Software at Scale

Aravind was a Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and currently works at OpenAI. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Edited Transcript Can you tell us about the scale of data Uber was dealing with when you joined in 2018, and how it evolved? When I joined Uber in mid-2018, we were handling a few petabytes of data. The company was going through a significant scaling journey, both in terms o...

Nora is the CEO and co-founder of Jeli , an incident management platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Nora provides an in-depth look into incident management within the software industry and discusses the incident management platform Jeli. Nora's fascination with risk and its influence on human behavior stems from her early career in hardware and her involvement with a home secu...

Abi Noda is the CEO and co-founder of DX , a developer productivity platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts My view on developer experience and productivity measurement aligns extremely closely with DX’s view. The productivity of a group of engineers cannot be measured by tools alone - there’s too many qualitative factors like cross-functional stakeholder beuracracy or inefficienc...

Robert Cooke is the CTO and co-founder of 3Forge , a real-time data visualization platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts In this episode, we delve into Wall Street's high-frequency trading evolution and the importance of high-volume trading data observability. We examine traditional software observability tools, such as Datadog, and contrast them with 3Forge’s financial observabi...

Roi Rav-Hon is the co-founder and CEO of Finout, a SaaS cost management platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts In this episode, we review the challenge of maintaining reasonable SaaS costs for tech companies. Usage-based pricing models of infrastructure costs lead to a gradual ramp-up of costs and always have sneakily come up as a priority in my career as an infrastructure/platfo...

Ben Ofiri is the CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor, a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We had an episode with the other founder of Komodor, Itiel, in 2021, and I thought it would be fun to revisit the topic. Highlights (ChatGPT Generated) [0:00] Introduction to the Software At Scale podcast and the guest speaker, Ben Ofiri, CEO and co-founder of Komod...

Vikas Agarwal is an engineering leader with over twenty years of experience leading engineering teams. We focused this episode on his experience as the Head of Community Trust at Amazon and dealing with the various challenges of fake reviews on Amazon products. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Highlights (GPT-3 generated) [0:00:17] Vikas Agarwal's origin story. [0:00:52] How Vikas le...

Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google , and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple . Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Mike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer productivity/platform engineering. We talk about the Rainbow of Death - the idea of driving cultural change in large engineering organi...

Benjy Weinberger is the co-founder of Toolchain , a build tool platform. He is one of the creators of the original Pants, an in-house Twitter build system focused on Scala, and was the VP of Infrastructure at Foursquare. Toolchain now focuses on Pants 2 , a revamped build system. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts In this episode, we go back to the basics, and discuss the technical det...

Puneet Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Amberflo , a cloud metering and usage based pricing platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts In this episode, we discuss Puneet’s fascinating background early at AWS as a GM and his early experience at Oracle Cloud. We initially discuss why AWS shipped S3 as its first product before any other services. After, we go over the cultural differe...

Akshay Buddiga is the co-founder and CTO of Traba, a labor management platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Sorry for the long hiatus in episodes! Today’s episode covers a myriad of interesting topics - from being the star of one of the internet’s first viral videos , to experiencing the hyper-growth at the somewhat controversial Zenefits, scaling out the technology platform at...

James Cowling is the co-founder of Convex , a state management platform for web developers. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the state of web development in the industry today, and the various different approaches to make it easier. Contrasting the Hasura and Convex approach as a good way to illustrate some of the ideas. Hasura lets you skip the web-app, and run queries agains...

Josh Twist is the co-founder and CEO of Zuplo , a programmable, developer friendly API Gateway Management Platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss a new category of developer tools startups - API Gateway Management Platforms. We go over what an API Gateway is, why do companies use gateways, common pain-points in gateway management, building reliable systems that serve billio...

Ted Young is the Director of Developer Education at Lightstep and a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode dives deep into the history of OpenTelemetry, why we need a new telemetry standard, all the work that goes into building generic telemetry processing infrastructure, and the vision for unified logging, metrics and traces. Episode Readi...

Or Weis is the CEO and founder of Permit.io , a Permission as a Service platform. Previously, he founded Rookout , a cloud-debugging tool. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Many of us have struggled (or are struggling) with permission management in the various applications we’ve built. The complexity of these systems always tends to increase through business requirements - for example, so...

Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET. He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth . Additionally he is the primary maintainer of the Noda Time date/time library for .NET. You may also be interested in Jon Skeet Facts . Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the...

Lee Byron is the co-creator of GraphQL , a senior engineering manager at Robinhood , and the executive director of the GraphQL foundation . Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We discuss the GraphQL origin story, early technical decisions at Facebook, the experience of deploying GraphQL today, and the future of the project. Highlights (some tidbits) [01:00] - The origin story of GraphQL...

Harshyt Goel is a founding engineer and engineering manager of Platform and Integrations at Loom , a video-messaging tool for workplaces. He’s also an angel investor, so if you’re looking for startup advice, investments, hiring advice, or a software engineering job, please reach out to him on Twitter . Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We discuss Loom’s story, from when it had six peo...

Daniel Stenberg is the founder and lead developer of curl and libcurl. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts This episode, along with others like this one , reminds me of this XKCD: We dive into all the complexity of transferring data across the internet. Highlights [00:30] - The complexity behind HTTP. What goes on behind the scenes when I make a web request? [11:30] - The organizational...

Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad , an e-commerce platform that helps you sell digital services. He also runs SHL Capital , a rolling fund for early-stage startups. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Sahil’s recent book, Minimal Entrepreneurship , explores a framework for building profitable, sustainable companies. I’ve often explored the trade-off between software engineering a...

Nikita Gupta is a Co-Founder & CTO at Symba , a platform that helps manage talent development programs like internships. Internships are one of the most effective ways for hiring at a software company, but there’s a lot of work that goes into managing successful interns. With hiring getting harder across the industry due to increased competition and funding, I thought it would be interesting to di...

Guy Eisenkot is a Senior Director of Product Management at BridgeCrew by Prisma Cloud and was the co-founder of BridgeCrew, an infrastructure security platform. We deep dive into infrastructure security, Checkov , and BridgeCrew in this episode. I’ve personally been writing Terraform for the last few weeks, and it often feels like I’m flying blind from a reliability/security perspective. For examp...

Tanmai Gopal is the founder of Hasura , an API as a service platform. Hasura lets you skip writing API layers and exposes automatic GraphQL APIs that talk to your database, trigger external actions, and much more. We talk about the implementation of a “compiler as a service”, the implications of primarily having a Haskell production codebase, their experience with GraphQL, hiring product managers...

Kailash Nadh is the CTO of Zerodha , India’s largest retail stockbroker. Zerodha powers a large volume of stock trades - ~15-20% of India’s daily volume which is significantly more daily transactions than Robinhood . Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts The focus of this episode is the technology and mindset behind Zerodha - the key technology choices, challenges faced, and lessons learn...

Ganesh Datta is the CTO and co-founder of Cortex , a microservice management platform. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We continue the age-old monolith/microservice debate and dig into why companies seem to like services so much ( I’m generally cautious about such migrations ). Ganesh has a ton of insights into developer productivity and tooling to make engineering teams successful...