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Technical interviews about software topics.
Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received...
Jul 10, 2024
ChatGPT has been out for more than a year and has since become the centerpiece of intense discussion and debate about AI. Christian Hubicki is a renowned robotics research scientist and an Assistant P...
Jul 09, 2024
Databases underpin almost every user experience on the web, but scaling a database is one of the most fundamental infrastructure challenges in software development. PlanetScale offers a MySQL platform...
Jul 04, 2024
GV, or Google Ventures, is an independent venture capital firm backed by Alphabet. Erik Nordlander is a General Partner at GV and invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing o...
Jul 03, 2024
A common challenge for developers of SaaS products is integrating with existing services, including services that customers might already be using. For example, a SaaS product might need to integrate...
Jul 02, 2024
A headless software architecture decouples the frontend, or the “head”, from the backend. This separation allows developers to manage the UI layer independently of the backend logic and data managemen...
Jun 27, 2024
Celeste is a critically acclaimed action platformer developed by Extremely OK Games. They recently released Celeste 64 which is an open source project to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the origina...
Jun 26, 2024
DataStax is a generative AI data company that provides tools and services to build AI and other data-intensive applications. Ed Anuff is the Chief Product Officer at DataStax. He joins the show to tal...
Jun 25, 2024
Kong is a software company that provides open-source platforms and cloud services for managing, monitoring, and scaling APIs and microservices. Marco Palladino is the CTO of Kong, and he joins the pod...
Jun 20, 2024
Bitwarden is an open-source password management service that securely stores passwords, passkeys, website credentials, and other sensitive information Matt Bishop is the Principal Architect at Bitward...
Jun 19, 2024
Codecademy is an online platform that offers classes on languages including Python, Go, JavaScript, C++, and many others. Zoe Bachman is the Senior Curriculum Director at Codecademy and designs course...
Jun 18, 2024
Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that leverages unused compute capacity around the world. It makes this capacity available to others, and provides a decentralized peer-to-peer...
Jun 13, 2024
Linting is the process of checking source code for programmatic as well as stylistic errors. Ruff is a highly popular Python linter written in Rust. It was developed by Charlie Marsh, who also founded...
Jun 12, 2024
Gabriel Gambetta is a Senior Software Engineer at Google where he works on YouTube. He’s an expect in computer graphics and game development, and is famous for his articles on engineering fast-paced m...
Jun 11, 2024
The U.S. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure. The report emphasized memory safety vulnerab...
Jun 06, 2024