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Heavybit Podcast Network Master Feed
Heavybit is the leading early-stage investor in enterprise infrastructure. Since 2013, we've helped launch and scale visionary technical startups—from DevSecOps and feature flagging to AI code generation and beyond. We go hands-on from day 0, backing founders as they turn code into companies and build the future of software from the bottom up to the top down.
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Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThird Loop - Ep. #14, Brains in Jars with Dr. Cat Hicks
On episode 14 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Dr. Cat Hicks about what psychology says about building software with AI. Cat argues…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedData Renegades - Ep. #14, Databases for Humans and Agents with Hannes Mühleisen
On episode 14 of Data Renegades, CL Kao speaks with Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, about building databases that people actually want to use. Hannes…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedLab Notes - Ep. #6, Why AI Needs to Argue with Itself with James Evans
On episode 6 of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad speaks with James Evans about a paradox of AI-powered science: faster answers may come with a narrower range of…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedOpen Source Ready - Ep. #45, When Agents Outrun Human Review with Dotta of Paperclip
On episode 45 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Dotta about Paperclip, an open-source platform for managing teams of AI agents…
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Third Loop - Ep. #13, Ten Times Faster at What? with Jennifer Riggins
On episode 13 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Jennifer Riggins about why faster code doesn’t automatically mean better software. They…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedGenerationship - Ep. #60, The Killer App for AI with Vasanth Mohan
On episode 60 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Vasanth Mohan of SambaNova about when faster AI agents actually mean better work. They explore why…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #44, Beyond the Model: Observing AI Agents with Mikyo King
On episode 44 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Mikyo King to explore why an agent can fail even when its model gets things…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #43, You Can't Fork a Protocol with Madelyn Olson
On episode 43 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Madelyn Olson. The Valkey maintainer and AWS principal engineer explains how AI…
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Third Loop - Ep. #12, Shipping at the Speed of Understanding with Steph Hippo
On episode 12 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Steph Hippo, Platform Engineering Director at Honeycomb, about what happens when AI…
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Generationship - Ep. #59, Containers Should Actually Contain with Emily Long and Alex Zenla
On episode 59 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Emily Long and Alex Zenla, co-founders of Edera, about rethinking the foundations of cloud and AI…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #42, When Forking Becomes a Feature with Will Cory
On episode 42 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Will Cory, creator of Smithers. Will explains how workflows can simplify agent…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master Feedo11ycast - Ep. #93, Adaptive Sampling Strategies with Mike Goldsmith
On episode 93 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Martin Thwaites sit down with Mike Goldsmith to explore how teams can control telemetry costs without sacrificing the…
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Lab Notes - Ep. #5, The Voice AI Turing Test with Aoden Teo
In episode 5 of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad speaks with Aoden Teo, co-founder and CEO of Miso Labs, about what it will take for voice AI to become truly…
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Third Loop - Ep. #11, Durable Systems, Disposable Code with Chad Fowler
On episode 11 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team sits down with Chad Fowler to explore regenerative software and what architecture looks like when AI…
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Lab Notes - Ep. #4, The New Big Data of Inference with Junchen Jiang
On episode 4 of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad speaks with Junchen Jiang about why KVCache may be better understood as reusable, AI-native data rather than a…
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Generationship - Ep. #58, Quantum Uncertainty with Anastasia Marchenkova
On episode 58 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Anastasia Marchenkova. They explore what it will take to move quantum computing from promising…
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Third Loop - Ep. #10, The System Is More Than the Code with Charity Majors
On episode 10 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Honeycomb co-founder and CTO Charity Majors about observability, AI, and the changing…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedHigh Leverage - Ep. #12, The Limits of Lights-Out Coding with Dexter Horthy
On episode 12 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Dexter Horthy of HumanLayer. They explore the promise and limitations of autonomous coding, including…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThe Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #54, The Age of Personalized Software with David Crawshaw
In episode 54 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with David Crawshaw. David shares how a weekend WireGuard experiment became Tailscale, and how…
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Open Source Ready - Containers at the Edge of AI with Phil Estes
On episode 41 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Phil Estes. They explore why the definition of a container remains…
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Third Loop - Ep. #9, Constraints, Creativity, and Competition
On episode 9 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team explores the complicated relationship between AI, automation, and human creativity. Kim Harrison…
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Lab Notes - Ep. #3, Exploring Recursive Intelligence with Qizheng Zhang
On episode 3 of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad sits down with Qizheng Zhang to explore one of the fastest-moving areas of AI research: recursive self-improvement…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedGenerationship - Ep. #57, Attention is Currency with Navneet Kaur
On episode 57 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Navneet Kaur, founder of FemTech India and TechThrive Ventures. Together they explore why…
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Third Loop - Ep. #8, Sounds Like Alignment with Melinda Fekete
On episode 8 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team sits down with Melinda Fekete to discuss FeatureOps, developer experience, and modern software…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master Feedo11ycast - Ep. #92, Confidence Is the New Bottleneck with Ray Myers
Ray Myers joins Ken and Jess to explore how observability, reliability engineering, and formal software engineering practices are becoming even more important…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedLab Notes - Ep. #2, The Infrastructure of Intelligence with Hanchen Li
On episode 2 of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad sits down with Hanchen Li to explore the systems that make modern AI agents faster, more efficient, and better at…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedOpen Source Ready - Ep. #40, Terminal Innovation in the AI Era with Orhun Parmaksiz
On episode 40 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz to explore Ratty, his experimental GPU-rendered terminal…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThird Loop - Ep. #7, Exploring DORA and Progressive Delivery with Nathen Harvey
On episode 7 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Nathen Harvey about the intersection of AI, DevOps, and user-centric software…
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Lab Notes - Ep. #1, Why Robots Are Hard with Ren Wang
On this debut episode of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad is joined by Ren Wang, a researcher and PhD student at UC Berkeley, to explore the state of physical AI and…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #39, Agents Take the Wheel with Zach Smith
On episode 39 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Zach Smith, creator of Kplane, about rethinking Kubernetes for an AI-driven…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedData Renegades - Ep. #13, Building Trillion-Scale Data Pipelines with Josh Wills
Data Renegades - Ep. #13, Building Trillion-Scale Data Pipelines with Josh Wills by Heavybit
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Generationship - Ep. #56, Vibe Coding for Data with Mark Brocato
On episode 56 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Mark Brocato, founder of Mockaroo and creator of Fabricate, to explore the evolution of…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThe Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #53, Render and the New Cloud Stack with Anurag Goel
On episode 53 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Anurag Goel. Anurag shares his journey from early employee at Stripe to…
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Third Loop - Ep. #6, The Weird Edges of Taste with Betty Junod
On episode 6 of Third Loop, Kim Harrison, Adam Zimman, James Governor, and Heidi Waterhouse sit down with Betty Junod. Together, they explore how agentic…
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o11ycast - Ep. #91, Every Failure Becomes an Eval with Janaki Vivrekar
On episode 91 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Jess Kerr sit down with Janaki Vivrekar. Janaki shares how Amplitude is building AI-powered analytics agents, why…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedHigh Leverage - Ep. #11, Why Agents Need Computers with David Crawshaw
On episode 11 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio speaks with David Crawshaw about the shift from traditional developer infrastructure to agent-native computing…
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The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #52, Beyond the Hyperscalers with Hugo Santos of Namespace
On episode 52 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Hugo Santos. They discuss the evolution of Namespace Labs, why traditional…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen
On episode 38 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Graham Christensen, CEO of Determinate Systems, about the evolution of the Nix…
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Data Renegades - Ep. #12, Agent Orchestration at Scale with Maxime Beauchemin
On episode 12 of Data Renegades, CL Kao sits down with Maxime Beauchemin to explore what happens when software teams start working alongside armies of AI…
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Third Loop - Ep. #5, Free, Like Puppies: The Real Cost of AI Code
On episode 5 of Third Loop, Heidi Waterhouse, James Governor, Adam Zimman, and Kim Harrison dig into the hype around AI-generated code and ask a deceptively…
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Generationship - Ep. #55, Faster Hypothesis Disproving with Sunil Dhaliwal
On episode 55 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Sunil Dhaliwal to explore how AI is reshaping developer infrastructure, venture investing, and…
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The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #51, CI Is the New Bottleneck with Kyle Galbraith
On episode 51 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Kyle Galbraith. Kyle shares the story behind Depot and explains how the…
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High Leverage - Ep. #10, The Human Brain in Software Development with Steve Krouse
On episode 10 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Steve Krouse to discuss the rapidly evolving relationship between AI and programming. Steve shares…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #37, Is AI Killing Open Source Software? with Stormy Peters
On episode 37 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John speak with Stormy Peters about the evolving relationship between AI and open source software. Together, they…
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Third Loop - Ep. #4, Signals and Levers with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi
On episode 4 of Third Loop, Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi join the hosts to discuss systems thinking, software delivery, and why organizations often…
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High Leverage - Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison
On episode 9 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Simon Willison to unpack the rapid evolution of AI coding tools and what they mean for software…
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o11ycast - Ep. #90, Outcome Engineering in the AI Era with Cory Ondrejka
On episode 90 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Jessica “Jess” Kerr speak with Cory Ondrejka. Together, they unpack the rise of agentic AI, the shifting identity of…
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Data Renegades - Ep. #11, Contrarian Bets and AI Skepticism with Michael Stonebraker
On episode 11 of Data Renegades, CL Kao sits down with Michael Stonebraker, legendary database pioneer and creator of Ingres and Postgres. They explore the…
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High Leverage - Ep. #8, The AI Preceptorship Model with Scott Hanselman
On episode 8 of High Leverage, Joe Ruscio sits down with Scott Hanselman for a conversation that goes far beyond prompts and productivity gains. They talk…
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedOpen Source Ready - Ep. #36, Managing AI Coding Agents with Jesse Vincent
On episode 36 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Jesse Vincent. They explore how Jesse’s Superpowers project turns AI coding…
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Third Loop - Ep. #3, Give It a Name: Why Software Needs a Third Loop
In this episode, the hosts unpack the thinking behind the name Third Loop and what it represents. Building on ideas from their book Progressive Delivery, they…
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Generationship - Ep. #54, Human-like Memory with Vishakha Gupta
On episode 54 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Vishakha Gupta to explore the hidden infrastructure challenges behind modern AI. They unpack…
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The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #50, Building Sandboxes for AI Agents with Ivan Burazin
On episode 50 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Ivan Burazin to explore the rise of sandbox environments for AI agents…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #35, The Evolution of MCP with Den Delimarsky of Anthropic
On episode 35 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Den Delimarsky. They explore the rapid evolution of the Model Context Protocol…
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o11ycast - Ep. #89, Software Is the Killer App for AI with Bryan Cantrill
On episode 89 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Charity Majors are joined by Bryan Cantrill. They dive into the origins of observability, the realities behind AI…
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Data Renegades - Ep. #10, Data Modeling Matters Most with Toby Mao
On episode 10 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Toby Mao. They explore how real-world data problems at Netflix and Airbnb led to the…
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Third Loop - Ep. #2, Features and Futures with Kent Beck
On episode 2 of Third Loop, Kim, Heidi, and Adam sit down with Kent Beck. They explore how Progressive Delivery extends ideas from Agile and Extreme…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #34, Technical Founders in the AI Era with Sunil Dhaliwal
On episode 34 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Sunil Dhaliwal to explore how AI is reshaping open source and startup…
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Generationship - Ep. #53, The Era of Reimagination with Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh
On episode 53 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the physical and…
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Open Source Ready - Ep. #33, Retiring Ingress NGINX with James Strong & Marco Ebert
On episode 33 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with James Strong and Marco Ebert. They discuss the retirement of Ingress NGINX…