Increasingly, technology groups need to be strategic about the cloud services they adopt to ensure their vendor’s pricing is both fair and measured exactly right for the application’s unique access pattern.  Definitely answering questions like these can take a significant amount of time and energy from your most valuable engineers.  Taloflow is a company trying

Developers struggle with mental health, and this struggle has only gotten more acute during the pandemic. Sitting in front of a computer all day, engulfed by social media and code can cause us to lose our sanity. I personally had some issues that were hard to grapple with during the COVID lockdowns. In today’s show,

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

Splunk is a monitoring and logging platform that has evolved over its 18 years of existence. In its modern focus on observability it is focused on open source and AIOps. Observability has evolved with the growth of Kubernetes, and Splunk’s work around OpenTelemetry has kept parity with the open source community of Kubernetes. Spiros Xanthos

Francesco Cesarini founded Erlang Solutions in 1999 with a mission to help companies adopt Erlang.  In this interview, I speak with Francesco and Gabor Olah from Erlang Solutions.  We discuss the Erlang language, it’s ecosystem, and features like concurrency, resilience, and scalability that motivate adoption.  We use Java and the Java Virtual Machine as a

Serious software projects require several environments.  Your production environment is obviously mission critical.  A staging environment is also necessary to perform validation and regression testing before taking the risk of pushing an update to production.  Best practices and approaches for managing these and other environments vary from organization to organization. In some sense, different software

Barry McCardel Co-Founder and CEO at Hex Caitlin Colgrove Co-Founder and CTO at Hex In contrast to other IDEs, the notebook interface offers software developers a unique environment idealized for data professionals.  Despite the growth in popularity, a surprising learning curve still exists for setup and configuration.  A siloed notebook offers no native collaboration tools.

When writing code, test driven development is a common accepted methodology to ensure the development of high quality software.  Your organization’s data, on the other hand, is an entirely different challenge.  Data can be missing due to human error, a failure with a 3rd party provider, a botched release, or dozens of other issues.  When

When you visit a web page, the creator’s intent is to present you a seamless experience that fills your browser window.  That web page or web application is generally divided up in some meaningful way across navigation elements, content, ads, header, footer, and other components. Those components may represent the work of independent teams.  Typically

Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast-growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As an