Building for Crypto with Lewis TuffAs crypto gains worldwide attention, the most scalable, resilient and performant systems are required for the industry to thrive. Products must be designed for a mix of technical and non-technical users. Blockchain.com’s VP of Engineering Lewis Tuff takes us behind the scenes for a look at the architecture, programming languages and database choices required to
06/22/22
Blockchain.com Infrastructure with Lewis TuffBlockchains are the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. More broadly, a blockchain is a mechanism for updating truth states in distributed network computing, producing consensus trust and serving as a new form of general computational substrate. Lewis Tuff is the VP of Engineering at Blockchain.com and joins the show to discuss the
06/21/22
Kubernetes Spend with Webb BrownThis episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media) is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host
06/17/22
Valora Decentralized Venmo with Charlie Andrews-JubeltWeb3 promises to change the way we interact and transact online, but today’s dapps and wallets are hard to use. They are typically optimized for desktop machines and domain experts. In particular, it can be hard to bring value on-chain, and hard to know what to do once you’ve onboarded. Charlie Andrews-Jubelt is a software
06/16/22
ContainIQ with Matthew LenhardWhile Kubernetes has many benefits, there is often a need for teams to deploy a monitoring and observability stack to troubleshoot issues that happen within the cluster and the applications themselves. ContainIQ, an out-of-the-box solution, allows engineers to monitor the health of their cluster and troubleshoot issues faster. ContainIQ is unique in its approach in
06/14/22
Open-Source Cloud Asset Management with Yevgeny PatsThis episode is hosted by Alex DeBrie. Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB, as well as The DynamoDB Guide, a free guided introduction to DynamoDB. He runs a consulting company where he assists clients with DynamoDB data modeling, serverless architectures, and general AWS usage. You can find
06/11/22
Upgrading The Rocket In The Air – CTO Decisions with Cos NicolaescuHow to build a rocket ship while flying it? In this episode, Cos returns to the show to discuss the technologies and approach Brex chose to create an engineering organization and innovation engine for the long term, while navigating shifts as the company continued to scale at a rapid pace. Cos and Jeff also cover
06/09/22
Global State Management with James CowlingConvex makes storing your application’s data as easy as using React state management. If you can use React hooks, you can also manage your backend data using Convex. James Cowling is a former Dropbox infrastructure engineer turned startup founder. James joins the show to discuss how Convex offers a simpler full-stack developer experience than the
06/02/22
Infura Ethereum Infrastructure with E.G. GalanoDevelopers looking for read or write access to Ethereum, Polygon, IPFS or other Web3 networks in order to get their idea in the hands of users need reliable RPC endpoints they can count on, whether they are working on a hackathon project or running hybrid architecture for a production application. Infura provides a platform for
06/02/22
Decodable Streaming with Eric SammerStreaming data platforms like Kafka, Pulsar, and Kinesis are now common in mainstream enterprise architectures, providing low-latency real-time messaging for analytics and applications. However, stream processing – the act of filtering, transforming, or analyzing the data inside the messages – is still an exercise left to the receiving microservice or datastore, a custom programming exercise
06/01/22
Kubernetes Security Compliance with Jimmy MestaThe Kubernetes ecosystem has drastically changed how development teams ship software. While Kubernetes has provided many advancements in cloud infrastructure, it has also left organizations with massive security blindspots. KSOC was created to give developers and security teams a single control plane to harden multi-cluster Kubernetes environments through event-driven analysis, least privilege enforcement, and remediation-as-code.
06/01/22
New Relic Architecture with Nic BendersIn software engineering, telemetry is the data that is collected about your applications. Unlike logging, which is used in the development of apps to pinpoint errors and code flows, telemetry data includes all operational data including logs, metrics, events, traces, usage, and other analytical data. Companies usually visualize this information to troubleshoot problems and understand
05/28/22
Conductor Orchestration with Boney SekhOne of the challenges with Microservices architecture is how you manage dependencies between your services when implementing workflows. Conductor is an open-source microservices and workflow orchestration platform. Boney Sekh co-founded Orkes Inc – a company focused on offering Conductor as a service. Boney joins the show to discuss how engineers leverage Conductor to build highly
05/26/22
Notifications Infrastructure with Chris BellNotifications have typically been an area of a product where building in-house has been the only option. However, building a best-in-class notifications system that delivers a great customer experience requires a significant investment when you start to layer in complexities like batching, cross channel orchestration, and user preferences. Chris Bell of Knock joins the show
05/25/22
CloudGraph with Tyson KunovskyThe advent of the cloud introduced a new form of technical debt in which organizations can lose track of what infrastructure they have and how it relates to the business. While the cloud’s native APIs offer some transparency into your infrastructure, these offerings are often described as necessary but not sufficient. When companies have a
05/21/22
Browser Observability With Jay KhatriHighlight is a tool that helps teams reproduce end-to-end user sessions to troubleshoot their applications faster, more efficiently, and with all the context they need. With Highlight, engineering teams can replay errors with high precision, which includes complete session replay, outgoing network requests, dense stack traces and insight into the app’s state management system. Jay
05/20/22
Technical Debt With Lee AtchisonLee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he spent eight years scaling the company’s internal architecture. Lee has deep expertise in building and managing fast growing web applications, and he used this knowledge to write architecting for scale from
05/18/22
Skyflow Privacy and Compliance with Sean FalconerThere’s an increasing regulatory and consumer pressure on companies to do a better job protecting sensitive customer data. Yet, despite this pressure, data breaches and compliance issues continue to plague the tech industry. Companies like Apple, Netflix, and Google have solved these challenges by pioneering a new type of technology, the data privacy vault. Skyflow
05/17/22
Data Delivery with Naqeeb MemonData-as-a-service is a company category type that is not as common as API-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, or platform-as-a-service. In order to vend data, a data-as-a-service provider needs to define how that data will be priced, stored, and delivered to users: streaming over an API or served via static files. Naqeeb Memon of Safegraph joins the show
05/14/22
Arweave with Sam WilliamsBlockchains were the first systems to allow guaranteed permanent storage of public data. As cryptocurrency technology has advanced, a rich ecosystem of permanent storage and compute has developed as well. One of these is Arweave, a system for permanent information storage. Sam Williams is a founder of Arweave and joins the show to talk through