Software at Scale

Nora is the CEO and co-founder of Jeli, an incident management platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsNora provides an in-depth look into incident management within the software industry and discusses the incident management platform Jeli.Nora's fascination with risk and its influence on human behavior stems from her early career in hardware and her involvement with a h

Abi Noda is the CEO and co-founder of DX, a developer productivity platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsMy view on developer experience and productivity measurement aligns extremely closely with DX’s view. The productivity of a group of engineers cannot be measured by tools alone - there’s too many qualitative factors like cross-functional stakeholder beuracracy o

Robert Cooke is the CTO and co-founder of 3Forge, a real-time data visualization platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsIn this episode, we delve into Wall Street's high-frequency trading evolution and the importance of high-volume trading data observability. We examine traditional software observability tools, such as Datadog, and contrast them with 3Forge’s financia

Roi Rav-Hon is the co-founder and CEO of Finout, a SaaS cost management platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsIn this episode, we review the challenge of maintaining reasonable SaaS costs for tech companies. Usage-based pricing models of infrastructure costs lead to a gradual ramp-up of costs and always have sneakily come up as a priority in my career as an infrastruct

Ben Ofiri is the CEO and Co-Founder of Komodor, a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsWe had an episode with the other founder of Komodor, Itiel, in 2021, and I thought it would be fun to revisit the topic.Highlights (ChatGPT Generated)[0:00] Introduction to the Software At Scale podcast and the guest speaker, Ben Ofiri, CEO and co-founder

Vikas Agarwal is an engineering leader with over twenty years of experience leading engineering teams. We focused this episode on his experience as the Head of Community Trust at Amazon and dealing with the various challenges of fake reviews on Amazon products.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsHighlights (GPT-3 generated)[0:00:17] Vikas Agarwal's origin story.[0:00:52] How

Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsMike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer productivity/platform engineering. We talk about the Rainbow of Death - the idea of driving cultural change in large engineer

Benjy Weinberger is the co-founder of Toolchain, a build tool platform. He is one of the creators of the original Pants, an in-house Twitter build system focused on Scala, and was the VP of Infrastructure at Foursquare. Toolchain now focuses on Pants 2, a revamped build system.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsIn this episode, we go back to the basics, and discuss the techn

Puneet Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Amberflo, a cloud metering and usage based pricing platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsIn this episode, we discuss Puneet’s fascinating background early at AWS as a GM and his early experience at Oracle Cloud. We initially discuss why AWS shipped S3 as its first product before any other services. After, we go over the cultu

Akshay Buddiga is the co-founder and CTO of Traba, a labor management platform.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsSorry for the long hiatus in episodes! Today’s episode covers a myriad of interesting topics - from being the star of one of the internet’s first viral videos, to experiencing the hyper-growth at the somewhat controversial Zenefits, scaling out the technology