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In this special end of the year clips episode of Software Huddle, we took some time to highlight some of our favorite clips from our interviews since we launched the show back in August.

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On today's show, we have quite the lineup. We have Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller all joining Sean to talk about AI for developers. This came together because the four of them had participated on a conference panel earlier this year discussing the topic.

We discuss our impressions of AI for developers, what impact it may or may not have, privacy and security, ethics concerns, what the future might look like, and a whole lot more. Today’s guests have a diverse set of roles spanning product, marketing, and developer relations, so we think we were able to bring a lot of different perspectives to the topic.

Timestamps:

02:25 Introduction

05:45 Will AI's net impact be positive?

11:10 Customer support chatbots

17:18 Speed of Innovation

26:15 Safeguarding Sensitive Data

28:47 Creating your own Models

31:55 Using LLMs responsibly

41:27 Everything GPT

45:08 Existential Risk

51:17 Psychological Safety

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh02qPQasfk

In this episode, we spoke with Vino Duraisamy, Developer advocate at Snowflake. Vino has been working as a data and AI engineer for her entire career across companies like Apple, Treeverse, and now Snowflake. And in this episode, we dive into her thoughts on what's happening in AI right now and what a practical LLM strategy for a company should look like.

We discussed the hard, unsolved problems in the space like privacy, hallucinations, transparency, testing, and bias. There's a lot of problems. We're very much in the Wild West days of AI, and it still takes a ton of work to move beyond prototype to production with any AI application.

There's lots of hype, but not necessarily that many enterprises actually launching products that take advantage of these generative AI systems yet. We thought Vino had a lot of real world perspective to share, and we think you're going to enjoy the conversation.

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Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Datapreneurs, which takes you on a journey about the people behind the first relational databases in the 1970s and early 80s, to Bob's experience launching Microsoft SQL Server and a ton of other products, developing the Data Cloud at Snowflake, and to the future of data and AI.

We cover a lot of ground, including some of his experience working alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Timestamps:

02:24 Introduction

04:53 Relational Databases

18:43 Speed of Innovations

24:30 Keeping the Early Stage Culture

31:04 Most successful leaders are difficult to deal with

34:31 Setting up Cloud Data Center at home

36:25 Joining Snowflake as the CEO

38:54 AWS made Snowflake happen

42:18 Google, AWS Missing the Snowflake Opportunity

46:13 Impact On Jobs

50:48 Existential Risk

52:28 Staying Optimistic

Links:

The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future

https://www.thedatapreneurs.com/

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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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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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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.