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Tractable
by Kshitij Grover
Tractable is a podcast for engineering leaders to talk about the hardest technical problems their orgs are tackling — whether that's scaling products to deal with increased demand, racing towards releases, or pivoting the technical stack to better cater to a new landscape of challenges. Each tractable podcast is an in-depth exploration of how the core technology underlying the world's fastest growing companies is built and iterated on.Tractable is hosted by Kshitij Grover, co-founder and CTO at Orb. Orb is the revenue design platform for AI and SaaS companies. Built on raw usage data, Orb unifies pricing, billing, and revenue intelligence so companies can evolve how they monetize as fast as they ship.
Episodes
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Nile Co-Founder Gwen Shapira: The Tenet of Multi-Tenancy
In this episode of Tractable, Orb CTO and Co-founder Kshitij Grover and Gwen Shapira, Co-founder of Nile, explore the cutting-edge world of multi-tenancy and serverless Postgres offerings for modern SaaS applications. This podcast episode delves into Nile's innovative approach to virtual tenant...
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Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht: Not just latency, but velocity
In this episode of Tractable, Orb CTO Kshitij Grover interviews Dane Knecht, the SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation at Cloudflare. Together, they explore Cloudflare's innovative approach to infrastructure, AI integration, and developer platform. The conversation spans a discussion on their...
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Axiom CEO Neil Jagdish Patel: No more sampling
In this episode of Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover interviews Neil Jagdish Patel, the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom, a serverless logging tool used by companies like Prisma, M1 Finance, and Cal.com. Neil talks about Axiom's flexibility and trade-offs, focusing on its efficiency in data ingest,...
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Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors - Production, revisited
In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover is joined by Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to discuss Observability 1.0 and 2.0 and the critical shift from fragmented data sources to a unified source of truth for more efficient debugging and problem-solving. From identifying signs of…
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Felt CTO Can Duruk: A New Direction for Maps
On the latest episode of the Tractable podcast, cofounder and CTO of Orb, Kshitij Grover, sits down with Can Duruk, co-founder and CTO of Felt, the world's first collaborative mapping tool. From the technical complexities of map rendering to the broad-reaching impact of their software, this…
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Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: Scalable on-demand compute for the cloud
In this episode of the Tractable podcast, Kshitij Grover, the cofounder and CTO of Orb, interviews Eric, the founder and CEO of Modal. They discuss Eric's technical background, his experience building a music recommendation system at Spotify, and his journey to founding Modal. The conversation...
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Render VPE Uma Chingunde: The Future of the Cloud
In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover sits down with special guest Uma Chingunde to explore the intricacies of managing and optimizing complex technical platforms. Uma delves into the critical importance of constant investment in AI to ensure reliability and staying ahead in the...
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WarpStream CEO Richard Artoul: reinventing an infrastructure primitive
In this episode of Tractable, Orb's podcast with engineering leaders, Kshitij Grover dives deep on Warpstream. Warpstream is a cost-effective Kafka-compatible streaming platform built to be simpler to manage than traditional Kafka solutions, built on top of Richie's previous experiences managing...
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Sentry CTO David Cramer: Running Sentry at Scale
In this episode of the Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover, CTO at Orb, interviews David, the CTO of Sentry. Sentry, known for industry leading error and performance monitoring, has become one of the world’s most admired developer tools. Sentry is the tool of choice for over 90,000 companies...
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Materialize CTO Nikhil Benesch: Making data operational
Nikhil Benesch, CTO at Materialize, joins me to discuss the evolution of Materialize from its origins at Cockroach to a production-grade system powering companies like Ramp and General Mills. Nikhil shares the the origin story of Materialize, the progress from Streaming Data Warehouse to...
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Robust Intelligence VP Marco Sanvido: Securing LLMs
In this episode, Marco, VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence sketches out his journey in various facets of technology, ranging from autonomous vehicles, virtualization, solid state drives, and Kubernetes. He shares insights on the constantly changing tech trends and how they relate to AI…
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Airplane founder Joshua Ma: The inverse Cloudflare
Josh is the founder and CEO of Airplane, the developer platform for internal tools. We discuss Airplane's latest releases during the company's first Launch Week, including new tools like Airplane Pages and Cloud Workspaces as well as a PostgreSQL offering. Josh shares the dynamic architecture and...
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SingleStore VP Robbie Walzer: SQL Ubiquity
Robbie Walzer, VP of Engineering at SingleStore, talks through SingleStore's journey and its evolution as a distributed SQL database. We discuss the technical architecture and optimizations of SingleStore, formerly MemSQL, and how it handles both transactional and analytical workloads...
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Stytch CTO Julianna Lamb: Securing the Enterprise
In this episode, I chat with Julianna, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, a platform for authentication and identity management. Julianna shares her journey from studying computer science at Stanford to working at Plaid and co-founding Stytch. She discusses the challenges in securing customer data and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Tractable is a podcast for engineering leaders to talk about the hardest technical problems their orgs are tackling — whether that's scaling products to deal with increased demand, racing towards releases, or pivoting the technical stack to better cater to a new landscape of challenges. Each tractable podcast is an in-depth exploration of how the core technology underlying the world's fastest growing companies is built and iterated on.Tractable is hosted by Kshitij Grover, co-founder and CTO at Orb. Orb is the revenue design platform for AI and SaaS companies. Built on raw usage data, Orb unifies pricing, billing, and revenue intelligence so companies can evolve how they monetize as fast as they ship.
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