Cruise is a company that is building a fully automated self-driving car service. The infrastructure of a self-driving car platform presents a large number of new engineering problems. Self-driving cars collect vast quantities of data as they are driving around the city. This data needs to be transferred from the cars onto cloud servers. The

Kubernetes at Cruise with Karl Isenberg

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Solid.js is a popular JavaScript framework known for its reactive and efficient rendering system. Instead of using a Virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. Ryan Carniato is the creator of SolidJS, and he joins the show to talk about the framework. Taylor Nodell is a

SolidJS with Ryan Carniato

Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it

Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele

Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software and mechanical systems, and much more. Ian Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, and before that worked at Google,

Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with Ian Williams

Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across

Security Engineering with Ben Huber

George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment,

Kubernetes at Cruise with Karl Isenberg

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