Software at Scale

David Cramer is the co-founder and CTO of Sentry , a monitoring platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their applications. Before this, he worked at Dropbox and Disqus. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We discuss the evolution of Sentry from both a technical and business perspective: the architecture, some outages, hiring, improving the customer...

Beyang Liu is the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph , a code search and intelligence tool for developers. He used to be a software engineer at Palantir, and a research assistant at Stanford University. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts Highlights 1:00 - The story behind Sourcegraph 6:12 - How is Sourcegraph different from a tool like grep (or ripgrep )? 14:25 - Social code search via...

Farhan Thawar is VP Engineering for Channels and Mobile at Shopify. Previously he was the CTO and Co-Founder at Helpful, CTO Mobile at Pivotal and VP, Engineering at Pivotal Labs. He was named one of Toronto's 25 most powerful people. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts We discussed frameworks for making life decisions, the structure of engineering organizations, setting up successful h...

Charity Majors is the CTO of Honeycomb , a platform that helps engineers understand their own production systems through observability. Honeycomb is very different from traditional monitoring tools like Wavefront as it is built for data with high cardinality and high dimensionality, which can instantly speed up debugging of many problems. Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  Google Podcasts NOTE: This e...

Indranil Gupta (Indy) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He leads the DPRG (Distributed Protocols Research Group) and runs popular Cloud Computing MOOCs on Coursera . His work has inspired software that runs in many production services, like Serf in Nomad by Hashicorp. and Uber’s Ringpop . Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discussed how...

Kyle is a Software Engineer at Dropbox. He’s currently working in the Core Sync area in charge of the Dropbox Sync Engine and other related components. He was previously the tech lead of the Build Infrastructure team, the tech lead of the Android team at Dropbox, and a senior engineer at Google. Kyle has been thinking about developer productivity for a while, and his tenure at Dropbox (~9 years) g...

Akshay Shekhar is a software engineer working on Amazon HoneyCode , a no code tool to build applications. He’s been in a few different teams at Amazon, and he used to be a maintainer of Elementary OS (and his name is still on the team page ). We talk about the experience of being an open source developer, working in startups, corporate tech blogs, evaluating starting a startup vs. staying in a tec...

Bharat Mediratta was a Distinguished Engineer at Google, CTO at Altschool, and CTO at Dropbox. At Google, he worked on GWS (Google Web Server), a system that I’ve always been curious about, especially since its Wikipedia entry calls it “one of the most guarded components of Google's infrastructure”. In this podcast, we discuss GWS, bootstrapping a culture of testing at Google, breaking up services...

This episode contains an interview with  Christine Dodrill , ex Senior Software Reliability Expert at Lightspeed. We discuss Kubernetes, Spectre/Meltdown, configuration languages, a controversial testing philosophy, autoscaling (auto-failing), technical problems vs social problems, monoliths, Conway’s Law and Canada. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Highlights Notes are italicized. 5:34 - Sta...

Welcome to the first Software at Scale podcast. This episode contains an interview with Alexey Ivanov , Principal Engineer, Infrastructure at Dropbox. The motivation for yet another software podcast is to let software builders share technical decisions, opinions, and stories in an informal way. Personal blogs and corporate engineering blogs are extremely informative, but often require high activat...