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Tractable is a podcast for engineering leaders to talk about the hardest technical problems their orgs are tackling — whether that's scaling products to deal with increased demand, racing towards releases, or pivoting the technical stack to better cater to a new landscape of challenges. Each tractable podcast is an in-depth exploration of how the core technology underlying the world's fastest growing companies is built and iterated on. Tractable is hosted by Kshitij Grover, co-founder and CT ...
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Axiom CEO Neil Jagdish Patel: No more sampling
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In this episode of Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover interviews Neil Jagdish Patel, the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom, a serverless logging tool used by companies like Prisma, M1 Finance, and Cal.com. Neil talks about Axiom's flexibility and trade-offs, focusing on its efficiency in data ingest, storage, and query execution, also Axiom's potential to…
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Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors - Production, revisited
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In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover is joined by Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to discuss Observability 1.0 and 2.0 and the critical shift from fragmented data sources to a unified source of truth for more efficient debugging and problem-solving. From identifying signs of organizations entrenched in '1.0 thinking' to the need for short…
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Felt CTO Can Duruk: A New Direction for Maps
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On the latest episode of the Tractable podcast, cofounder and CTO of Orb, Kshitij Grover, sits down with Can Duruk, co-founder and CTO of Felt, the world's first collaborative mapping tool. From the technical complexities of map rendering to the broad-reaching impact of their software, this episode highlights how Felt has changed the way we visuali…
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Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: Scalable on-demand compute for the cloud
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In this episode of the Tractable podcast, Kshitij Grover, the cofounder and CTO of Orb, interviews Eric, the founder and CEO of Modal. They discuss Eric's technical background, his experience building a music recommendation system at Spotify, and his journey to founding Modal. The conversation delves into the challenges faced in the early days of S…
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Render VPE Uma Chingunde: The Future of the Cloud
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In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover sits down with special guest Uma Chingunde to explore the intricacies of managing and optimizing complex technical platforms. Uma delves into the critical importance of constant investment in AI to ensure reliability and staying ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. The discussion also dig …
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WarpStream CEO Richard Artoul: reinventing an infrastructure primitive
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In this episode of Tractable, Orb's podcast with engineering leaders, Kshitij Grover dives deep on Warpstream. Warpstream is a cost-effective Kafka-compatible streaming platform built to be simpler to manage than traditional Kafka solutions, built on top of Richie's previous experiences managing large-scale data systems at both Datadog and Uber. Wa…
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Sentry CTO David Cramer: Running Sentry at Scale
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In this episode of the Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover, CTO at Orb, interviews David, the CTO of Sentry. Sentry, known for industry leading error and performance monitoring, has become one of the world’s most admired developer tools. Sentry is the tool of choice for over 90,000 companies including developers at Atlassian, GitHub, and Disney+. Dav…
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Materialize CTO Nikhil Benesch: Making data operational
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Nikhil Benesch, CTO at Materialize, joins me to discuss the evolution of Materialize from its origins at Cockroach to a production-grade system powering companies like Ramp and General Mills. Nikhil shares the the origin story of Materialize, the progress from Streaming Data Warehouse to Operational Data Warehouse, and the the challenges of offerin…
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Robust Intelligence VP Marco Sanvido: Securing LLMs
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In this episode, Marco, VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence sketches out his journey in various facets of technology, ranging from autonomous vehicles, virtualization, solid state drives, and Kubernetes. He shares insights on the constantly changing tech trends and how they relate to AI today, emphasizing the necessary balance between tech hyp…
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Airplane founder Joshua Ma: The inverse Cloudflare
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Josh is the founder and CEO of Airplane, the developer platform for internal tools. We discuss Airplane's latest releases during the company's first Launch Week, including new tools like Airplane Pages and Cloud Workspaces as well as a PostgreSQL offering. Josh shares the dynamic architecture and security challenges his team navigates to ensure sea…
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SingleStore VP Robbie Walzer: SQL Ubiquity
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Robbie Walzer, VP of Engineering at SingleStore, talks through SingleStore's journey and its evolution as a distributed SQL database. We discuss the technical architecture and optimizations of SingleStore, formerly MemSQL, and how it handles both transactional and analytical workloads simultaneously. Robbie sheds light on the challenges associated …
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Stytch CTO Julianna Lamb: Securing the Enterprise
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In this episode, I chat with Julianna, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, a platform for authentication and identity management. Julianna shares her journey from studying computer science at Stanford to working at Plaid and co-founding Stytch. She discusses the challenges in securing customer data and scaling a mission critical platform, especially acro…
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