Render is defining what taste means in backend infra (Chat with Anurag from Render)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim and Ian are joined by Anurag, CEO of Render, to discuss ...
Bazel and the Next Wave of AI Developer Infrastructure (Chat with Alex Eagle from Aspect Build)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 53 of The Infra Pod! Hosts Tim from Essence and Ian from Keycard are joined by sp...
The AI Analyst is coming to change Data Teams (Chat with Lucas from Gravity)
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (CEO of Keycard) sat down with Luca...
The next cloud to overtake AWS are AI sandboxes?! (Chat with Ivan from Daytona)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingston (Keycard.sh) as they sat down with Ivan Burazin, ...
Future of File Storage for AI (Chat with Hunter, CEO of Archill)
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian (Keycard) and Tim Essence VC) engage in an insightful discussion with Hunter Leath, CEO of Archi...
Turning Gaming PCs to Serverless CI for AI! (Chat with Aditya from Blacksmith)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) sat down with Aditya, CEO of Blacksmith, to explore the inception...
Building the Future of AI with Long-term Memory (Chat with Charles from Letta)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard.sh) delve into the fascinating w...
The bet on Postgres to be the backbone to run reliable services (Chat with Jeremy and Qian from DBOS)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) hosted DBOS building a reliable...
Next-Gen Data Processing with Incremental Query Engines (Chat with Gilad from Epsio)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Tim from Essence VC and Ian from Keycard as they sit down with Gilad Kleinman (CEO of Epsio), t...
Going from integrating SaaS to merging them through AI! Chat with Gil from Merge.dev
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Tim from Essence VC and Ian from Keycard, are joined by Gil,...
How is AI changing the security in modern fintech? Chat with Branden (Head of Infosec) from Mercury
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) are joined by Branden Wagner, H...
Helping enterprises to adopt AI the real way - Chat with Hamel Hussain
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim host a conversation with Hamel Husain, an AI influencer and consultant who has worked wi...
Owning both software and hardware to run the best cloud for deployment - Chat with Jake from Railway
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, Tim and Ian sit down with Jake, CEO of Railway, to explore how Rai...
The Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) tide is coming! Chat with Jon from Nuon
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim from Essence and Ian dive deep into why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is now getting hot with spec...
AI needs a browser infra! Chat with Paul from Browserbase
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, Tim from Essence and Ian Livingston host Paul Klein, CEO of Browse...
Building a serverless full-text + vector search on S3! Chat with Simon from Turbopuffer
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Infra Pod, Ian and Tim chat with Simon, the CEO of Turbopuffer, about his journey...
Infra to talk to your AI in real-time (Chat with Russ from Livekit)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this engaging episode of the Infra Pod, Tim and Ian dives deep into the world of real-time audio ...
AI agents is on the rise with the crew! Chat with Joao (CEO of Crew AI)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen and Ian Livingston welcome Joao, CEO and founder of...
What is Platform Engineering? Chat with Ian Nowland
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Infrapod, Tim and Ian sat down with Ian Nowland (ex-SVP of Datadog, co-author...
The Materialized View infra influencer is back again! Chat with Chris Riccomini
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'The Infra Pod,' Tim and Ian delve into a deep, insightful conversation ...
How to invest in infrastructure companies since inception stage? Chat with Elliot at Boldstart VC
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian are joined by guest Elliot Durbin, General Partner at ...
Why do we need a cloud native data lake for geospatial data? Chat with cofounders of Earthmover (Ryan and Joe)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Future of Data in Climate and Earth Sciences In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian sat down...
Let's review our favorite infra hot takes in 2024!
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim this time around sat down and talk about their learnings interviewing the great guests w...
Navigating the Future of API Development with AI! Chat with Speakeasy CEO Sagar Batchu
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian sat down with with Sagar Batchu (CEO of Speakeasy) abo...
Code refactoring is more than a AI problem! Chat with Jonathan at Moderne
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Jonathan Schneider, CEO of Moderne, about large-scale source code refactor...
Big Announcement! We are now called ....
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You probably already notice our name has changed if you get this episode! Listen to Tim and Ian tal...
AI native development is more than just using copilots! Chat with Guy Podjarny (CEO of Tessl)
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Guy Podjarny (CEO of Tessl, ex-CEO of Snyk) to talk about his new journey ...
Will AI agents automate security in the enterprise? Chat with Mukund (Senior Director of Product Security at Chime)
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Mukund (Senior Director of Product Security at Chime) to talk about his hi...
How Github grew from 0 to millions of developers, and now bringing that to Devops! (Chat with Ted, ex-CTO of Github)
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Ted Nyman (ex-CTO of Github, CEO of Cased) to chat about how it feels like...
Incubating Infrastructure at Scale (Chat with Dane at Cloudflare)
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Dane (SVP of Emerging Tech and Incubation at Cloudflare) to chat about Clo...
Security is moving to the frontend?! Chat with David at Arcjet
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with David (founder of Arcjet and Console.dev), where David is building a new c...
Will HTAP database eat both OLAP & OLTP? Chat with Moritz & Christian at CedarDB
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with the cofounders of CedarDB (https://cedardb.com/) that's building a all...
Why do we need a functional package manager like Nix? Chat with Ron at Flox
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Ron (CEO of Flox, Nix foundation chair) to talk about the origins of Nix (...
Quantum is breaking security soon?! Chat with Michele from EvolutionQ
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Michele (CEO of EvolutionQ, founder of Institute for Quantum Computing) th...
English is the default programming language via GPTScript! Chat with Darren from Acron
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Darren who is the cofounder of Acorn Labs that's building open source ...
Infrastructure cost will change how company runs in the future! Chat with Damon from Millwork Analytics
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Damon Fletcher (CEO of Millwork Analytics), after running as a CFO at Data...
A new S3 is coming, for every data system to be built on S3! Chat with Ovais from Tigris Data
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Ovais Tariq from Tigris Data, that's building a new S3 that's glob...
Vector databases is not a feature? Let's dive deeper with Chang
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Chang She from LanceDB to talk about what's happening on the vector db...
Databases are becoming commodity, what's next? Chat with Chris from Materialized View
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Chris Riccomini (ex-Distinguished eng at Wepay, co-creator of Apache Samza...
Billing is a infrastructure problem, and it's shifting fast! Chat with Alvaro from Orb
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Alvaro (CEO of Orb) about how he dived into the Billing problem as a engin...
Infra Reflection on 2023 with Tim and Ian!
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim and Ian sat down to talk about what we learned in 2023 and our reflection on Infrastructure comp...
Rust is for big data! Chat with Andy Grove
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Andy Grove (creator Datafusion, Apache Arrow PMC chair) to talk about his ...
Modal is upping the game for serverless! Chat with Erik
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Erik (CEO of Modal Labs) that's gaining wide adoption of the serverles...
Let's stop prompting and start programming... Chat with Omar about DSPy
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim sat down with Omar Khattab about the research project DSPy, that's changing how user...
Are all future data infra products will be built on Cloud storage? Chat with Warpstream
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim invited the cofounders of Warpstream (Serverless Kafka built on S3) to talk about the tr...
What happens when LLMs have a API App store? Let's chat Gorilla and beyond!
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and Tim are back to interview another YAIGer Shishir G. Patil, who is a PhD at Berkeley that wor...
Security problems are.... infra problems! Chat w/ Mike Malone from Smallstep
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian (Snyk) and Tim (Essence VC) sat down with Mike (CEO of Smallstep) to talk about how software sec...
When will AI take over developers? Debate with Guido Appenzeller
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
YAIG Maxis Ian Livingstone (Snyk) and Timothy Chen (Essence VC) are back this time with another maxi...
Transactions don't belong to databases anymore, let's discuss the Modern Tx Stack (w/ Yoko from A16z + Tony from Inngest)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Transactions is what makes critical applications with state works in production, and it has been dec...
How will the world run on GPUs? (w/ Stephen Balaban from Lambda Labs)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and I sat down with Stephen Balaban (CEO / founder from Lambda labs), to talk about how Stephen ...
Let's learn how to survive in the Modern Data Stack in 2023... Chat with Josh Wills (ex-Slack)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Modern Data Stack swept in the industry last few years, and even though it's still in the bu...
Ditch the cloud for bare metal in 2023? Chat with Zach (Equinix, ex-Packet)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 is when the cloud should have 100% adoption right? However, we're seeing a surge of embraci...
State of WASM beyond the browser with Steve at Dylibso
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WebAsseembly (WASM) is growing immensely now beyond the browser, and now everyone is talking about h...
Is frontend eating the whole stack? Chat with Kurt (Fly.io), Jack (Amplitude) and David (Stately)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is backend dead? Is front-end eating the whole stack? Ian and Tim invited several YAIGers to discu...