Yet Another Infra Deep Dive

May 13 2024 2
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Yet Another Infra Deep Dive brings you insightful and thought-provoking discussions on the world of infrastructure software. Our hosts, Ian Livingstone, a tech advisor for Snyk, and Tim Chen, a General Partner at Essence VC, team up with a rotating cast of guests to dive deep into the latest trends and hot topics in the YAIG community (www.yaig.dev). With a focus on delivering actionable and informative content, the YAID podcast is perfect for infra enthusiasts looking to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in their field. So if you're passionate about infrastructure software and want

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English is the default programming language via GPTScript! Chat with Darren from Acron

May 13 2024 37 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Darren who is the cofounder of Acorn Labs that's building open source infrastructure to build AI applications. We chatted about their first project which is GPTScript, allows developers to use english language mixed with programming languages and templates to generate apps in a more structured way. Join us to listen about how the team brought their exp

Infrastructure cost will change how company runs in the future! Chat with Damon from Millwork Analytics

Apr 29 2024 38 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Damon Fletcher (CEO of Millwork Analytics), after running as a CFO at DataRobot and Tableau for many years, decided to start a startup as he sees how infrastructure cost is no longer a feature but a product that he sees organizations need to run their business successfully in the future.

A new S3 is coming, for every data system to be built on S3! Chat with Ovais from Tigris Data

Apr 15 2024 31 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Ovais Tariq from Tigris Data, that's building a new S3 that's globally distributed by default, etc. Listen in if you are intrigued about why we need a new S3, and what would the world look like if we see everything built on object storage!

Vector databases is not a feature? Let's dive deeper with Chang

Apr 01 2024 39 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Chang She from LanceDB to talk about what's happening on the vector db world, and how Lance started from a file format into a tensor data lake.

Databases are becoming commodity, what's next? Chat with Chris from Materialized View

Mar 19 2024 38 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Chris Riccomini (ex-Distinguished eng at Wepay, co-creator of Apache Samza) to talk about the spicy takes he has been sharing on his blog Materialized View and even further takes in the future of what the data system world will look like!

Billing is a infrastructure problem, and it's shifting fast! Chat with Alvaro from Orb

Jan 30 2024 35 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Alvaro (CEO of Orb) about how he dived into the Billing problem as a engineer, and now building a company Orb that's powering a developer facing infra for Billing. Come join our discussions to talk about how Billing has evolved, why it's a infra problem, and how having a infra powers billing and everything around it for companies to move much fast

Infra Reflection on 2023 with Tim and Ian!

Jan 08 2024 29 mins  
Tim and Ian sat down to talk about what we learned in 2023 and our reflection on Infrastructure companies and projects as a whole! Come sit down and chat with us :) Feel free to post yours on X and tag us @tnachen and @ianlivingstone!

Rust is for big data! Chat with Andy Grove

Dec 18 2023 36 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Andy Grove (creator Datafusion, Apache Arrow PMC chair) to talk about his original mission to build the Big Data ecosystem in Rust, and how that has evolved until now.

Modal is upping the game for serverless! Chat with Erik

Dec 04 2023 36 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Erik (CEO of Modal Labs) that's gaining wide adoption of the serverless platform built for data teams. Come sit down and listen with us how the journey started, and what's Erik hot spicy future take on the serverless infra.

Let's stop prompting and start programming... Chat with Omar about DSPy

Nov 06 2023 36 mins  
Ian and Tim sat down with Omar Khattab about the research project DSPy, that's changing how users interact with LLMs from creating prompts to have a programming framework that searches and optimizes the best prompts for the task. Come listen about the thought process around DSPy and how it can fundamentally changes how we interact with LLMs and AI models as a whole!