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Introducing Cockroach Continuum | A Big Ideas in App Architecture Exclusive

This episode marks a big moment for Cockroach Labs, a refreshed brand and the introduction of Cockroach Continuum! David Joy sits down with Tara Jana (TJ), who joined Cockroach Labs earlier this year and has been deep in the work behind everything...

36 MIN

A Love Letter to the Database: Industry Shifts, Lessons Learned, and What's Next with Perry Krug

Perry Krug has been close to databases his entire career — from Couchbase in the NoSQL era to three years at Pinecone working on vector search. In this conversation with David Joy, the two database industry experts discuss the shifts they’ve...

45 MIN

The Everything Trap: Building AI Software That Lasts with Sam Hilsman

Generating working software with AI has never been easier, but every shortcut a team takes today is a debt it pays back later. In this episode, David talks with Sam Hilsman, co-founder and CEO ofhttps://cloudfruit.com/, a studio that builds ERPs,...

47 MIN

Why Inference Engineering Is the Next Big Role in AI with Philip Kiely

Most teams moving AI into production quickly discover that generating an output is the easy part; running it reliably, efficiently, and at scale is a discipline of its own.In this episode, David talks with Philip Kiely, engineer...

51 MIN

Distributed Systems, Linkerd, and the Cost of Network Calls with William Morgan from Buoyant

In Kubernetes environments, concerns like retries, security, observability, and traffic control often end up scattered across application code, leading to duplicated logic, inconsistent behavior, and systems that are harder to operate and debug. The...

45 MIN