"I'm embarrassed that I didn't know it. So I'm not going to tell anybody" Kelsey Hightower's step-by-step guide to learning in public. #kubernetes #softwareengineering #softmisadventures

Out of thousands of engineers at Uber, there’s only a handful of Distinguished Engineers and Joakim Recht was one of them. In this conversation we chat about - Why software engineering is a lot like a sausage factory. - Considerations for leaving big tech for a startup. - “How to

If you’ve worked on data problems, you probably have heard of Airflow and Superset, Ronak and I are very excited to speak with their creator Maxime Beauchemin on the latest podcast episode. In part 1 of this conversation we chat about - Developing an “AI-first” reflex in daily

From writing the first lines of Kafka over a Christmas break as a LinkedIn engineer to running a public company as the CEO of Confluent, Jay Kreps joins the show to chat about how he and his co-founders convinced investors to take a chance on their vision, what many engineers get

From being a Distinguished Engineer at Sun to co-founding Oxide Computer Company to build a new kind of server, Bryan Cantrill joins the show to chat about being told that he’s on a suicide mission when starting Oxide, the moment he felt “I’m actually living HBO Silicon Valley”, and more.

From creating Envoy to co-founding bitdrift, Matt Klein joins the show to chat about being told to simply “write some proxy in Python” in the early days of building Envoy, early influences from building “shrink wrap” software at Microsoft and much more.

From creating one of the Python’s most influential libraries to co-founding Voltron Data, Wes McKinney joins the show to chat about why the book cover of the pandas book doesn’t feature a panda, open source pitfalls to avoid and more.

Well-known for his insightful and meticulous write-ups on testing distributed systems, aphyr joins the show to chat about the origins of Jepsen, how he built a business around testing distributed systems, his writing process, favorite databases, and more.

Having quit Google in 2018 to bootstrap indie businesses and recently selling it for $600k, Michael Lynch returns to the show to chat about misconceptions about running an indie business, the hardest part of selling it, and why “hardware is definitely out” in the future 😂

From building the data platform and Parquet at Twitter to using AI to make biology easier to engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 joins the show to chat about the early days of big data, the conversation that made him jump into SynBio, LLMs for proteins and more.

From building a new kind of server to building a new kind of company, co-founders Bryan Cantrill and Steven Tuck join the show to chat about their "meet cute" and the origin story of Oxide Computer Company, transparent and uniform salaries, and their solution to the "N+1 shithead problem".

"the N+1 shithead problem" (feat. Bryan Cantrill)

As the original architect and API design lead of #Kubernetes, Brian Grant joins the show to chat about why "APIs are forever", the keys to evangelizing impactful projects, and being an Uber Tech at Google, and more.

Today, the tables have turned, and @ronaknathani and Guang from the Software Misadventures podcast (Software Misadventures Podcast ) interviewing me about podcasting, my history as a software developer, and, story telling.

A veteran of early Twitter's fail whale wars, Dmitriy Ryaboy 🇺🇸🇮🇱 joins the show to chat about the time when 70% of the Hadoop cluster got accidentally deleted, the financial reality of writing a book, and how to navigate acquisitions. check it out :D softwaremisadventures.com/p/dmitriy-ryab…

A Silicon Valley veteran and known for his writings like "The Death of the Junior Developer", Steve Yegge joins the show to chat about his "AI Midlife Crisis", his unique writing process, and building the future of coding assistants. check it out :D softwaremisadventures.com/p/steve-yegge-…

Known for co-creating Django and Datasette, as well as his thoughtful writing on LLMs, Simon Willison joins the show to chat about blogging as an accountability mechanism, how to build intuition with LLMs, life as an independent dev and more. check it out :D softwaremisadventures.com/p/simon-willis…