Ship Happens

As AI adoption accelerates, engineering organizations face a growing set of challenges that extend beyond code. This compilation episode highlights some of the most thought-provoking conversations from recent Ship Happens guests, covering topics ranging from security and privacy to enterprise software incentives and AI infrastructure. Sergey Katsev explores why AI-powered security tools can help t...

While AI-powered development has made it easier than ever to build prototypes and accelerate coding tasks, guests throughout this compilation caution that enterprise software demands far more than speed. Security, compliance, scalability, maintainability, governance, and reliability remain critical concerns that AI alone cannot solve. The discussion explores the rise of "vibe coding," the growing...

In this Ship Happens episode, host Per Krogslund interviews Ruben Verborgh, a computer science professor at Ghent University and consultant about building a more responsible digital ecosystem where incentives align with ethics rather than exploitation. Ruben argues that today’s AI ecosystem is fundamentally unstable: companies often lack control over the models they deploy, sustainable business mo...

Software delivery is getting faster—but also more unpredictable. In this episode of Ship Happens, we sit down with Ivar Conradi Østhus, CTO of Unleash, to unpack how AI is reshaping the way teams build, ship, and operate software. At the center of the discussion is “Feature Ops,” a philosophy that combines DevOps practices, feature flags, and real-world feedback loops to enable safer, faster deliv...

In this episode of Ship Happens , host Per Krogslund sits down with Jignesh Patel, Field CTO at Harness, to unpack why CI/CD pipelines break down at scale—and what it takes to fix them. Drawing from his experience leading DevOps and cloud teams at major enterprises, Jignesh explains how fragmented tools, siloed teams, and heavy change management processes create what he calls “spaghetti pipelines”...

WordPress VIP, to trace the modern web’s evolution—from the first blogging platforms to today’s AI‑driven, platform‑dominated internet. Brian shares lessons from co‑founding Weblogs Inc.—the company behind Engadget and Autoblog —and how publishing challenges have both changed and stayed the same. He explains how AI is rewriting the economics of software development, making design and testing resou...

In this episode of Ship Happens , host Per Krogslund sits down with Kristjan Elias, Director of Engineering Infrastructure at Pipedrive, for a conversation about what modern infrastructure teams actually own — and why that ownership matters. Kristjan reflects on nearly a decade at Pipedrive, spanning the company’s growth from roughly 100 employees through multiple stages of scale. He explains how...

In this episode of Ship Happens , host Per Krogslund sits down with Sergey Katsev, VP of Engineering at Catchpoint, for a deep dive into internet performance, distributed systems, and the realities of modern engineering management. Sergey explains why today’s websites rely on a sprawling network of dependencies — DNS providers, CDNs, cloud infrastructure, APIs, analytics, and third‑party scripts —...

AI coding tools are shifting how developers work — but enterprise engineering still demands rigor. In this episode of Ship Happens, Arun Gupta joins us to talk about the true state of open source sustainability, the evolving role of OSPOs, and why AI‑generated code still requires human accountability. Arun brings 25 years of experience across Sun Microsystems, Amazon, Apple, Intel, the Linux Found...

The Spotify Model has become one of the most referenced—and misunderstood—frameworks in modern software development. In this episode of Ship Happens , we sit down with Pia Nilsson of Spotify to explore what the model really means in practice. Beyond the buzzwords, Pia explains how Spotify balances creative autonomy with clear standards, cross-team synchronization, and operational accountability. T...

Ever wondered how developers safely build and scale AI agents?  From early coding experiments in Prague to launching a secure, scalable environment for AI code execution, Vasek Mlejnsky, founder of E2B shares the story behind one of the most exciting tools in AI infrastructure today. Discover why building in public, open-source models, and a focus on developer experience are transforming the way A...

I think it's a very interesting time to be in tech. Every day there's something new, a new revolution. As developers, we all of a sudden have advanced AI tooling in our hands. It's just a docker pull commander way. It's incredible. But how do we as developers, keep shipping great software when every day there's something new that apparently changes everything. You ask people who have already done...