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Platform Engineering with Cory O’Daniel

SE Daily — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:00:25 +0000

Platform engineering is difficult to get right, and in the age of DevOps and cloud computing, software developers increasingly serve as platform engineers while they’re building their applications. This can be an engineering challenge because organizations often require their platforms to provide fine-grained control and compliance management.

Cory O’Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Massdriver, which he started in 2021 with the goal of helping engineering and operations teams build internal developer platforms. Cory’s company was in the 2022 Y Combinator class, and he has been hard at work developing his platform. He joins the show today to talk about how he thinks about platform engineering, and the challenge of abstracting away infrastructure.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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Modern Web Scraping with Erez Naveh

SE Daily — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:00:01 +0000

Today it’s estimated there are over 1 billion websites on the internet. Much of this content is optimized to be viewed by human eyes, not consumed by machines. However, creating systems to automatically parse and structure the web greatly extends its utility, and paves the way for innovative solutions and applications. The industry of web scraping has emerged to do just that. However, many websites erect obstacles to hinder web scraping. This has created a new kind of arms race between developers and anti-scraping software.

Bright Data has developed some of the most sophisticated consumer tools available to scrape public web data. Erez Naveh is an entrepreneur and former engineer at Meta. He is currently the VP of Product at Bright Data. Erez joins us in this episode to talk about Bright Data’s mission to structure the open web, and the toolkit they’ve developed to make this possible.

Paweł is the founder at flat.social the world’s first ‘flatverse’ start-up and glot.space, an AI-powered language learning app. Pawel’s background is as a full-stack software engineer with a lean and experimental approach towards product development. With a strong grounding in computing science, he spent the last decade getting early-stage products off the ground – both in startup and corporate settings. Follow Paweł on Twitter, LinkedIn and his personal website – pawel.io.

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Postman and the Growth of APIs with Joyce Lin

SE Daily — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:00:03 +0000

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably worked with an API, or application programming interface. An API is a set of rules for how to communicate with an applications or device. For example, when you build an app and want to use Stripe to handle payments, or use Slack to deliver notifications, it’s APIs that make this possible. Handling communication between different applications was historically challenging, but with the growth of cloud computing and the need for smooth interoperability, APIs have become standard, and are now often considered essential to make a company accessible and visible. The growth of APIs is about to accelerate even more because of generative AI. The reason is that good APIs will be needed so AIs can write code to stitch together multiple systems.

Postman is a popular application and platform for building and using APIs, and they recently released their 2023 State of the API Report. Joyce Lin is the Head of Developer Relations at Postman and she joins the show today to talk about the history of APIs, why APIs have exploded in popularity, and what the future looks like.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

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Observability with Eduardo Silva

SE Daily — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:00:17 +0000

There are hundreds of observability companies out there, and many ways to think about observability, such as application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and tracing. In a production application, multiple tools are often needed to get proper visibility on the application. This creates some challenges. Applications can produce lots of different observatory observability data, but how should the data be routed to the various downstream tools? In addition, how can data be selectively sent to different storage tiers to minimize costs?

Calyptia is a service that helps manage observability data from source to destination. Eduardo Silva is the founder and CEO of Calyptia and he joins us in this episode.

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The Future of HTTP with Nick Shadrin and Roman Arutyunyan

SE Daily — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:50:07 +0000

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is used to load webpages using hypertext links, and it’s the foundation of the web. Tim Berners-Lee famously created HTTP version 0.9 in 1989, and defined the essential behavior of a client and a server. Version 1.0 was eventually finalized in 1996, and its secure variant called HTTPS is now used on more than 80% of websites. HTTP continues to undergo intense development and version 3 in now being actively adopted across the tech industry.

Nick Shadrin is a Software Architect at NGINX, and Roman Arutyunyan is a Principal Software Engineer at NGINX. Nick and Roman are experts in HTTP and they join the show today to tell the history of its evolution since 1989, and how NGINX is implementing support for HTTP/3.

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Mike Bifulco is CTO and co-founder of Craftwork. He’s also a developer advocate, writer, podcaster and serial startup founder. In past lives, Mike worked for Google, Stripe, Microsoft, and Gymnasium. Mike is also co-founder of APIs You Won’t Hate, a community for API Developers on the web. Mike’s publishes a weekly newsletter for product builders called Tiny Improvements at mikebifulco.com. Mike is on Mastodon at https://hachyderm.io/@irreverentmike

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Flightcontrol and Going Beyond Heroku with Brandon Bayer

SE Daily — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:00:26 +0000

A platform as a service, or PaaS, is the concept of a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud. One of the best examples is Heroku, which was created in 2007 and later acquired by Salesforce. Although these services are great for helping startups get off the ground quickly, they can ultimately become a form of technical debt because of issues with cost, control, scale, and reliability.

Today we’re speaking with Brandon Bayer. Brandon is a licensed aircraft pilot, and he’s also the CEO of Flightcontrol, a platform as a service company that he co-founded. Flightcontrol is built on top of AWS, and allows users to deploy it on their own AWS infrastructure. In this episode, Brandon talks about how his team engineered Flightcontrol, and how it was designed for small and large teams, with scalability and maintainability in mind.

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AI and Business Analytics with John Adams

SE Daily — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:00:17 +0000

It’s now clear that the adoption of AI will continue to increase, with nearly every industry working to rapidly incorporate it into their systems and applications to provide greater value to their users. Business analytics is a key domain that promises to be radically reshaped by AI.

Alembic is an AI platform that integrates web data, product conversion metrics, and social media to guide business decision making. John Adams is the Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Alembic, and he joins the podcast to talk about data and engineering at the company.

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Stack Overflow in the AI era with Ellen Brandenberger

SE Daily — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:20:51 +0000

When StackOverflow launched in 2008 it lowered the barrier to writing complex software. It solved the longstanding problem of accessing accurate and reliable programming knowledge by offering a collaborative space where programmers could ask questions, share insights, and receive high-quality answers from a community of experts.

Generative AI has impacted the way programmers want to consume this knowledge. It has also opened new possibilities in terms of getting a personalized and real-time response.
StackOverflow has decided to put a fifth of its organizational effort in Generative AI to improve the user experience of the website.

Ellen Brandenberger leads the Product Innovation team at Stack Overflow and she joins us in this episode.

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Edge Databases with Glauber Costa

SE Daily — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:39:59 +0000

Picture a user interacting with a web app on their phone. When they tap the screen the app triggers communication with a server, which in turn communicates with a database. This process then happens in reverse to eventually update what the user sees on-screen. The latency for this round trip depends a lot on the physical distance between the user and the server. In a traditional web app, latency can be especially poor when the user and the server are separated by an ocean, and they must communicate through an underwater trans-oceanic link. However, with edge computing, multiple servers and data centers create a distributed system that greatly improves response times.

Turso is an edge-hosted, distributed database based on libSQL, an open-source and open-contribution fork of SQLite. It was designed to minimize query latency for applications where queries come from anywhere in the world. Glauber Costa is the Founder and CEO of Turso and he joins us in this episode.

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AI-powered DevX at AWS with Deepak Singh

SE Daily — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:00:39 +0000

Developer experience, or DevX, is a critical aspect of modern software development that focuses on creating a seamless and productive environment for developers. It encompasses everything from the tools and technologies used in the development process to the documentation, libraries, and frameworks available to streamline coding tasks. An emphasis on DevX can enhance individual developer productivity and, as a consequence, boost the overall success and innovation of software projects.

Amazon Web Services recently created the Next Gen DevX Division. This new division is using generative AI and foundation models to reimagine the experience of all builders on the AWS platform. Deepak Singh is the Vice President of Next Gen DevX at AWS and he joins us in this episode.

Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm.

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AutoCloud and Infrastructure as Code with Tyson Kunovsky

SE Daily — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:45:05 +0000

Infrastructure as code refers to the use of software and configuration files to convey infrastructure specifications. This is in contrast to the traditional approach of manually provisioning servers, operating systems, storage, and other infrastructure components. With the growth of cloud computing, the infrastructure as code paradigm is becoming more integral to managing compute resources.

AutoCloud is a platform for automating resource provisioning, and is at the forefront of the move towards infrastructure as code. Tyson Kunovsky is the founder and CEO of AutoCloud, and he joins us in this episode.

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Catching up with Technologist Charlie Gerard

SE Daily — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:44:12 +0000

Charlie Gerard is a highly accomplished software engineer and technologist. She’s worked at Stripe, Netlify, and Atlassian and authored the book, Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript. In her spare time, Charlie explores the field of human-computer interaction and builds interactive prototypes using hardware and machine learning. Some of her recent projects include building a DIY aircraft radar system, and creating a gesture-based computer interface using Bluetooth earbuds and machine learning.

Charlie joins the podcast today to talk about her work and latest interests.

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Blameless with Ken Gavranovic

SE Daily — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:00:03 +0000

Incident management is the process of responding to unplanned events or service interruptions, and then restoring service to an operational state. Having robust incident management is vital to many software teams. Blameless is a framework designed to help software companies manage their production incidents effectively. It provides a workflow for managing the incident response as well as the post-incident retrospective process. In this way, Blameless aims to give a unified learning and process feedback framework that focuses on actionable insights.

Ken Gavranovic is the Chief Operating Officer at Blameless and he’s our guest today.

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Minimum Viable Security for Cloud Apps with David Melamed

SE Daily — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:30:05 +0000

Cloud applications continue to grow in popularity, but ensuring the security of these applications often presents a formidable engineering challenge. This challenge motivated the creation of Jit. Jit is a continuous security platform for developers, and seeks to enable every cloud app to start with minimum viable security, or MVS, without slowing development velocity.

David Melamed is the Co-founder and CTO of Jit and he joins us in the episode to talk about his platform.

Jeff is a DevSecOps engineer with experience in security, the software development life cycle, and cloud technologies. His advanced expertise in HashiCorp technologies places him as one of the most sought after trainers in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions and beyond. Jeff has worked for a range of different companies – from small startups to some of the biggest financial institutions. He now successfully runs his own consultancy that provides services in DevSecOps, Cloud and Security. You can find Jeff at hemmen.lu.

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Highly Scalable NoSQL with Dor Laor

SE Daily — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:30:02 +0000

ScyllaDB is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL database designed to provide predictable performance at a massive cloud scale. It can handle millions of operations per second at a scale of gigabytes or petabytes. It’s also designed to be compatible with Cassandra and DynamoDB APIs. Scylla is used by Zillow, Comcast, and for Discord’s 350M+ users, and it continues to gain popularity in other cloud-native and highly scalable cloud-centric workloads.

Dor Laor is the Co-founder and CEO of Scylla, and he’s our guest today.

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Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js

SE Daily — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 08:00:35 +0000

React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Document Object Model, or DOM, to selectively update the desired regions of the web page, which provides major performance advantages. Million.js is an open source project that provides an optimized virtual DOM. Remarkably, these optimizations make React up to 70% faster and the code weighs in at less than 4 kilobytes in size.

Aiden Bai is the creator of Million.js and he joins us in this episode.

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Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon

SE Daily — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:07:35 +0000

Cox Automotive has been at the frontier of digitizing the automotive space with popular products such as AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and Dealertrack. To deliver these products the company manages large quantities of data and diverse engineering teams. Scaling its operations required an engineering transformation of the company.

Chris Dillon is the VP of Architecture and Engineering Enablement at Cox Automotive. He joins the podcast to talk about how the company accomplished this transformation.

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Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling

SE Daily — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:00:25 +0000

Serverless backend platforms are cloud services that simplify the process of building a backend. These platforms are growing rapidly in popularity because they can greatly accelerate application development, and improve the developer experience. Convex is a real-time backend platform that uses 100% TypeScript and is designed with reactive UI frameworks in mind. The team behind Convex has built and maintained some of the most popular apps, backends and exabyte-scale storage projects at companies like Dropbox and Google.

James Cowling is the Co-Founder and CTO at Convex, and he joins us to discuss how Convex offers a simpler full-stack developer experience.

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Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan

SE Daily — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:00:30 +0000

Exafunction is a leader in deploying deep learning models at scale. One of their products is Codeium, a coding assistant for software developers based on Exafunction’s deep learning technology. Codeium provides AI-assisted autocompletion in your IDE, making it easier for you to incorporate deep learning technology in your software development workflow.

Varun Mohan is the CEO and Co-founder of Codeium, and he is our guest today.

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The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

SE Daily — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:00:58 +0000

Tom Preston-Werner is a renowned software developer, inventor and entrepreneur. He co-founded GitHub and is the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, the TOML configuration file format, and the static site generator software Jekyll. Tom is currently working on the full-stack web framework, RedwoodJS. He joins us today to tell us the latest about RedwoodJS, including its new support for server-side rendering.
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Paweł is the founder at flat.sociaI the world’s first ‘flatverse’ start-up. Pawel’s background is as a full-stack software engineer with a lean and experimental approach towards product development. With a strong grounding in computing science, he spent the last decade getting early-stage products off the ground – both in startup and corporate settings. Follow Paweł on Twitter, LinkedIn and his personal website – pawel.io.

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Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy

SE Daily — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:00:41 +0000

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments. Rootly is a platform to handle incident management directly from Slack, and is used by hundreds of leading companies including Canva, Grammarly, and Cisco.

Ashley Sawatsky leads Developer Relations at Rootly and previously led Shopify’s Incident Communications team. Niall Murphy is Co-founder and CEO at Stanza. He has written extensively about reliability engineering and is the co-author of the best-selling book, Site Reliability Engineering. Ashley and Niall join us in this episode to discuss how engineers and their non-technical counterparts can successfully approach incident management together.

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AI for Software Delivery with Birgitta Böckeler

SE Daily — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:00:34 +0000

AI-assisted software delivery refers to the utilization of artificial intelligence to assist, enhance, or automate various phases of the software development lifecycle. AI can be used in numerous aspects of software development, from requirements gathering to code generation to testing and monitoring. The overarching aim is to streamline software delivery, reduce errors and, ideally, reduce the time and costs associated with software development.

Birgitta Böckeler is the Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery at Thoughtworks and she joins us in this episode. We discuss how the latest advances in large language models are revolutionizing software development.

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Expanding B2B Payments with Sohil Pandya

SE Daily — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:00:11 +0000

The Buy Now, Pay Later model, or BNPL, is traditionally a business-to-consumer model that is gaining traction in the business-to-business domain. Adoption of BNPL in business-to-business scenarios offers benefits like improved cash flow management for buyers, and increased sales for suppliers, often leading to higher order value.

However, this model introduces complexities, including the need for advanced technical platforms for managing such transactions. There are also risks associated with delayed or defaulted payments, and potential accumulation of interest and fees.

As business-to-business entities consider BNPL, they must strike a balance between its potential advantages and its inherent risks and operational challenges.

Tranch is a London-based startup that is focused on providing a payments-checkout platform for businesses that want to pay easier and get paid faster.

Sohil Pandya is the Head of Engineering at Tranch and he joins us in this episode.

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Database Caching with Ben Hagan

SE Daily — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:00:33 +0000

Database caching is a fundamental challenge in database management and there are hundreds of techniques to satisfy different caching scenarios.

PolyScale is a fully automated database cache. It offers an innovative approach to database caching, leveraging AI and automated configuration to simplify the process of determining what should and should not be cached. Ben Hagan is the founder and CEO of PolyScale and he is our guest today.

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An update about SED from Jeff’s family

SE Daily — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:44:38 +0000

In memory of Software Engineering Daily Founder, Jeff Meyerson.
1988 – 2022

Jeff founded Software Engineering Daily in 2015 and hosted the podcast until 2022. He was willful, hard working, and a strong advocate for self-direction.

To hear more about what Jeff was like, please listen to Remembering Jeff Meyerson with Erika Hokanson.

If you’d like to listen to some of his work beyond the podcast, his You Are Not A Commodity keynote from 2019 gives a glimpse into his philosophy, and his music is available on Spotify.

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Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber

SE Daily — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:18 +0000

In the realm of modern software development, clear and comprehensive documentation is essential for guiding users and contributors alike. Developers often struggle to create, manage, and maintain documentation that is both user-friendly and visually appealing.

In this episode, we sit down with Sebastian Lorber, the lead maintainer of Docusaurus, a widely acclaimed open-source static site generator, purpose-built for documentation sites. Sebastian sheds light on how Docusaurus empowers developers to effortlessly build and deploy documentation websites that are functional, maintainable, and easy to brand.

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SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu

SE Daily — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:00:02 +0000

APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their services.

However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consuming endeavor. As a result, API teams often leave the final mile of integration up to their users.

Speakeasy aims to provide a product and a pipeline that makes it easy to create and consume any API.

Sagar Batchu is the co-founder and CEO of Speakeasy and he joins us in this episode.

Paweł is the founder at flat.social the world’s first ‘flatverse’ start-up. Pawel’s background is as a full-stack software engineer with a lean and experimental approach towards product development. With a strong grounding in computing science, he spent the last decade getting early-stage products off the ground – both in startup and corporate settings.

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Ethical GPTs with Amruta Moktali

SE Daily — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:50:24 +0000

Generative pre-trained transformer models, or GPT models, have countless applications and are being rapidly deployed across a wide range of domains.

However, using GPT models without appropriate safeguards can lead to leakage of sensitive data. This concern underscores the critical need for privacy and data protection.

Skyflow LLM Privacy Vault prevents sensitive data from reaching GPTs. Amruta Moktali is the Chief Product Officer at Skyflow and she joins us today. We discuss generative AI, how the technology is different from other AI approaches, and how we can use this technology in a safe and ethical manner.

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CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer

SE Daily — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:00:43 +0000

The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance.

Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today.

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The Linux Foundation.

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Data-Centric AI with Alex Ratner

SE Daily — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:00:35 +0000

Companies have high hopes for Machine learning and AI to support real-time product offerings, prevent fraud and drive innovation. But there was a catch – training models require labeled data that machines can digest. As data volumes increase, the opportunity to get great ML results rises, but so does the problem of labeling all the data to get that excellent result.

Enter Snorkel AI’s programmatic data labeling and MLops platforms like Snorkel Flow. Today we are interviewing Alex Ratner, one of the founders of Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI evolved from research Alex led as part of his Ph.D. research at Stanford, focused on programmatic data labeling to enable much faster and more accurate ML training and retraining.

Alex is a born teacher who always has enthusiasm for the topic. Today he will share the newest evolutions of the product at Snorkel, shed light on why doing ML well requires programmatic data labeling, and talk about foundation models in actual enterprise settings and generally.

Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securiti.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on LinkedIn or Twitter @jocelynbyrne.

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Cloud-native Search with Paul Masurel

SE Daily — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:00:59 +0000

Elasticsearch is the most established solution today to search and analyze large amounts of logs. However, it can be costly and complex to manage. Quickwit searches large amounts of append only cloud data like logs or ledgers in a fraction time with significantly less cost than Elasticsearch. In this episode, we interview Paul Masurel, one of the founders of Quickwit and the creator and maintainer of Tantivy, the open source full text search engine written in Rust.

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Engineering Insights with Christina Forney

SE Daily — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:00:28 +0000

As Companies scale and their codebase becomes large, it can become difficult to measure team effectiveness. With so many moving pieces, and an increased lack of visibility, Engineering Leaders mostly rely on gut feelings to guide decisions and determine impact.
Uplevel pulls meta-data from programs like Git, Slack, Jira and public calendar events and uses machine learning and organizational science to generate actionable insights. With Uplevel Engineering teams can increase velocity, decrease burnout and plan and execute more predictable releases.
Christina Forney is the VP of Product at Uplevel and she joins us in this episode.

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Making Data-Driven Decisions with Soumyadeb Mitra

SE Daily — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:00:37 +0000

RudderStack is a warehouse-native customer data platform (CDP) that helps businesses collect, unify, and activate customer data from all their different sources.
In today’s episode, we’re talking to Soumyadeb Mitra, the founder and CEO of RudderStack.
We discuss the importance of activating all your data, how RudderStack can help you activate your data, the challenges of integrating different data sources and how to build a data-driven culture in your organization.

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Shipping Oxide with Bryan Cantrill

SE Daily — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:06:15 +0000

Hyperscalers refer to expansive cloud service providers capable of delivering enterprise-scale computing and storage services. These Hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Facebook that have huge data centers and are either running their own software or renting out this infrastructure realized a long time back that the traditional Network, Storage & Compute server racks were not enough to fulfill the requirements of a modern enterprise at scale. So they built custom solutions for their data center requirements.

For all of the other companies and organizations that have their own data centers, they are still running legacy old technology. Oxide Computer is a company aiming to democratize access to rack-scale technology and provide a seamless software stack to facilitate its implementation.

Bryan Cantrill is the Co-Founder and CTO of Oxide Computer and he joins us in this episode.

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Trusted Software Supply Chain with Vincent Danen

SE Daily — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Available as a cloud service, Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain provides a DevSecOps framework to create applications more securely. Vincent Danen is the VP of Product Security at Red Hat and joins us in this episode.

Red Hat has been a Secure Open Source software provider for very long. We discuss how the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain product allows enterprises to adopt DevSecOps practices successfully, safely consume open-source code and third-party dependencies, and build security into the software development life cycle.

This Interview was recorded at Open Source Summit North America and wouldn’t have been possible without the generous support from The Linux Foundation.

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Customer-facing Analytics with Tyler Wells

SE Daily — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:00:16 +0000

The state of Data inside most companies is chaotic. It takes significant time and investment to tame this chaos. When you are a platform provider you are gathering tons of data from the developers using your platform. These developers building products on your platform need insight into that data to better understand how their application is performing or to troubleshoot it. Most Platforms or SaaS application providers find it both difficult and expensive to build customer-facing analytics and data applications into their platforms. In fact most companies don’t know what to do with the data they are gathering and continually postpone future product roadmap features aimed to unlock this data. This data can be a crucial part of the developer experience and can empower your customers. It can save you countless hours of handling support tickets, and increase overall stickiness on the platform.

Propel is a GraphQL API platform ideal for powering customer-facing analytics use cases, from customer dashboards and analytics APIs to product usage or in-product metrics.
Tyler Wells is Co-founder and CTO at Propel and he joins us today. We discuss how the customer-centric experiences at Twilio lead his team to the journey they are on today.

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Resale Revolution with Richie Ganney and Harry Riley

SE Daily — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:08:39 +0000

The company Continue has a new take on the resale marketplace. By partnering with brands and pulling post-purchase data onto their platform, this innovative solution simplifies and enhances the resale process, empowering consumers to participate in a more sustainable and circular economy.
Richie Ganney and Harry Riley are the Co-founders of Continue and they join us in this episode. We uncover how this startup is revolutionizing the way we consume and recycle products.

Jeff is a DevSecOps engineer with strong experience in Security, The Software Development Life Cycle and Cloud Technologies. His advanced expertise in HashiCorp technologies places him as one of the most sought after trainers in the EMEA region and beyond. Jeff has worked for a range of different companies – from small startups to some of the biggest financial institutions. He now successfully runs his own consultancy that provides services in DevSecOps, Cloud and Security. Check it out on hemmen.LU and follow Jeff on LinkedIn @jeffhemmen

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Superfast JVM Startup with Gerrit Grunwald

SE Daily — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:00:11 +0000

CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) is a new technology that can improve startup and warmup times by orders of magnitude. It is a project of OpenJDK that was proposed and led by Azul. The CRaC Project defines public Java APIs that allow for the coordination of resources during checkpoint and restore operations. With CRaC, a checkpoint can be set at any point where an application can be safely paused. Azul is releasing a reference implementation of CRaC in JDK 17 with the Azul Zulu Build of OpenJDK for x86 64-bit Linux update. CRaC allows for an “instant” start at any point in the application lifecycle at an optimal speed. It also work’s really well with Azul’s ReadyNow! feature that optimizes warm-up. For the first time, developers will have a TCK-tested, CRaC-configured, production-ready JVM with commercial support available for their use.

Gerrit Grunwald is a Java Champion & Principle Engineer at Azul and he joins us in this episode.

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Alex is an AWS Data Hero, an independent consultant, and the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB. He was an early employee at Serverless, Inc., creators of the Serverless Framework, and was an early community member in the serverless space. His consulting and training work focuses on serverless architectures and database optimization. You can find him on Twitter as @alexbdebrie or on his site, alexdebrie.com.

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WebAssembly with Matt Butcher

SE Daily — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:39:32 +0000

WebAssembly is a low-level binary format for the web that is compiled from other languages to offer maximized performance and is meant to augment the places where JavaScript isn’t sufficient. High Performance applications like AutoCAD, Figma and Photoshop are now leveraging the capabilities of WebAssembly to provide native experiences on the web.
Matt Butcher is the CEO at Fermyon Technologies and he joins us in this episode.

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Building Enterprise Applications with Robert Cooke

SE Daily — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:00:24 +0000

In this episode, we are talking to Robert Cooke, founder and CTO of 3forge. He has spent the last decade creating a full stack software platform that revolutionized enterprise real-time data management, visualization, and workflows through its inventive “high impact code” concept. With offices in New York, London, and Singapore, 3forge has been serving a global clientele including Tier 1 banks and large financial institutions. He talks about his life long passion for computing, the challenges of creating a complete high performance platform, and the scaling principles needed to exceed the requirements of the most demanding global firms.

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Solving Usage-Based Pricing with Puneet Gupta

SE Daily — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:44:18 +0000

Usage-Based Pricing is becoming more and more popular. Led by the wild popularity of cloud service providers such as AWS, customers are demanding more visibility into usage information and more accountability for the dollars they spend on a service.
But historically service oriented products have shied away from usage based pricing because of the complexity involved in managing the data involved.
Amberflo is a service that provides a platform for building and deploying usage based pricing. Puneet Gupta is the CEO and Founder of Amberflo and he is our guest today.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.
Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch

SE Daily — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:20:53 +0000

Feature flags also known as feature toggles, release toggles or feature flippers are a way to enable or disable a particular feature from your app without making any changes to the source code. You can turn on or off a particular functionality without deploying new code. Feature flags can also be used to serve different features to different subset of users.

The company Flagsmith provides you a platform for developing, implementing and managing your feature flags. Ben Rometsch is the Co-founder and the CEO of Flagsmith and he joins us today.

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Data Reliability with Barr Moses and Lior Gavish

SE Daily — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:00:31 +0000

As companies depend more on data to improve digital products and make informed decisions, it’s crucial that the data they use be accurate and reliable. MonteCarlo, the data reliability company, is the creator of the industry’s first end-to-end data observability platform.

Barr Moses and Lior Gavish are the founders of Monte Carlo and they join us today.

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Modern Robotics Platform with Eliot Horowitz

SE Daily — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:00:25 +0000

Programming robotics software has traditionally been a specialized field. The software industry has seen rapid progress, the operating system that provides the foundation for our software applications is taken care of by companies like Google, Microsoft, and other players like Canonical, Amazon, etc. The robotics industry still needs that OS layer that handles the complexities so that engineers can build robots that serve their business needs. VIAM aspires to be the Operating System for robotics that makes it easy to turn great ideas into production robots.

Eliot Horowitz is the Founder and CEO of VIAM and he joins us today. Eliot was previously the CTO at MongoDB, a database company. We discuss with him the different challenges one faces when trying to build a robot and how VIAM is trying to solve that.

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Cloud Native Search with Vinayak Borkar

SE Daily — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:00:54 +0000

Mach5 Search is a slide-in, cloud-native replacement for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch that immediately saves up to 90% in operating cost. Mach5 Search can run on top of Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks, or natively on Object Stores in all the major clouds. Vinayak Borkar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mach5 Software and he joins us today.

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Observability for Your Cloud Dependencies with Jeff Martens

SE Daily — Tue, 30 May 2023 09:00:16 +0000

Metrist is an observability platform designed to commoditize application observability. Jeff Martens is the CEO of Metrist, and he joins us today.

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Low-Code SQL on dbt Core with Raj Bains from Prophecy

SE Daily — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:00:29 +0000

In this podcast episode, we take a look at the intricacies of low-code data pipelines with Raj Bains, the founder of Prophecy.io. Raj shares valuable insights into how performant low-codedata pipelines are revolutionizing industries and transforming everyday operations. Raj discusses the founding story of Prophecy.io, the company’s mission, and its approach to democratizing the creation of efficient data pipeline solutions visual design and code generation. We also discuss technical concepts/conundrums such as data lineage, schema evolution, and metadata management, which are critical in addressing the challenges faced by data pipeline developers and businesses. The episode concludes with Raj’s thoughts on the future of low-code data pipelines, the Prophecy.io roadmap and its potential impact on various industries, from healthcare to finance.

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Cloud-native Control Planes with Bassam Tabbara

SE Daily — Wed, 24 May 2023 09:00:18 +0000

Crossplane is an innovative open source control plane framework that helps companies provide managed access to cloud native control planes. Upbound provides a single global platform to build, deploy, and operate these internally managed control planes that are powered by cross plane.

Bassam Tabbara is the CEO of Upbound, and he joins us today.

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PromptOps with Dev Nag

SE Daily — Tue, 23 May 2023 09:00:20 +0000

When your application fails, finding the reason quickly is essential for limiting downtime. Often, most of the time it takes to repair a problem is taken by figuring out what exactly went wrong. PromptOps is a service designed to make tracing the answer to why something happened back to the original cause.

Dev Nag is the CEO of PromptOps, and he joins us today.

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Shift Conference with Ivan Burazin

SE Daily — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:00:38 +0000

In the Software Industry, Conferences are crucial for developers, offering learning, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Attendees stay updated on the latest technologies, gain new skills, and connect with peers. These events expose developers to industry trends, inspire innovation, and foster professional growth. Overall, Conferences play a vital role in advancing knowledge, building connections, and driving success in the developer community.
In this episode, we discuss what makes a great Conference and how Shift Conference became of the largest events in Europe.
Ivan Burazin is the Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip and the CEO of Codeanywhere, and he joins us today.

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Software Supply Chain with Feross Aboukhadijeh

SE Daily — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:00:40 +0000

The software supply chain refers to the process of creating and distributing software products. This includes all of the steps involved in creating, testing, packaging, and delivering software to end-users or customers.

Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. They are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.

Feross is the Founder and CEO of Socket Security, and he joins us today.

This Interview was recorded at Open Source Summit North America and wouldn’t have been possible without the generous support from

The Linux Foundation.

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Chaos Engineering with Uma Mukkara

SE Daily — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:00:14 +0000

Chaos engineering is a discipline within the field of software engineering that focuses on testing and improving the resilience and stability of a system by intentionally introducing controlled instances of chaos and failure. The primary goal of chaos engineering is to identify and address potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a system, ultimately making it more robust and reliable.
Uma Mukkara is the Head of Chaos Engineering at Harness and he joins us today.

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CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer

SE Daily — Fri, 12 May 2023 08:00:03 +0000

Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today.

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Early Stage Venture Capital with Astasia Myers

SE Daily — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:00:45 +0000

Astasia is a Partner on Quiet Capital’s enterprise team. Prior to joining Quiet, she was an investor on Redpoint Venture’s early stage enterprise team. Astasia joins the show to talk about Early Stage Venture Capital.

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Kubernetes Security with Ian Coldwater

SE Daily — Mon, 08 May 2023 09:00:02 +0000

Ian Coldwater is a DevSecOps engineer turned red teamer who specializes in breaking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native infrastructure. In their spare time, they like to go on cross-country road trips, capture flags, and eat a lot of pie. Ian lives in Minneapolis and tweets as @IanColdwater.

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Cloud Native in 2023 with Chris Aniszczyk

SE Daily — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:00:56 +0000

Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.

These techniques enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil.

Chris Aniszczyk is the CTO at Cloud Native Computing Foundation and he joins us today.

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GitOps for Kubernetes with Priyanka Ravi and Stefan Prodan

SE Daily — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:00:39 +0000

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Although it improves the management and scaling of infrastructure and applications, Kubernetes frequently has challenges managing the complexity of releasing applications.

Git is the most widely used version-control system in the software industry today. GitOps is a set of procedures that uses the power of Git to provide both revision and change control within the Kubernetes platform.

Flux is an open source project that implements GitOps-driven continuous deployment for Kubernetes.

In this episode we speak with Priyanka Ravi and Stefan Prodan from Weaveworks.

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Bug Reporting is Broken and how Jam is Fixing that with Dani Grant & Mohd Irtefa

SE Daily — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:00:36 +0000

Bug reporting hasn’t changed since the 1990’s. Despite all the technological advancements we’ve made in the rest of software development, the way we handle bugs has stayed the same.

It is common practice for non technical teams to provide bug reports that are missing vital information for developers to identify and quickly fix code, such as: network requests, console logs, HAR file, device information, video or screenshot replication, and more.

Providing a comprehensive bug report requires logging into many tools and time spent context switching, creating an environment where people are less likely to report bugs, which is not an ideal scenario for any founder or builder.

Dani & Irtefa, co-founders at Jam.dev set out to build a tool that will enable anyone, no matter their technical background, to capture rich contextual technical data about bugs, so that developers can quickly identify and resolve issues.

Jam is a browser extension that will instantly replay a bug while automatically attaching diagnostics: network requests and speed, console logs, device, and more – all in one easy click. You don’t have to log into a new tool or disrupt workflows, as Jam has direct integrations with all the first class bug reporting tools to seamlessly drop diagnostics into a ticket.

In this episode, Dani & Irtefa share their experience building greenfield products for Cloudflare’s Emerging Technology and Incubation team, how bug reporting was the common pain-point that impacted their product velocity, and the technology decisions they made when building Jam.

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Pre-configured Development Environments with John Craft and Ramiro Berrelleza

SE Daily — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:28:59 +0000

In this episode we have two guests Ramiro Berrelleza is the founder and CEO of Okteto, a developer tool that helps you create production like dev environments in the cloud for every developer. Ramiro will tell us how to easily make replica environments for your day to day development , but computing related infrastructure is only half the battle. It also helps to have realistic data when you’re developing.
John Craft is the CTO at Privacy Dynamics, a company that helps you create anonymized data. You can use Privacy Dynamics to create realistic data from your production database without compromising your customer information.

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Cloud-Oriented Programming (Part 2) with Elad Ben-Israel

SE Daily — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:00:20 +0000

The cloud has become an all-encompassing platform for running diverse applications and enabling individuals and teams to add value by utilizing services and infrastructure that streamline the process of software building and operation. Nonetheless, the cloud has presented new hurdles for developers as it is intricate, and application development demands comprehension of cloud service intricacies. Moreover, creating portable applications across different cloud providers, as well as local testing and debugging, have proven to be difficult. Additionally, leaky abstractions and inadequate tooling have made it challenging to repurpose cloud architectures into reusable components.

To address these challenges, a cloud-centric programming language called Wing has been introduced. Wing enables developers to create distributed systems that fully capitalize on the cloud’s capabilities without the need to concern themselves with the underlying infrastructure.

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Open-Source Embedding Database with Anton Troynikov

SE Daily — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:30:00 +0000

Chroma is an open source embedding database that is designed to make it easy to build large language model applications by making knowledge, facts and skills pluggable.

Anton Troynikov is the co-founder of Chroma and he is our guest today.

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Cloud-Oriented Programming (Part 1) with Elad Ben-Israel

SE Daily — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:41:15 +0000

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Multi-player Coding with Nathan Sobo

SE Daily — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:11:04 +0000

Code editors are complex and demanding pieces of software that are both essential tools and constant companions for developers. Today, we are interviewing Nathan Sobo to hear about Zed, a code editor focused on “multiplayer” experiences, performance and a streamlined, minimalist design.

Nathan Sobo was a member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, which worked on the (now-deprecated) Atom code editor. He will share his thoughts on Rust, the impact of very low-latency collaborative coding on happiness, and how to turn an authoring environment into a first-class concern.

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Pricing and Packaging Orchestration with Anton Zagrebelny

SE Daily — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:49:25 +0000

Most companies aren’t in the building business yet they need to deal with pricing and billing as a core piece of technology whether they want to or not. Stigg is an easy to implement headless pricing and packaging platform that takes a lot of the hassle out of pricing and billing for your SaaS application. Their APIs help developers launch new pricing plans faster that lead to better customer buying experiences.

Anton Zagrebelny is the CTO of Stigg and he is our guest today.

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Cloud Cost Management with Roi Ravhon

SE Daily — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:26:24 +0000

Finout helps FinOps, DevOps, and Finance to manage & reduce cloud spend and improve the company’s profitability without adding code or changing existing tags.

Roi Ravhon is the Co-founder and CEO at Finout and he joins us today.

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Data Activation with Tejas Manohar

SE Daily — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:09:16 +0000

Data Activation is the method of unlocking the knowledge sorted within your data warehouse, and making it actionable by your business users in the end tools that they use every day. In doing so, Data Activation helps bring data people toward the center of the business, directly tying their work to business outcomes.

Hightouch is the simplest and fastest way to get started with Data Activation. As a Data Activation Platform, Hightouch uses Reverse ETL to sync data from the warehouse to 100+ different integrations. With Hightouch companies can leverage their existing data models and easily view and monitor all of their data syncs in a single platform. Better yet, Hightouch offers a visual audience builder that makes it easy for non-technical users to create custom audiences at moment’s notice.

Tejas Manohar is the CEO at Hightouch and he joins us today.

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Unified DataOps for Teams and Enterprise with Estuary.dev

SE Daily — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:17:05 +0000

Enabling data engineers to create data pipelines easily while delivering data streams that meet low-latency, production requirements is a difficult balancing act. David Yaffe and Johnny Gaettinger join us today to share how they have created that balance at Estuary.
Estuary is a data operations platform that synchronizes data across the systems where data lives and delivers it where you want it to live with sub second low latency. Dave and Johnny will share the technical choices that support sub second performance, use cases for batch and streaming data applications and some of their business perspective as an early stage start-up.

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Self-Service Data Culture with Stemma’s Mark Grover

SE Daily — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 09:00:15 +0000

A data catalog provides an index into the data sets and schemas of a company.Data teams are growing in size, and more companies than ever have a data team, so the market for data catalog is larger than ever.

Mark is the CEO of Stemma and the co-creator of Amundsen, a data catalog that came out of Lyft. In today’s show Mark shares how his history as a software developer, data engineer and product leader at Lyft have helped him create a vision for a modern data catalog.

Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securit.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on Linkedin or Twitter @jocelynbyrne

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Streaming Analytics with Hojjat Jafarpour

SE Daily — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:16:38 +0000

Streaming analytics refers to the process of analyzing real-time data that is generated continuously and rapidly from various sources, such as sensors, applications, social media, and other internet-connected devices. Streaming analytics platforms enable organizations to extract business value from data in motion, similar to how traditional analytics tools derive insights from data at rest. DeltaStream is a unified serverless stream processing platform to manage, secure and process all your event streams and is based on Apache Flink.
Hojjat Jafarpour is the Founder and CEO at DeltaStream and he joins us today. Before joining DeltaStream, Hojjat was at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, he built a product called ksqlDB, ksqlDB is a database built to do Stream processing on top of Apache Kafka.

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Observability via Snapshots with Liran Haimovitch

SE Daily — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:10:08 +0000

Observability refers to the capability of comprehending the internal functioning of a complex system by observing its external outputs. Observability tools help developers understand the entire scenario of an application by digging into the data that is being used and recorded. And can help pipe data across various solutions used within enterprises to read and discover what’s going on from analytics.
Rookout is an observability platform with a developer-first approach that empowers you to collect any data point, even from the most intricate levels of live code, in real time and as needed.
Liran Haimovitch is the CTO at Rookout, and he joins us today. We discuss about Rookouts recent offering called Snapshots. Rookout calls this the fourth pillar of Observability. With Snapshots, developers can accurately and quickly capture application state with outstanding performance and built-in security.

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Turso: Globally Replicated SQLite with Glauber Costa

SE Daily — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:35:41 +0000

Distributed databases are necessary for storing and managing data across multiple nodes in a network. They provide scalability, fault tolerance, improved performance, and cost savings. By distributing data across nodes, they allow for efficient processing of large amounts of data and redundancy against failures. They can also be used to store data across multiple locations for faster access and better performance.

Turso is an edge-hosted, distributed database based on libSQL, an open-source and open-contribution fork of SQLite. It was designed to minimize query latency for applications where queries come from anywhere in the world. In particular, it works well with edge functions provided by cloud platforms such as CloudFlare, Netlify, and Vercel, by putting your data geographically close to the code that accesses it.

Glauber Costa is the Founder and CEO of ChiselStrike the company behind Turso, and he joins us today.

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Platform Engineering with Luca Galante

SE Daily — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:00:49 +0000

The increasing complexity of modern cloud-native architectures has led to the emergence Platform Engineering. This practice involves the development and upkeep of an integrated product, known as an “Internal Developer Platform,” which serves as a flexible and supported abstraction layer between application developers and the underlying technologies. Luca Galante leads Product at Humanitec and he joins us today.

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Hardening C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup

SE Daily — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:15:33 +0000

C++ is a powerful programming language that has been in use for several decades. Its importance lies in its versatility and efficiency, making it a popular choice for developing software and systems across different domains. The impact of C++ is significant, as it has been used to create numerous high-performance applications, including operating systems, browsers, gaming engines, and financial systems. It has also played a crucial role in the development of the internet and the growth of modern computing.

In a recent development the NSA indirectly asked developers to use memory safe languages whenever possible because hackers frequently exploit memory issues. In this episode, we’ll discuss these safety issues with the creator of C++ Bjarne Stroupstrup.

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Seamless SecOps with Jack Naglieri

SE Daily — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:17:50 +0000

A SIEM platform provides organizations with a powerful tool for improving their security posture, by providing insights into potential security threats and enabling proactive security measures.
Panther is a Cloud based security monitoring platform that helps teams detect and respond to security breaches quickly and intelligently. Jack Naglieri is the Founder and CEO of Panther and he joins us today.

Jeff is a DevSecOps engineer with strong experience in Security, The Software Development Life Cycle and Cloud Technologies. He’s an expert in HashiCorp Technologies and is one the most sought after trainers in EMEA and beyond. Jeff has worked for companies ranging from small startups to the biggest financial institutions, he runs his own consultancy that provides services in DevOps, Cloud and Security. Follow Jeff on LinkedIn @jeffhemmen

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Observability Trends with John Hart

SE Daily — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:14:03 +0000

DataSet is a log analytics platform provided by Sentinel One that helps DevOps, IT engineering, and security teams get answers from their data across all time periods, both live streaming and historical. It’s powered by a unique architecture that uses a massively parallel query engine to provide actionable insights from the data available.

John Hart is a distinguished engineer leading the Event DB team, where he’s responsible for the time series database that powers the Dataset product. John is our guest here today.

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Building Delightful User Experiences with Guillermo Rauch

SE Daily — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:05:06 +0000

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. Vercel’s Edge Functions enable you to deliver dynamic, personalized content with the lightweight Edge Runtime.

Guillermo Rauch is the CEO at Vercel and he joins us today.

This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. To learn more about Mike visit mikebifulco.com

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Improved Java Performance Sans Code Changes with Simon Ritter

SE Daily — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:46:29 +0000

What are the reasons why we need to improve performance? The JVM is a powerful piece of software – this is the reason why Java has maintained its popularity over the past 26+ years. But… there are some ways that the JVM works that can impact the performance of your applications.

One of the biggest challenges is latency – how quickly can we respond to a request from a user to access your application. That comes down to garbage collection – which leads to pauses and a bad customer experience. Garbage collection pauses can vary. But they impact application performance. The bigger the heap, the longer your pauses…but how do you optimize? What about warm-up time? That’s also a big challenge. We’ve addressed these problems without re-writing code from scratch – and that leads to better Java performance without any code changes.

This episode explores how you can use a performance JVM to make applications start fast, go fast, and stay fast.

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Data Investing and the MAD with Matt Turck

SE Daily — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:50:28 +0000

There are many types of early stage funding available from friends and family to seed to series A. Some firms invest across a wide set of technologies and seek only to provide capital. Others are in it for the long haul – they focus on specific areas of technology and develop both long term relationships and deep expertise over time.

Today, we are interviewing Matt Turck of First Mark Capital, who is in it for the long haul and whose portfolio companies include Dataiku, Crossbeam, Ada, Cockroach Labs, Clickhouse and more. Today we will talk about Matt’s career, investment point of view, founding the Data-driven NYC community and the recent release of the 20234 MAD – an industry resource for understanding the Machine Learning, AI and Data Landscape

Be sure to check out the show notes for links to the MAD

This epsiode is hosted by Jocelyn Houle. Follow Jocelyn on Linked or on Twitter @jocelynbyrne.

Show notes –

In today’s show we referenced a couple things you may want to check out.

Matt’s blog and MAD Landscape

The interactive MAD Landscape

The picture in Matt’s Office was The Son of Man by Rene Magritte

Matt’s full bio

FirstMark Capital Site

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eBPF with Thomas Graf

SE Daily — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:53:29 +0000

eBPF stands for “extended Berkeley Packet Filter” and is a technology that allows developers to write and run highly efficient and secure programs that can analyze and modify data packets as they move through a system. eBPF programs can be used for a wide range of purposes, including network monitoring, security, and performance optimization.

Thomas Graf is the CTO & Co-Founder at Isovalent and he joins us today.

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Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen

SE Daily — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:00:03 +0000

Netlify is a cloud-based platform that provides web developers with an all-in-one workflow to build, deploy, and manage modern web projects.
Matt Biilmann is the CEO of Netlify and he joins us today.

This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. To learn more about Mike visit mikebifulco.com

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Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki

SE Daily — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:20:10 +0000

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI. It is part of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) family of models, which are designed to generate human-like text based on input prompts. ChatGPT is specifically trained to carry out conversational tasks, such as answering questions, completing sentences, and engaging in dialogue. It has been pre-trained on a large corpus of text data and fine-tuned on specific tasks to improve its performance. As a result, ChatGPT can generate responses that are often coherent, relevant, and natural-sounding.

Christian Hubicki is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Department at Florida State University. He joins us today to discuss ChatGPT and its implications. We also discussed the future of Artificial Intelligence in general.

This show is hosted by Sean Falconer. Sean is the Head of Developer Relations and Marketing @Skyflow. Follow Sean at @seanfalconer

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Seeding Bold Engineers with Lee Edwards

SE Daily — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:16:24 +0000

Lee Edwards is a Partner at Root Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups that are focused on solving hard engineering problems. Lee is an investor in Privacy Dynamics, a company that offers data anonymisation as a service. You can listen to our interview with the CTO of Privacy Dynamics, John Craft here.

Lee is interested in investing in startups founded by engineers who are committed to addressing complex software challenges. This includes areas such as developer tools and services, software infrastructure, applied artificial intelligence and machine learning, tooling for data scientists and engineers, computer vision, and any other endeavor that requires a highly skilled technical team to develop.

This epsiode is hosted by Jocelyn Houle. Jocelyn is focused on data, ML and enterprise software. She has experience as a founder, investor, and product leader and has worked with both start-ups and large financial services companies. Jocelyn is currently a Senior Director of Product management for Securiti, a unified data controls company. Follow Jocelyn on Linked or on Twitter @jocelynbyrne.

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Creating Mock APIs with Tom Akehurst

SE Daily — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:42:45 +0000

API mocking is a technique used to simulate the behavior of an API without actually connecting to the real API. It is useful for various reasons, including testing, isolation, development, and cost reduction. By using API mocking, developers can test their code without relying on the availability of the real API, isolate the code being tested from the behavior of the API, work on their code even when the API is not yet available, and reduce the number of requests they make to the real API, thus saving money.
WireMock is a flexible tool for building mock APIs and can operate as either a standalone server or as a managed service through WireMock Cloud.

Tom Akehurst is the CTO & Co-founder at WireMock and he joins us today.

Show Host: Sean Falconer

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Pebblebed with Keith Adams

SE Daily — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:30:06 +0000

Keith Adams has worked previously at Facebook and has also been a Chief Architect at Slack. He joins us today to discuss technology, startups, investing, and like all conversations that exist today, ChatGPT.

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Kubernetes Cost Management with Matt Ray

SE Daily — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:25:18 +0000

As companies move more and more workloads to the cloud, cost management in the cloud is becoming critically important. Modern application development methodology increasingly involves moving to service and microservice architectures enabled by the cloud and kubernetes is the backbone of this modern infrastructure trend. Managing costs of kubernetes clusters is therefore becoming increasingly important. Kubecost is the company focused on giving visibility into kubernetes resources, allowing you to reduce your overall kubernetes based infrastructure spend. OpenCost is an open-source project by Kubecost and supported by a few other partner companies. Matt Ray is Senior Community Manager at OpenCost and he joins us today.

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Learning From Incidents with Nora Jones

SE Daily — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:42:25 +0000

Jeli.io is an end to end incident management tool. Jeli helps you understand why an incident took place, how it could’ve been prevented, and allows you to dive deep into uncovered themes, patterns, or problem areas!
Nora Jones is the Founder and CEO at Jeli.io and she joins us today.

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Streamdal: Streaming Data Performance Monitoring with Ustin Zarubin and Dan Selans

SE Daily — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:50:53 +0000

Data observability is the idea of creating a unified view of all the data so you can head off problems early, identify outages, and address any conflicts in real time. Today we’re interviewing Streamdal’s founders Ustin Zarubin and Dan Selans. They’re gonna share with us how they’re using an application monitoring approach to address the challenges of getting that unified view in today’s data-centric streaming enviroment.

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Istio Ambient Mesh with Brian Gracely

SE Daily — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:13:10 +0000

Let’s say you have a set of microservices running on a Kubernetes cluster. In the past, developers used to program features like service discovery, observability, who’s allowed to talk to whom and other security related features directly into the application code.
This slowed down the dev cycle and it made these microservices bigger and just generally made everything less flexible.
The service mesh is a tool responsible for handling service-to-service communication. You keep your application small and business focused and instead you dynamically program the intelligence into the network.
The Istio ambient mesh is an alternative to the standard Istio architecture, it allows you to not have to run sidecars per application.

The company Solo.io was founded by Idit Levine a few years ago. Interestingly the name Solo comes from her being the Solo founder when she started the company and the io domain name was a cool thing to have back then.
Brian Gracely is the Head of Marketing at Solo.io and he joins us today.

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Dev-First Kubernetes Operations Platform with Itiel Shwartz

SE Daily — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 01:57:58 +0000

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The company Komodor started as a Kubernetes diagnostics platform focusing on Kubernetes troubleshooting for the entire Kubernetes stack. More recently, Komodor is taking a step towards becoming a single-pane-of-glass to simplify Kubernetes for developers. In the past, they were more DevOps-focused, and they’ve made some significant changes in the product that will appeal more to the developer. Komodor is also entering into the cluster management space to compete with Lens.

Itiel Shwartz is the co-founder and CTO of Komodor, and he joins us today.

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Permit Elements and Fullstack Authorization with Or Weis

SE Daily — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:04:28 +0000

Permissions are Hard! And they are becoming harder as we move more into the Cloud-native ecosystem. If we go back in time to the point where it was just a single monolith that you were building on your own. You’ll probably have a framework to manage the permissions for you. But when you are working with distributed microservices, especially if you are a polyglot, you can’t use those solutions anymore. So you end up having to sprinkle a bit of access control into every little microservice and component that you build. In addition, with the scale of modern applications, it’s no longer just your services, there are a lot of third-party services that you have to connect to. Think about things like authentication, billing, analytics and other stuff that you combine from eternal services into what you are building.

Permit.io empowers developers to bake in permissions and access control into any product in minutes and takes away the pain of constantly rebuilding them. Or Weis is the co-founder and CEO of Permit.io and joins us today.

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Databricks Unity Catalog with Zeashan Pappa

SE Daily — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:10:16 +0000

Data catalogs are one way to address the tension between wanting to use all the data for business advantage and needing to govern all the data for compliance. Today, Zeashan Pappa, a Databricks Product Specialist for the Unity Catalog, joins us to discuss how catalogs can help companies capture the full value of their data. Zeashan Pappa is a technology executive and architect who has 20+ years of enterprise software architecture, engineering, consulting, and project management expertise.

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Webhooks at Scale with Alexandre Bouchard

SE Daily — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:47:39 +0000

Webhooks are used in connecting two different online applications. Webhooks allow one program to send data to another as soon as a certain event takes place.And because they are event-driven, webhooks are ideal for things like real-time notifications and data updates. The company Hookdeck helps build webhook integrations at scale.

In this episode, we talk with Alexandre Bouchard, Co-founder of Hookdeck.

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Caching at Twitter with Yao Yue

SE Daily — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:00:33 +0000

Twitter is a social media platform that does some incredibly complex stuff when it comes to distributed systems engineering to keep the website up and running. Twitter has open sourced a lot of projects for others to use. Twitter created a fork of Memcached called Twemcache and also a fork of Redis to handle the caching issues. In this episode we talk to Yao Yue. Yao Yue is an expert in distributed systems and performance. She led the cache team at Twitter. Her most notable open-source project is Pelikan, a modular caching framework with the best performance and operator ergonomics in the domain of distributed caching. Pelikan is ideal for large scale deployment as well as cutting-edge research.

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Cloud Native Compiler with John Ceccarelli

SE Daily — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:00:34 +0000

Java is a write once run anywhere programming language. The way you do that is you use the javac compiler and compile the source files down to the class files. Those class files can run on any system in interpreted mode. But those class files that are run in interpreted mode, they are not machine code specific. To get that code to run fast you need to turn that into optimized machine code and that’s what the JIT compiler does. The open JDK contains its JIT compiler called Hotspot.

Azul is a company that specializes in Java for the enterprise. It has the largest Java engineering team after Oracle. John Ceccarelli is the Senior Director of Product Management at Azul Systems responsible for Azul Platform Prime which is their hyper optimized build of OpenJDK. In this episode we explore the fundamentals of compilers. We also discuss Azul’s Cloud Native Compiler, the programs that are suitable for the Cloud Native Compiler and the Deployment model of CNC.

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MLOps Systems at Scale with Krishna Gade

SE Daily — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:08:39 +0000

Although we like to think about ML workflows as straight-line narratives from experiment to training to production, and then finally monitoring; the reality for large companies is that all the steps are happening at one time in concert with other models, with shifting data, and, sometimes, misaligned key feature inputs.

Moreover, regulated firms are required to track all the models, the changes, and the impacts of those changes for compliance. Enter explainability supported by model monitoring. Far from the old, single task process of only monitoring changes and anomalies, today’s ML monitoring does much more. It uses AI to deliver full featured performance management that can identify changes, alert the right people, and pop models back into production in real time with proper governance.

FiddlerAI is a startup focused on enterprise model performance management. They are tackling the unique challenges of building in-house stable and secure MLOps systems at scale. Today we are interviewing Krishna Gade about trusting AI, the technical challenges of ML monitoring and the real world problem statements beyond compliance that explainability can address.

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Optimizing Cloud Data Platforms with Mingsheng Hong

SE Daily — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:00:22 +0000

Mingsheng Hong, is CEO and co-founder (along with Zheng Shao) of Bluesky. He is a thought leader for machine learning and has built data infrastructure to support some of the world’s most challenging workloads. Most recently, Mingsheng was at Google, where he led teams to build storage and querying stacks that power Google’s $100 billion ads business and a new TensorFlow backend to improve performance for AI workloads.

Jocelyn Byrne Houle is a product leader, operator and investor focused on data and machine learning. Today, Jocelyn is a Sr. Director of Product Management for Securiti.ai, a Unified Data Controls platform. She has experience working at startups and at large companies like Capital One, Fannie Mae and Microsoft. Any opinions expressed by Jocelyn are her own and do not reflect the opinions or her employers.

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Software Supply Chain with Dan Lorenc

SE Daily — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 08:30:43 +0000

Show host: Jordi Mon Companys

Guest: Dan Lorenc

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Open Source Software Lifecycle Management and Security with Varun Badhwar

SE Daily — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:29:05 +0000

In this episode we talk with Varun Badhwar, Founder and CEO of Endor Labs.

Show host: Sean Falconer

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Pipelines as Code with Sam Alba

SE Daily — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 15:00:24 +0000

Show Host: Jordi Mon Companys

Guest: Sam Alba

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API Testing in Kubernetes with Matthew LeRay

SE Daily — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:56:39 +0000

As applications grow in size and complexity, and as they increasingly move to microservice architectures, it becomes harder for individual developers to perform end-to-end tests of an entire application stack. Connecting development services to production services is off limits. Test environments are limited to automated tests.
Staging environments are woefully inadequate with the amount of data available for their use. Testing large and complex applications is becoming harder and harder. Speedscale provides developers a solution to this problem. Speedscale assists in developing and testing applications by recreating real world traffic loads in test and development environments, essentially bringing the data quality of production into the exploratory world of development. Matthew LeRay is the CTO and co-founder of Speedscale, and he’s our guest today.

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