Software at Scale

Aug 05 2024 60 ep. 57 mins 124
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Software at Scale is where we discuss the technical stories behind large software applications.

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Software at Scale 60 - Data Platforms with Aravind Suresh

Aug 05 2024 34 mins  
Aravind was a Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and currently works at OpenAI.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsEdited TranscriptCan you tell us about the scale of data Uber was dealing with when you joined in 2018, and how it evolved?When I joined Uber in mid-2018, we were handling a few petabytes of data. The company was going through a significant scaling journey, both in

Software at Scale 59 - Incident Management with Nora Jones

Jul 05 2023 44 mins  
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

Software at Scale 58 - Measuring Developer Productivity with Abi Noda

Jun 13 2023 49 mins  
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

Software at Scale 57 - Scalable Frontends with Robert Cooke

May 16 2023 55 mins  
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

Software at Scale 56 - SaaS cost with Roi Rav-Hon

Apr 17 2023 28 mins  
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

Software at Scale 55 - Troubleshooting and Operating K8s with Ben Ofiri

Mar 15 2023 44 mins  
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

Software at Scale 54 - Community Trust with Vikas Agarwal

Feb 01 2023 40 mins  
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

Software at Scale 53 - Testing Culture with Mike Bland

Dec 28 2022 66 mins  
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

Software at Scale 52 - Building Build Systems with Benjy Weinberger

Nov 17 2022 62 mins  
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

Software at Scale 51 - Usage based Pricing with Puneet Gupta

Oct 13 2022 65 mins  
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