Tractable

In this episode, Marco, VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence sketches out his journey in various facets of technology, ranging from autonomous vehicles, virtualization, solid state drives, and Kubernetes. He shares insights on the constantly changing tech trends and how they relate to AI today, emphasizing the necessary balance between tech hype and concrete value. We then take a deep dive into the architecture of Robust Intelligence, discussing the platform’s risk management, data plane and control plane, and the unique security threats posed by large language models. 

Josh is the founder and CEO of Airplane, the developer platform for internal tools. We discuss Airplane's latest releases during the company's first Launch Week, including new tools like Airplane Pages and Cloud Workspaces as well as a PostgreSQL offering. Josh shares the dynamic architecture and security challenges his team navigates to ensure seamless integration for both developers and operators. We chat about the role of AI in Airplane products, from enhancing developer build times to potentially revolutionizing operations downstream. Airplane is excited to evolve into a comprehensive control center and operating system for businesses.

Robbie Walzer, VP of Engineering at SingleStore, talks through SingleStore's journey and its evolution as a distributed SQL database. We discuss the technical architecture and optimizations of SingleStore, formerly MemSQL, and how it handles both transactional and analytical workloads simultaneously. Robbie sheds light on the challenges associated with characterizing performance attributes of databases, the growing relevance of semantic search, and the importance of testing for ensuring database reliability and correctness. He also shares views on the future trajectory of the database industry. 

In this episode, I chat with Julianna, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, a platform for authentication and identity management. Julianna shares her journey from studying computer science at Stanford to working at Plaid and co-founding Stytch. She discusses the challenges in securing customer data and scaling a mission critical platform, especially across a large range of client environments. Julianna also highlights the key role of comprehensive documentation to building a developer product and maintaining balance between security and ease of use. The result is an identify platform that powers companies from Zapier to Checkr.