Aravind was a Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and currently works at OpenAI. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Edited Transcript Can you tell us about the scale of data Uber was dealing with when you joined in 2018, and how it evolved? When I joined Uber in mid-2018, we were handling a few petabytes of data. The company was going through …

Nora is the CEO and co-founder of Jeli, an incident management platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Nora provides an in-depth look into incident management within the software industry and discusses the incident management platform Jeli. Nora's fascination with risk and its influence on human behavior stems from her early career in …

Abi Noda is the CEO and co-founder of DX, a developer productivity platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts My view on developer experience and productivity measurement aligns extremely closely with DX’s view. The productivity of a group of engineers cannot be measured by tools alone - there’s too many qualitative factors like cross-fun…

Robert Cooke is the CTO and co-founder of 3Forge, a real-time data visualization platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we delve into Wall Street's high-frequency trading evolution and the importance of high-volume trading data observability. We examine traditional software observability tools, such as Datadog, and co…

Roi Rav-Hon is the co-founder and CEO of Finout, a SaaS cost management platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we review the challenge of maintaining reasonable SaaS costs for tech companies. Usage-based pricing models of infrastructure costs lead to a gradual ramp-up of costs and always have sneakily come up as a pri…

Ben Ofiri is the CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor, a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We had an episode with the other founder of Komodor, Itiel, in 2021, and I thought it would be fun to revisit the topic. Highlights (ChatGPT Generated) [0:00] Introduction to the Software At Scale podcast and the guest s…

Vikas Agarwal is an engineering leader with over twenty years of experience leading engineering teams. We focused this episode on his experience as the Head of Community Trust at Amazon and dealing with the various challenges of fake reviews on Amazon products. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Highlights (GPT-3 generated) [0:00:17] Vikas …

Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Mike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer productivity/platform engineering. We talk about the Rainbow of Death - the idea of driving…

Benjy Weinberger is the co-founder of Toolchain, a build tool platform. He is one of the creators of the original Pants, an in-house Twitter build system focused on Scala, and was the VP of Infrastructure at Foursquare. Toolchain now focuses on Pants 2, a revamped build system. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we go back …

Puneet Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Amberflo, a cloud metering and usage based pricing platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we discuss Puneet’s fascinating background early at AWS as a GM and his early experience at Oracle Cloud. We initially discuss why AWS shipped S3 as its first product before any other ser…

Akshay Buddiga is the co-founder and CTO of Traba, a labor management platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Sorry for the long hiatus in episodes! Today’s episode covers a myriad of interesting topics - from being the star of one of the internet’s first viral videos, to experiencing the hyper-growth at the somewhat controversial Zene…

James Cowling is the co-founder of Convex, a state management platform for web developers. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the state of web development in the industry today, and the various different approaches to make it easier. Contrasting the Hasura and Convex approach as a good way to illustrate some of the ideas. Hasura …

Josh Twist is the co-founder and CEO of Zuplo, a programmable, developer friendly API Gateway Management Platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss a new category of developer tools startups - API Gateway Management Platforms. We go over what an API Gateway is, why do companies use gateways, common pain-points in gateway manage…

Ted Young is the Director of Developer Education at Lightstep and a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode dives deep into the history of OpenTelemetry, why we need a new telemetry standard, all the work that goes into building generic telemetry processing infrastructure, and the vision for …

Or Weis is the CEO and founder of Permit.io, a Permission as a Service platform. Previously, he founded Rookout, a cloud-debugging tool. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Many of us have struggled (or are struggling) with permission management in the various applications we’ve built. The complexity of these systems always tends to increase…

Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET. He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth. Additionally he is the primary maintainer of the Noda Time date/time library for .NET. You may also be interested in Jon Skeet Facts. Apple Podc…

Lee Byron is the co-creator of GraphQL, a senior engineering manager at Robinhood, and the executive director of the GraphQL foundation. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the GraphQL origin story, early technical decisions at Facebook, the experience of deploying GraphQL today, and the future of the project. Highlights (some tid…

Harshyt Goel is a founding engineer and engineering manager of Platform and Integrations at Loom, a video-messaging tool for workplaces. He’s also an angel investor, so if you’re looking for startup advice, investments, hiring advice, or a software engineering job, please reach out to him on Twitter. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We di…

Daniel Stenberg is the founder and lead developer of curl and libcurl. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode, along with others like this one, reminds me of this XKCD: We dive into all the complexity of transferring data across the internet. Highlights [00:30] - The complexity behind HTTP. What goes on behind the scenes when I mak…

Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform that helps you sell digital services. He also runs SHL Capital, a rolling fund for early-stage startups. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Sahil’s recent book, Minimal Entrepreneurship, explores a framework for building profitable, sustainable companies. I’ve often explored t…

Nikita Gupta is a Co-Founder & CTO at Symba, a platform that helps manage talent development programs like internships. Internships are one of the most effective ways for hiring at a software company, but there’s a lot of work that goes into managing successful interns. With hiring getting harder across the industry due to increased competition and…

Guy Eisenkot is a Senior Director of Product Management at BridgeCrew by Prisma Cloud and was the co-founder of BridgeCrew, an infrastructure security platform. We deep dive into infrastructure security, Checkov, and BridgeCrew in this episode. I’ve personally been writing Terraform for the last few weeks, and it often feels like I’m flying blind f…

Tanmai Gopal is the founder of Hasura, an API as a service platform. Hasura lets you skip writing API layers and exposes automatic GraphQL APIs that talk to your database, trigger external actions, and much more. We talk about the implementation of a “compiler as a service”, the implications of primarily having a Haskell production codebase, their …

Kailash Nadh is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest retail stockbroker. Zerodha powers a large volume of stock trades - ~15-20% of India’s daily volume which is significantly more daily transactions than Robinhood. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts The focus of this episode is the technology and mindset behind Zerodha - the key technology …

Ganesh Datta is the CTO and co-founder of Cortex, a microservice management platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We continue the age-old monolith/microservice debate and dig into why companies seem to like services so much (I’m generally cautious about such migrations). Ganesh has a ton of insights into developer productivity and to…

Johannes Schindelin is the maintainer (BDFL) of Git for Windows. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Git is a fundamental piece of the software community, and we get to learn the history and inner workings of the project in this episode. Maintaining a widely-used open source project involves a ton of expected complexity around handling bug r…

Guido van Rossum is the creator of the Python programming language and a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss Guido’s new work on making CPython faster (PEP 659), Tiers of Python Interpreter Execution, and high impact, low hanging fruit performance improvements. Highlights (an edited summary) [0…

Abhay Venkatesh is a Software Engineer at Anduril Industries where he focuses on infrastructure and platform engineering. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We focus this episode on drone engineering - exploring the theme of “If I wanted to start my own technology project/company that manages drones, what technology bits would I need to kno…

Derrick Stolee is a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, where he focuses on the client experience of large Git repositories. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Subscribers might be aware that I’ve done some work on client-side Git in the past, so I was pretty excited for this episode. We discuss the Microsoft Windows and Office repositor…

Maju Kuruvilla is the CTO and COO of Bolt, a startup that offers quick online checkout technology to retailers. Previously, he was VP and GM at Amazon Global Mile, in charge of Amazon’s global logistics and Amazon Prime fulfillment operations amongst other things. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Highlights 00:30 - What does a VP at Amazo…

Bharat Mediratta is the first Coinbase Fellow. Previously, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google, CTO at AltSchool, and CTO at Dropbox. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We focus this episode on the role of a senior technical individual contributor in a technology company and contrast that with the role of a technology executive (like …

Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO and Co-Founder of PlanetScale, a database as a service platform company. Previously, he worked at PayPal and YouTube on databases and other scalability problems, and he’s one of the creators of Vitess, a graduated CNCF database project that served as YouTube’s metadata storage for several years. Apple Podcasts | Spotify…

Tammy Butow is a Principal SRE at Gremlin, an enterprise Chaos Engineering platform that makes it easy to build more reliable applications in order to prevent outages, innovate faster, and earn customer trust. She’s also the co-founder of Girl Geek Academy, an organization to encourage women to learn technology skills. She previously held IC and ma…

Itiel Schwartz is the CTO and Co-Founder of Komodor, a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform. Previously, he was one of the founding engineers at Rookout. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss two major themes in this episode: the rise of Kubernetes as a popular orchestration platform, and the need for using an integrated service to u…

Tramale Turner is the Head of Engineering, Traffic at Stripe. Previously, he was a Senior Engineering Manager at F5 Networks and a Senior Manager at Nintendo. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode has an unexpectedly deep dive into security and compliance at Stripe. We discuss Stripe’s philosophy and approach towards building secu…

Rajesh Venkataraman is a Senior Staff Engineer at Google where he works on Privacy and Personalization at Google Pay. He’s had experience building and maintaining search systems for a large part of his career. He worked on natural language processing at Microsoft, the cloud inference team at Google, and released parts of the search infrastructure a…

Devdatta Akhawe is the Head of Security at Figma. Previously, he was Director of Security Engineering at Dropbox, where he led multiple teams on product security and abuse prevention. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we discuss security for startups, as well as dive deep into some interesting new developments in the secur…

Laurent Ploix is an engineering manager on the Platform Insights team at Spotify. Previously, he was responsible for CI/CD at several Swedish companies, most recently as a Product Manager at Spotify, and a Continuous Integration Manager at Sungard. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Highlights 05:40 - How CI/CD has evolved from a niche prac…

Sujay Jayakar was a Software Engineer at Microsoft Research where he worked on kernel bypass networking. He was previously a Principal Engineer at Dropbox where he worked on the migration of user data from S3 to the internal storage system (Magic Pocket), and the sync engine deployed to clients. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Highlights…

Colin Chartier is the co-founder and CEO of LayerCI. LayerCI speeds up web developers by providing unique VM-like environments for every commit to a codebase, which enables developers, product managers, QA, and other stakeholders to preview code changes extremely quickly and removes the need to spin up a local environment to showcase demos. This en…

Naphat Sanguansin was the former TL of the Server Platform SRE and Application Services teams at Dropbox, where he led efforts to improve Dropbox’s availability SLA and set a long-term vision for server development. This episode is more conversational than regular episodes since I was on the same team as Naphat and we worked on a few initiatives to…

Christina Cacioppo and Robbie Ostrow work at Vanta, an automated security and compliance company with a mission to secure the internet. Vanta sets up monitoring via a set of continuous tests to ensure basic security best practices, like mandatory MFA for employees. Each test bubbles up to one or more compliance standards like SOC-2 so that companie…

Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Vectorized. Vectorized offers a product called RedPanda, an Apache Kafka-compatible event streaming platform that’s significantly faster and easier to operate than Kafka. We talk about the increasing ubiquity of streaming platforms, what they’re used for, why Kafka is slow, and how to safely and effective…

John Egan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kintaba, an incident management platform. He was the co-creator of Workplace by Facebook, and previously built Caffeinated Mind, a file transfer company, which was acquired by Facebook. In this episode, our focus is on incident management tools and culture. We discuss learnings about incident management throug…

Nipunn Koorapati was a Software Engineer at Dropbox, where he worked on two distinct areas - Developer Productivity and Client Sync. He drove many initiatives like consolidating various repositories into a server-side monorepo (read more here), and was part of a high leverage project to rewrite the sync engine, a core part of Dropbox’s business. Ap…

Ben Sigelman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightstep, a DevOps observability platform. He was the co-creator of Dapper - Google’s distributed tracing system and Monarch - an in-memory time-series database for metrics. Finally, he’s also the co-creator of the OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing standards. We spent this episode discussing Dapper and Monarch…

Liran Haimovitch is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout, a new style debugging tool that enables developers to debug web applications by adding debugger style breakpoints in production (without actually stopping the application). Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Rookout belongs to a new class of developer tools that aim to make application …

Emma Tang was the Engineering Manager of the Data Infrastructure team at Stripe. She was also a Lead Software Engineer at Aggregate Knowledge, where she worked on the data platform. We explore the technological and organizational challenges of maintaining big data platforms. We discuss when a company would require a “Big Data” system, what the prop…

John Micco is a Cloud Transformation Architect at VMWare, where he works on CI/CD systems. He’s worked in the CI/CD space for nearly twenty years at various companies like Netflix and Google, he’s authored several research papers, and was a keynote speaker at the International Conference of Software Testing and Verification (ICST). Our collaboratio…

Barak Schoster is the CEO of BridgeCrew, a cloud security platform that was just acquired by Palo Alto Networks. He’s also the maintainer of Checkov, a popular static code analysis tool for infrastructure-as-code. In this episode, we discuss both aspects - the experience running a DevOps company and a popular open-source tool. Apple Podcasts | Spot…