Our special episode is back, and we have a special guest this time. Join Sean, Alex & Merritt in this fun conversation.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:19 What is a CISO

08:10 Balance of Power

13:50 reInvent BTS

19:45 Sam Altman

32:29 SEC & SolarWinds

38:40 iPhones will support RCS

49:04 Meet us at reInvent

Links:

Factors to consider in relation to the SEC Materiality Framework

https://www.lacework.com/resource/sec-materiality-framework.html

OpenAI announces leadership transition

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

AWS reInvent 2023

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

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 Today's episode is all about Incident Management. We have two amazing guests, Nora Jones, founder and CEO of Jeli, and Dan McCall, the VP and GM of Incident Management at PagerDuty. There's of course a technical aspect to managing incidents that PagerDuty excels at, very well known for, and there's also a human side, like how do you learn from an incident so it doesn't happen again in the future, and this is where Jeli steps in.

In the episode, Nora and Dan talk through the evolution of incident management, the hard problems in the space, and a future that leverages AI with a human in the loop component to scalably and proactively manage incidents and reduce outages. We also touch on the recent announcement that Jeli was acquired by PagerDuty.

PolyScale is a database cache, specifically designed to cache just your database. It is completely Plug and Play and it allows you to scale a database without a huge amount of effort, cost, and complexity. PolyScale currently supports Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL and MongoDB.

In this episode, we spoke with Ben Hagan, Founder & CEO at PolyScale. We discuss AI-driven caching, edge network advantages, use-cases, and PolyScale's future direction and growth.

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PolyScale

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@polyscale

Software Huddle ⤵︎

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In this episode, we spoke with Mario Žagar, a Distinguished Engineer at Infobip. Infobip is a tech unicorn based out of Croatia that is a global leader in omnichannel communication, bootstrapping its way to a staggering $1B+ in revenue.

We discussed the super early days of engineering at Infobit when they were running a monolith on a single server to today running a hybrid cloud containerized infrastructure with thousands of databases serving billions of requests. It's a really fascinating look and deep dive into the evolution of engineering over the past 15 years and the challenges of essentially architecting for scale.

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Software Huddle ⤵︎

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Our special episode is back, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction 

02:55 Tech Adoption in Japan 

06:36 Infobip 

09:34 Product Marketing at Rockset

14:38 Trust from your initial customers and early adopters

20:01 Nile - Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS

29:29 AI Models Can Now Selectively Forget

36:46 Oxide’s Racked Hardware

45:03 Quantum Computing

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In this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused on correctness and safety while hitting orders of magnitude more performance than other solutions in the space.

We touch on various topics like what makes TigerBeetle orders of magnitude more performant, io_uring, the choice of Zig for TigerBeetle, protocol aware recovery, VOPR and so on.

In this episode, we spoke with Evis Drenova, CEO and co-founder of Nucleus, a Y Combinator graduate from 2022 focused on making it easy to deploy, build, and manage on Kubernetes. Evis left Skyflow, where he was one of the product leads, to build Nucleus.

In this conversation, we talked through his first year as CEO of a startup, how he got into Y Combinator, what that experience was like, and how he's been building the company since. This is a really interesting conversation for anyone who's ever thought about starting their own company.

In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the cloud.

Dhruba was the founding engineer of the RocksDB project at Facebook and the Principal Architect for HDFS for a while. In this episode, we discuss RocksDB and compare it with LevelDB. We also discuss in detail the Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture, which started at Facebook and is now powering Rockset.

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In this episode, We spoke with Craig Dennis from Twilio about developer education and training. Craig's been working in the developer education space for a long time and has a ton of experience. And, of course, Twilio is a company well known for having a heavy investment in Developer relations and fantastic developer resources and learning resources. 

We get into a bunch of things around Twilio's developer education programs. Why Twilio, from a strategy standpoint, has invested so heavily in this and how teaching developers might actually be different than teaching regular people? We hope you enjoy the episode. 

If you've been involved with the Snowflake world, today's guest probably can skip an introduction as he is the demo king from the Snowflake Summit and well-known within the Snowflake builder community.

We're talking about Dash Desai, Developer Advocate at Snowflake. The background on this episode is that Sean's been part of the Snowflake Data Superhero Program and also involved in the community for a few years, and Sean has spoken at the last two Snowflake Summits. And after the past event in June, he got this idea that it might make for a fun podcast to go back through some of the announcements from the events and discuss what they might mean for those building with Snowflake, and maybe even get some of those building with Snowflake excited about it.

So even if you're not working with Snowflake, we keep things pretty high level during this interview. And we think there's probably something for everyone. Snowflake is clearly making this big push around supporting LLMs and generative AI workloads with things like Snowpark, containers, document AI and native support for NVIDIA NeMo and a bunch of other things that we get into today.

There's been a ton of announcements even since the Summit in this space with things that Snowflake is coming out with, and we'll cover some of that stuff down the road. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the show.