier and Vendr. Rafal walks us through the hard-won lessons about actually integrating AI tools into the applications you're building. One of the hardest things in integrating these AI tools is how to ensure you're getting better and not regressing as you improve your prompts and upgrade your models. He shows how using evals is one part of the story along with deeply investigating customer signals to see how they are or aren't succeeding with AI. Along the way, we also talk about RAG, his favorite models, his AI development toolset, and why Poland has been killing it lately. Check it out and be sure to follow Rafal if you want to learn more on building with AI. Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:34:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we're talking with one of our favorite engineers, Rafal Wilinski. Rafal has been on the cutting edge of AI development in the last few years as he has led AI teams at Zapier and Vendr. Rafal walks us through the hard-won lessons about actually integrating AI tools into the applications you're building. One of the hardest things in integrating these AI tools is how to ensure you're getting better and not regressing as you improve your prompts and upgrade your models. He shows how using evals is one part of the story along with deeply investigating customer signals to see how they are or aren't succeeding with AI. Along the way, we also talk about RAG, his favorite models, his AI development toolset, and why Poland has been killing it lately. Check it out and be sure to follow Rafal if you want to learn more on building with AI. Today we're talking with one of our favorite engineers, Rafal Wilinski. Rafal has been on the cutting edge of AI development in the last few years as he has led AI teams at Zapier and Vendr. Rafal walks us through the hard-won lessons about actually integrating AI tools into the applications you're building. One of the hardest things in integrating these AI tools is how to ensure you're getting better and not regressing as you improve your prompts and upgrade your models. He shows how using evals is one part of the story along with deeply investigating customer signals to see how they are or aren't succeeding with AI. Along the way, we also talk about RAG, his favorite models, his AI development toolset, and why Poland has been killing it lately. Check it out and be sure to follow Rafal if you want to learn more on building with AI.

]]> 4131 no Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking about what it really takes to build high ownership engineering cultures where devs aren't simply just shipping code, but they're helping shape the product. And our guest this week is Matt Watson. He's a long time founder, engineer, and now the CEO of Full Scale, a company that helps startups and scale ups, grow their engineering teams with top talent from the Philippines. Matt's also the author of a book called Product Driven that shows how engineers can build with more clarity, purpose, customer focus and we get into some of the details in that book during this podcast. So in this episode, we get into everything from the downsides of specialization to the importance of empathy, to why code shipped isn't the same as value delivered. We hope you enjoy it. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:11:00 -0000 full Software Huddle If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking about what it really takes to build high ownership engineering cultures where devs aren't simply just shipping code, but they're helping shape the product. And our guest this week is Matt Watson. He's a long time founder, engineer, and now the CEO of Full Scale, a company that helps startups and scale ups, grow their engineering teams with top talent from the Philippines. Matt's also the author of a book called Product Driven that shows how engineers can build with more clarity, purpose, customer focus and we get into some of the details in that book during this podcast. So in this episode, we get into everything from the downsides of specialization to the importance of empathy, to why code shipped isn't the same as value delivered. We hope you enjoy it. If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking about what it really takes to build high ownership engineering cultures where devs aren't simply just shipping code, but they're helping shape the product.

And our guest this week is Matt Watson. He's a long time founder, engineer, and now the CEO of Full Scale, a company that helps startups and scale ups, grow their engineering teams with top talent from the Philippines. Matt's also the author of a book called Product Driven that shows how engineers can build with more clarity, purpose, customer focus and we get into some of the details in that book during this podcast.

So in this episode, we get into everything from the downsides of specialization to the importance of empathy, to why code shipped isn't the same as value delivered. We hope you enjoy it.


]]> 3097 no Building CI for the age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of Blacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub Actions jobs faster and with more visibility with the standard GitHub Actions CI runners. The founding team has a fun background doing systems work at Cockroach and Faire, and they're taking on a big problem in running this massive CI fleet. The explosion in AI agents has really changed the CI world. CI is more useful than ever, as you want to be sure the changes from your agents aren't breaking your existing functionality. At the same time, there's a huge increase in demand and spikiness of CI workloads as developers can fire off multiple agents to work in parallel, each needing to run the CI suite before merging. Aayush talked about how they're handling this load and facilitating visibility into test failures. We also covered cloud economics. Aayush said the traditional cloud-based storage options don't work for them -- EBS and locally attached SSDs are too expensive for their workloads where they don't need the standard durability guarantees. He walks us through building their own fleet outside the hyperscalers and the plans going forward, along with some of the economics of multi-tenancy that Blacksmith has previously written about. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:52:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of Blacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub Actions jobs faster and with more visibility with the standard GitHub Actions CI runners. The founding team has a fun background doing systems work at Cockroach and Faire, and they're taking on a big problem in running this massive CI fleet. The explosion in AI agents has really changed the CI world. CI is more useful than ever, as you want to be sure the changes from your agents aren't breaking your existing functionality. At the same time, there's a huge increase in demand and spikiness of CI workloads as developers can fire off multiple agents to work in parallel, each needing to run the CI suite before merging. Aayush talked about how they're handling this load and facilitating visibility into test failures. We also covered cloud economics. Aayush said the traditional cloud-based storage options don't work for them -- EBS and locally attached SSDs are too expensive for their workloads where they don't need the standard durability guarantees. He walks us through building their own fleet outside the hyperscalers and the plans going forward, along with some of the economics of multi-tenancy that Blacksmith has previously written about. Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of Blacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub Actions jobs faster and with more visibility with the standard GitHub Actions CI runners.


The founding team has a fun background doing systems work at Cockroach and Faire, and they're taking on a big problem in running this massive CI fleet.


The explosion in AI agents has really changed the CI world. CI is more useful than ever, as you want to be sure the changes from your agents aren't breaking your existing functionality. At the same time, there's a huge increase in demand and spikiness of CI workloads as developers can fire off multiple agents to work in parallel, each needing to run the CI suite before merging. Aayush talked about how they're handling this load and facilitating visibility into test failures.


We also covered cloud economics. Aayush said the traditional cloud-based storage options don't work for them -- EBS and locally attached SSDs are too expensive for their workloads where they don't need the standard durability guarantees. He walks us through building their own fleet outside the hyperscalers and the plans going forward, along with some of the economics of multi-tenancy that Blacksmith has previously written about.

]]> 3842 no Valkey After the Fork: A Conversation with Madelyn Olson Today, we're talking Valkey, Redis, and all things caching. Our guest is Madelyn Olson, who is a principal engineer at AWS working on Elasticache and is one of the most well-known people in the caching community. She was a core maintainer of Redis prior to the fork and was one of the creators of Valkey, an open-source fork of Redis. In this episode, we talk about Madelyn's road to becoming a Redis maintainer and how she found out about the March 2024 license change. Then, Madelyn shares the story of Valkey being created, philosophical differences between the projects, and her reaction to re-relicensing of Redis in May 2025. Next, we dive into the performance improvements of recent Valkey releases, including the I/O threads improvements and the new hash table layout. Along the way, Madelyn dispels the notion that the single-threaded nature of Redis / Valkey is that big of a hindrance for most workloads. Finally, she compares some of the Valkey improvements to some of the other recent cache competitors in the space. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:43:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we're talking Valkey, Redis, and all things caching. Our guest is Madelyn Olson, who is a principal engineer at AWS working on Elasticache and is one of the most well-known people in the caching community. She was a core maintainer of Redis prior to the fork and was one of the creators of Valkey, an open-source fork of Redis. In this episode, we talk about Madelyn's road to becoming a Redis maintainer and how she found out about the March 2024 license change. Then, Madelyn shares the story of Valkey being created, philosophical differences between the projects, and her reaction to re-relicensing of Redis in May 2025. Next, we dive into the performance improvements of recent Valkey releases, including the I/O threads improvements and the new hash table layout. Along the way, Madelyn dispels the notion that the single-threaded nature of Redis / Valkey is that big of a hindrance for most workloads. Finally, she compares some of the Valkey improvements to some of the other recent cache competitors in the space. Today, we're talking Valkey, Redis, and all things caching. Our guest is Madelyn Olson, who is a principal engineer at AWS working on Elasticache and is one of the most well-known people in the caching community. She was a core maintainer of Redis prior to the fork and was one of the creators of Valkey, an open-source fork of Redis. In this episode, we talk about Madelyn's road to becoming a Redis maintainer and how she found out about the March 2024 license change. Then, Madelyn shares the story of Valkey being created, philosophical differences between the projects, and her reaction to re-relicensing of Redis in May 2025. Next, we dive into the performance improvements of recent Valkey releases, including the I/O threads improvements and the new hash table layout. Along the way, Madelyn dispels the notion that the single-threaded nature of Redis / Valkey is that big of a hindrance for most workloads. Finally, she compares some of the Valkey improvements to some of the other recent cache competitors in the space.

]]> 4874 no Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for Postgres. It's always great to have Sam on -- he brings great stories about real customers and honest insight about the state of the database industry. In this episode, we talk about the road to Postgres and how operational excellence is the only true advantage in database providers. Sam walks us through the current Planetscale Postgres offering, along with details on Nova, a new sharded Postgres project that Planetscale is working on. Along the way, we get updates on Planetscale Metal, how demand has been for Planetscale Postgres, and future plans for Planetscale. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:14:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for Postgres. It's always great to have Sam on -- he brings great stories about real customers and honest insight about the state of the database industry. In this episode, we talk about the road to Postgres and how operational excellence is the only true advantage in database providers. Sam walks us through the current Planetscale Postgres offering, along with details on Nova, a new sharded Postgres project that Planetscale is working on. Along the way, we get updates on Planetscale Metal, how demand has been for Planetscale Postgres, and future plans for Planetscale. Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for Postgres. It's always great to have Sam on -- he brings great stories about real customers and honest insight about the state of the database industry. In this episode, we talk about the road to Postgres and how operational excellence is the only true advantage in database providers. Sam walks us through the current Planetscale Postgres offering, along with details on Nova, a new sharded Postgres project that Planetscale is working on. Along the way, we get updates on Planetscale Metal, how demand has been for Planetscale Postgres, and future plans for Planetscale.

]]> 3972 no Lessons from Transcribing and Indexing 3.5 Million Podcasts with Arvid Kahl Big time guest today as Arvid Kahl joins us. Arvid is my favorite type of guest -- a deeply technical founder that can talk about both the technical and business challenges of a startup. Lots to enjoy from this episode. Arvid is known as the Bootstrapped Founder and has documented his path to selling Feedback Panda back in 2019. He's now building Podscan and sharing his journey as he goes. Podscan is a fascinating project. It's making the content of *every* podcast episode around the world fully searchable. He currently has 3.5 million episodes transcribed and adds another 30,000 - 50,000 episodes every day. This involves a ton of technical challenges, including how to get the best transcription results from the latest LLMs, whether you should use APIs from public providers or run your own LLMs, and how to efficiently provide full-text search across terabytes of transcription data. Arvid shares the lessons he's learned and the various strategies he's tried over the years. But there are also unique business challenges. For most technical businesses, your infrastructure costs grow in line with your customers. More customers == more data == more servers. With Podscan, Arvid has to index the entire podcast ecosystem regardless of his customers. This means a lot of upfront investment as he looks to grow his customer base. Arvid tells us how he's optimized his infrastructure to account for this unique challenge. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:39:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Big time guest today as Arvid Kahl joins us. Arvid is my favorite type of guest -- a deeply technical founder that can talk about both the technical and business challenges of a startup. Lots to enjoy from this episode. Arvid is known as the Bootstrapped Founder and has documented his path to selling Feedback Panda back in 2019. He's now building Podscan and sharing his journey as he goes. Podscan is a fascinating project. It's making the content of *every* podcast episode around the world fully searchable. He currently has 3.5 million episodes transcribed and adds another 30,000 - 50,000 episodes every day. This involves a ton of technical challenges, including how to get the best transcription results from the latest LLMs, whether you should use APIs from public providers or run your own LLMs, and how to efficiently provide full-text search across terabytes of transcription data. Arvid shares the lessons he's learned and the various strategies he's tried over the years. But there are also unique business challenges. For most technical businesses, your infrastructure costs grow in line with your customers. More customers == more data == more servers. With Podscan, Arvid has to index the entire podcast ecosystem regardless of his customers. This means a lot of upfront investment as he looks to grow his customer base. Arvid tells us how he's optimized his infrastructure to account for this unique challenge. Big time guest today as Arvid Kahl joins us. Arvid is my favorite type of guest -- a deeply technical founder that can talk about both the technical and business challenges of a startup. Lots to enjoy from this episode.

Arvid is known as the Bootstrapped Founder and has documented his path to selling Feedback Panda back in 2019. He's now building Podscan and sharing his journey as he goes.

Podscan is a fascinating project. It's making the content of *every* podcast episode around the world fully searchable. He currently has 3.5 million episodes transcribed and adds another 30,000 - 50,000 episodes every day.

This involves a ton of technical challenges, including how to get the best transcription results from the latest LLMs, whether you should use APIs from public providers or run your own LLMs, and how to efficiently provide full-text search across terabytes of transcription data. Arvid shares the lessons he's learned and the various strategies he's tried over the years.

But there are also unique business challenges. For most technical businesses, your infrastructure costs grow in line with your customers. More customers == more data == more servers. With Podscan, Arvid has to index the entire podcast ecosystem regardless of his customers. This means a lot of upfront investment as he looks to grow his customer base. Arvid tells us how he's optimized his infrastructure to account for this unique challenge.


]]> 4680 no It's time to build Jarvis with Kent C. Dodds Today we have the excellent Kent C. Dodds on the program. Kent is an amazing teacher in the web development space, and I've learned a ton from him about React, JavaScript testing, and general web dev. Lately, Kent has been going all-in on AI, especially with the model context protocol (MCP) space. He's sharing a ton of useful material in this area as he works on a new course. We spent a lot of time going over what MCP is, why it's useful, and why Kent thinks our own personal Jarvis is the next step. We cover a bunch of other topics too, like what it's like putting on a conference (Epic Web Conf) plus how AI has changed the educational space. Check it out! *Timestamps* 01:12 Start 06:52 The pitch for MCP 14:30 Where does MCP architecturally sit? 17:27 Contrasting with REST 23:07 Should I be building these now? 23:47 Are there any frameworks? 26:31 Why Cloudflare 34:10 MCP Spec 35:35 Authentication 38:29 A2A by Google 41:50 What caught Kent's attention? 44:28 What got Kent interested in React? 46:16 Jarvis 47:44 Frontend Development in the long run 51:44 What needs to get better for this to happen? 57:42 How has AI impacted education landscape? 01:04:46 Like the travel? 01:12:35 App Stack 01:13:48 React Server Components Follow Kent: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer *Software Huddle ⤵︎* X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Tue, 13 May 2025 18:35:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have the excellent Kent C. Dodds on the program. Kent is an amazing teacher in the web development space, and I've learned a ton from him about React, JavaScript testing, and general web dev. Lately, Kent has been going all-in on AI, especially with the model context protocol (MCP) space. He's sharing a ton of useful material in this area as he works on a new course. We spent a lot of time going over what MCP is, why it's useful, and why Kent thinks our own personal Jarvis is the next step. We cover a bunch of other topics too, like what it's like putting on a conference (Epic Web Conf) plus how AI has changed the educational space. Check it out! *Timestamps* 01:12 Start 06:52 The pitch for MCP 14:30 Where does MCP architecturally sit? 17:27 Contrasting with REST 23:07 Should I be building these now? 23:47 Are there any frameworks? 26:31 Why Cloudflare 34:10 MCP Spec 35:35 Authentication 38:29 A2A by Google 41:50 What caught Kent's attention? 44:28 What got Kent interested in React? 46:16 Jarvis 47:44 Frontend Development in the long run 51:44 What needs to get better for this to happen? 57:42 How has AI impacted education landscape? 01:04:46 Like the travel? 01:12:35 App Stack 01:13:48 React Server Components Follow Kent: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer *Software Huddle ⤵︎* X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Today we have the excellent Kent C. Dodds on the program. Kent is an amazing teacher in the web development space, and I've learned a ton from him about React, JavaScript testing, and general web dev.


Lately, Kent has been going all-in on AI, especially with the model context protocol (MCP) space. He's sharing a ton of useful material in this area as he works on a new course. We spent a lot of time going over what MCP is, why it's useful, and why Kent thinks our own personal Jarvis is the next step. We cover a bunch of other topics too, like what it's like putting on a conference (Epic Web Conf) plus how AI has changed the educational space. Check it out! *Timestamps* 01:12 Start 06:52 The pitch for MCP 14:30 Where does MCP architecturally sit? 17:27 Contrasting with REST 23:07 Should I be building these now? 23:47 Are there any frameworks? 26:31 Why Cloudflare 34:10 MCP Spec 35:35 Authentication 38:29 A2A by Google 41:50 What caught Kent's attention? 44:28 What got Kent interested in React? 46:16 Jarvis 47:44 Frontend Development in the long run 51:44 What needs to get better for this to happen? 57:42 How has AI impacted education landscape? 01:04:46 Like the travel? 01:12:35 App Stack 01:13:48 React Server Components

Follow Kent: https://twitter.com/kentcdodds

Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer


*Software Huddle ⤵︎*

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

]]> 4877 no Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they rewrote their AWS Lambda extension in Rust. It's a really interesting look at a big, hard project, from thinking about when it's a good idea to do a rewrite to talking about their focus on performance and reliability above all else and what he thinks about the Rust ecosystem. Beyond that, AJ is just a learning machine, so I got his thoughts on all kinds of software development topics, from underrated AWS services and our favorite databases to the AWS Free Tier and the annoyances of a new AWS account. Finally, AJ dishes out some career advice for curious, ambitious developers. Tue, 06 May 2025 16:30:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they rewrote their AWS Lambda extension in Rust. It's a really interesting look at a big, hard project, from thinking about when it's a good idea to do a rewrite to talking about their focus on performance and reliability above all else and what he thinks about the Rust ecosystem. Beyond that, AJ is just a learning machine, so I got his thoughts on all kinds of software development topics, from underrated AWS services and our favorite databases to the AWS Free Tier and the annoyances of a new AWS account. Finally, AJ dishes out some career advice for curious, ambitious developers. Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they rewrote their AWS Lambda extension in Rust. It's a really interesting look at a big, hard project, from thinking about when it's a good idea to do a rewrite to talking about their focus on performance and reliability above all else and what he thinks about the Rust ecosystem.

Beyond that, AJ is just a learning machine, so I got his thoughts on all kinds of software development topics, from underrated AWS services and our favorite databases to the AWS Free Tier and the annoyances of a new AWS account.

Finally, AJ dishes out some career advice for curious, ambitious developers.


]]> 4896 no Software Reliability Agents with Amal Kiran So if you're writing code or keeping systems running, you probably know the drill. Late night pages, chasing down weird bugs, dealing with alert storms. It's tough! It costs money when things break, and honestly, nobody loves that experience. So the big question is, can we actually use something like AI, AI agents in particular, to make reliability less painful, more systematic? That's what we're talking about today. We have on the show with us Amal Kiran, the CEO and Co-founder of Temperstack. They're building tools aimed at automating SRE tasks, think, automatically finding monitoring gaps, alerts, helping with root cause analysis, even generating Runbooks using AI.  So if you wanna hear about applying AI to real world SRE problems and all the tech behind it, we think you're gonna enjoy this. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:41:00 -0000 full Software Huddle So if you're writing code or keeping systems running, you probably know the drill. Late night pages, chasing down weird bugs, dealing with alert storms. It's tough! It costs money when things break, and honestly, nobody loves that experience. So the big question is, can we actually use something like AI, AI agents in particular, to make reliability less painful, more systematic? That's what we're talking about today. We have on the show with us Amal Kiran, the CEO and Co-founder of Temperstack. They're building tools aimed at automating SRE tasks, think, automatically finding monitoring gaps, alerts, helping with root cause analysis, even generating Runbooks using AI.  So if you wanna hear about applying AI to real world SRE problems and all the tech behind it, we think you're gonna enjoy this. So if you're writing code or keeping systems running, you probably know the drill. Late night pages, chasing down weird bugs, dealing with alert storms. It's tough! It costs money when things break, and honestly, nobody loves that experience.

So the big question is, can we actually use something like AI, AI agents in particular, to make reliability less painful, more systematic? That's what we're talking about today. We have on the show with us Amal Kiran, the CEO and Co-founder of Temperstack.

They're building tools aimed at automating SRE tasks, think, automatically finding monitoring gaps, alerts, helping with root cause analysis, even generating Runbooks using AI. 

So if you wanna hear about applying AI to real world SRE problems and all the tech behind it, we think you're gonna enjoy this.

]]> 3067 no From ORM to Infra: Prisma Postgres with Søren Bramer Schmidt Today we have Søren from Prisma on the show. Prisma has been the most popular ORM in the TypeScript world for a while, and now they’re moving more into hosted infrastructure. We spend a lot of time talking about their new offering called Prisma Postgres, which is this unikernel-based Postgres offering. It’s a really unique offering from both a technical and a product perspective. On the technical side, they’re doing some interesting work compared to other Postgres providers. They’re running on bare metal in a colocation facility rather than the default public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Further, they’re using unikernels in a Firecracker VM, giving them unique startup and security characteristics. These technical decisions give them unique economics compared to standard providers, so they’re able to have a generous free tier and a unique billing model that works great for serverless applications with spiky workloads. Around all of this, it’s very interesting to see a company with such a unique spread of products — a popular, mature open-source library paired with a mission-critical infrastructure service offering. We talked about the difficulties in building a company that accommodates these two very different products. Timestamps 01:51 Start 06:08 Prisma Postgres 09:10 Accelerate 11:39 Why Postgres 17:32 How Prisma Postgres Works 21:32 Colocation Facility 22:05 Unikernels 27:56 CoLo vs Public Cloud 29:11 Building the team 31:46 Missing Features that are being worked on 32:31 Use Cases 33:37 Colo Locations 34:53 Cloudflare 35:42 Biggest surprises since release 37:34 More Unikernel adoption? 39:08 Supporting Prisma ORM 46:43 Mongo 47:51 Life as A CEO 53:04 MCP 57:23 Søren Questions Alex Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:02:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Søren from Prisma on the show. Prisma has been the most popular ORM in the TypeScript world for a while, and now they’re moving more into hosted infrastructure. We spend a lot of time talking about their new offering called Prisma Postgres, which is this unikernel-based Postgres offering. It’s a really unique offering from both a technical and a product perspective. On the technical side, they’re doing some interesting work compared to other Postgres providers. They’re running on bare metal in a colocation facility rather than the default public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Further, they’re using unikernels in a Firecracker VM, giving them unique startup and security characteristics. These technical decisions give them unique economics compared to standard providers, so they’re able to have a generous free tier and a unique billing model that works great for serverless applications with spiky workloads. Around all of this, it’s very interesting to see a company with such a unique spread of products — a popular, mature open-source library paired with a mission-critical infrastructure service offering. We talked about the difficulties in building a company that accommodates these two very different products. Timestamps 01:51 Start 06:08 Prisma Postgres 09:10 Accelerate 11:39 Why Postgres 17:32 How Prisma Postgres Works 21:32 Colocation Facility 22:05 Unikernels 27:56 CoLo vs Public Cloud 29:11 Building the team 31:46 Missing Features that are being worked on 32:31 Use Cases 33:37 Colo Locations 34:53 Cloudflare 35:42 Biggest surprises since release 37:34 More Unikernel adoption? 39:08 Supporting Prisma ORM 46:43 Mongo 47:51 Life as A CEO 53:04 MCP 57:23 Søren Questions Alex Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com Today we have Søren from Prisma on the show. Prisma has been the most popular ORM in the TypeScript world for a while, and now they’re moving more into hosted infrastructure.


We spend a lot of time talking about their new offering called Prisma Postgres, which is this unikernel-based Postgres offering. It’s a really unique offering from both a technical and a product perspective.


On the technical side, they’re doing some interesting work compared to other Postgres providers. They’re running on bare metal in a colocation facility rather than the default public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Further, they’re using unikernels in a Firecracker VM, giving them unique startup and security characteristics.


These technical decisions give them unique economics compared to standard providers, so they’re able to have a generous free tier and a unique billing model that works great for serverless applications with spiky workloads.


Around all of this, it’s very interesting to see a company with such a unique spread of products — a popular, mature open-source library paired with a mission-critical infrastructure service offering. We talked about the difficulties in building a company that accommodates these two very different products.


Timestamps

01:51 Start

06:08 Prisma Postgres

09:10 Accelerate

11:39 Why Postgres

17:32 How Prisma Postgres Works

21:32 Colocation Facility

22:05 Unikernels

27:56 CoLo vs Public Cloud

29:11 Building the team

31:46 Missing Features that are being worked on

32:31 Use Cases

33:37 Colo Locations

34:53 Cloudflare

35:42 Biggest surprises since release

37:34 More Unikernel adoption?

39:08 Supporting Prisma ORM

46:43 Mongo

47:51 Life as A CEO

53:04 MCP

57:23 Søren Questions Alex


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com

]]> 3742 no Fast Inference with Hassan El Mghari Today we have Hassan back on the show. Hassan was one of our first guests for Huddle when he was working at Vercel, but since then, he's joined Together AI, one of the hottest companies in the world. They just raised a massive series B round. Hassan joins us to talk about Together AI, inference optimization and building AI applications. We touch on a bunch of topics like customer uses of AI, best practices for building apps, and what's next for Together AI. Timestamps 01:42 Opportunity at Together AI 04:26 Together raised a big round 06:06 Vision Behind Together AI 08:32 Problems in running Open Source Models 11:40 Speed For Inference 14:24 Fine Tuning 19:23 One or Two Models or a Combination of them 21:32 Serverless 22:21 Cold Start issues? 27:46 How much data do you need? 30:00 Balancing Reliability and Cost 34:07 How customers are using Together 42:36 Agent Recipes 47:03 Typical Mistakes buiilding AI apps Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:50:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Hassan back on the show. Hassan was one of our first guests for Huddle when he was working at Vercel, but since then, he's joined Together AI, one of the hottest companies in the world. They just raised a massive series B round. Hassan joins us to talk about Together AI, inference optimization and building AI applications. We touch on a bunch of topics like customer uses of AI, best practices for building apps, and what's next for Together AI. Timestamps 01:42 Opportunity at Together AI 04:26 Together raised a big round 06:06 Vision Behind Together AI 08:32 Problems in running Open Source Models 11:40 Speed For Inference 14:24 Fine Tuning 19:23 One or Two Models or a Combination of them 21:32 Serverless 22:21 Cold Start issues? 27:46 How much data do you need? 30:00 Balancing Reliability and Cost 34:07 How customers are using Together 42:36 Agent Recipes 47:03 Typical Mistakes buiilding AI apps Today we have Hassan back on the show. Hassan was one of our first guests for Huddle when he was working at Vercel, but since then, he's joined Together AI, one of the hottest companies in the world. They just raised a massive series B round.


Hassan joins us to talk about Together AI, inference optimization and building AI applications. We touch on a bunch of topics like customer uses of AI, best practices for building apps, and what's next for Together AI.


Timestamps


01:42 Opportunity at Together AI

04:26 Together raised a big round

06:06 Vision Behind Together AI

08:32 Problems in running Open Source Models

11:40 Speed For Inference

14:24 Fine Tuning

19:23 One or Two Models or a Combination of them

21:32 Serverless

22:21 Cold Start issues?

27:46 How much data do you need?

30:00 Balancing Reliability and Cost

34:07 How customers are using Together

42:36 Agent Recipes

47:03 Typical Mistakes buiilding AI apps

]]> 3186 no Seattle Startups, AI’s Future & Big Acquisitions with Yujian Tang Today on the show, we talked with Yujian Tang. He was on the show previously when he worked at Zilliz, when we talked about vector databases and RAG. He's since branched out on his own, building the tech startup scene in Seattle and organizing AI events all over the place. We talk about his latest venture, the Seattle Startup Summit, coming up on March 28th. They're still Early Bird Tickets available if you're interested. We also talk about AI models, the impact AI is having on programming, including our own programming projects and share our takes on some of the recent acquisitions that have happened in tech, including Voyage AI. Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:24:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today on the show, we talked with Yujian Tang. He was on the show previously when he worked at Zilliz, when we talked about vector databases and RAG. He's since branched out on his own, building the tech startup scene in Seattle and organizing AI events all over the place. We talk about his latest venture, the Seattle Startup Summit, coming up on March 28th. They're still Early Bird Tickets available if you're interested. We also talk about AI models, the impact AI is having on programming, including our own programming projects and share our takes on some of the recent acquisitions that have happened in tech, including Voyage AI. Today on the show, we talked with Yujian Tang. He was on the show previously when he worked at Zilliz, when we talked about vector databases and RAG. He's since branched out on his own, building the tech startup scene in Seattle and organizing AI events all over the place.


We talk about his latest venture, the Seattle Startup Summit, coming up on March 28th. They're still Early Bird Tickets available if you're interested.


We also talk about AI models, the impact AI is having on programming, including our own programming projects and share our takes on some of the recent acquisitions that have happened in tech, including Voyage AI.

]]> 3774 no Faster & Cheaper on PlanetScale Metal with Sam Lambert Today, we have Sam Lambert back on the show! Sam is the CEO of PlanetScale, and if you follow him on X, you know he’s one of the sharpest voices in the database space—cutting through the hype with deep experience and a no-nonsense approach. In this episode, we dive into PlanetScale’s new Metal offering, which has been battle-tested with PlanetScale’s high-scale cloud business partners and is now GA. Sam also shares why staying profitable is crucial—not just for the business but for the stability and reliability it guarantees for customers. While many cloud infrastructure companies chase the next hype cycle, Sam prefers to keep it boring—delivering rock-solid performance with no surprises Finally, we close with Sam's thoughts on other happenings in the database space -- Aurora DSQL, Aurora Limitless, MySQL benchmarks, and multi-region strong consistency. Tune in for a deep dive into databases, cloud infrastructure, and what it takes to build a sustainable, high-performance tech company. Timestamps 01:34 Start 06:42 PlanetScale Metal 11:15 The problem with separation of storage and compute 15:02 EBS Tax 17:32 How does Vitess handle durability 22:58 Metal recommended for all PlanetScale users? 27:20 The hidden expense of IOPS for cloud databases 37:41 Timeline of creating PlanetScale Metal 41:32 Focus on profitability 47:52 Removal of hobby plan 57:45 Deprecation of PlanetScale Boost 01:00:24 DSQL 01:01:51 Aurora Limitless 01:04:15 AWS as a partner 01:07:00 The spectacle of AWS re:Invent 01:12:22 Benchmarks and benchmarketing 01:15:51 AWS Databases + multi-region strong consistency Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:22:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Sam Lambert back on the show! Sam is the CEO of PlanetScale, and if you follow him on X, you know he’s one of the sharpest voices in the database space—cutting through the hype with deep experience and a no-nonsense approach. In this episode, we dive into PlanetScale’s new Metal offering, which has been battle-tested with PlanetScale’s high-scale cloud business partners and is now GA. Sam also shares why staying profitable is crucial—not just for the business but for the stability and reliability it guarantees for customers. While many cloud infrastructure companies chase the next hype cycle, Sam prefers to keep it boring—delivering rock-solid performance with no surprises Finally, we close with Sam's thoughts on other happenings in the database space -- Aurora DSQL, Aurora Limitless, MySQL benchmarks, and multi-region strong consistency. Tune in for a deep dive into databases, cloud infrastructure, and what it takes to build a sustainable, high-performance tech company. Timestamps 01:34 Start 06:42 PlanetScale Metal 11:15 The problem with separation of storage and compute 15:02 EBS Tax 17:32 How does Vitess handle durability 22:58 Metal recommended for all PlanetScale users? 27:20 The hidden expense of IOPS for cloud databases 37:41 Timeline of creating PlanetScale Metal 41:32 Focus on profitability 47:52 Removal of hobby plan 57:45 Deprecation of PlanetScale Boost 01:00:24 DSQL 01:01:51 Aurora Limitless 01:04:15 AWS as a partner 01:07:00 The spectacle of AWS re:Invent 01:12:22 Benchmarks and benchmarketing 01:15:51 AWS Databases + multi-region strong consistency Today, we have Sam Lambert back on the show! Sam is the CEO of PlanetScale, and if you follow him on X, you know he’s one of the sharpest voices in the database space—cutting through the hype with deep experience and a no-nonsense approach.

In this episode, we dive into PlanetScale’s new Metal offering, which has been battle-tested with PlanetScale’s high-scale cloud business partners and is now GA.

Sam also shares why staying profitable is crucial—not just for the business but for the stability and reliability it guarantees for customers. While many cloud infrastructure companies chase the next hype cycle, Sam prefers to keep it boring—delivering rock-solid performance with no surprises

Finally, we close with Sam's thoughts on other happenings in the database space -- Aurora DSQL, Aurora Limitless, MySQL benchmarks, and multi-region strong consistency.

Tune in for a deep dive into databases, cloud infrastructure, and what it takes to build a sustainable, high-performance tech company.


Timestamps

01:34 Start

06:42 PlanetScale Metal

11:15 The problem with separation of storage and compute

15:02 EBS Tax

17:32 How does Vitess handle durability

22:58 Metal recommended for all PlanetScale users?

27:20 The hidden expense of IOPS for cloud databases

37:41 Timeline of creating PlanetScale Metal

41:32 Focus on profitability

47:52 Removal of hobby plan

57:45 Deprecation of PlanetScale Boost

01:00:24 DSQL

01:01:51 Aurora Limitless

01:04:15 AWS as a partner

01:07:00 The spectacle of AWS re:Invent

01:12:22 Benchmarks and benchmarketing

01:15:51 AWS Databases + multi-region strong consistency

]]> 4783 no Redis but Faster With Roman Gershman Redis is consistently one of the most beloved pieces of infrastructure for developers. And in the last few years, we've seen a number of new Redis-compatible projects that aim to improve on the core of Redis in some way. One of those projects is DragonflyDB, a multi-threaded version of Redis that allows for significantly higher throughput on a single instance. Roman Gershman is the co-founder and CTO at Dragonfly, and he has a fascinating background. Roman initially worked at Google and then was a frustrated user of Redis while working as an engineer at a fast-growing startup. He did a stint on the ElastiCache team at AWS but struck off on his own to make a new, faster version of Redis. In this episode, we talk through the improvements that Dragonfly makes to Redis and why it matters to high-scale users. We go through the different needs and requirements of high-scale cache applications and what Roman learned at AWS. We also go through the Redis licensing drama and how to attract developer attention in 2025. Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:16:14 -0000 full Software Huddle Redis is consistently one of the most beloved pieces of infrastructure for developers. And in the last few years, we've seen a number of new Redis-compatible projects that aim to improve on the core of Redis in some way. One of those projects is DragonflyDB, a multi-threaded version of Redis that allows for significantly higher throughput on a single instance. Roman Gershman is the co-founder and CTO at Dragonfly, and he has a fascinating background. Roman initially worked at Google and then was a frustrated user of Redis while working as an engineer at a fast-growing startup. He did a stint on the ElastiCache team at AWS but struck off on his own to make a new, faster version of Redis. In this episode, we talk through the improvements that Dragonfly makes to Redis and why it matters to high-scale users. We go through the different needs and requirements of high-scale cache applications and what Roman learned at AWS. We also go through the Redis licensing drama and how to attract developer attention in 2025. Redis is consistently one of the most beloved pieces of infrastructure for developers. And in the last few years, we've seen a number of new Redis-compatible projects that aim to improve on the core of Redis in some way.

One of those projects is DragonflyDB, a multi-threaded version of Redis that allows for significantly higher throughput on a single instance. Roman Gershman is the co-founder and CTO at Dragonfly, and he has a fascinating background. Roman initially worked at Google and then was a frustrated user of Redis while working as an engineer at a fast-growing startup. He did a stint on the ElastiCache team at AWS but struck off on his own to make a new, faster version of Redis.

In this episode, we talk through the improvements that Dragonfly makes to Redis and why it matters to high-scale users. We go through the different needs and requirements of high-scale cache applications and what Roman learned at AWS. We also go through the Redis licensing drama and how to attract developer attention in 2025.


]]> 3651 no Lessons from Building Tagged.com + AI-Driven Database Optimization with Johann Schleier-Smith Today, we’re joined by Johann Schleier-Smith. Johann co-founded Tagged during the early days of social media, a time when building scalable systems for the web was uncharted territory. Back then, cloud computing didn’t exist—everything ran on on-premises servers or in co-located data centers. We discuss the challenges of scaling Tagged and draw parallels to the current wave of innovation around Generative AI and large language models. Johann shares how building with these technologies feels like a similar uphill climb. We also dive into his new venture, CrystalDBA, and how it’s leveraging AI to optimize databases, making advanced database management accessible to everyone. Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:05:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we’re joined by Johann Schleier-Smith. Johann co-founded Tagged during the early days of social media, a time when building scalable systems for the web was uncharted territory. Back then, cloud computing didn’t exist—everything ran on on-premises servers or in co-located data centers. We discuss the challenges of scaling Tagged and draw parallels to the current wave of innovation around Generative AI and large language models. Johann shares how building with these technologies feels like a similar uphill climb. We also dive into his new venture, CrystalDBA, and how it’s leveraging AI to optimize databases, making advanced database management accessible to everyone. Today, we’re joined by Johann Schleier-Smith. Johann co-founded Tagged during the early days of social media, a time when building scalable systems for the web was uncharted territory. Back then, cloud computing didn’t exist—everything ran on on-premises servers or in co-located data centers.


We discuss the challenges of scaling Tagged and draw parallels to the current wave of innovation around Generative AI and large language models. Johann shares how building with these technologies feels like a similar uphill climb.


We also dive into his new venture, CrystalDBA, and how it’s leveraging AI to optimize databases, making advanced database management accessible to everyone.

]]> 3373 Building + Evolving Sentry's Architecture and Funding Open Source with David Cramer Today, we have David Cramer on the show. David is one of the co-founders of Sentry, an application monitoring tool that's one of the most widely-adopted tools for developers. Sentry does over 300,000 events per second on average, and there's a lot of fancy work to process these application errors, from rate limiting to fingerprinting to counting to source map unminifying. We walk through some of the architectural changes and systems design work here, including some of David's thoughts on shipping. David and Sentry also have a unique approach to developer marketing. They do some cool things -- sponsoring and then buying the amazing SyntaxFM podcast, sending $100k of free gifts to developers, and launching the Open Source Pledge with $500k donated to open source developers. Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:03:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have David Cramer on the show. David is one of the co-founders of Sentry, an application monitoring tool that's one of the most widely-adopted tools for developers. Sentry does over 300,000 events per second on average, and there's a lot of fancy work to process these application errors, from rate limiting to fingerprinting to counting to source map unminifying. We walk through some of the architectural changes and systems design work here, including some of David's thoughts on shipping. David and Sentry also have a unique approach to developer marketing. They do some cool things -- sponsoring and then buying the amazing SyntaxFM podcast, sending $100k of free gifts to developers, and launching the Open Source Pledge with $500k donated to open source developers. Today, we have David Cramer on the show. David is one of the co-founders of Sentry, an application monitoring tool that's one of the most widely-adopted tools for developers. Sentry does over 300,000 events per second on average, and there's a lot of fancy work to process these application errors, from rate limiting to fingerprinting to counting to source map unminifying.


We walk through some of the architectural changes and systems design work here, including some of David's thoughts on shipping.


David and Sentry also have a unique approach to developer marketing. They do some cool things -- sponsoring and then buying the amazing SyntaxFM podcast, sending $100k of free gifts to developers, and launching the Open Source Pledge with $500k donated to open source developers.

]]> 4386 no Deep Dive into Inference Optimization for LLMs with Philip Kiely Today we have Philip Kiely from Baseten on the show. Baseten is a Series B startup focused on providing infrastructure for AI workloads. We go deep on Inference Optimization. We cover choosing a model, discuss the hype around Compound AI, choosing an Inference Engine, Optimization Techniques like Quantization and Speculative Decoding all the way down to your GPU choice. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:14:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Philip Kiely from Baseten on the show. Baseten is a Series B startup focused on providing infrastructure for AI workloads. We go deep on Inference Optimization. We cover choosing a model, discuss the hype around Compound AI, choosing an Inference Engine, Optimization Techniques like Quantization and Speculative Decoding all the way down to your GPU choice. Today we have Philip Kiely from Baseten on the show. Baseten is a Series B startup focused on providing infrastructure for AI workloads.


We go deep on Inference Optimization. We cover choosing a model, discuss the hype around Compound AI, choosing an Inference Engine, Optimization Techniques like Quantization and Speculative Decoding all the way down to your GPU choice.

]]> 3845 no Java and Building AI Applications with Kevin Dubois Today on the show, we have Kevin Dubois. Kevin is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, Java Champion, and well known open source contributor. In our conversation with Kevin, we talk about his history with Java and the evolution of the language and where it now fits within the world of AI. Kevin's been building AI applications with Java using Quarkus andLangChain4j. Kevin's a java expert. He's not an AI expert. It's amazing to see how much he's building with AI even without having that background. We also talk a lot about the mindset shift you need to successfully build with generative AI models. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:58:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today on the show, we have Kevin Dubois. Kevin is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, Java Champion, and well known open source contributor. In our conversation with Kevin, we talk about his history with Java and the evolution of the language and where it now fits within the world of AI. Kevin's been building AI applications with Java using Quarkus andLangChain4j. Kevin's a java expert. He's not an AI expert. It's amazing to see how much he's building with AI even without having that background. We also talk a lot about the mindset shift you need to successfully build with generative AI models. Today on the show, we have Kevin Dubois. Kevin is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, Java Champion, and well known open source contributor.


In our conversation with Kevin, we talk about his history with Java and the evolution of the language and where it now fits within the world of AI. Kevin's been building AI applications with Java using Quarkus andLangChain4j. Kevin's a java expert. He's not an AI expert.


It's amazing to see how much he's building with AI even without having that background. We also talk a lot about the mindset shift you need to successfully build with generative AI models.

]]> 3418 no SQLite, Turso, and the State of Databases with Glauber Costa Today we have Glauber Costa on the show, who's the CEO and founder at Turso. They provide a managed SQLite service with some really interesting capabilities that's changing some of the application patterns you can do. He shares a lot of really good technical stuff on Twitter. He worked in the kernel, he worked on high-performance databases at ScyllaDB, and now he's working on Turso. He also has a great and interesting podcast, the Save File, which is about developers and religion. Glauber had some great thoughts on the future of databases, including what the future of NoSQL is like and whether we'll see vector databases as a separate category or as a feature of general-purpose databases. We’ve seen arguments both ways, but he was the most effective at changing our mind. Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:53:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Glauber Costa on the show, who's the CEO and founder at Turso. They provide a managed SQLite service with some really interesting capabilities that's changing some of the application patterns you can do. He shares a lot of really good technical stuff on Twitter. He worked in the kernel, he worked on high-performance databases at ScyllaDB, and now he's working on Turso. He also has a great and interesting podcast, the Save File, which is about developers and religion. Glauber had some great thoughts on the future of databases, including what the future of NoSQL is like and whether we'll see vector databases as a separate category or as a feature of general-purpose databases. We’ve seen arguments both ways, but he was the most effective at changing our mind. Today we have Glauber Costa on the show, who's the CEO and founder at Turso. They provide a managed SQLite service with some really interesting capabilities that's changing some of the application patterns you can do.


He shares a lot of really good technical stuff on Twitter. He worked in the kernel, he worked on high-performance databases at ScyllaDB, and now he's working on Turso. He also has a great and interesting podcast, the Save File, which is about developers and religion.


Glauber had some great thoughts on the future of databases, including what the future of NoSQL is like and whether we'll see vector databases as a separate category or as a feature of general-purpose databases. We’ve seen arguments both ways, but he was the most effective at changing our mind.

]]> 4327 no Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload. Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities. Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous. Links Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite For A Good Strftime: www.foragoodstrftime.com IP Lookup: wafris.org/ip-lookup Timestamps 01:11 Start 03:41 Wafris 07:22 Redis and SQLite 19:09 Flatfile 21:50 Knowatoa 28:22 Web Application Firewalls 46:21 Jumpstart Pro 48:11 Marketing to Developers Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:34:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload. Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities. Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous. Links Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite For A Good Strftime: www.foragoodstrftime.com IP Lookup: wafris.org/ip-lookup Timestamps 01:11 Start 03:41 Wafris 07:22 Redis and SQLite 19:09 Flatfile 21:50 Knowatoa 28:22 Web Application Firewalls 46:21 Jumpstart Pro 48:11 Marketing to Developers Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload.


Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities.


Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous.


Links


Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite

For A Good Strftime: www.foragoodstrftime.com

IP Lookup: wafris.org/ip-lookup


Timestamps


01:11 Start

03:41 Wafris

07:22 Redis and SQLite

19:09 Flatfile

21:50 Knowatoa

28:22 Web Application Firewalls

46:21 Jumpstart Pro

48:11 Marketing to Developers

]]> 3180 no AI Engineer, Web Frameworks, & more with Tejas Kumar Today we have Tejas Kumar on the show. Tejas is part of the Developer Relations team at Datastax. He's really good at frontend, got a great podcast and he has written a book called Fluent React. He spoke recently at the Shift Conference in Croatia, where he talked about AI engineering and what that means. So we talked about AI Engineering, we talked about React, content creation, education, and much more. This episode is full of value and we think you'd love this one. Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:54:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Tejas Kumar on the show. Tejas is part of the Developer Relations team at Datastax. He's really good at frontend, got a great podcast and he has written a book called Fluent React. He spoke recently at the Shift Conference in Croatia, where he talked about AI engineering and what that means. So we talked about AI Engineering, we talked about React, content creation, education, and much more. This episode is full of value and we think you'd love this one. Today we have Tejas Kumar on the show. Tejas is part of the Developer Relations team at Datastax.


He's really good at frontend, got a great podcast and he has written a book called Fluent React.


He spoke recently at the Shift Conference in Croatia, where he talked about AI engineering and what that means.


So we talked about AI Engineering, we talked about React, content creation, education, and much more.


This episode is full of value and we think you'd love this one.

]]> 4918 no The Data Engineering Landscape with Peter Hanssens Today on the show, we have Peter Hanssens, the CEO and founder of Cloud Shuttle and creator of the DataEngBytes Conference. Peter has helped build an incredible data engineering community in Australia. He runs meetups, user groups, luncheons, and entire conferences. And he's also super knowledgeable. He's been working in the data space for a long time. We picked his brain about the history of data tooling, trends he's seeing in the industry and the relationship between data engineers and other types of engineering. Even if you aren't in the data world, we think you will enjoy the conversation. Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:28:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today on the show, we have Peter Hanssens, the CEO and founder of Cloud Shuttle and creator of the DataEngBytes Conference. Peter has helped build an incredible data engineering community in Australia. He runs meetups, user groups, luncheons, and entire conferences. And he's also super knowledgeable. He's been working in the data space for a long time. We picked his brain about the history of data tooling, trends he's seeing in the industry and the relationship between data engineers and other types of engineering. Even if you aren't in the data world, we think you will enjoy the conversation. Today on the show, we have Peter Hanssens, the CEO and founder of Cloud Shuttle and creator of the DataEngBytes Conference.


Peter has helped build an incredible data engineering community in Australia. He runs meetups, user groups, luncheons, and entire conferences. And he's also super knowledgeable. He's been working in the data space for a long time. We picked his brain about the history of data tooling, trends he's seeing in the industry and the relationship between data engineers and other types of engineering. Even if you aren't in the data world, we think you will enjoy the conversation.

]]> 3292 no Infrastructure, AWS, AI and Jobs, HTMX & more Today we have a special guest. We have Jeremy Daly, who’s been in the cloud space for a while. Jeremy is the co-founder of Ampt, which is building an abstraction infrastructure layer on top of AWS, just to make it simpler to sift through all the different options and develop on AWS and do best practices there. So we wanted to get his opinions on a lot of different infrastructure stuff that he's seeing and how AI is changing development. We even talk about some front end stuff at the end and HTMX and whether it's real, whether it's a troll. So lots of good stuff in this episode. Timestamps 01:56 Start 04:28 Jeremy's Background 07:26 Hard things about building ampt 11:59 Infrastructure from Code 17:07 App Runner 20:10 Comparing ampt and PaaS 27:22 Managing a lot of AWS accounts 30:46 Better than AWS 35:27 Thoughts on AWS deprecating services 47:11 Using AI 57:20 ChatGPT Adoption - Non Programmers 01:06:19 AI affecting the job market 01:18:37 HTMX Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:33:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have a special guest. We have Jeremy Daly, who’s been in the cloud space for a while. Jeremy is the co-founder of Ampt, which is building an abstraction infrastructure layer on top of AWS, just to make it simpler to sift through all the different options and develop on AWS and do best practices there. So we wanted to get his opinions on a lot of different infrastructure stuff that he's seeing and how AI is changing development. We even talk about some front end stuff at the end and HTMX and whether it's real, whether it's a troll. So lots of good stuff in this episode. Timestamps 01:56 Start 04:28 Jeremy's Background 07:26 Hard things about building ampt 11:59 Infrastructure from Code 17:07 App Runner 20:10 Comparing ampt and PaaS 27:22 Managing a lot of AWS accounts 30:46 Better than AWS 35:27 Thoughts on AWS deprecating services 47:11 Using AI 57:20 ChatGPT Adoption - Non Programmers 01:06:19 AI affecting the job market 01:18:37 HTMX Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Today we have a special guest. We have Jeremy Daly, who’s been in the cloud space for a while.


Jeremy is the co-founder of Ampt, which is building an abstraction infrastructure layer on top of AWS, just to make it simpler to sift through all the different options and develop on AWS and do best practices there. So we wanted to get his opinions on a lot of different infrastructure stuff that he's seeing and how AI is changing development.


We even talk about some front end stuff at the end and HTMX and whether it's real, whether it's a troll. So lots of good stuff in this episode.


Timestamps


01:56 Start

04:28 Jeremy's Background

07:26 Hard things about building ampt

11:59 Infrastructure from Code

17:07 App Runner

20:10 Comparing ampt and PaaS

27:22 Managing a lot of AWS accounts

30:46 Better than AWS

35:27 Thoughts on AWS deprecating services

47:11 Using AI

57:20 ChatGPT Adoption - Non Programmers

01:06:19 AI affecting the job market

01:18:37 HTMX


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

]]> 5659 no Introduction to GraphRAG with Stephen Chin Today we have Stephen Chin, VP of developer relations at Neo4j on the show. Stephen is an author, speaker, and Java expert, we’ll actually be crossing paths in person at the upcoming Infobip Shift conference in September. We got together to talk about GraphRAG. His CTO recently wrote an article titled The GraphRAG Manifesto, and Stephen joined us to explain how a knowledge graph can be used to improve performance over traditional RAG architectures. It also helps address some of the fundamental limitations to LLM adoption from enterprises today, like hallucinations and explainability. GraphRAG is relatively new, but looks like a very promising approach to improving performance for certain generative AI use cases, like customer support. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:25:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Stephen Chin, VP of developer relations at Neo4j on the show. Stephen is an author, speaker, and Java expert, we’ll actually be crossing paths in person at the upcoming Infobip Shift conference in September. We got together to talk about GraphRAG. His CTO recently wrote an article titled The GraphRAG Manifesto, and Stephen joined us to explain how a knowledge graph can be used to improve performance over traditional RAG architectures. It also helps address some of the fundamental limitations to LLM adoption from enterprises today, like hallucinations and explainability. GraphRAG is relatively new, but looks like a very promising approach to improving performance for certain generative AI use cases, like customer support. Today we have Stephen Chin, VP of developer relations at Neo4j on the show. Stephen is an author, speaker, and Java expert, we’ll actually be crossing paths in person at the upcoming Infobip Shift conference in September.


We got together to talk about GraphRAG. His CTO recently wrote an article titled The GraphRAG Manifesto, and Stephen joined us to explain how a knowledge graph can be used to improve performance over traditional RAG architectures. It also helps address some of the fundamental limitations to LLM adoption from enterprises today, like hallucinations and explainability.


GraphRAG is relatively new, but looks like a very promising approach to improving performance for certain generative AI use cases, like customer support.

]]> 3790 no Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis. Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite. In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including: - Why (and when!) to use SQLite - What courses he's looking at next - How to stay sharp when doing educational content - His origin story as a programmer - Getting kids to be high agency - How PHP became classy. Links https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite https://highperformancesqlite.com/ Timestamps Intro 01:41 Why SQLite 03:31 When to use SQLite 09:14 SQLite Creators 14:20 Holy smokes 17:29 jsonb Indexing? 22:07 SQLite Course 23:54 Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17 Postgres Course Timing 30:26 Nights and Weekends 30:46 Getting into Databases 35:38 Going back to Programming 39:22 In 20 years 40:48 Kids 42:08 Making money is a skill? 47:52 Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43 Sustainable Business 54:23 Doing SaaS 56:13 Working for someone else 57:38 Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34 PHP 01:05:56 Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31 Vue 01:18:39 Warp-up 01:20:41 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:41:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis. Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite. In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including: - Why (and when!) to use SQLite - What courses he's looking at next - How to stay sharp when doing educational content - His origin story as a programmer - Getting kids to be high agency - How PHP became classy. Links https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite https://highperformancesqlite.com/ Timestamps Intro 01:41 Why SQLite 03:31 When to use SQLite 09:14 SQLite Creators 14:20 Holy smokes 17:29 jsonb Indexing? 22:07 SQLite Course 23:54 Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17 Postgres Course Timing 30:26 Nights and Weekends 30:46 Getting into Databases 35:38 Going back to Programming 39:22 In 20 years 40:48 Kids 42:08 Making money is a skill? 47:52 Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43 Sustainable Business 54:23 Doing SaaS 56:13 Working for someone else 57:38 Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34 PHP 01:05:56 Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31 Vue 01:18:39 Warp-up 01:20:41 Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis.

Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite.

In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including:


- Why (and when!) to use SQLite

- What courses he's looking at next

- How to stay sharp when doing educational content

- His origin story as a programmer

- Getting kids to be high agency

- How PHP became classy.


Links

https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite

https://highperformancesqlite.com/


Timestamps


Intro 01:41

Why SQLite 03:31

When to use SQLite 09:14

SQLite Creators 14:20

Holy smokes 17:29

jsonb Indexing? 22:07

SQLite Course 23:54

Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17

Postgres Course Timing 30:26

Nights and Weekends 30:46

Getting into Databases 35:38

Going back to Programming 39:22

In 20 years 40:48

Kids 42:08

Making money is a skill? 47:52

Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43

Sustainable Business 54:23

Doing SaaS 56:13

Working for someone else 57:38

Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34

PHP 01:05:56

Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31

Vue 01:18:39

Warp-up 01:20:41

]]> 4896 no Infrastructure as Code with Dax Raad Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions. We talked a lot about SST, which is the infrastructure as code tool that he works on. They've got a new engine called Ion that's releasing. So we talked about what that looks like and how that's going to help users. We picked his brain on questions like, "Which cloud providers do you trust?" "Which services do you rely on?" and touched on topics like frontend development, databases, and more. We also talked about marketing to developers, he's got a unique take on that. So a lot of interesting stuff here. Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:51:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions. We talked a lot about SST, which is the infrastructure as code tool that he works on. They've got a new engine called Ion that's releasing. So we talked about what that looks like and how that's going to help users. We picked his brain on questions like, "Which cloud providers do you trust?" "Which services do you rely on?" and touched on topics like frontend development, databases, and more. We also talked about marketing to developers, he's got a unique take on that. So a lot of interesting stuff here. Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions.


We talked a lot about SST, which is the infrastructure as code tool that he works on.

They've got a new engine called Ion that's releasing. So we talked about what that looks like and how that's going to help users.


We picked his brain on questions like, "Which cloud providers do you trust?" "Which services do you rely on?" and touched on topics like frontend development, databases, and more.


We also talked about marketing to developers, he's got a unique take on that. So a lot of interesting stuff here.

]]> 4667 no No More Broken Docs with Manny Silva Today, we have Manny Silva, Head of Docs at Skyflow, on the show to talk about two open source projects he created, Docs as Tests and Doc Detective. Docs as Tests is a framework to make sure that your docs are in sync with your product. It's essentially a way to test your docs just like engineers test their code, and Doc Detective is Manny's implementation of that framework. We discuss the history and motivation behind the projects, what they enable, and how people are using it today. Timestamps 01:57 Intro 06:51 Testing Documentation 09:26 Competing Against 11:26 Docs as Tests & Doc Detective 13:32 How does one apply these ideas? 16:49 How does test writing work? 19:26 Out of the box checks 23:15 Configurations Structure to create tests 24:28 Integration with the normal flow 28:20 Freshness 29:13 Tools used to build it 32:02 Open Source 33:27 Limitations 35:31 MongoDB's version of Docs as tests 36:42 Innovation Engine by Azure 37:27 Teams using Doc Detective 38:12 At Skyflow 40:52 Future 41:41 How to get started 45:18 Rapid Fire Links Docs as Tests: https://www.docsastests.com/ Doc Detective: https://doc-detective.com/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:51:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Manny Silva, Head of Docs at Skyflow, on the show to talk about two open source projects he created, Docs as Tests and Doc Detective. Docs as Tests is a framework to make sure that your docs are in sync with your product. It's essentially a way to test your docs just like engineers test their code, and Doc Detective is Manny's implementation of that framework. We discuss the history and motivation behind the projects, what they enable, and how people are using it today. Timestamps 01:57 Intro 06:51 Testing Documentation 09:26 Competing Against 11:26 Docs as Tests & Doc Detective 13:32 How does one apply these ideas? 16:49 How does test writing work? 19:26 Out of the box checks 23:15 Configurations Structure to create tests 24:28 Integration with the normal flow 28:20 Freshness 29:13 Tools used to build it 32:02 Open Source 33:27 Limitations 35:31 MongoDB's version of Docs as tests 36:42 Innovation Engine by Azure 37:27 Teams using Doc Detective 38:12 At Skyflow 40:52 Future 41:41 How to get started 45:18 Rapid Fire Links Docs as Tests: https://www.docsastests.com/ Doc Detective: https://doc-detective.com/ Today, we have Manny Silva, Head of Docs at Skyflow, on the show to talk about two open source projects he created, Docs as Tests and Doc Detective. Docs as Tests is a framework to make sure that your docs are in sync with your product. It's essentially a way to test your docs just like engineers test their code, and Doc Detective is Manny's implementation of that framework.

We discuss the history and motivation behind the projects, what they enable, and how people are using it today.


Timestamps


01:57 Intro

06:51 Testing Documentation

09:26 Competing Against

11:26 Docs as Tests & Doc Detective

13:32 How does one apply these ideas?

16:49 How does test writing work?

19:26 Out of the box checks

23:15 Configurations Structure to create tests

24:28 Integration with the normal flow

28:20 Freshness

29:13 Tools used to build it

32:02 Open Source

33:27 Limitations

35:31 MongoDB's version of Docs as tests

36:42 Innovation Engine by Azure

37:27 Teams using Doc Detective

38:12 At Skyflow

40:52 Future

41:41 How to get started

45:18 Rapid Fire


Links


Docs as Tests: https://www.docsastests.com/

Doc Detective: https://doc-detective.com/

]]> 2890 no Architecting for SaaS with Bill Tarr This week on the show, we talk with Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS SaaS Factory. He's a super thoughtful guy, expert in SaaS architecture and architectural patterns. We talk about tenancy, infrastructure decisions, SaaS gotchas, security, permissioning, and even dip into technical challenges of building Gen AI into SaaS. Timestamps 00:01:29 Background 00:07:26 Common Challenges 00:11:46 Infrastructure Choices 00:14:29 Missteps 00:18:57 Control Plane & Application Plane 00:25:52 Permissioning in a Multi-tenant setup 00:32:54 Gen AI & SaaS 00:35:07 Amazon Bedrock 00:49:27 Quickfire questions 01:01:17 Security In SaaS Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:14:00 -0000 full Software Huddle This week on the show, we talk with Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS SaaS Factory. He's a super thoughtful guy, expert in SaaS architecture and architectural patterns. We talk about tenancy, infrastructure decisions, SaaS gotchas, security, permissioning, and even dip into technical challenges of building Gen AI into SaaS. Timestamps 00:01:29 Background 00:07:26 Common Challenges 00:11:46 Infrastructure Choices 00:14:29 Missteps 00:18:57 Control Plane & Application Plane 00:25:52 Permissioning in a Multi-tenant setup 00:32:54 Gen AI & SaaS 00:35:07 Amazon Bedrock 00:49:27 Quickfire questions 01:01:17 Security In SaaS This week on the show, we talk with Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS SaaS Factory. He's a super thoughtful guy, expert in SaaS architecture and architectural patterns. We talk about tenancy, infrastructure decisions, SaaS gotchas, security, permissioning, and even dip into technical challenges of building Gen AI into SaaS.


Timestamps

00:01:29 Background

00:07:26 Common Challenges

00:11:46 Infrastructure Choices

00:14:29 Missteps

00:18:57 Control Plane & Application Plane

00:25:52 Permissioning in a Multi-tenant setup

00:32:54 Gen AI & SaaS

00:35:07 Amazon Bedrock

00:49:27 Quickfire questions

01:01:17 Security In SaaS

]]> 4193 no Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with basically no changes to your build step. Depot is growing like crazy and just surpassed *one million* builds per month. We looked at how he found the idea for Depot and some of the technology underlying the service. Kyle also shares a ton of wisdom about building a company and specifically a developer tools company. This includes his experience in YC (including how hard he worked on his YC application) and the importance of having "model companies" that are a few steps ahead of you in the process. We talk about how the funding market has change and how he thinks about hiring, fundraising, and profitability. His advice on company building and the focus on what's important is super helpful to those in a similar position. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:59:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with basically no changes to your build step. Depot is growing like crazy and just surpassed *one million* builds per month. We looked at how he found the idea for Depot and some of the technology underlying the service. Kyle also shares a ton of wisdom about building a company and specifically a developer tools company. This includes his experience in YC (including how hard he worked on his YC application) and the importance of having "model companies" that are a few steps ahead of you in the process. We talk about how the funding market has change and how he thinks about hiring, fundraising, and profitability. His advice on company building and the focus on what's important is super helpful to those in a similar position. In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with basically no changes to your build step. Depot is growing like crazy and just surpassed *one million* builds per month. We looked at how he found the idea for Depot and some of the technology underlying the service.


Kyle also shares a ton of wisdom about building a company and specifically a developer tools company. This includes his experience in YC (including how hard he worked on his YC application) and the importance of having "model companies" that are a few steps ahead of you in the process. We talk about how the funding market has change and how he thinks about hiring, fundraising, and profitability.


His advice on company building and the focus on what's important is super helpful to those in a similar position.

]]> 4617 no High Performance Postgres with Andrew Atkinson Database performance is likely the biggest factor in whether your application is slow or not, and yet too many developers don't take the time to properly understand how their database works. In today's episode, we have Andrew Atkinson who just released a new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails. Andrew is one of those "Accidental DBAs" that fell into learning about database optimization at his job and ended up getting pretty dang good at it. In this episode, We hit Andrew with a bunch of questions about using Postgres properly, including how tight to your schema should be, how to handle Postgres operations, and how to think about performance testing with Postgres. We also got into some aspects about the process of writing a book and what he recommends for others. If you're building an application with a relational database, this book will help you. It has real code repositories so you can walk through the steps yourself, and it teaches the concepts in addition to the practical aspects so you understand what's happening. Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:41:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Database performance is likely the biggest factor in whether your application is slow or not, and yet too many developers don't take the time to properly understand how their database works. In today's episode, we have Andrew Atkinson who just released a new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails. Andrew is one of those "Accidental DBAs" that fell into learning about database optimization at his job and ended up getting pretty dang good at it. In this episode, We hit Andrew with a bunch of questions about using Postgres properly, including how tight to your schema should be, how to handle Postgres operations, and how to think about performance testing with Postgres. We also got into some aspects about the process of writing a book and what he recommends for others. If you're building an application with a relational database, this book will help you. It has real code repositories so you can walk through the steps yourself, and it teaches the concepts in addition to the practical aspects so you understand what's happening. Database performance is likely the biggest factor in whether your application is slow or not, and yet too many developers don't take the time to properly understand how their database works. In today's episode, we have Andrew Atkinson who just released a new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails. Andrew is one of those "Accidental DBAs" that fell into learning about database optimization at his job and ended up getting pretty dang good at it.


In this episode, We hit Andrew with a bunch of questions about using Postgres properly, including how tight to your schema should be, how to handle Postgres operations, and how to think about performance testing with Postgres. We also got into some aspects about the process of writing a book and what he recommends for others.


If you're building an application with a relational database, this book will help you. It has real code repositories so you can walk through the steps yourself, and it teaches the concepts in addition to the practical aspects so you understand what's happening.

]]> 4435 no Postgres for Search + Analytics with Philippe Noël ParadeDB is Postgres for search and analytics. As Postgres continues to rise in popularity, the "Just Use Postgres'' movement is getting stronger and stronger. Yet there are still things that standard Postgres doesn't do well, and advanced search and analytics functionality is near the top of the list. The ParadeDB team provides a pair of Postgres extensions. The first, pg_search, brings a more performant and full-featured search experience to Postgres. It uses Tantivy (think: Lucene but Rust) as the search engine and provides advanced ranking and querying functionality. The second, pg_lakehouse, allows you to perform large analytical queries over object store data. Together, these provide compelling new features wrapped in a familiar operational package. Philippe Noël is one of the founders of ParadeDB. In this episode, we talk about why these extensions were needed, why the 'Just Use Postgres' movement exists, and where ParadeDB fits in your architecture. Follow Philippe: https://x.com/philippemnoel Follow Alex: https://x.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer Check Out ParadeDB: https://www.paradedb.com/ Timestamps 01:50:18 Intro 04:30:23 Where does seach on Postgres fall down? 05:33:09 BM25 and TF-IDF 07:23:03 Postgres Tipping Point 10:05:08 Tantivy 11:50:14 Tantivy vs Lucene 13:07:06 vs ZomboDB 15:35:21 Just Use Postgres for Everything? 17:57:17 Developing a Postgres Extension 19:26:03 Arvid's Problem 20:27:08 Postgres and Log Data 23:28:01 Separate OLTP and Search Instances 28:32:01 Search Nodes vs OLTP Nodes 30:02:12 ParadeDB Analytics 35:27:05 Hosted Service 39:03:15 Stumbling upon the Idea 39:51:22 Community 41:01:15 Getting Started with ParadeDB Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:48:00 -0000 full Software Huddle ParadeDB is Postgres for search and analytics. As Postgres continues to rise in popularity, the "Just Use Postgres'' movement is getting stronger and stronger. Yet there are still things that standard Postgres doesn't do well, and advanced search and analytics functionality is near the top of the list. The ParadeDB team provides a pair of Postgres extensions. The first, pg_search, brings a more performant and full-featured search experience to Postgres. It uses Tantivy (think: Lucene but Rust) as the search engine and provides advanced ranking and querying functionality. The second, pg_lakehouse, allows you to perform large analytical queries over object store data. Together, these provide compelling new features wrapped in a familiar operational package. Philippe Noël is one of the founders of ParadeDB. In this episode, we talk about why these extensions were needed, why the 'Just Use Postgres' movement exists, and where ParadeDB fits in your architecture. Follow Philippe: https://x.com/philippemnoel Follow Alex: https://x.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer Check Out ParadeDB: https://www.paradedb.com/ Timestamps 01:50:18 Intro 04:30:23 Where does seach on Postgres fall down? 05:33:09 BM25 and TF-IDF 07:23:03 Postgres Tipping Point 10:05:08 Tantivy 11:50:14 Tantivy vs Lucene 13:07:06 vs ZomboDB 15:35:21 Just Use Postgres for Everything? 17:57:17 Developing a Postgres Extension 19:26:03 Arvid's Problem 20:27:08 Postgres and Log Data 23:28:01 Separate OLTP and Search Instances 28:32:01 Search Nodes vs OLTP Nodes 30:02:12 ParadeDB Analytics 35:27:05 Hosted Service 39:03:15 Stumbling upon the Idea 39:51:22 Community 41:01:15 Getting Started with ParadeDB ParadeDB is Postgres for search and analytics. As Postgres continues to rise in popularity, the "Just Use Postgres'' movement is getting stronger and stronger. Yet there are still things that standard Postgres doesn't do well, and advanced search and analytics functionality is near the top of the list.


The ParadeDB team provides a pair of Postgres extensions. The first, pg_search, brings a more performant and full-featured search experience to Postgres. It uses Tantivy (think: Lucene but Rust) as the search engine and provides advanced ranking and querying functionality. The second, pg_lakehouse, allows you to perform large analytical queries over object store data. Together, these provide compelling new features wrapped in a familiar operational package.


Philippe Noël is one of the founders of ParadeDB. In this episode, we talk about why these extensions were needed, why the 'Just Use Postgres' movement exists, and where ParadeDB fits in your architecture.


Follow Philippe: https://x.com/philippemnoel

Follow Alex: https://x.com/alexbdebrie

Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer


Check Out ParadeDB: https://www.paradedb.com/


Timestamps


01:50:18 Intro

04:30:23 Where does seach on Postgres fall down?

05:33:09 BM25 and TF-IDF

07:23:03 Postgres Tipping Point

10:05:08 Tantivy

11:50:14 Tantivy vs Lucene

13:07:06 vs ZomboDB

15:35:21 Just Use Postgres for Everything?

17:57:17 Developing a Postgres Extension

19:26:03 Arvid's Problem

20:27:08 Postgres and Log Data

23:28:01 Separate OLTP and Search Instances

28:32:01 Search Nodes vs OLTP Nodes

30:02:12 ParadeDB Analytics

35:27:05 Hosted Service

39:03:15 Stumbling upon the Idea

39:51:22 Community

41:01:15 Getting Started with ParadeDB

]]> 2559 no AI Agents and Long Context Windows with Mark Huang Today we have Mark Huang on the show. Mark has previously held roles in Data Science and ML at companies like Box and Splunk and is now the co-founder and chief architect of Gradient, an enterprise AI platform to build and deploy autonomous assistants. In our chat, we get into some of the stuff he’s seeing around autonomous AI agents and why people are so excited about that space. Mark and his team has also recently been working on a project to extend the Llama-3 context window. They were able to extend the model from 8K tokens all the way to 1 million through a technique called theta-scaling. He walks us through the details of this project and how longer context windows will impact the types of use cases we can serve with LLMs. Follow Mark: https://x.com/markatgradient Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:18:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Mark Huang on the show. Mark has previously held roles in Data Science and ML at companies like Box and Splunk and is now the co-founder and chief architect of Gradient, an enterprise AI platform to build and deploy autonomous assistants. In our chat, we get into some of the stuff he’s seeing around autonomous AI agents and why people are so excited about that space. Mark and his team has also recently been working on a project to extend the Llama-3 context window. They were able to extend the model from 8K tokens all the way to 1 million through a technique called theta-scaling. He walks us through the details of this project and how longer context windows will impact the types of use cases we can serve with LLMs. Follow Mark: https://x.com/markatgradient Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer Today we have Mark Huang on the show. Mark has previously held roles in Data Science and ML at companies like Box and Splunk and is now the co-founder and chief architect of Gradient, an enterprise AI platform to build and deploy autonomous assistants.


In our chat, we get into some of the stuff he’s seeing around autonomous AI agents and why people are so excited about that space. Mark and his team has also recently been working on a project to extend the Llama-3 context window. They were able to extend the model from 8K tokens all the way to 1 million through a technique called theta-scaling. He walks us through the details of this project and how longer context windows will impact the types of use cases we can serve with LLMs.


Follow Mark: https://x.com/markatgradient

Follow Sean: https://x.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3024 no Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a vector database will play in the future of AI applications, and how Weaviate works under the hood. We also get into why a specialized vector database is needed versus using vectors as a feature within conventional databases. Bob van Luijt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/ Sean on X: https://x.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:54:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a vector database will play in the future of AI applications, and how Weaviate works under the hood. We also get into why a specialized vector database is needed versus using vectors as a feature within conventional databases. Bob van Luijt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/ Sean on X: https://x.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a vector database will play in the future of AI applications, and how Weaviate works under the hood.


We also get into why a specialized vector database is needed versus using vectors as a feature within conventional databases.


Bob van Luijt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/

Sean on X: https://x.com/seanfalconer


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

]]> 2839 no Akamai: From CDN to Full Cloud Provider with Talia Nassi Today, we have Talia Nassi on the show. Talia’s been leading Developer Advocacy at Akamai. Akamai is in a really interesting space where they've been around for a long time, as a CDN provider, as a security provider, and now they acquired Linode, and acquired a bunch of other companies which has expanded them into more of like a full fledged cloud provider. We had a really interesting discussion talking about the expansion, we also talked about her thoughts on infrastructure as code, multi cloud, and just getting into DevRel and what that experience has been like for her. Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:01:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Talia Nassi on the show. Talia’s been leading Developer Advocacy at Akamai. Akamai is in a really interesting space where they've been around for a long time, as a CDN provider, as a security provider, and now they acquired Linode, and acquired a bunch of other companies which has expanded them into more of like a full fledged cloud provider. We had a really interesting discussion talking about the expansion, we also talked about her thoughts on infrastructure as code, multi cloud, and just getting into DevRel and what that experience has been like for her. Today, we have Talia Nassi on the show. Talia’s been leading Developer Advocacy at Akamai.

Akamai is in a really interesting space where they've been around for a long time, as a CDN provider, as a security provider, and now they acquired Linode, and acquired a bunch of other companies which has expanded them into more of like a full fledged cloud provider.

We had a really interesting discussion talking about the expansion, we also talked about her thoughts on infrastructure as code, multi cloud, and just getting into DevRel and what that experience has been like for her.

]]> 2508 no Jamstack and Composable Web Architecture with Brian Rinaldi Today we have Brian Rinaldi from LaunchDarkly on the show. This is the final episode of our in person coverage at the SHIFT Conference in Miami. And although Brian works at LaunchDarkly, we actually didn't talk at all about his employer and instead chatted about Jamstack. Brian has a long history with Jamstack, has written a lot about it. Jamstack was popularized and created by Netlify. And there's been a lot of history of controversy with the term. Some people think of it's merely a branding ploy or a marketing thing, and others find it simply confusing because we have terms like LAMP stack, MEAN stack and MERN stack. So Jamstack automatically gets lumped in with those, but it's not actually a technology stack. It's an architectural pattern. Recently, Jamstack has been giving away to what is known as composable frontends and we picked Brian's brain on this and what this means not only for Jamstack, but also the future web development. Tue, 28 May 2024 16:25:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Brian Rinaldi from LaunchDarkly on the show. This is the final episode of our in person coverage at the SHIFT Conference in Miami. And although Brian works at LaunchDarkly, we actually didn't talk at all about his employer and instead chatted about Jamstack. Brian has a long history with Jamstack, has written a lot about it. Jamstack was popularized and created by Netlify. And there's been a lot of history of controversy with the term. Some people think of it's merely a branding ploy or a marketing thing, and others find it simply confusing because we have terms like LAMP stack, MEAN stack and MERN stack. So Jamstack automatically gets lumped in with those, but it's not actually a technology stack. It's an architectural pattern. Recently, Jamstack has been giving away to what is known as composable frontends and we picked Brian's brain on this and what this means not only for Jamstack, but also the future web development. Today we have Brian Rinaldi from LaunchDarkly on the show. This is the final episode of our in person coverage at the SHIFT Conference in Miami. And although Brian works at LaunchDarkly, we actually didn't talk at all about his employer and instead chatted about Jamstack. Brian has a long history with Jamstack, has written a lot about it.

Jamstack was popularized and created by Netlify. And there's been a lot of history of controversy with the term. Some people think of it's merely a branding ploy or a marketing thing, and others find it simply confusing because we have terms like LAMP stack, MEAN stack and MERN stack.

So Jamstack automatically gets lumped in with those, but it's not actually a technology stack. It's an architectural pattern. Recently, Jamstack has been giving away to what is known as composable frontends and we picked Brian's brain on this and what this means not only for Jamstack, but also the future web development.

]]> 3239 no Practical AI for LLMs with Emanuel Lacić Today we have Emanuel Lacić on the  show. He was in academia for a while. Now he’s been working at Infobip for the last couple of years, building some of this AI stuff and putting it into production. We picked his brain about the best practices when it comes to AI and what we can expect to see over the next couple of years. Wed, 22 May 2024 14:01:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have Emanuel Lacić on the  show. He was in academia for a while. Now he’s been working at Infobip for the last couple of years, building some of this AI stuff and putting it into production. We picked his brain about the best practices when it comes to AI and what we can expect to see over the next couple of years. Today we have Emanuel Lacić on the  show. He was in academia for a while. Now he’s been working at Infobip for the last couple of years, building some of this AI stuff and putting it into production. We picked his brain about the best practices when it comes to AI and what we can expect to see over the next couple of years.

]]> 3076 no Why Building an API for Email is Hard with Christine Spang Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we caught up with her there. Nylas is a unified API for email, calendar, and contacts. We talked to Christine about why she started Nylas, and the challenges with building an API for email. Email is this massive distributed system with a very diverse set of implementations, it's a super gnarly ecosystem going back decades. It's generally not something you want to spend a lot of time on if you don't have to. Christine was a lot of fun to have on the show. Follow Christine: https://twitter.com/spang Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/ Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com Wed, 15 May 2024 12:10:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we caught up with her there. Nylas is a unified API for email, calendar, and contacts. We talked to Christine about why she started Nylas, and the challenges with building an API for email. Email is this massive distributed system with a very diverse set of implementations, it's a super gnarly ecosystem going back decades. It's generally not something you want to spend a lot of time on if you don't have to. Christine was a lot of fun to have on the show. Follow Christine: https://twitter.com/spang Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/ Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we caught up with her there. Nylas is a unified API for email, calendar, and contacts. We talked to Christine about why she started Nylas, and the challenges with building an API for email.


Email is this massive distributed system with a very diverse set of implementations, it's a super gnarly ecosystem going back decades. It's generally not something you want to spend a lot of time on if you don't have to. Christine was a lot of fun to have on the show.


Follow Christine: https://twitter.com/spang

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie


Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com

]]> 3393 no Enterprise-grade Dev Environments with Ivan Burazin Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip. Ivan has tons of experience building developer tools, he has been working on dev environments for over a decade. In this interview, we talk about another company he founded called CodeAnywhere that eventually led to the founding of Daytona. Daytona is a dev environment management platform. It sits between your IDE and the cloud, taking care of standardizing your dev environments, regardless of whether you're building on your desktop or deploying to production. They're taking the best of what leading technology companies like Google, Uber, and Meta have built internally and bringing that to the rest of the world. Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 07 May 2024 18:39:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip. Ivan has tons of experience building developer tools, he has been working on dev environments for over a decade. In this interview, we talk about another company he founded called CodeAnywhere that eventually led to the founding of Daytona. Daytona is a dev environment management platform. It sits between your IDE and the cloud, taking care of standardizing your dev environments, regardless of whether you're building on your desktop or deploying to production. They're taking the best of what leading technology companies like Google, Uber, and Meta have built internally and bringing that to the rest of the world. Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip. Ivan has tons of experience building developer tools, he has been working on dev environments for over a decade.


In this interview, we talk about another company he founded called CodeAnywhere that eventually led to the founding of Daytona. Daytona is a dev environment management platform. It sits between your IDE and the cloud, taking care of standardizing your dev environments, regardless of whether you're building on your desktop or deploying to production.


They're taking the best of what leading technology companies like Google, Uber, and Meta have built internally and bringing that to the rest of the world.


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

]]> 3093 no Operational Data Warehouse with Nikhil Benesch Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both worlds, combining the capabilities of your data warehouse with the immediacy of streaming. This fusion allows businesses to operate with data in real-time. We discussed the data infrastructure stuff of it, how they built it, how they think about billing, how they think about cloud primitives and what they wish they had. Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:14:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both worlds, combining the capabilities of your data warehouse with the immediacy of streaming. This fusion allows businesses to operate with data in real-time. We discussed the data infrastructure stuff of it, how they built it, how they think about billing, how they think about cloud primitives and what they wish they had. Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both worlds, combining the capabilities of your data warehouse with the immediacy of streaming. This fusion allows businesses to operate with data in real-time.

We discussed the data infrastructure stuff of it, how they built it, how they think about billing, how they think about cloud primitives and what they wish they had.

]]> 3956 no Multi-tenancy with Khawaja Shams Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache.  He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and now he's doing Memento. We talk about a lot of different things, including multi-tenancy and cellular architecture and what it's like to build on AWS and sell infrastructure products to end customers and just a lot of other really good stuff. We hope you enjoy this episode. 01:12 Introduction 03:38 multi-tenancy 08:13 S3 and Tigris 15:09 Aurora 19:11 Momento 31:21 Cellular Architecture 41:16 Most people are doing cross-AZ wrong 52:23 Elasticsearch 01:03:08 Rapid Fire Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:29:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache.  He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and now he's doing Memento. We talk about a lot of different things, including multi-tenancy and cellular architecture and what it's like to build on AWS and sell infrastructure products to end customers and just a lot of other really good stuff. We hope you enjoy this episode. 01:12 Introduction 03:38 multi-tenancy 08:13 S3 and Tigris 15:09 Aurora 19:11 Momento 31:21 Cellular Architecture 41:16 Most people are doing cross-AZ wrong 52:23 Elasticsearch 01:03:08 Rapid Fire Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache. 


He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and now he's doing Memento. We talk about a lot of different things, including multi-tenancy and cellular architecture and what it's like to build on AWS and sell infrastructure products to end customers and just a lot of other really good stuff.

We hope you enjoy this episode.


01:12 Introduction

03:38 multi-tenancy

08:13 S3 and Tigris

15:09 Aurora

19:11 Momento

31:21 Cellular Architecture

41:16 Most people are doing cross-AZ wrong

52:23 Elasticsearch

01:03:08 Rapid Fire


]]> 4144 no All about Rust with Tim McNamara In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in Action book, which is probably the best Rust book out there. He has a YouTube channel, he taught and did a lot of educational work on Rust at Amazon AWS. We talked about object ownership and object lifetimes and just all these interesting things that Rust has and why is this language loved by so many and why it's continuing to grow. He also gets into what it's like being an independent educator, creator, and some of the difficulties with that, how to get started, and how he deals with doubt. Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:40:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in Action book, which is probably the best Rust book out there. He has a YouTube channel, he taught and did a lot of educational work on Rust at Amazon AWS. We talked about object ownership and object lifetimes and just all these interesting things that Rust has and why is this language loved by so many and why it's continuing to grow. He also gets into what it's like being an independent educator, creator, and some of the difficulties with that, how to get started, and how he deals with doubt. In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in Action book, which is probably the best Rust book out there. He has a YouTube channel, he taught and did a lot of educational work on Rust at Amazon AWS.

We talked about object ownership and object lifetimes and just all these interesting things that Rust has and why is this language loved by so many and why it's continuing to grow.


He also gets into what it's like being an independent educator, creator, and some of the difficulties with that, how to get started, and how he deals with doubt.

]]> 6716 no Becoming an Epic Web Developer with Kent C Dodds Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and Epic Web Dev have helped countless developers uplevel their skills and develop whole new ones. During our conversation, we discussed how he got to start in creating courses in the background on his latest project, Epic Web Dev. We also picked his brain about JavaScript. Why the heck do we have so many JavaScript frameworks? Are we just perpetually dissatisfied with what we have? Or is there a fundamental problem with how the web is actually designed? There's a lot of meat in the bone on this one, and we hope you enjoy it. Show Notes: The Web’s Next Transition https://www.epicweb.dev/the-webs-next-transition Epic Web Conference 2024 CONFERENCE DAY April 11th, 2024 WORKSHOP DAY April 10th, 2024 https://www.epicweb.dev/conf Timestamps 01:46 Kent’s Background 05:38 Epic Web Dev 15:07 Creating an engaging course 19:07 How long does it take to finish the course 23:01 JavaScript and CS 25:47 Things that you should know 29:09 JS frameworks 36:28 Re-building the Web from Scratch? 42:59 PESPA Architecture 53:04 Rapid Fire Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:01:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and Epic Web Dev have helped countless developers uplevel their skills and develop whole new ones. During our conversation, we discussed how he got to start in creating courses in the background on his latest project, Epic Web Dev. We also picked his brain about JavaScript. Why the heck do we have so many JavaScript frameworks? Are we just perpetually dissatisfied with what we have? Or is there a fundamental problem with how the web is actually designed? There's a lot of meat in the bone on this one, and we hope you enjoy it. Show Notes: The Web’s Next Transition https://www.epicweb.dev/the-webs-next-transition Epic Web Conference 2024 CONFERENCE DAY April 11th, 2024 WORKSHOP DAY April 10th, 2024 https://www.epicweb.dev/conf Timestamps 01:46 Kent’s Background 05:38 Epic Web Dev 15:07 Creating an engaging course 19:07 How long does it take to finish the course 23:01 JavaScript and CS 25:47 Things that you should know 29:09 JS frameworks 36:28 Re-building the Web from Scratch? 42:59 PESPA Architecture 53:04 Rapid Fire Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and Epic Web Dev have helped countless developers uplevel their skills and develop whole new ones.

During our conversation, we discussed how he got to start in creating courses in the background on his latest project, Epic Web Dev. We also picked his brain about JavaScript. Why the heck do we have so many JavaScript frameworks? Are we just perpetually dissatisfied with what we have? Or is there a fundamental problem with how the web is actually designed?

There's a lot of meat in the bone on this one, and we hope you enjoy it.


Show Notes:

The Web’s Next Transition

https://www.epicweb.dev/the-webs-next-transition


Epic Web Conference 2024

CONFERENCE DAY April 11th, 2024

WORKSHOP DAY April 10th, 2024

https://www.epicweb.dev/conf


Timestamps


01:46 Kent’s Background

05:38 Epic Web Dev

15:07 Creating an engaging course

19:07 How long does it take to finish the course

23:01 JavaScript and CS

25:47 Things that you should know

29:09 JS frameworks

36:28 Re-building the Web from Scratch?

42:59 PESPA Architecture

53:04 Rapid Fire

]]> 3339 no SQL Meets Vector Search with Linpeng Tang of MyScale Welcome back to an episode where we're talking Vectors, Vector Databases, and AI with Linpeng Tang, CTO and co-founder of MyScale. MyScale is a super interesting technology. They're combining the best of OLAP databases with Vector Search. The project started back in 2019 where they forked ClickHouse and then adapted it to support Vector Storage, Indexing, and Search. The really unique and cool thing is you get the familiarity and usability of SQL with the power of being able to compare the similarity between unstructured data. We think this has really fascinating use cases for analytics well beyond what we're seeing with other vector database technology that's mostly restricted to building RAG models for LLMs. Also, because it's built on ClickHouse, MyScale is massively scalable, which is an area that many of the dedicated vector databases actually struggle with. We cover a lot about how vector databases work, why they decided to build off of ClickHouse, and how they plan to open source the database. Timestamps 02:29 Introduction 06:22 Value of a Vector Database 12:40 Forking ClickHouse 18:53 Transforming Clickhouse into a SQL vector database 32:08 Data modeling 32:56 What data can be Vectorized 38:37 Indexing 43:35 Achieving Scale 46:35 Bottlenecks 48:41 MyScale vs other dedicated Vector Databases 51:38 Going Open Source 56:04 Closing thoughts Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:50:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Welcome back to an episode where we're talking Vectors, Vector Databases, and AI with Linpeng Tang, CTO and co-founder of MyScale. MyScale is a super interesting technology. They're combining the best of OLAP databases with Vector Search. The project started back in 2019 where they forked ClickHouse and then adapted it to support Vector Storage, Indexing, and Search. The really unique and cool thing is you get the familiarity and usability of SQL with the power of being able to compare the similarity between unstructured data. We think this has really fascinating use cases for analytics well beyond what we're seeing with other vector database technology that's mostly restricted to building RAG models for LLMs. Also, because it's built on ClickHouse, MyScale is massively scalable, which is an area that many of the dedicated vector databases actually struggle with. We cover a lot about how vector databases work, why they decided to build off of ClickHouse, and how they plan to open source the database. Timestamps 02:29 Introduction 06:22 Value of a Vector Database 12:40 Forking ClickHouse 18:53 Transforming Clickhouse into a SQL vector database 32:08 Data modeling 32:56 What data can be Vectorized 38:37 Indexing 43:35 Achieving Scale 46:35 Bottlenecks 48:41 MyScale vs other dedicated Vector Databases 51:38 Going Open Source 56:04 Closing thoughts Welcome back to an episode where we're talking Vectors, Vector Databases, and AI with Linpeng Tang, CTO and co-founder of MyScale. MyScale is a super interesting technology. They're combining the best of OLAP databases with Vector Search. The project started back in 2019 where they forked ClickHouse and then adapted it to support Vector Storage, Indexing, and Search.

The really unique and cool thing is you get the familiarity and usability of SQL with the power of being able to compare the similarity between unstructured data.

We think this has really fascinating use cases for analytics well beyond what we're seeing with other vector database technology that's mostly restricted to building RAG models for LLMs. Also, because it's built on ClickHouse, MyScale is massively scalable, which is an area that many of the dedicated vector databases actually struggle with.

We cover a lot about how vector databases work, why they decided to build off of ClickHouse, and how they plan to open source the database.


Timestamps

02:29 Introduction

06:22 Value of a Vector Database

12:40 Forking ClickHouse

18:53 Transforming Clickhouse into a SQL vector database

32:08 Data modeling

32:56 What data can be Vectorized

38:37 Indexing

43:35 Achieving Scale

46:35 Bottlenecks

48:41 MyScale vs other dedicated Vector Databases

51:38 Going Open Source

56:04 Closing thoughts

]]> 3698 no What is a Vector Database with Yujian Tang Today's guest is Yujian Tang from Zilliz, one of the big players in the vector database market. This is the first episode in a series of episodes we’re doing on vectors and vector databases. We start with the basics, what is a vector? What are vector embeddings? How does vector search work? And why the heck do I even need a vector database? RAG models for customizing LLMs is where vector databases are getting a lot of their use. On the surface, it seems pretty simple, but in reality, there's a lot of tinkering that goes into taking RAG to production. Yujian explains some of the tripwires that you might run into and how to think through those problems. We think you're going to really enjoy this episode. Timestamps 02:08 Introduction 03:16 What is a Vector? 07:01 How does Vector Search work? 14:08 Why need a Vector database? 15:11 Use Cases 17:37 What is RAG? 20:34 RAG vs fine-tuning 29:51 Measuring Performance 32:32 Is RAG here to stay? 35:43 Milvus 37:17 History of Milvus 47:44 Rapid Fire X https://twitter.com/yujian_tang https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:50:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's guest is Yujian Tang from Zilliz, one of the big players in the vector database market. This is the first episode in a series of episodes we’re doing on vectors and vector databases. We start with the basics, what is a vector? What are vector embeddings? How does vector search work? And why the heck do I even need a vector database? RAG models for customizing LLMs is where vector databases are getting a lot of their use. On the surface, it seems pretty simple, but in reality, there's a lot of tinkering that goes into taking RAG to production. Yujian explains some of the tripwires that you might run into and how to think through those problems. We think you're going to really enjoy this episode. Timestamps 02:08 Introduction 03:16 What is a Vector? 07:01 How does Vector Search work? 14:08 Why need a Vector database? 15:11 Use Cases 17:37 What is RAG? 20:34 RAG vs fine-tuning 29:51 Measuring Performance 32:32 Is RAG here to stay? 35:43 Milvus 37:17 History of Milvus 47:44 Rapid Fire X https://twitter.com/yujian_tang https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Today's guest is Yujian Tang from Zilliz, one of the big players in the vector database market. This is the first episode in a series of episodes we’re doing on vectors and vector databases. We start with the basics, what is a vector? What are vector embeddings? How does vector search work? And why the heck do I even need a vector database?

RAG models for customizing LLMs is where vector databases are getting a lot of their use. On the surface, it seems pretty simple, but in reality, there's a lot of tinkering that goes into taking RAG to production.

Yujian explains some of the tripwires that you might run into and how to think through those problems. We think you're going to really enjoy this episode.



Timestamps


02:08 Introduction

03:16 What is a Vector?

07:01 How does Vector Search work?

14:08 Why need a Vector database?

15:11 Use Cases

17:37 What is RAG?

20:34 RAG vs fine-tuning

29:51 Measuring Performance

32:32 Is RAG here to stay?

35:43 Milvus

37:17 History of Milvus

47:44 Rapid Fire


X

https://twitter.com/yujian_tang

https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3044 no Serverless Clickhouse with Tyler Wells Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well as Twilio. While at Twilio, Tyler helped build a data platform to power customer-facing analytics for a major Twilio feature. Propel is the productized version of that for other teams looking to build similar experiences. In this episode, we see how this real-time, flexible analytics problem is tricky for a lot of teams, as well as how Propel is helping to solve the problem. We also cover some of Alex's favorite hobby horses for infrastructure developers -- what it's like building infrastructure services, how to think about billing, how S3 is becoming ubiquitous, and what to do about cross-AZ network costs. Timestamps 02:29 Introduction 08:05 What is Propel? 22:28 ClickHouse 29:15 Target Customers 30:28 Billing Model 35:10 S3 becoming a key part? 36:47 Cross AZ Network Costs 41:56 Current Support 51:39 Access Policies 55:39 Rapid Fire 01:03:16 AI replacing Software Engineers? Show Notes Data Chaos Podcast https://www.propeldata.com/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:06:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well as Twilio. While at Twilio, Tyler helped build a data platform to power customer-facing analytics for a major Twilio feature. Propel is the productized version of that for other teams looking to build similar experiences. In this episode, we see how this real-time, flexible analytics problem is tricky for a lot of teams, as well as how Propel is helping to solve the problem. We also cover some of Alex's favorite hobby horses for infrastructure developers -- what it's like building infrastructure services, how to think about billing, how S3 is becoming ubiquitous, and what to do about cross-AZ network costs. Timestamps 02:29 Introduction 08:05 What is Propel? 22:28 ClickHouse 29:15 Target Customers 30:28 Billing Model 35:10 S3 becoming a key part? 36:47 Cross AZ Network Costs 41:56 Current Support 51:39 Access Policies 55:39 Rapid Fire 01:03:16 AI replacing Software Engineers? Show Notes Data Chaos Podcast https://www.propeldata.com/ Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well as Twilio. While at Twilio, Tyler helped build a data platform to power customer-facing analytics for a major Twilio feature. Propel is the productized version of that for other teams looking to build similar experiences.

In this episode, we see how this real-time, flexible analytics problem is tricky for a lot of teams, as well as how Propel is helping to solve the problem. We also cover some of Alex's favorite hobby horses for infrastructure developers -- what it's like building infrastructure services, how to think about billing, how S3 is becoming ubiquitous, and what to do about cross-AZ network costs.


Timestamps

02:29 Introduction

08:05 What is Propel?

22:28 ClickHouse

29:15 Target Customers

30:28 Billing Model

35:10 S3 becoming a key part?

36:47 Cross AZ Network Costs

41:56 Current Support

51:39 Access Policies

55:39 Rapid Fire

01:03:16 AI replacing Software Engineers?


Show Notes


Data Chaos Podcast

https://www.propeldata.com/


]]> 4332 no Elasticsearch Fundamentals with Philipp Krenn Today, we have Philipp Krenn on the show. He's the head of DevRel for Elastic, and we took a deep dive on all the Elasticsearch stuff like Indexes, Mappings, Shards and Replicas and how to think about performance and all that stuff. We also discussed the Use Cases and applications where Elastic is not suitable to use. This episode is packed with fundamentals and we think you'd love it. Timestamps 02:00 Introduction 04:13 What is Elasticsearch 05:33 Use Cases 11:25 Where not to use Elasticsearch 13:51 Index 16:44 Shards 23:29 Routing 33:57 Replicas 41:08 Bottlenecks 01:02:30 Upgrading an Elasticsearch Cluster 01:06:12 Rapid Fire Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:29:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Philipp Krenn on the show. He's the head of DevRel for Elastic, and we took a deep dive on all the Elasticsearch stuff like Indexes, Mappings, Shards and Replicas and how to think about performance and all that stuff. We also discussed the Use Cases and applications where Elastic is not suitable to use. This episode is packed with fundamentals and we think you'd love it. Timestamps 02:00 Introduction 04:13 What is Elasticsearch 05:33 Use Cases 11:25 Where not to use Elasticsearch 13:51 Index 16:44 Shards 23:29 Routing 33:57 Replicas 41:08 Bottlenecks 01:02:30 Upgrading an Elasticsearch Cluster 01:06:12 Rapid Fire Today, we have Philipp Krenn on the show. He's the head of DevRel for Elastic, and we took a deep dive on all the Elasticsearch stuff like Indexes, Mappings, Shards and Replicas and how to think about performance and all that stuff.

We also discussed the Use Cases and applications where Elastic is not suitable to use. This episode is packed with fundamentals and we think you'd love it.


Timestamps

02:00 Introduction

04:13 What is Elasticsearch

05:33 Use Cases

11:25 Where not to use Elasticsearch

13:51 Index

16:44 Shards

23:29 Routing

33:57 Replicas

41:08 Bottlenecks

01:02:30 Upgrading an Elasticsearch Cluster

01:06:12 Rapid Fire

]]> 4809 no Building a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software Foundation Zig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C. Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us through the ins and outs of Zig -- how was it created, what problems is it trying to solve, and where is it being used. We heard Joran Dirk Greef rave about Zig during our TigerBeetle episode, and there are a lot of passionate Zig fans out there. Zig has some really unique aspects, particularly the comptime keyword that allows for running arbitrary code at compile time. We also talk about Loris's background and his rapid rise to lead marketing for a software foundation. Loris talks about how he got there, how Zig things about community, and how they're working to make Zig sustainable. Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:05:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Zig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C. Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us through the ins and outs of Zig -- how was it created, what problems is it trying to solve, and where is it being used. We heard Joran Dirk Greef rave about Zig during our TigerBeetle episode, and there are a lot of passionate Zig fans out there. Zig has some really unique aspects, particularly the comptime keyword that allows for running arbitrary code at compile time. We also talk about Loris's background and his rapid rise to lead marketing for a software foundation. Loris talks about how he got there, how Zig things about community, and how they're working to make Zig sustainable. Zig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C.

Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us through the ins and outs of Zig -- how was it created, what problems is it trying to solve, and where is it being used. We heard Joran Dirk Greef rave about Zig during our TigerBeetle episode, and there are a lot of passionate Zig fans out there. Zig has some really unique aspects, particularly the comptime keyword that allows for running arbitrary code at compile time.

We also talk about Loris's background and his rapid rise to lead marketing for a software foundation. Loris talks about how he got there, how Zig things about community, and how they're working to make Zig sustainable.

]]> 4225 no The Real Work of Data Engineering with Joe Reis Today, we have Joe Reis on the show. Joe is the co author of the book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, probably the best and most comprehensive book on data engineering you could think to read. We talk about the culture of Data Engineering, Relationship with Data Science, the downside of chasing bleeding edge technology in approaches to Data Modeling. Joe's got lots to say, lots of opinions and is super knowledgeable. So even if Data Engineering, Data Science isn't your thing. We think you're still going to really enjoy listening to the interview. Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:57:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Joe Reis on the show. Joe is the co author of the book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, probably the best and most comprehensive book on data engineering you could think to read. We talk about the culture of Data Engineering, Relationship with Data Science, the downside of chasing bleeding edge technology in approaches to Data Modeling. Joe's got lots to say, lots of opinions and is super knowledgeable. So even if Data Engineering, Data Science isn't your thing. We think you're still going to really enjoy listening to the interview. Today, we have Joe Reis on the show. Joe is the co author of the book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, probably the best and most comprehensive book on data engineering you could think to read.

We talk about the culture of Data Engineering, Relationship with Data Science, the downside of chasing bleeding edge technology in approaches to Data Modeling. Joe's got lots to say, lots of opinions and is super knowledgeable.


So even if Data Engineering, Data Science isn't your thing. We think you're still going to really enjoy listening to the interview.

]]> 3540 no Tech layoffs, Sora by OpenAI, Gemini 1.5, Apple Vision Pro & more Our special episode is back! Join Sean, Alex & Vino in this fun conversation. 00:00 Introduction 10:08 Sora by OpenAi 16:11 Google Gemini 1.5 22:05 Mixture-of-Experts 38:02 Nvidia’s Valuation 40:19 Apple Vision Pro 49:05 Tech Layoffs Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:30:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Our special episode is back! Join Sean, Alex & Vino in this fun conversation. 00:00 Introduction 10:08 Sora by OpenAi 16:11 Google Gemini 1.5 22:05 Mixture-of-Experts 38:02 Nvidia’s Valuation 40:19 Apple Vision Pro 49:05 Tech Layoffs Our special episode is back! Join Sean, Alex & Vino in this fun conversation.


00:00 Introduction

10:08 Sora by OpenAi

16:11 Google Gemini 1.5

22:05 Mixture-of-Experts

38:02 Nvidia’s Valuation

40:19 Apple Vision Pro

49:05 Tech Layoffs

]]> 3672 no Just use Postgres with Craig Kerstiens Today's episode is with Craig Kerstiens, Craig has been in the Postgres space for a long time. First at Heroku, doing Heroku Postgres. Then at Citus, doing Distributed Postgres. Now at Crunchy Data, he's Chief Product Officer there. He's done a lot of Postgres advocacy and a lot of interesting stuff. In this episode we'll talk about the Postgres ecosystem, some of the Postgres features, some of the naysayers about Postgres, and just get Craig's thoughts on those. Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:24:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's episode is with Craig Kerstiens, Craig has been in the Postgres space for a long time. First at Heroku, doing Heroku Postgres. Then at Citus, doing Distributed Postgres. Now at Crunchy Data, he's Chief Product Officer there. He's done a lot of Postgres advocacy and a lot of interesting stuff. In this episode we'll talk about the Postgres ecosystem, some of the Postgres features, some of the naysayers about Postgres, and just get Craig's thoughts on those. Today's episode is with Craig Kerstiens, Craig has been in the Postgres space for a long time. First at Heroku, doing Heroku Postgres. Then at Citus, doing Distributed Postgres. Now at Crunchy Data, he's Chief Product Officer there.

He's done a lot of Postgres advocacy and a lot of interesting stuff. In this episode we'll talk about the Postgres ecosystem, some of the Postgres features, some of the naysayers about Postgres, and just get Craig's thoughts on those.

]]> 4602 no From Academia to Startup Founder and Successful Exit with Jean Yang Today on the show, we have the founder and CEO of Akita Software and now head of product at Postman, Dr. Professor Jean Yang. Jean has a super interesting background, a former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on programming language research. She then went on to found Akita Software, which was focused on solving hard problems around the API observability space. And last year, the company was acquired by Postman. And during the interview, we covered a lot of ground talking about Jean's academic experience, motivations for starting a company, and the problem Akita set out to work on. 01:05 Intro 06:40 Software as a Social Problem 12:10 Over engineering 20:44 Motivation 25:22 The problems 32:10 Existing methods to solve 36:21 Some other similar systems 36:21 Packet to Reconstruction 39:43 Aha moments for customers 41:33 Why sell to Postman 47:23 Would you do it again? 52:03 Rapid Fire Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:09:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today on the show, we have the founder and CEO of Akita Software and now head of product at Postman, Dr. Professor Jean Yang. Jean has a super interesting background, a former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on programming language research. She then went on to found Akita Software, which was focused on solving hard problems around the API observability space. And last year, the company was acquired by Postman. And during the interview, we covered a lot of ground talking about Jean's academic experience, motivations for starting a company, and the problem Akita set out to work on. 01:05 Intro 06:40 Software as a Social Problem 12:10 Over engineering 20:44 Motivation 25:22 The problems 32:10 Existing methods to solve 36:21 Some other similar systems 36:21 Packet to Reconstruction 39:43 Aha moments for customers 41:33 Why sell to Postman 47:23 Would you do it again? 52:03 Rapid Fire Today on the show, we have the founder and CEO of Akita Software and now head of product at Postman, Dr. Professor Jean Yang. Jean has a super interesting background, a former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on programming language research.

She then went on to found Akita Software, which was focused on solving hard problems around the API observability space. And last year, the company was acquired by Postman. And during the interview, we covered a lot of ground talking about Jean's academic experience, motivations for starting a company, and the problem Akita set out to work on.


01:05 Intro

06:40 Software as a Social Problem

12:10 Over engineering

20:44 Motivation

25:22 The problems

32:10 Existing methods to solve

36:21 Some other similar systems

36:21 Packet to Reconstruction

39:43 Aha moments for customers

41:33 Why sell to Postman

47:23 Would you do it again?

52:03 Rapid Fire

]]> 3554 no Durable Async/Await with Stephan Ewen of Restate Today's guest is a legend in the distributed systems community. Stephan Ewan was one of the creators of Apache Flink, a stream processing engine that took off with the rise of Apache Kafka. Stephan is now working on core transactional problems by building a durable async/await system that integrates with any programming language. It's designed to help with a number of difficult problems in transactional processing, including idempotency, dual writes, distributed locks, and even simple retries and cancellation. In this episode, we get into the details of how Restate works and what it does. We cover core use cases and how people are solving these problems today. Then, we dive into the core of the Restate engine to learn why they're building on a log-based system. Finally, we cover lessons learned from Stephan's time with Flink and what's next for Restate. Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:17:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's guest is a legend in the distributed systems community. Stephan Ewan was one of the creators of Apache Flink, a stream processing engine that took off with the rise of Apache Kafka. Stephan is now working on core transactional problems by building a durable async/await system that integrates with any programming language. It's designed to help with a number of difficult problems in transactional processing, including idempotency, dual writes, distributed locks, and even simple retries and cancellation. In this episode, we get into the details of how Restate works and what it does. We cover core use cases and how people are solving these problems today. Then, we dive into the core of the Restate engine to learn why they're building on a log-based system. Finally, we cover lessons learned from Stephan's time with Flink and what's next for Restate. Today's guest is a legend in the distributed systems community. Stephan Ewan was one of the creators of Apache Flink, a stream processing engine that took off with the rise of Apache Kafka. Stephan is now working on core transactional problems by building a durable async/await system that integrates with any programming language. It's designed to help with a number of difficult problems in transactional processing, including idempotency, dual writes, distributed locks, and even simple retries and cancellation.

In this episode, we get into the details of how Restate works and what it does. We cover core use cases and how people are solving these problems today. Then, we dive into the core of the Restate engine to learn why they're building on a log-based system. Finally, we cover lessons learned from Stephan's time with Flink and what's next for Restate.

]]> 3896 no AI Incubation and Investing with Rak Garg from Bain Capital Ventures Today's guest is Bain Capital partner Rak Garg. Rak is a super smart guy that's worked as an ML researcher. Then he was in product at Atlassian before moving over to the venture capital side of the world. In this episode, we talk about BCV Labs, an AI incubator and community for AI founders that Rak helped establish. Rak shares his thoughts on the big opportunities he sees in AI and how it's going to impact the world, both in the short and long term, and how BCV Labs is helping support AI founders bring these visions to reality. There's a huge amount of opportunity to automate away a lot of manual tasks across industries like legal, insurance, and healthcare. But of course, there's a lot of complexity with actually bringing this technology to market. Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:38:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today's guest is Bain Capital partner Rak Garg. Rak is a super smart guy that's worked as an ML researcher. Then he was in product at Atlassian before moving over to the venture capital side of the world. In this episode, we talk about BCV Labs, an AI incubator and community for AI founders that Rak helped establish. Rak shares his thoughts on the big opportunities he sees in AI and how it's going to impact the world, both in the short and long term, and how BCV Labs is helping support AI founders bring these visions to reality. There's a huge amount of opportunity to automate away a lot of manual tasks across industries like legal, insurance, and healthcare. But of course, there's a lot of complexity with actually bringing this technology to market. Today's guest is Bain Capital partner Rak Garg. Rak is a super smart guy that's worked as an ML researcher. Then he was in product at Atlassian before moving over to the venture capital side of the world.

In this episode, we talk about BCV Labs, an AI incubator and community for AI founders that Rak helped establish. Rak shares his thoughts on the big opportunities he sees in AI and how it's going to impact the world, both in the short and long term, and how BCV Labs is helping support AI founders bring these visions to reality.

There's a huge amount of opportunity to automate away a lot of manual tasks across industries like legal, insurance, and healthcare. But of course, there's a lot of complexity with actually bringing this technology to market.

]]> 3192 no Building Kafka without Disks with Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl from WarpStream Labs In this episode, We spoke with the founders of WarpStream Labs, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl. WarpStream is a fascinating rethink of Kafka -- how could you simplify and improve the Kafka design by slightly tweaking your constraints? The result is very compelling -- a Kafka-compatible API that bypasses local disk by writing everything directly to S3. For the tradeoff of a slightly higher end-to-end latency, you can get a Kafka cluster that's much cheaper and way easier to operate. Richie and Ryan have been working on high-scale data systems for years and were the engineers behind Husky, Datadog's custom-built database for logs and metrics. In this episode, they walk us through their experience building WarpStream. They touch on all the hard parts of building your own system (including why it's gotten easier!), as well as some of the difficult problems they had to solve for full compatibility with existing Kafka client libraries. They also touch on using FoundationDB, their thoughts on S3 Express One Zone, and whether AWS's cross-AZ network costs are a scam. Lots of interesting thoughts here from a really sharp team. Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:51:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, We spoke with the founders of WarpStream Labs, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl. WarpStream is a fascinating rethink of Kafka -- how could you simplify and improve the Kafka design by slightly tweaking your constraints? The result is very compelling -- a Kafka-compatible API that bypasses local disk by writing everything directly to S3. For the tradeoff of a slightly higher end-to-end latency, you can get a Kafka cluster that's much cheaper and way easier to operate. Richie and Ryan have been working on high-scale data systems for years and were the engineers behind Husky, Datadog's custom-built database for logs and metrics. In this episode, they walk us through their experience building WarpStream. They touch on all the hard parts of building your own system (including why it's gotten easier!), as well as some of the difficult problems they had to solve for full compatibility with existing Kafka client libraries. They also touch on using FoundationDB, their thoughts on S3 Express One Zone, and whether AWS's cross-AZ network costs are a scam. Lots of interesting thoughts here from a really sharp team. In this episode, We spoke with the founders of WarpStream Labs, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl.

WarpStream is a fascinating rethink of Kafka -- how could you simplify and improve the Kafka design by slightly tweaking your constraints? The result is very compelling -- a Kafka-compatible API that bypasses local disk by writing everything directly to S3. For the tradeoff of a slightly higher end-to-end latency, you can get a Kafka cluster that's much cheaper and way easier to operate.

Richie and Ryan have been working on high-scale data systems for years and were the engineers behind Husky, Datadog's custom-built database for logs and metrics. In this episode, they walk us through their experience building WarpStream. They touch on all the hard parts of building your own system (including why it's gotten easier!), as well as some of the difficult problems they had to solve for full compatibility with existing Kafka client libraries. They also touch on using FoundationDB, their thoughts on S3 Express One Zone, and whether AWS's cross-AZ network costs are a scam.

Lots of interesting thoughts here from a really sharp team.

]]> 4288 no Finding Product Market Fit with Cassidy Williams of Contenda Today, we have Cassidy Williams, CTO of Contenda. Contenda unbelievably started as a sticker distribution platform that pivoted into a product that converts podcasts and videos into various other forms of written content via AI. But in our conversation with Cassidy today, we talk about their latest pivot to a product called Brainstory, which is an AI based brainstorming application. We talked through some of their product choices around focusing on speech as the main input mechanism, some of the technical challenges they've had to overcome, how they're using multiple AI models in the backend to make all this magic happen, and where they're seeing initial product traction. If you're a founder or thinking of starting a company, we think you'll find this conversation super interesting. Check Out Brainstory: https://www.brainstory.ai/ Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Cassidy: https://twitter.com/cassidoo Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:41:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today, we have Cassidy Williams, CTO of Contenda. Contenda unbelievably started as a sticker distribution platform that pivoted into a product that converts podcasts and videos into various other forms of written content via AI. But in our conversation with Cassidy today, we talk about their latest pivot to a product called Brainstory, which is an AI based brainstorming application. We talked through some of their product choices around focusing on speech as the main input mechanism, some of the technical challenges they've had to overcome, how they're using multiple AI models in the backend to make all this magic happen, and where they're seeing initial product traction. If you're a founder or thinking of starting a company, we think you'll find this conversation super interesting. Check Out Brainstory: https://www.brainstory.ai/ Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Cassidy: https://twitter.com/cassidoo Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Today, we have Cassidy Williams, CTO of Contenda. Contenda unbelievably started as a sticker distribution platform that pivoted into a product that converts podcasts and videos into various other forms of written content via AI. But in our conversation with Cassidy today, we talk about their latest pivot to a product called Brainstory, which is an AI based brainstorming application.


We talked through some of their product choices around focusing on speech as the main input mechanism, some of the technical challenges they've had to overcome, how they're using multiple AI models in the backend to make all this magic happen, and where they're seeing initial product traction. If you're a founder or thinking of starting a company, we think you'll find this conversation super interesting.


Check Out Brainstory: https://www.brainstory.ai/

Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Cassidy: https://twitter.com/cassidoo

Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3309 no Holiday Special! In this special end of the year clips episode of Software Huddle, we took some time to highlight some of our favorite clips from our interviews since we launched the show back in August. Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:54:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this special end of the year clips episode of Software Huddle, we took some time to highlight some of our favorite clips from our interviews since we launched the show back in August. Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer In this special end of the year clips episode of Software Huddle, we took some time to highlight some of our favorite clips from our interviews since we launched the show back in August.


Software Huddle: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie

Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 4945 no AI for Developers with Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller On today's show, we have quite the lineup. We have Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller all joining Sean to talk about AI for developers. This came together because the four of them had participated on a conference panel earlier this year discussing the topic. We discuss our impressions of AI for developers, what impact it may or may not have, privacy and security, ethics concerns, what the future might look like, and a whole lot more. Today’s guests have a diverse set of roles spanning product, marketing, and developer relations, so we think we were able to bring a lot of different perspectives to the topic. Timestamps: 02:25 Introduction 05:45 Will AI's net impact be positive? 11:10 Customer support chatbots 17:18 Speed of Innovation 26:15 Safeguarding Sensitive Data 28:47 Creating your own Models 31:55 Using LLMs responsibly 41:27 Everything GPT 45:08 Existential Risk 51:17 Psychological Safety Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh02qPQasfk Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:57:00 -0000 full Software Huddle On today's show, we have quite the lineup. We have Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller all joining Sean to talk about AI for developers. This came together because the four of them had participated on a conference panel earlier this year discussing the topic. We discuss our impressions of AI for developers, what impact it may or may not have, privacy and security, ethics concerns, what the future might look like, and a whole lot more. Today’s guests have a diverse set of roles spanning product, marketing, and developer relations, so we think we were able to bring a lot of different perspectives to the topic. Timestamps: 02:25 Introduction 05:45 Will AI's net impact be positive? 11:10 Customer support chatbots 17:18 Speed of Innovation 26:15 Safeguarding Sensitive Data 28:47 Creating your own Models 31:55 Using LLMs responsibly 41:27 Everything GPT 45:08 Existential Risk 51:17 Psychological Safety Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh02qPQasfk On today's show, we have quite the lineup. We have Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller all joining Sean to talk about AI for developers. This came together because the four of them had participated on a conference panel earlier this year discussing the topic.

We discuss our impressions of AI for developers, what impact it may or may not have, privacy and security, ethics concerns, what the future might look like, and a whole lot more. Today’s guests have a diverse set of roles spanning product, marketing, and developer relations, so we think we were able to bring a lot of different perspectives to the topic.


Timestamps:


02:25 Introduction

05:45 Will AI's net impact be positive?

11:10 Customer support chatbots

17:18 Speed of Innovation

26:15 Safeguarding Sensitive Data

28:47 Creating your own Models

31:55 Using LLMs responsibly

41:27 Everything GPT

45:08 Existential Risk

51:17 Psychological Safety


Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh02qPQasfk

]]> 3332 no Navigating Large Language Models with Vino Duraisamy from Snowflake In this episode, we spoke with Vino Duraisamy, Developer advocate at Snowflake. Vino has been working as a data and AI engineer for her entire career across companies like Apple, Treeverse, and now Snowflake. And in this episode, we dive into her thoughts on what's happening in AI right now and what a practical LLM strategy for a company should look like. We discussed the hard, unsolved problems in the space like privacy, hallucinations, transparency, testing, and bias. There's a lot of problems. We're very much in the Wild West days of AI, and it still takes a ton of work to move beyond prototype to production with any AI application. There's lots of hype, but not necessarily that many enterprises actually launching products that take advantage of these generative AI systems yet. We thought Vino had a lot of real world perspective to share, and we think you're going to enjoy the conversation. Follow Vino: https://twitter.com/vinodhini_sd Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:12:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, we spoke with Vino Duraisamy, Developer advocate at Snowflake. Vino has been working as a data and AI engineer for her entire career across companies like Apple, Treeverse, and now Snowflake. And in this episode, we dive into her thoughts on what's happening in AI right now and what a practical LLM strategy for a company should look like. We discussed the hard, unsolved problems in the space like privacy, hallucinations, transparency, testing, and bias. There's a lot of problems. We're very much in the Wild West days of AI, and it still takes a ton of work to move beyond prototype to production with any AI application. There's lots of hype, but not necessarily that many enterprises actually launching products that take advantage of these generative AI systems yet. We thought Vino had a lot of real world perspective to share, and we think you're going to enjoy the conversation. Follow Vino: https://twitter.com/vinodhini_sd Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer In this episode, we spoke with Vino Duraisamy, Developer advocate at Snowflake. Vino has been working as a data and AI engineer for her entire career across companies like Apple, Treeverse, and now Snowflake. And in this episode, we dive into her thoughts on what's happening in AI right now and what a practical LLM strategy for a company should look like.


We discussed the hard, unsolved problems in the space like privacy, hallucinations, transparency, testing, and bias. There's a lot of problems. We're very much in the Wild West days of AI, and it still takes a ton of work to move beyond prototype to production with any AI application.


There's lots of hype, but not necessarily that many enterprises actually launching products that take advantage of these generative AI systems yet. We thought Vino had a lot of real world perspective to share, and we think you're going to enjoy the conversation.


Follow Vino: https://twitter.com/vinodhini_sd

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3582 no AGI is Surely Coming with Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Datapreneurs, which takes you on a journey about the people behind the first relational databases in the 1970s and early 80s, to Bob's experience launching Microsoft SQL Server and a ton of other products, developing the Data Cloud at Snowflake, and to the future of data and AI. We cover a lot of ground, including some of his experience working alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Timestamps: 02:24 Introduction 04:53 Relational Databases 18:43 Speed of Innovations 24:30 Keeping the Early Stage Culture 31:04 Most successful leaders are difficult to deal with 34:31 Setting up Cloud Data Center at home 36:25 Joining Snowflake as the CEO 38:54 AWS made Snowflake happen 42:18 Google, AWS Missing the Snowflake Opportunity 46:13 Impact On Jobs 50:48 Existential Risk 52:28 Staying Optimistic Links: The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future https://www.thedatapreneurs.com/ Follow Bob: https://twitter.com/Bob_Muglia Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:18:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Datapreneurs, which takes you on a journey about the people behind the first relational databases in the 1970s and early 80s, to Bob's experience launching Microsoft SQL Server and a ton of other products, developing the Data Cloud at Snowflake, and to the future of data and AI. We cover a lot of ground, including some of his experience working alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Timestamps: 02:24 Introduction 04:53 Relational Databases 18:43 Speed of Innovations 24:30 Keeping the Early Stage Culture 31:04 Most successful leaders are difficult to deal with 34:31 Setting up Cloud Data Center at home 36:25 Joining Snowflake as the CEO 38:54 AWS made Snowflake happen 42:18 Google, AWS Missing the Snowflake Opportunity 46:13 Impact On Jobs 50:48 Existential Risk 52:28 Staying Optimistic Links: The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future https://www.thedatapreneurs.com/ Follow Bob: https://twitter.com/Bob_Muglia Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Datapreneurs, which takes you on a journey about the people behind the first relational databases in the 1970s and early 80s, to Bob's experience launching Microsoft SQL Server and a ton of other products, developing the Data Cloud at Snowflake, and to the future of data and AI.

We cover a lot of ground, including some of his experience working alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Timestamps:

02:24 Introduction

04:53 Relational Databases

18:43 Speed of Innovations

24:30 Keeping the Early Stage Culture

31:04 Most successful leaders are difficult to deal with

34:31 Setting up Cloud Data Center at home

36:25 Joining Snowflake as the CEO

38:54 AWS made Snowflake happen

42:18 Google, AWS Missing the Snowflake Opportunity

46:13 Impact On Jobs

50:48 Existential Risk

52:28 Staying Optimistic


Links:

The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future

https://www.thedatapreneurs.com/


Follow Bob: https://twitter.com/Bob_Muglia

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

]]> 3554 no reInvent BTS, Sam Altman, SEC on Solarwinds, Apple RCS, and more Our special episode is back, and we have a special guest this time. Join Sean, Alex & Merritt in this fun conversation. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:19 What is a CISO 08:10 Balance of Power 13:50 reInvent BTS 19:45 Sam Altman 32:29 SEC & SolarWinds 38:40 iPhones will support RCS 49:04 Meet us at reInvent Links: Factors to consider in relation to the SEC Materiality Framework https://www.lacework.com/resource/sec-materiality-framework.html OpenAI announces leadership transition https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition AWS reInvent 2023 https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Follow Merritt: https://twitter.com/MerrittBaer Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:26:12 -0000 full Software Huddle Our special episode is back, and we have a special guest this time. Join Sean, Alex & Merritt in this fun conversation. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:19 What is a CISO 08:10 Balance of Power 13:50 reInvent BTS 19:45 Sam Altman 32:29 SEC & SolarWinds 38:40 iPhones will support RCS 49:04 Meet us at reInvent Links: Factors to consider in relation to the SEC Materiality Framework https://www.lacework.com/resource/sec-materiality-framework.html OpenAI announces leadership transition https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition AWS reInvent 2023 https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Follow Merritt: https://twitter.com/MerrittBaer Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Our special episode is back, and we have a special guest this time. Join Sean, Alex & Merritt in this fun conversation.


Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:19 What is a CISO

08:10 Balance of Power

13:50 reInvent BTS

19:45 Sam Altman

32:29 SEC & SolarWinds

38:40 iPhones will support RCS

49:04 Meet us at reInvent


Links:


Factors to consider in relation to the SEC Materiality Framework

https://www.lacework.com/resource/sec-materiality-framework.html


OpenAI announces leadership transition

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition


AWS reInvent 2023

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/


Follow Merritt: https://twitter.com/MerrittBaer

Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3079 no From Code Red to Green: Incident Management with Nora Jones of Jeli and Dan McCall from PagerDuty  Today's episode is all about Incident Management. We have two amazing guests, Nora Jones, founder and CEO of Jeli, and Dan McCall, the VP and GM of Incident Management at PagerDuty. There's of course a technical aspect to managing incidents that PagerDuty excels at, very well known for, and there's also a human side, like how do you learn from an incident so it doesn't happen again in the future, and this is where Jeli steps in. In the episode, Nora and Dan talk through the evolution of incident management, the hard problems in the space, and a future that leverages AI with a human in the loop component to scalably and proactively manage incidents and reduce outages. We also touch on the recent announcement that Jeli was acquired by PagerDuty. Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:18:32 -0000 full Software Huddle  Today's episode is all about Incident Management. We have two amazing guests, Nora Jones, founder and CEO of Jeli, and Dan McCall, the VP and GM of Incident Management at PagerDuty. There's of course a technical aspect to managing incidents that PagerDuty excels at, very well known for, and there's also a human side, like how do you learn from an incident so it doesn't happen again in the future, and this is where Jeli steps in. In the episode, Nora and Dan talk through the evolution of incident management, the hard problems in the space, and a future that leverages AI with a human in the loop component to scalably and proactively manage incidents and reduce outages. We also touch on the recent announcement that Jeli was acquired by PagerDuty.  Today's episode is all about Incident Management. We have two amazing guests, Nora Jones, founder and CEO of Jeli, and Dan McCall, the VP and GM of Incident Management at PagerDuty. There's of course a technical aspect to managing incidents that PagerDuty excels at, very well known for, and there's also a human side, like how do you learn from an incident so it doesn't happen again in the future, and this is where Jeli steps in.

In the episode, Nora and Dan talk through the evolution of incident management, the hard problems in the space, and a future that leverages AI with a human in the loop component to scalably and proactively manage incidents and reduce outages. We also touch on the recent announcement that Jeli was acquired by PagerDuty.

]]> 3335 no AI-driven Database Cache with Ben Hagan from PolyScale PolyScale is a database cache, specifically designed to cache just your database. It is completely Plug and Play and it allows you to scale a database without a huge amount of effort, cost, and complexity. PolyScale currently supports Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL and MongoDB. In this episode, we spoke with Ben Hagan, Founder & CEO at PolyScale. We discuss AI-driven caching, edge network advantages, use-cases, and PolyScale's future direction and growth. Follow Ben:  https://twitter.com/ben_hagan Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie PolyScale Website: https://www.polyscale.ai/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@polyscale Software Huddle ⤵︎ X:  https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:58:00 -0000 full Software Huddle PolyScale is a database cache, specifically designed to cache just your database. It is completely Plug and Play and it allows you to scale a database without a huge amount of effort, cost, and complexity. PolyScale currently supports Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL and MongoDB. In this episode, we spoke with Ben Hagan, Founder & CEO at PolyScale. We discuss AI-driven caching, edge network advantages, use-cases, and PolyScale's future direction and growth. Follow Ben:  https://twitter.com/ben_hagan Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie PolyScale Website: https://www.polyscale.ai/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@polyscale Software Huddle ⤵︎ X:  https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle PolyScale is a database cache, specifically designed to cache just your database. It is completely Plug and Play and it allows you to scale a database without a huge amount of effort, cost, and complexity. PolyScale currently supports Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL and MongoDB.

In this episode, we spoke with Ben Hagan, Founder & CEO at PolyScale. We discuss AI-driven caching, edge network advantages, use-cases, and PolyScale's future direction and growth.


Follow Ben:  https://twitter.com/ben_hagan

Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie


PolyScale

Website: https://www.polyscale.ai/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@polyscale


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X:  https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

]]> 3430 no Building for Scale with Mario Žagar from Infobip In this episode, we spoke with Mario Žagar, a Distinguished Engineer at Infobip. Infobip is a tech unicorn based out of Croatia that is a global leader in omnichannel communication, bootstrapping its way to a staggering $1B+ in revenue. We discussed the super early days of engineering at Infobit when they were running a monolith on a single server to today running a hybrid cloud containerized infrastructure with thousands of databases serving billions of requests. It's a really fascinating look and deep dive into the evolution of engineering over the past 15 years and the challenges of essentially architecting for scale. Follow Mario: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mzagar/ Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:55:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, we spoke with Mario Žagar, a Distinguished Engineer at Infobip. Infobip is a tech unicorn based out of Croatia that is a global leader in omnichannel communication, bootstrapping its way to a staggering $1B+ in revenue. We discussed the super early days of engineering at Infobit when they were running a monolith on a single server to today running a hybrid cloud containerized infrastructure with thousands of databases serving billions of requests. It's a really fascinating look and deep dive into the evolution of engineering over the past 15 years and the challenges of essentially architecting for scale. Follow Mario: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mzagar/ Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ In this episode, we spoke with Mario Žagar, a Distinguished Engineer at Infobip. Infobip is a tech unicorn based out of Croatia that is a global leader in omnichannel communication, bootstrapping its way to a staggering $1B+ in revenue.

We discussed the super early days of engineering at Infobit when they were running a monolith on a single server to today running a hybrid cloud containerized infrastructure with thousands of databases serving billions of requests. It's a really fascinating look and deep dive into the evolution of engineering over the past 15 years and the challenges of essentially architecting for scale.


Follow Mario: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mzagar/

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer


Software Huddle ⤵︎

X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/

Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

]]> 3000 no Nile, Racked Hardware, Quantum Computing, Getting Customers Trust, & more Our special episode is back, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction  02:55 Tech Adoption in Japan  06:36 Infobip  09:34 Product Marketing at Rockset 14:38 Trust from your initial customers and early adopters 20:01 Nile - Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS 29:29 AI Models Can Now Selectively Forget 36:46 Oxide’s Racked Hardware 45:03 Quantum Computing Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:20:42 -0000 full Software Huddle Our special episode is back, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction  02:55 Tech Adoption in Japan  06:36 Infobip  09:34 Product Marketing at Rockset 14:38 Trust from your initial customers and early adopters 20:01 Nile - Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS 29:29 AI Models Can Now Selectively Forget 36:46 Oxide’s Racked Hardware 45:03 Quantum Computing Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Our special episode is back, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion.


Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction 

02:55 Tech Adoption in Japan 

06:36 Infobip 

09:34 Product Marketing at Rockset

14:38 Trust from your initial customers and early adopters

20:01 Nile - Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS

29:29 AI Models Can Now Selectively Forget

36:46 Oxide’s Racked Hardware

45:03 Quantum Computing


Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer

]]> 3371 no Distributed Financial Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle In this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused on correctness and safety while hitting orders of magnitude more performance than other solutions in the space. We touch on various topics like what makes TigerBeetle orders of magnitude more performant, io_uring, the choice of Zig for TigerBeetle, protocol aware recovery, VOPR and so on. Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:17:23 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused on correctness and safety while hitting orders of magnitude more performance than other solutions in the space. We touch on various topics like what makes TigerBeetle orders of magnitude more performant, io_uring, the choice of Zig for TigerBeetle, protocol aware recovery, VOPR and so on. In this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused on correctness and safety while hitting orders of magnitude more performance than other solutions in the space.

We touch on various topics like what makes TigerBeetle orders of magnitude more performant, io_uring, the choice of Zig for TigerBeetle, protocol aware recovery, VOPR and so on.


]]> 3819 no First Year as a Startup Founder and CEO with Nucleus's Evis Drenova In this episode, we spoke with Evis Drenova, CEO and co-founder of Nucleus, a Y Combinator graduate from 2022 focused on making it easy to deploy, build, and manage on Kubernetes. Evis left Skyflow, where he was one of the product leads, to build Nucleus. In this conversation, we talked through his first year as CEO of a startup, how he got into Y Combinator, what that experience was like, and how he's been building the company since. This is a really interesting conversation for anyone who's ever thought about starting their own company. Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:12:00 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, we spoke with Evis Drenova, CEO and co-founder of Nucleus, a Y Combinator graduate from 2022 focused on making it easy to deploy, build, and manage on Kubernetes. Evis left Skyflow, where he was one of the product leads, to build Nucleus. In this conversation, we talked through his first year as CEO of a startup, how he got into Y Combinator, what that experience was like, and how he's been building the company since. This is a really interesting conversation for anyone who's ever thought about starting their own company. In this episode, we spoke with Evis Drenova, CEO and co-founder of Nucleus, a Y Combinator graduate from 2022 focused on making it easy to deploy, build, and manage on Kubernetes. Evis left Skyflow, where he was one of the product leads, to build Nucleus.

In this conversation, we talked through his first year as CEO of a startup, how he got into Y Combinator, what that experience was like, and how he's been building the company since. This is a really interesting conversation for anyone who's ever thought about starting their own company.

]]> 2682 no Architecting Real-time Analytics with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the cloud. Dhruba was the founding engineer of the RocksDB project at Facebook and the Principal Architect for HDFS for a while. In this episode, we discuss RocksDB and compare it with LevelDB. We also discuss in detail the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture, which started at Facebook and is now powering Rockset. Follow Dhruba: https://twitter.com/dhruba_rocks Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:47:21 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the cloud. Dhruba was the founding engineer of the RocksDB project at Facebook and the Principal Architect for HDFS for a while. In this episode, we discuss RocksDB and compare it with LevelDB. We also discuss in detail the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture, which started at Facebook and is now powering Rockset. Follow Dhruba: https://twitter.com/dhruba_rocks Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the cloud.

Dhruba was the founding engineer of the RocksDB project at Facebook and the Principal Architect for HDFS for a while. In this episode, we discuss RocksDB and compare it with LevelDB. We also discuss in detail the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture, which started at Facebook and is now powering Rockset.


Follow Dhruba: https://twitter.com/dhruba_rocks

Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie

]]> 4170 no Developer Education and Training with Craig Dennis from Twilio In this episode, We spoke with Craig Dennis from Twilio about developer education and training. Craig's been working in the developer education space for a long time and has a ton of experience. And, of course, Twilio is a company well known for having a heavy investment in Developer relations and fantastic developer resources and learning resources.  We get into a bunch of things around Twilio's developer education programs. Why Twilio, from a strategy standpoint, has invested so heavily in this and how teaching developers might actually be different than teaching regular people? We hope you enjoy the episode.  Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:11:28 -0000 full Software Huddle In this episode, We spoke with Craig Dennis from Twilio about developer education and training. Craig's been working in the developer education space for a long time and has a ton of experience. And, of course, Twilio is a company well known for having a heavy investment in Developer relations and fantastic developer resources and learning resources.  We get into a bunch of things around Twilio's developer education programs. Why Twilio, from a strategy standpoint, has invested so heavily in this and how teaching developers might actually be different than teaching regular people? We hope you enjoy the episode.  In this episode, We spoke with Craig Dennis from Twilio about developer education and training. Craig's been working in the developer education space for a long time and has a ton of experience. And, of course, Twilio is a company well known for having a heavy investment in Developer relations and fantastic developer resources and learning resources. 

We get into a bunch of things around Twilio's developer education programs. Why Twilio, from a strategy standpoint, has invested so heavily in this and how teaching developers might actually be different than teaching regular people? We hope you enjoy the episode. 



]]> 3133 no Generative AI and LLMs with Dash Desai from Snowflake If you've been involved with the Snowflake world, today's guest probably can skip an introduction as he is the demo king from the Snowflake Summit and well-known within the Snowflake builder community. We're talking about Dash Desai, Developer Advocate at Snowflake. The background on this episode is that Sean's been part of the Snowflake Data Superhero Program and also involved in the community for a few years, and Sean has spoken at the last two Snowflake Summits. And after the past event in June, he got this idea that it might make for a fun podcast to go back through some of the announcements from the events and discuss what they might mean for those building with Snowflake, and maybe even get some of those building with Snowflake excited about it. So even if you're not working with Snowflake, we keep things pretty high level during this interview. And we think there's probably something for everyone. Snowflake is clearly making this big push around supporting LLMs and generative AI workloads with things like Snowpark, containers, document AI and native support for NVIDIA NeMo and a bunch of other things that we get into today. There's been a ton of announcements even since the Summit in this space with things that Snowflake is coming out with, and we'll cover some of that stuff down the road. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the show.  Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:23:00 -0000 full Software Huddle If you've been involved with the Snowflake world, today's guest probably can skip an introduction as he is the demo king from the Snowflake Summit and well-known within the Snowflake builder community. We're talking about Dash Desai, Developer Advocate at Snowflake. The background on this episode is that Sean's been part of the Snowflake Data Superhero Program and also involved in the community for a few years, and Sean has spoken at the last two Snowflake Summits. And after the past event in June, he got this idea that it might make for a fun podcast to go back through some of the announcements from the events and discuss what they might mean for those building with Snowflake, and maybe even get some of those building with Snowflake excited about it. So even if you're not working with Snowflake, we keep things pretty high level during this interview. And we think there's probably something for everyone. Snowflake is clearly making this big push around supporting LLMs and generative AI workloads with things like Snowpark, containers, document AI and native support for NVIDIA NeMo and a bunch of other things that we get into today. There's been a ton of announcements even since the Summit in this space with things that Snowflake is coming out with, and we'll cover some of that stuff down the road. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the show.  If you've been involved with the Snowflake world, today's guest probably can skip an introduction as he is the demo king from the Snowflake Summit and well-known within the Snowflake builder community.

We're talking about Dash Desai, Developer Advocate at Snowflake. The background on this episode is that Sean's been part of the Snowflake Data Superhero Program and also involved in the community for a few years, and Sean has spoken at the last two Snowflake Summits. And after the past event in June, he got this idea that it might make for a fun podcast to go back through some of the announcements from the events and discuss what they might mean for those building with Snowflake, and maybe even get some of those building with Snowflake excited about it.

So even if you're not working with Snowflake, we keep things pretty high level during this interview. And we think there's probably something for everyone. Snowflake is clearly making this big push around supporting LLMs and generative AI workloads with things like Snowpark, containers, document AI and native support for NVIDIA NeMo and a bunch of other things that we get into today.

There's been a ton of announcements even since the Summit in this space with things that Snowflake is coming out with, and we'll cover some of that stuff down the road. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the show. 

]]> 2071 no V0 by Vercel, Bun, RCS on Apple Devices, Retool Breach, & more Our special episode is here, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:41:05 -0000 full Software Huddle Our special episode is here, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Our special episode is here, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion.


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]]> 2995 no Navigating the Transition from Big Tech to Startups with Ben Popper from Stack Overflow Startups can be a ton of fun. Also, it is sometimes very stressful and ultimately a very different experience than working at a company like Google, Meta Apple and so on. Benjamin Popper is the Senior Director of Content at Stack Overflow and is our guest on the show today. The background on today's episode is that both Ben and Sean have worked for startups as well as in Big Tech, and they have lots of friends and former colleagues who have struggled with navigating and thinking through the transition from big tech to startups, particularly for engineering roles. In today's show, we walk through the choices faced while making such a transition. We focus on what are the options you have and how can you align these options with the ultimate goal of becoming the best software engineer you could be. Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/benpopper Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:48:12 -0000 full Software Huddle Startups can be a ton of fun. Also, it is sometimes very stressful and ultimately a very different experience than working at a company like Google, Meta Apple and so on. Benjamin Popper is the Senior Director of Content at Stack Overflow and is our guest on the show today. The background on today's episode is that both Ben and Sean have worked for startups as well as in Big Tech, and they have lots of friends and former colleagues who have struggled with navigating and thinking through the transition from big tech to startups, particularly for engineering roles. In today's show, we walk through the choices faced while making such a transition. We focus on what are the options you have and how can you align these options with the ultimate goal of becoming the best software engineer you could be. Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/benpopper Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/ Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/ Startups can be a ton of fun. Also, it is sometimes very stressful and ultimately a very different experience than working at a company like Google, Meta Apple and so on.

Benjamin Popper is the Senior Director of Content at Stack Overflow and is our guest on the show today.

The background on today's episode is that both Ben and Sean have worked for startups as well as in Big Tech, and they have lots of friends and former colleagues who have struggled with navigating and thinking through the transition from big tech to startups, particularly for engineering roles.

In today's show, we walk through the choices faced while making such a transition. We focus on what are the options you have and how can you align these options with the ultimate goal of becoming the best software engineer you could be.


Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/benpopper

Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer


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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwarehuddle/

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]]> 2603 no NoSQL Transactions in DynamoDB with Akshat Vig & Somu Perianayagam from AWS Amazon's DynamoDB serves some of the highest workloads on the planet with predictable, single-digit millisecond latency regardless of data size or concurrent operations. Like many NoSQL databases, DynamoDB did not offer support for transactions at first but added support for ACID transactions in 2018. Akshat Vig and Somu Perianayagam are two Senior Principal Engineers on the DynamoDB team and are here to talk about the team's Usenix research paper describing how they implemented support for transactions while maintaining the core performance characteristics of DynamoDB. In this show, we talk about DynamoDB transaction internals, performing user research to focus on core user needs, and staying on top of cutting-edge research as a Principal Engineer. Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:13:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Amazon's DynamoDB serves some of the highest workloads on the planet with predictable, single-digit millisecond latency regardless of data size or concurrent operations. Like many NoSQL databases, DynamoDB did not offer support for transactions at first but added support for ACID transactions in 2018. Akshat Vig and Somu Perianayagam are two Senior Principal Engineers on the DynamoDB team and are here to talk about the team's Usenix research paper describing how they implemented support for transactions while maintaining the core performance characteristics of DynamoDB. In this show, we talk about DynamoDB transaction internals, performing user research to focus on core user needs, and staying on top of cutting-edge research as a Principal Engineer. Amazon's DynamoDB serves some of the highest workloads on the planet with predictable, single-digit millisecond latency regardless of data size or concurrent operations. Like many NoSQL databases, DynamoDB did not offer support for transactions at first but added support for ACID transactions in 2018. Akshat Vig and Somu Perianayagam are two Senior Principal Engineers on the DynamoDB team and are here to talk about the team's Usenix research paper describing how they implemented support for transactions while maintaining the core performance characteristics of DynamoDB.

In this show, we talk about DynamoDB transaction internals, performing user research to focus on core user needs, and staying on top of cutting-edge research as a Principal Engineer.

]]> 3956 no Building Generative AI Apps with Hassan El Mghari from Vercel Over the past couple of months, Generative AI has taken the world by storm. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was a turning point. With each iteration, the Transformer has improved its capabilities while the underlying compute power needed to do the same task has seen massive efficiency gains. This trend has fueled a rise in the series of apps powered by Generative AI. Hassan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, the company behind the famous Next.js framework. In this episode, we discuss interesting AI projects that Hassan has worked on. We talk about the future of generative AI, the impact it will have on developers, and Hassan shares his advice for newcomers in this space. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:12:28 -0000 full Software Huddle Over the past couple of months, Generative AI has taken the world by storm. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was a turning point. With each iteration, the Transformer has improved its capabilities while the underlying compute power needed to do the same task has seen massive efficiency gains. This trend has fueled a rise in the series of apps powered by Generative AI. Hassan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, the company behind the famous Next.js framework. In this episode, we discuss interesting AI projects that Hassan has worked on. We talk about the future of generative AI, the impact it will have on developers, and Hassan shares his advice for newcomers in this space. Over the past couple of months, Generative AI has taken the world by storm. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was a turning point. With each iteration, the Transformer has improved its capabilities while the underlying compute power needed to do the same task has seen massive efficiency gains. This trend has fueled a rise in the series of apps powered by Generative AI.


Hassan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vercel, the company behind the famous Next.js framework. In this episode, we discuss interesting AI projects that Hassan has worked on. We talk about the future of generative AI, the impact it will have on developers, and Hassan shares his advice for newcomers in this space.

]]> 2741 no Scaling MySQL with Sam Lambert from PlanetScale What would it look like if databases were built for developers rather than operators? Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale, a company that provides a managed MySQL database solution. PlanetScale uses Vitess, a database clustering system that allows for horizontal scaling of MySQL. MySQL powers an incredible amount of the internet, and Vitess is behind enormous MySQL installs at YouTube, Slack, GitHub, and more.  In this show, we talk about the architecture of Vitess, what it's like to manage upgrades and releases of high-scale databases, and how to maintain a high-performance culture. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:10:35 -0000 full Software Huddle What would it look like if databases were built for developers rather than operators? Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale, a company that provides a managed MySQL database solution. PlanetScale uses Vitess, a database clustering system that allows for horizontal scaling of MySQL. MySQL powers an incredible amount of the internet, and Vitess is behind enormous MySQL installs at YouTube, Slack, GitHub, and more.  In this show, we talk about the architecture of Vitess, what it's like to manage upgrades and releases of high-scale databases, and how to maintain a high-performance culture. What would it look like if databases were built for developers rather than operators? Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale, a company that provides a managed MySQL database solution. PlanetScale uses Vitess, a database clustering system that allows for horizontal scaling of MySQL. MySQL powers an incredible amount of the internet, and Vitess is behind enormous MySQL installs at YouTube, Slack, GitHub, and more. 


In this show, we talk about the architecture of Vitess, what it's like to manage upgrades and releases of high-scale databases, and how to maintain a high-performance culture.

]]> 4878 no Welcome to Software Huddle with Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer Welcome to the trailer episode for Software Huddle. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareHuddle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:36:00 -0000 full Software Huddle Welcome to the trailer episode for Software Huddle. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareHuddle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Welcome to the trailer episode for Software Huddle.

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