Podcast Episodes

Building Observable Systems with eBPF and Linux (with Mohammed Aboullaite)

How do you monitor distributed systems that span dozens of microservices, multiple languages, and different databases? The old approach of gathering logs from different machines and recompiling apps …

Published on 22 hours ago

Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)

Git might be the most ubiquitous tool in software development, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. What if we could keep Git compatibility while fixing its most frustrating aspects—painful merges, sc…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Getting New Technology Adopted (with Dov Katz)

Getting new technology adopted in a large organization can feel like pushing water uphill. The best tools in the world are useless if we're not allowed to use them, and as companies grow, their habit…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)

How confident are you when your test suite goes green? If you're honest, probably not 100% confident - because most bugs come from scenarios we never thought to test. Traditional testing only catches…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)

How would you build a Heroku-like platform from scratch? This week we're diving deep into the world of cloud platforms and infrastructure with Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render.

Starting from the…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)

How hard is it to write a good database engine? Hard enough that sometimes it takes several versions to get it just right. Paul Dix joins us this week to talk about his journey building InfluxDB, and…

Published on 3 months ago

Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd)

If AI coding tools are here to stay, what form will they take? How will we use them? Will they be just another window in our IDE, will they push their way to the centre of our development experience,…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The $500 Billion Integration Problem, And One Possible Solution (with Marty Pitt)

Ever wondered why data integration is still such a nightmare in 2025? Marty Pitt has built something that might finally solve it.

TaxiQL isn't just another query language - it's a semantic layer that …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Making Software Crash Before It Breaks (with Isaac Van Doren)

At 23, Isaac is already jaded about software reliability - and frankly, he's got good reason to be. When your grandmother can't access her medical records because a username change broke the entire s…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Making Apache Kafka Diskless (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat)

How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That’s the big question in this episode as we look at one of the many attempts to build a version of Kafka that …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago