Tractable

Sep 30 2024 14 ep. 41 mins
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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 modern pricing platform which solves your billing needs, from seats to consumption and everything in between.

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Nile Co-Founder Gwen Shapira: The Tenet of Multi-Tenancy

Sep 30 2024 41 mins  
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 databases, the complexities of managing mixed data blocks, and the challenges of buildin

Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht: Not just latency, but velocity

Aug 07 2024 30 mins  
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 custom-built infrastructure as well as an upcoming product launch focused on AI, and i

Axiom CEO Neil Jagdish Patel: No more sampling

Jun 25 2024 44 mins  
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, storage, and query execution, also Axiom's potential to become a central tool for events

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors - Production, revisited

Jun 10 2024 40 mins  
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 organizations entrenched in '1.0 thinking' to the need for shorter feedback loops, Charity examine

Felt CTO Can Duruk: A New Direction for Maps

Apr 15 2024 37 mins  
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 episode highlights how Felt has changed the way we visualize and utilize geographic data. Jo

Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: Scalable on-demand compute for the cloud

Mar 21 2024 37 mins  
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 delves into the challenges faced in the early days of Spotify, the evolution of serverles

Render VPE Uma Chingunde: The Future of the Cloud

Mar 12 2024 43 mins  
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 ever-evolving landscape of technology. The discussion also dig into the necessity of transparency

WarpStream CEO Richard Artoul: reinventing an infrastructure primitive

Feb 23 2024 41 mins  
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 large-scale data systems at both Datadog and Uber. WarpStream is not only architected t

Sentry CTO David Cramer: Running Sentry at Scale

Jan 27 2024 46 mins  
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 including developers at Atlassian, GitHub, and Disney+. David shares the origin story of Se

Materialize CTO Nikhil Benesch: Making data operational

Dec 04 2023 54 mins  
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 Operational Data Warehouse, and the the challenges of offering cloud-native solutions. Addition