Kostas, Nitay

Tech on the Rocks

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Join Kostas and Nitay as they speak with amazingly smart people who are building the next generation of technology, from hardware to cloud compute. Tech on the Rocks is for people who are curious about the foundations of the tech industry. Recorded primarily from our offices and homes, but one day we hope to record in a bar somewhere. Cheers!

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Kostas, Nitay

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From GPU Compilers to architecting Kubernetes: A Conversation with Brian Grant 22.10.2024 1:01:45

From GPU computing pioneer to Kubernetes architect, Brian Grant takes us on a fascinating journey through his career at the forefront of systems engineering. In this episode, we explore his early work on GPU compilers in the pre-CUDA era, where he tackled unique challenges in high-performance computing when graphics cards weren't yet designed for general computation. Brian then shares insights fro...

Proving Code Correctness: FizzBee and the Future of Formal Methods in Software Design with FizzBee's creator JP 08.10.2024 1:01:28

In this episode, we chat with JP, creator of FizzBee, about formal methods and their application in software engineering. We explore the differences between coding and engineering, discussing how formal methods can improve system design and reliability. JP shares insights from his time at Google and explains why tools like FizzBee are crucial for distributed systems. We delve into the challenges o...

MLOps Evolution: Data, Experiments, and AI with Dean Pleban from DagsHub 27.09.2024 53:55

In this episode, we chat with Dean Pleban, CEO of DagsHub, about machine learning operations. We explore the differences between DevOps and MLOps, focusing on data management and experiment tracking. Dean shares insights on versioning various components in ML projects and discusses the importance of user experience in MLOps tools. We also touch on DagsHub's integration of AI in their product and D...

How Denormalized is Building ‘DuckDB for Streaming’ with Apache DataFusion 13.09.2024 1:02:01

In this episode, Kostas and Nitay are joined by Amey Chaugule and Matt Green, co-founders of Denormalized. They delve into how Denormalized is building an embedded stream processing engine—think “DuckDB for streaming”—to simplify real-time data workloads. Drawing from their extensive backgrounds at companies like Uber, Lyft, Stripe, and Coinbase. Amey and Matt discuss the challenges of existing st...

Unifying structured and unstructured data for AI: Rethinking ML infrastructure with Nikhil Simha and Varant Zanoyan 30.08.2024 1:01:45

In this episode, we dive deep into the future of data infrastructure for AI and ML with Nikhil Simha and Varant Zanoyan, two seasoned engineers from Airbnb and Facebook. Nikhil and Varant share their journey from building real-time data systems and ML infrastructure at tech giants to launching their own venture. The conversation explores the intricacies of designing developer-friendly APIs, the co...

Stream processing, LSMs and leaky abstractions with Chris Riccomini 23.08.2024 53:06

In this episode, we chat with Chris Riccomini about the evolution of stream processing and the challenges in building applications on streaming systems. We also chat about leaky abstractions, good and bad API designs, what Chris loves and hates about Rust and finally about his exciting new project that involves object storage and LSMs. Connect with Chris at: LinkedIn X Blog Materialized View Ne...