Immanuel Trummer is a professor at Cornell University working where database systems meet large language models. He started on this before ChatGPT, back when every talk needed a ten-...
Zach joins Kostas and Nitay to trace how security data turned into a full-blown data engineering problem. He walks through his path from hospital networks with a sprawling attack sur...
In this episode, we talk with Ian Cook, co-founder and CEO of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow Project Management Committee, about ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) and why...
In this episode, we sit down with Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder and CEO of Duck Labs and co-creator of DuckDB, for a wide-ranging conversation about how a self-described outsider ende...
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Guillaume Binet, founder of Copper Robotics, to dig into one of the most overlooked problems in modern robotics: the software stack th...
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Sergey Arkhangelskiy, founder of Positronic, to dig into the state of physical AI and what it will really take to bring general-purpos...
In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Shubham Baldava, co-founder of DataZip and creator of OLake, to trace the evolution of the modern open lakehouse ...
In this episode, we sit down with Rohan Katyal and Raghav Sethi, co-founders of Milana, to discuss the shift from passive analytics to the world’s first AI Product Engineer. Rather t...
Jamie, a seasoned startup founder and former Dropbox engineer, shares insights on building distributed systems, scaling storage solutions, and the impact of AI on infrastructure and ...
In this episode, we sit down with the full founding team of Wild Moose — CEO Yasmin Dunsky, CTO Roei, and VP R&D Tom Tytunovich — to explore how they’re transforming production debug...
In this episode, Hussain shares the story behind xorq: a “lockfile for ML pipelines” that makes notebook work easier to reproduce, debug, and ship. We talk about why the research→pro...
Summary In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Kostas and Nitay sit down with Wes McKinney the creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, and long-time leader in the P...
Summary In this conversation, the founders of Bauplan, Jacopo and Ciro, share their extensive backgrounds in AI and data infrastructure, discussing the evolution of NLP and the chall...
Summary Brett — founder & CEO of Micro — joins Nitay and Kostas to share how he’s turning email into a knowledge graph and rebuilding CRM right inside the inbox. He traces a path fro...
Summary Steve Klabnik has spent the last 15 years shaping how developers write code—from teaching Ruby on Rails to stewarding Rust’s explosive growth. In this wide-ranging conversati...
Summary Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn ho...
Summary In this episode, Erik reflects on his long and storied tech career—from the days of punch cards to founding multiple startups, including a stint at Splunk. At 61, he offers a...
Summary In this episode, Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, shares his unique journey from PHP development to low-level kernel programming and how that evolution led him to build ...
Summary In this episode, Viktor Kessler shares his journey and insights from his extensive experience in data management—from building risk management systems and data warehouses to...
Summary In this episode, Apurva Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Responsive, recounts his extensive journey in stream processing—from his early work at LinkedIn and Confluent to his cur...