Software Huddle
Episodes
AI and Proactive Reliability with Kolton Andrus
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Making Data Agent Ready with Andre Elizondo
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Exponential Engineers with Ashmeet Sidana
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Powered by Neurons with Ewelina Kurtys
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have Dr. Ewelina Kurtys on the show. Ewelina has a background in Neuroscience and is currently working at FinalSpark. FinalSpark is using l...
Lessons from Building AI Agents with Rafal Wilinski
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Building a High-Ownership Engineering Culture with Matt Watson
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 yo...
Building CI for the age of AI Agents with Aayush Shah
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 yo...
Valkey After the Fork: A Conversation with Madelyn Olson
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ho...
Lessons from Transcribing and Indexing 3.5 Million Podcasts with Arvid Kahl
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
It's time to build Jarvis with Kent C. Dodds
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 abo...
Rewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ Stuyvenberg
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about ...
Software Reliability Agents with Amal Kiran
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 storm...
From ORM to Infra: Prisma Postgres with Søren Bramer Schmidt
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Fast Inference with Hassan El Mghari
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Togeth...
Seattle Startups, AI’s Future & Big Acquisitions with Yujian Tang
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Faster & Cheaper on PlanetScale Metal with Sam Lambert
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Redis but Faster With Roman Gershman
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-com...
Lessons from Building Tagged.com + AI-Driven Database Optimization with Johann Schleier-Smith
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Building + Evolving Sentry's Architecture and Funding Open Source with David Cramer
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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-adopt...
Deep Dive into Inference Optimization for LLMs with Philip Kiely
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Java and Building AI Applications with Kevin Dubois
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 contribu...
SQLite, Turso, and the State of Databases with Glauber Costa
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 capabi...
Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Engineer, Web Frameworks, & more with Tejas Kumar
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The Data Engineering Landscape with Peter Hanssens
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Infrastructure, AWS, AI and Jobs, HTMX & more
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introduction to GraphRAG with Stephen Chin
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 crossi...
Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 hig...
Infrastructure as Code with Dax Raad
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
No More Broken Docs with Manny Silva
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. D...
Architecting for SaaS with Bill Tarr
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 architec...
Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 fa...
High Performance Postgres with Andrew Atkinson
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 prope...
Postgres for Search + Analytics with Philippe Noël
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ParadeDB is Postgres for search and analytics. As Postgres continues to rise in popularity, the "Just Use Postgres'' movement is getting stronger and ...
AI Agents and Long Context Windows with Mark Huang
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 rol...
Akamai: From CDN to Full Cloud Provider with Talia Nassi
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 bee...
Jamstack and Composable Web Architecture with Brian Rinaldi
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Practical AI for LLMs with Emanuel Lacić
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why Building an API for Email is Hard with Christine Spang
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Enterprise-grade Dev Environments with Ivan Burazin
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Operational Data Warehouse with Nikhil Benesch
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Multi-tenancy with Khawaja Shams
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 tea...
All about Rust with Tim McNamara
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ru...
Becoming an Epic Web Developer with Kent C Dodds
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 lik...
SQL Meets Vector Search with Linpeng Tang of MyScale
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What is a Vector Database with Yujian Tang
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Serverless Clickhouse with Tyler Wells
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Elasticsearch Fundamentals with Philipp Krenn
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, Ma...
Building a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software Foundation
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Real Work of Data Engineering with Joe Reis
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tech layoffs, Sora by OpenAI, Gemini 1.5, Apple Vision Pro & more
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Just use Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
From Academia to Startup Founder and Successful Exit with Jean Yang
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 interes...
Durable Async/Await with Stephan Ewen of Restate
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Incubation and Investing with Rak Garg from Bain Capital Ventures
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Bain Capital partner Rak Garg. Rak is a super smart guy that's worked as an ML researcher. Then he was in product at Atlassian before...
Building Kafka without Disks with Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl from WarpStream Labs
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, We spoke with the founders of WarpStream Labs, Richard Artoul and Ryan Worl. WarpStream is a fascinating rethink of Kafka -- how coul...
Finding Product Market Fit with Cassidy Williams of Contenda
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have Cassidy Williams, CTO of Contenda. Contenda unbelievably started as a sticker distribution platform that pivoted into a product that co...
Holiday Special!
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special end of the year clips episode of Software Huddle, we took some time to highlight some of our favorite clips from our interviews since ...
AI for Developers with Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, we have quite the lineup. We have Rizel Scarlett, Leandro Margulis and Katherine Miller all joining Sean to talk about AI for develop...
Navigating Large Language Models with Vino Duraisamy from Snowflake
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke with Vino Duraisamy, Developer advocate at Snowflake. Vino has been working as a data and AI engineer for her entire career ...
AGI is Surely Coming with Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Dataprene...
reInvent BTS, Sam Altman, SEC on Solarwinds, Apple RCS, and more
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our special episode is back, and we have a special guest this time. Join Sean, Alex & Merritt in this fun conversation. Timestamps: 00:00 Introductio...
From Code Red to Green: Incident Management with Nora Jones of Jeli and Dan McCall from PagerDuty
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is all about Incident Management. We have two amazing guests, Nora Jones, founder and CEO of Jeli, and Dan McCall, the VP and GM of...
AI-driven Database Cache with Ben Hagan from PolyScale
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PolyScale is a database cache, specifically designed to cache just your database. It is completely Plug and Play and it allows you to scale a database...
Building for Scale with Mario Žagar from Infobip
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke with Mario Žagar, a Distinguished Engineer at Infobip. Infobip is a tech unicorn based out of Croatia that is a global lead...
Nile, Racked Hardware, Quantum Computing, Getting Customers Trust, & more
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our special episode is back, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:5...
Distributed Financial Databases with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we spoke with Joran Dirk Greef, who's the co-founder at TigerBeetle. TigerBeetle is a Financial Transactions Database that's focused o...
First Year as a Startup Founder and CEO with Nucleus's Evis Drenova
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke with Evis Drenova, CEO and co-founder of Nucleus, a Y Combinator graduate from 2022 focused on making it easy to deploy, bui...
Architecting Real-time Analytics with Dhruba Borthakur of Rockset
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke with Dhruba Borthakur, Dhruba is the CTO and Co-founder at Rockset. Rockset is a search and analytics database hosted on the...
Developer Education and Training with Craig Dennis from Twilio
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, We spoke with Craig Dennis from Twilio about developer education and training. Craig's been working in the developer education space ...
Generative AI and LLMs with Dash Desai from Snowflake
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you've been involved with the Snowflake world, today's guest probably can skip an introduction as he is the demo king from the Snowflake Summit and...
V0 by Vercel, Bun, RCS on Apple Devices, Retool Breach, & more
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our special episode is here, and it's all about the latest news. Join Sean and Alex for an in-depth discussion. Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alex...
Navigating the Transition from Big Tech to Startups with Ben Popper from Stack Overflow
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Startups can be a ton of fun. Also, it is sometimes very stressful and ultimately a very different experience than working at a company like Google, M...
NoSQL Transactions in DynamoDB with Akshat Vig & Somu Perianayagam from AWS
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon's DynamoDB serves some of the highest workloads on the planet with predictable, single-digit millisecond latency regardless of data size or con...
Building Generative AI Apps with Hassan El Mghari from Vercel
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past couple of months, Generative AI has taken the world by storm. OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was a turning point. With each iteration, the...
Scaling MySQL with Sam Lambert from PlanetScale
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would it look like if databases were built for developers rather than operators? Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale, a company that provides a...
Welcome to Software Huddle with Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the trailer episode for Software Huddle. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareHuddle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle