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Building a Native Search Engine in PostgreSQL: ParadeDB's Journey to Replace Elasticsearch with Philippe Noël

Building a Native Search Engine in PostgreSQL: ParadeDB's Journey to Replace Elasticsearch with Philippe Noël

Episode 12 · · 01:00:21

In this episode, we chat with Philippe Noël, founder of ParadeDB, about building an Elasticsearch alternative natively on PostgreSQL. We explore the challenges and benefits of extend...

Optimizing SQL with LLMs: Building Verified AI Systems at Espresso AI with Ben Lerner

Optimizing SQL with LLMs: Building Verified AI Systems at Espresso AI with Ben Lerner

Episode 11 · · 01:06:04

In this episode, we chat with Ben, founder of Espresso AI, about his journey from building Excel Python integrations to optimizing data warehouse compute costs. We explore his experi...

Security as Code: Building Developer-First Security Tools with David Mytton

Security as Code: Building Developer-First Security Tools with David Mytton

Episode 10 · · 01:03:51

In this episode, we chat with David Mytton, founder and CEO of Arcjet and creator of console.dev. We explore his journey from building a cloud monitoring startup to founding a securi...

Dev Environments in the AI Era: Standardizing Development Infrastructure with Daytona's Ivan

Dev Environments in the AI Era: Standardizing Development Infrastructure with Daytona's Ivan

Episode 9 · · 01:09:23

In this episode, we chat with Ivan, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, about the evolution of developer environments and tooling. We explore his journey from founding CodeAnywhere in 200...

Evolving Data Infrastructure for the AI Era: AWS, Meta, and Beyond with Roy Ben-Alta

Evolving Data Infrastructure for the AI Era: AWS, Meta, and Beyond with Roy Ben-Alta

Episode 8 · · 01:03:28

In this episode, we chat with Roy Ben-Alta, co-founder of Oakminer AI and former director at Meta AI Research, about his fascinating journey through the evolution of data infrastruct...

From Functions to Full Applications: How Serverless Evolved Beyond AWS Lambda with Nitzan Shapira

From Functions to Full Applications: How Serverless Evolved Beyond AWS Lambda with Nitzan Shapira

Episode 7 · · 58:18

In this episode, we chat with Nitzan Shapira, co-founder and former CEO of Epsagon, which was acquired by Cisco in 2021. We explore Nitzan's journey from working in cybersecurity to ...

From GPU Compilers to architecting Kubernetes: A Conversation with Brian Grant

From GPU Compilers to architecting Kubernetes: A Conversation with Brian Grant

Episode 6 · · 01:01:45

From GPU computing pioneer to Kubernetes architect, Brian Grant takes us on a fascinating journey through his career at the forefront of systems engineering. In this episode, we expl...

Proving Code Correctness: FizzBee and the Future of Formal Methods in Software Design with FizzBee's creator JP

Proving Code Correctness: FizzBee and the Future of Formal Methods in Software Design with FizzBee's creator JP

Episode 5 · · 01:01:28

In this episode, we chat with JP, creator of FizzBee, about formal methods and their application in software engineering. We explore the differences between coding and engineering, d...

MLOps Evolution: Data, Experiments, and AI with Dean Pleban from DagsHub

MLOps Evolution: Data, Experiments, and AI with Dean Pleban from DagsHub

Episode 4 · · 53:55

In this episode, we chat with Dean Pleban, CEO of DagsHub, about machine learning operations. We explore the differences between DevOps and MLOps, focusing on data management and exp...

How Denormalized is Building ‘DuckDB for Streaming’ with Apache DataFusion

How Denormalized is Building ‘DuckDB for Streaming’ with Apache DataFusion

Episode 3 · · 01:02:01

In this episode, Kostas and Nitay are joined by Amey Chaugule and Matt Green, co-founders of Denormalized. They delve into how Denormalized is building an embedded stream processing ...

Unifying structured and unstructured data for AI: Rethinking ML infrastructure with Nikhil Simha and Varant Zanoyan

Unifying structured and unstructured data for AI: Rethinking ML infrastructure with Nikhil Simha and Varant Zanoyan

Episode 2 · · 01:01:45

In this episode, we dive deep into the future of data infrastructure for AI and ML with Nikhil Simha and Varant Zanoyan, two seasoned engineers from Airbnb and Facebook. Nikhil and V...

Stream processing, LSMs and leaky abstractions with Chris Riccomini

Stream processing, LSMs and leaky abstractions with Chris Riccomini

Episode 1 · · 53:06

In this episode, we  chat with Chris Riccomini about the evolution of stream processing and the challenges in building applications on streaming systems. We also chat about leaky abs...