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Software Huddle
Join us in insightful and in-depth interviews with tech experts, covering software development, entrepreneurship, and technology trends. For more on Software Huddle, visit softwarehuddle.com or contact team@softwarehuddle.com.
Episodes
Software HuddleWhen AI Agents Go Off Track with Or Weis
Today, we have Or Weis, Co-Founder and CEO at Permit.io, on the show! Or has spent over two decades in software engineering and is now building tools to help…
Software HuddleFaster Code Validation for AI Agents with Dan Manges
Today, we have Dan Manges, Co-Founder and CEO at RWX, on the show! Dan previously served as CTO at Braintree and co-founded Root Insurance, and is now building…
Software HuddleBuilding the AI Dark Factory with Robert Brennan
Today, we have Robert Brennan, Co-Founder and CEO at OpenHands, on the show! Robert previously worked at Google and Fairwinds, and is now building an…
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Open Source Self-Improving AI with Vignesh Baskaran
Today we are talking with Vignesh Baskaran, the CTO and co-founder of Hexo Labs, about teaching AI agents to improve themselves. Vignesh has been training…
Software HuddleAI and Proactive Reliability with Kolton Andrus
Today we're talking with Kolton Andrus, the Founder and CEO of Gremlin, about what happens to reliability when AI is writing most of the code. Kolton helped…
Software HuddleMaking Data Agent Ready with Andre Elizondo
Today we are talking with Andre Elizondo, the Director of Innovation at Mezmo about their open source agentic harness for SREs called AURA. Mezmo got their…
Software HuddleExponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana
Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great…
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Powered by Neurons with Ewelina Kurtys
Today we have Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the show. Ewelina has a background in Neuroscience and is currently working at FinalSpark. FinalSpark is using live Neurons…
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Lessons from Building AI Agents with Rafal Wilinski
Today we're talking with one of our favorite engineers, Rafal Wilinski. Rafal has been on the cutting edge of AI development in the last few years as he has…
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Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson
If you’ve ever felt like engineering teams are stuck in execution mode—heads down, building what they’re told—then today’s episode is for you. We're talking…
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Building CI for the age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah
Today's episode is with Aayush Shah. Aayush is one of the co-founders of Blacksmith, which is a CI compute platform. Basically, Blacksmith will run your GitHub…
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Valkey After the Fork: A Conversation with Madelyn Olson
Today, we're talking Valkey, Redis, and all things caching. Our guest is Madelyn Olson, who is a principal engineer at AWS working on Elasticache and is one of…
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Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert
Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why…
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Lessons from Transcribing and Indexing 3.5 Million Podcasts with Arvid Kahl
Big time guest today as Arvid Kahl joins us. Arvid is my favorite type of guest -- a deeply technical founder that can talk about both the technical and…
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It's time to build Jarvis with Kent C. Dodds
Today we have the excellent Kent C. Dodds on the program. Kent is an amazing teacher in the web development space, and I've learned a ton from him about React…
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Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg
Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they…
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Software Reliability Agents with Amal Kiran
So if you're writing code or keeping systems running, you probably know the drill. Late night pages, chasing down weird bugs, dealing with alert storms. It's…
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From ORM to Infra: Prisma Postgres with Søren Bramer Schmidt
Today we have Søren from Prisma on the show. Prisma has been the most popular ORM in the TypeScript world for a while, and now they’re moving more into hosted…
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Fast Inference with Hassan El Mghari
Today we have Hassan back on the show. Hassan was one of our first guests for Huddle when he was working at Vercel, but since then, he's joined Together AI…
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Seattle Startups, AI’s Future & Big Acquisitions with Yujian Tang
Today on the show, we talked with Yujian Tang. He was on the show previously when he worked at Zilliz, when we talked about vector databases and RAG. He's…
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Faster & Cheaper on PlanetScale Metal with Sam Lambert
Today, we have Sam Lambert back on the show! Sam is the CEO of PlanetScale, and if you follow him on X, you know he’s one of the sharpest voices in the…
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Redis but Faster With Roman Gershman
Redis is consistently one of the most beloved pieces of infrastructure for developers. And in the last few years, we've seen a number of new Redis-compatible…
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Lessons from Building Tagged.com + AI-Driven Database Optimization with Johann Schleier-Smith
Today, we’re joined by Johann Schleier-Smith. Johann co-founded Tagged during the early days of social media, a time when building scalable systems for the web…
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Building + Evolving Sentry's Architecture and Funding Open Source with David Cramer
Today, we have David Cramer on the show. David is one of the co-founders of Sentry, an application monitoring tool that's one of the most widely-adopted tools…
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Deep Dive into Inference Optimization for LLMs with Philip Kiely
Today we have Philip Kiely from Baseten on the show. Baseten is a Series B startup focused on providing infrastructure for AI workloads. We go deep on…
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Java and Building AI Applications with Kevin Dubois
Today on the show, we have Kevin Dubois. Kevin is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, Java Champion, and well known open source contributor. In…
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SQLite, Turso, and the State of Databases with Glauber Costa
Today we have Glauber Costa on the show, who's the CEO and founder at Turso. They provide a managed SQLite service with some really interesting capabilities…
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Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee
Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite…
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AI Engineer, Web Frameworks, & more with Tejas Kumar
Today we have Tejas Kumar on the show. Tejas is part of the Developer Relations team at Datastax. He's really good at frontend, got a great podcast and he has…
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The Data Engineering Landscape with Peter Hanssens
Today on the show, we have Peter Hanssens, the CEO and founder of Cloud Shuttle and creator of the DataEngBytes Conference. Peter has helped build an…
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Infrastructure, AWS, AI and Jobs, HTMX & more
Today we have a special guest. We have Jeremy Daly, who’s been in the cloud space for a while. Jeremy is the co-founder of Ampt, which is building an…
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Introduction to GraphRAG with Stephen Chin
Today we have Stephen Chin, VP of developer relations at Neo4j on the show. Stephen is an author, speaker, and Java expert, we’ll actually be crossing paths in…
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Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis
Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis. Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality…
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Infrastructure as Code with Dax Raad
Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions. We talked a lot about…
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No More Broken Docs with Manny Silva
Today, we have Manny Silva, Head of Docs at Skyflow, on the show to talk about two open source projects he created, Docs as Tests and Doc Detective. Docs as…
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Architecting for SaaS with Bill Tarr
This week on the show, we talk with Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS SaaS Factory. He's a super thoughtful guy, expert in SaaS architecture and…
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Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith
In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with…
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High Performance Postgres with Andrew Atkinson
Database performance is likely the biggest factor in whether your application is slow or not, and yet too many developers don't take the time to properly…
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Postgres for Search + Analytics with Philippe Noël
ParadeDB is Postgres for search and analytics. As Postgres continues to rise in popularity, the "Just Use Postgres'' movement is getting stronger and stronger…
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AI Agents and Long Context Windows with Mark Huang
Today we have Mark Huang on the show. Mark has previously held roles in Data Science and ML at companies like Box and Splunk and is now the co-founder and…
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Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt
Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a…
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Akamai: From CDN to Full Cloud Provider with Talia Nassi
Today, we have Talia Nassi on the show. Talia’s been leading Developer Advocacy at Akamai. Akamai is in a really interesting space where they've been around…
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Jamstack and Composable Web Architecture with Brian Rinaldi
Today we have Brian Rinaldi from LaunchDarkly on the show. This is the final episode of our in person coverage at the SHIFT Conference in Miami. And although…
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Practical AI for LLMs with Emanuel Lacić
Today we have Emanuel Lacić on the show. He was in academia for a while. Now he’s been working at Infobip for the last couple of years, building some of this…
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Why Building an API for Email is Hard with Christine Spang
Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we…
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Enterprise-grade Dev Environments with Ivan Burazin
Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip…
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Operational Data Warehouse with Nikhil Benesch
Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both…
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Multi-tenancy with Khawaja Shams
Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache. He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and…
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All about Rust with Tim McNamara
In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in…
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Becoming an Epic Web Developer with Kent C Dodds
Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing…
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SQL Meets Vector Search with Linpeng Tang of MyScale
Welcome back to an episode where we're talking Vectors, Vector Databases, and AI with Linpeng Tang, CTO and co-founder of MyScale. MyScale is a super…
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What is a Vector Database with Yujian Tang
Today's guest is Yujian Tang from Zilliz, one of the big players in the vector database market. This is the first episode in a series of episodes we’re doing…
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Serverless Clickhouse with Tyler Wells
Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well…
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Elasticsearch Fundamentals with Philipp Krenn
Today, we have Philipp Krenn on the show. He's the head of DevRel for Elastic, and we took a deep dive on all the Elasticsearch stuff like Indexes, Mappings…
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Building a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software Foundation
Zig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C. Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us…
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The Real Work of Data Engineering with Joe Reis
Today, we have Joe Reis on the show. Joe is the co author of the book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, probably the best and most comprehensive book on data…
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Tech layoffs, Sora by OpenAI, Gemini 1.5, Apple Vision Pro & more
Our special episode is back! Join Sean, Alex & Vino in this fun conversation. 00:00 Introduction 10:08 Sora by OpenAi 16:11 Google Gemini 1.5 22:05…
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Just use Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
Today's episode is with Craig Kerstiens, Craig has been in the Postgres space for a long time. First at Heroku, doing Heroku Postgres. Then at Citus, doing…
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From Academia to Startup Founder and Successful Exit with Jean Yang
Today on the show, we have the founder and CEO of Akita Software and now head of product at Postman, Dr. Professor Jean Yang. Jean has a super interesting…
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Durable Async/Await with Stephan Ewen of Restate
Today's guest is a legend in the distributed systems community. Stephan Ewan was one of the creators of Apache Flink, a stream processing engine that took off…