Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker
Mike Stonebraker is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to fundamental database technologies. We discussed the story behind building Postgres, where he disagrees with Google/Amazon on d...
20 Apr 56min
AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
In this episode, I talked to Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer at AWS who started there as a new grad and rose through the ranks. We discussed technical learnings from 3,000+ cloud system postmor...
13 Apr 1h 11min
Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham
This is James Everingham, former head of engineering at Instagram and a veteran of the tech world with experience at Netscape. We talked about his unconventional start in the industry, learnings from ...
6 Apr 58min
Retired Amazon VP: How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win | Ethan Evans
Ethan Evans is a former VP at Amazon has seen pretty much every possible type of corporate politics. Now that he's retired, he could share everything he'd seen including stories about empire building,...
30 Mar 2h 50min
The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs
This is a conversation with Brendan Burns, co-creator of Kubernetes and current technical fellow at Microsoft working on Azure. We discussed what it was like building it at Google, how he got buy-in, ...
23 Mar 1h 7min
Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring
Austen McDonald is a former hiring committee member at Meta, where he led mobile hiring and conducted hundreds of interviews. In this episode, we talked about what happens behind the scenes in a hirin...
16 Mar 1h 42min
OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin
This is Michael Bolin, the tech lead for the open source Codex repository and a former distinguished engineer at Meta. We talked about his career path, how OpenAI engineers use Codex and the differenc...
9 Mar 1h 20min
Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and has now founded his own company called Oxide Computer Company. We discussed his career experiences through boom/busts, what competin...
2 Mar 1h 21min
