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The interplanetary filesystem, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer network that uses a distributed and decentralized model. Functionally, IPFS allows users to store and share files without having to rely on a single source of truth for those files.

Matt Ober is the Co-Founder & CTO of Pinata. He joins the show to talk about IPFS and Pinata.

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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Animal Well is a Metroidvania game developed as a solo project by Billy Basso over the course of seven years. It’s the first game released by publisher Bigmode, which was founded by Jason “Dunkey” Gastrow.

Billy joins the show to talk about creating Animal Well’s engine from scratch, how the game handles animation, fine-tuning character movement, and more.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

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One of the most promising applications of large language models is giving non-experts the ability to easily query their own data. A potential positive side effect is reducing ad-hoc data analysis requests that often strain data teams.

Sarah Nagy is the Co-founder and CEO at Seek which is using natural language processing to change how teams work with data. She joins the podcast to talk about the platform and providing a natural language interface to databases.

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Almost every application or system involves some sort of user onboarding. Increasingly, companies must implement know-your-customer and know-your-business compliance, or KYC and KYB, as part of that process. In addition, they often handle personal identifiable information, or PII.

Footprint is a developer platform that was co-founded by Alex Grinman for handling identity, security, fraud, and authentication.

Alex joins the show to talk about identity verification, security, compliance, Footprint’s frontend and backend design, and much more.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

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Vue is a popular JavaScript frontend framework, and Nuxt is an open source meta-framework on top of Vue.

Anthony Fu is a Framework Developer on the Nuxt team. He joins the show to talk about Vue, Nuxt, open source development, and more.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

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The size of ML models is growing into the many billions of parameters. This poses a challenge for running inference on non-dedicated hardware like phones and laptops.

Argmax is a startup focused on developing methods to run large models on commodity hardware. A key observation behind their strategy is that the largest models are getting larger, but the smallest models that are commercially relevant are getting smaller. The company was started in 2023 and has raised money from General Catalyst and other industry leaders.

Atila Orhon is the founder of Argmax and he previously worked at Apple and NVIDIA. He joins the show to talk about working in computer vision, building ML tooling at Apple, optimizing ML models, and more.

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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Anaconda is a popular platform for data science, machine learning, and AI. It provides trusted repositories of Python and R packages and has over 35 million users worldwide.

Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more.

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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Panic has created games such as Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. They recently ventured into gaming hardware with the Playdate. The console is unique for its inputs, which include a hand crank, and because Panic provides a free SDK, so anyone can develop games for it.

James Moore is a DevOps Engineer and Dave Hayden is an Engineer at Panic. They join the show to talk about developing the Playdate handheld.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

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Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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Machine learning models learn patterns and relationships from data to make predictions or decisions. The quality of the data influences how well these models can represent and generalize from the data.

Nihit Desai is the Co-founder and CTO at Refuel.ai. The company is using LLMs for tasks such as data labeling, cleaning, and enrichment. He joins the show to talk about the platform, and how to manage data in the current AI era.

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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Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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Kentik is a network observability platform that focuses on letting users easily ask questions and get answers about their network.

Avi Freedman is the CEO of Kentik and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, his observability philosophy, the role of AI in observability, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10K Media (Kentik).

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.

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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