On The Frontier

Seth Rosen is Head of Data Products at Snyk and previously Co-Founder of Topcoat Data, acquired by Snyk in March 2022. In this talk we cover, all things data, specifically diving into what the modern data stack is and the components that form it. We cover Seth’s experience working with customers of all sizes while he was running a data analytics consultancy, with tips for how companies can get val...

Brian Chambers is the Chief Architect at Chick-Fil-A, which is one of the fastest growing fast food restaurants in the US. Brian has been with Chick-Fil-A for 19 years, where the company has gone from $1B to $19B in sales (a nice 19x in 19 years). He’s seen the software architecture evolve from through various technology shifts such as datacenter to cloud, mobile, edge compute, and much more. He j...

Brian Douglas (aka Bdougie on all social platforms) is the Founder of OpenSauced, which is bringing enterprise insights and analytics to Open Source projects. He joins us today to dive into the open source ecosystem and the Developer Relations (DevRel) role. Brian was the 3rd engineer at Netlify and the 1st Developer Advocate at Github . In this episode, he talks about playbooks to create content...

Steve Manuel is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dylibso , which is creating developer tools to take WebAssembly to production. Matt Butcher is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fermyon which is building a cloud product to deploy & manage WebAssembly apps faster than existing cloud solutions. In this talk, both founders talk about why they are excited to build in the WebAssembly ecosystem, why Wasm is going to enabl...

Doug O’Laughlin is the Founder of Fabricated Knowledge, one of the largest technology newsletters on Substack, covering the semiconductor industry. Many may know Doug from his anonymous Twitter . He joins us today to dive deep into the semiconductor industry. Doug takes an immensely complex industry in semis and distills everything down into digestible analogies regarding semiconductor manufacturi...

Jamin Ball is a Partner at Altimeter Capital and previously at Redpoint Ventures. He joins us today to share learnings about cloud metrics and seat based vs consumption based pricing. Jamin shares specific thoughts on cloud data infrastructure, why cloud optimization goes in cycles, and how Altimeter invests through business cycles in essential long-term businesses. We also cover the macro environ...

Emilio Escobar is the CISO of Datadog and before that previously VP Security at Hulu and Application Security lead at Sony Playstation. He joins us today to share learnings from running security at various companies, tips for security founders to distinguish themselves from the rest of the noise, and how internal security works at enterprises. Emilio shares specific tips on how he structures secur...

Welcome to Software Snack Bites the Podcast! This podcast will be an exploration of all things enterprise software from technology trend deep dives, to company building, to enterprise purchase decisions. Damian Schenkelman was Employee 10 at Auth0 and has played multiple roles in the company from early engineer, to first Director of Engineering, to Principal Architect at Okta/Auth0 Lab which is ex...

Welcome to Software Snack Bites the Podcast! This podcast will be an exploration of all things enterprise software from technology trend deep dives, to company building, to enterprise purchase decisions. This episode is a short quick Teaser describing what future episodes will cover! * Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to d...