Ronak Nathani, Guang Yang

Software Misadventures

Technology EN ↓ 55 episodes

A show about not just the technologies, but the people and stories behind them. In every episode, Ronak and Guang sit down with engineers, founders, and investors to chat about their paths, lessons they've learned and of course, the misadventures along the way.

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Ronak Nathani, Guang Yang

Episodes

Ryan Underwood - On debugging the Linux kernel - #4 06.02.2021 1:02:57

Ryan Underwood is a Staff SRE and tech lead on the Helix and Zookeeper SRE team at LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, he was an SRE at Machine Zone and Google. Apart from his regular responsibilities, Ryan's interest and expertise include debugging production kernel, I/O and containerization issues. His opinion about not treating software as a black box and his persistent approach to debugging complex p...

David Henke - On building a culture of "Site Up" at LinkedIn and Yahoo! - #3 23.01.2021 58:16

David is LinkedIn's former SVP of Engineering and Operations. He came out of retirement to join LinkedIn in 2009 during a time of rapid growth. After 4 years at LinkedIn, he retired in 2013. Throughout his career, David has been in multiple leadership positions and has been recognized as one of the best Operations Executives. This was an extremely fascinating conversation. David shares insightful...

Julia Evans - On kubernetes scheduler bugs, TCP performance regressions and debugging tips - #2 06.01.2021 46:28

In this episode, we speak with Julia Evans. Julia runs a programming zines business, called Wizard Zines ( https://wizardzines.com/ ), where she creates comics about various programming concepts. She has been creating zines, when she was still a software engineer at Stripe. Her zines are extremely approachable and highly educational. In addition to creating zines, Julia is a prolific blogger and h...

Kelsey Hightower - On ways kubernetes can break, being an effective leader and much more - #1 04.12.2020 1:01:22

In this episode, we speak with Kelsey Hightower who is currently a Principal Developer Advocate at Google and one of the most influential individuals in the Kubernetes community. He is also an author and a keynote speaker, with a knack for demystifying complex topics, doing live demos and enabling others to succeed. In this insightful conversation, we cover wide ranging topics from his role at G...

Introducing Software Misadventures Podcast - #0 28.11.2020 4:00

In this episode, Ronak, Austin and Guang share the origin story - who they are, what this podcast is about and why they are doing this. They've seen first hand how stressful it is when something breaks in production but also found it to be the best opportunity to learn about a system more deeply. They started this podcast to have in-depth conversations with software and devops experts and hear th...