The Infra Pod

Ian and Tim sat down with Ovais Tariq from Tigris Data, that's building a new S3 that's globally distributed by default, etc.

Listen in if you are intrigued about why we need a new S3, and what would the world look like if we see everything built on object storage!

Ian and Tim sat down with Chang She from LanceDB to talk about what's happening on the vector db world, and how Lance started from a file format into a tensor data lake.

Ian and Tim sat down with Chris Riccomini (ex-Distinguished eng at Wepay, co-creator of Apache Samza) to talk about the spicy takes he has been sharing on his blog Materialized View and even further takes in the future of what the data system world will look like!

Ian and Tim sat down with Alvaro (CEO of Orb) about how he dived into the Billing problem as a engineer, and now building a company Orb that's powering a developer facing infra for Billing.

Come join our discussions to talk about how Billing has evolved, why it's a infra problem, and how having a infra powers billing and everything around it for companies to move much faster than before.

Tim and Ian sat down to talk about what we learned in 2023 and our reflection on Infrastructure companies and projects as a whole!

Come sit down and chat with us :) Feel free to post yours on X and tag us @tnachen and @ianlivingstone!

Ian and Tim sat down with Andy Grove (creator Datafusion, Apache Arrow PMC chair) to talk about his original mission to build the Big Data ecosystem in Rust, and how that has evolved until now.

Ian and Tim sat down with Erik (CEO of Modal Labs) that's gaining wide adoption of the serverless platform built for data teams.

Come sit down and listen with us how the journey started, and what's Erik hot spicy future take on the serverless infra.

Ian and Tim sat down with Omar Khattab about the research project DSPy, that's changing how users interact with LLMs from creating prompts to have a programming framework that searches and optimizes the best prompts for the task.

Come listen about the thought process around DSPy and how it can fundamentally changes how we interact with LLMs and AI models as a whole!

Ian and Tim invited the cofounders of Warpstream (Serverless Kafka built on S3) to talk about the tradeoffs of building a new Streaming product that is designed from ground up to work on top of Cloud storage like S3, and also what the future implications mean.

Ian and Tim are back to interview another YAIGer Shishir G. Patil, who is a PhD at Berkeley that worked on the popular LLM research + project Gorilla, that allows LLMs to call APIs automatically.

We dive into how Gorilla works and what is the future implications it brings to the infra / developer space.