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Software Huddle — 80 episodes

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Open Source Self-Improving AI with Vignesh Baskaran

2

AI and Proactive Reliability with Kolton Andrus

3

Making Data Agent Ready with Andre Elizondo

4

Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana

5

Powered by Neurons with Ewelina Kurtys

6

Lessons from Building AI Agents with Rafal Wilinski

7

Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson

8

Building CI for the age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah

9

Valkey After the Fork: A Conversation with Madelyn Olson

10

Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert

11

Lessons from Transcribing and Indexing 3.5 Million Podcasts with Arvid Kahl

12

It's time to build Jarvis with Kent C. Dodds

13

Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg

14

Software Reliability Agents with Amal Kiran

15

From ORM to Infra: Prisma Postgres with Søren Bramer Schmidt

16

Fast Inference with Hassan El Mghari

17

Seattle Startups, AI’s Future & Big Acquisitions with Yujian Tang

18

Faster & Cheaper on PlanetScale Metal with Sam Lambert

19

Redis but Faster With Roman Gershman

20

Lessons from Building Tagged.com + AI-Driven Database Optimization with Johann Schleier-Smith

21

Building + Evolving Sentry's Architecture and Funding Open Source with David Cramer

22

Deep Dive into Inference Optimization for LLMs with Philip Kiely

23

Java and Building AI Applications with Kevin Dubois

24

SQLite, Turso, and the State of Databases with Glauber Costa

25

Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

26

AI Engineer, Web Frameworks, & more with Tejas Kumar

27

The Data Engineering Landscape with Peter Hanssens

28

Infrastructure, AWS, AI and Jobs, HTMX & more

29

Introduction to GraphRAG with Stephen Chin

30

Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis

31

Infrastructure as Code with Dax Raad

32

No More Broken Docs with Manny Silva

33

Architecting for SaaS with Bill Tarr

34

Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith

35

High Performance Postgres with Andrew Atkinson

36

Postgres for Search + Analytics with Philippe Noël

37

AI Agents and Long Context Windows with Mark Huang

38

Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt

39

Akamai: From CDN to Full Cloud Provider with Talia Nassi

40

Jamstack and Composable Web Architecture with Brian Rinaldi

41

Practical AI for LLMs with Emanuel Lacić

42

Why Building an API for Email is Hard with Christine Spang

43

Enterprise-grade Dev Environments with Ivan Burazin

44

Operational Data Warehouse with Nikhil Benesch

45

Multi-tenancy with Khawaja Shams

46

All about Rust with Tim McNamara

47

Becoming an Epic Web Developer with Kent C Dodds

48

SQL Meets Vector Search with Linpeng Tang of MyScale

49

What is a Vector Database with Yujian Tang

50

Serverless Clickhouse with Tyler Wells

51

Elasticsearch Fundamentals with Philipp Krenn

52

Building a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software Foundation

53

The Real Work of Data Engineering with Joe Reis

54

Tech layoffs, Sora by OpenAI, Gemini 1.5, Apple Vision Pro & more

55

Just use Postgres with Craig Kerstiens

56

From Academia to Startup Founder and Successful Exit with Jean Yang

57

Durable Async/Await with Stephan Ewen of Restate

58

AI Incubation and Investing with Rak Garg from Bain Capital Ventures

59

Building Kafka without Disks with Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl from WarpStream Labs

60

Finding Product Market Fit with Cassidy Williams of Contenda

61

Holiday Special!

62

AI for Developers with Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller

63

Navigating Large Language Models with Vino Duraisamy from Snowflake

64

AGI is Surely Coming with Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia

65

reInvent BTS, Sam Altman, SEC on Solarwinds, Apple RCS, and more

66

From Code Red to Green: Incident Management with Nora Jones of Jeli and Dan McCall from PagerDuty

67

AI-driven Database Cache with Ben Hagan from PolyScale

68

Building for Scale with Mario Žagar from Infobip

69

Nile, Racked Hardware, Quantum Computing, Getting Customers Trust, & more

70

Distributed Financial Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle

71

First Year as a Startup Founder and CEO with Nucleus's Evis Drenova

72

Architecting Real-time Analytics with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset

73

Developer Education and Training with Craig Dennis from Twilio

74

Generative AI and LLMs with Dash Desai from Snowflake

75

V0 by Vercel, Bun, RCS on Apple Devices, Retool Breach, & more

76

Navigating the Transition from Big Tech to Startups with Ben Popper from Stack Overflow

77

NoSQL Transactions in DynamoDB with Akshat Vig & Somu Perianayagam from AWS

78

Building Generative AI Apps with Hassan El Mghari from Vercel

79

Scaling MySQL with Sam Lambert from PlanetScale

80

Welcome to Software Huddle with Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer