Episodes
In episode 10 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers and Dr. Marie Oldfield explore ethical benchmarks in AI. This conversation sheds light on professional accreditation for AI practitioners and offers unique insights on mitigating societal risks while building better AI models. Additionally, Marie shares lessons learned from her expansive career journey across Government, Defense, Legal, and Tech.
Published 04/29/24
Published 04/29/24
In episode 146 of Jamstack Radio, Brian Douglas speaks with Brian Levine of Yetto about customer support. Together they explore the pain points that lead small companies to adopt help desks or support tech stacks, as well as solutions for bolstering customer success like tools and hiring practices.
Published 04/25/24
In episode 41 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Lukas Gentele of Loft Labs about vCluster. Together they dive deep on how vCluster works and some of the new use cases that the project enables when running on larger, more mature enterprises. This technical discussion explores the problems Lucas and his team set out to solve when they created vCluster.
Published 04/24/24
In episode 69 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Charles Herring of WitFoo. Together they dive deep into the world of cybercrime investigations. Discover the intricate processes of data collection and analysis in the realm of cybersecurity, all while balancing the imperative of cost-effectiveness and citizen privacy.
Published 04/24/24
In episode 9 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with technology expert Michelle Yi. This conversation examines how generative AI will change the future of work. Together they explore topics like the philosophy of work and productivity, the advent of multi-agent systems, and what to consider when investing in AI.
Published 04/18/24
In episode 145 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Cara Marin of Stashpad about collaborative documents. Together they explore the shortcomings of popular collaborative tools on the market today and how they can be improved. Additionally, Cara unpacks local-first technology and how it enables elevated real-time collaboration experiences.
Published 04/18/24
In episode 144 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Joran Dirk Greef of TigerBeetle. This conversation explores financial transaction databases and the importance of building trust at the intersection of open source and business. Joran shares the invaluable lessons he learned from his early days as a self-taught developer as well as his journey founding TigerBeetle.
Published 03/28/24
In episode 8 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Josh Furstoss of Incued about the promise of generative AI. This talk explores the considerations founders must make before incorporating generative AI into their products, and the potential impact AI will have on financial decision-making in the future.
Published 03/26/24
In episode 68 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Michele Mancioppi of Dash0. This talk examines what it takes to make observability more accessible to non-experts in the space. Additional topics explored include the differences between monitoring and observability and Michele's shift from staff engineering to product management.
Published 03/19/24
In episode 143 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Mike Neumegen of CloudCannon. Together they discuss the evolution of the Jamstack and speculate on where it might be going in the future. Additionally, Mike shares his passion for static sites and unpacks how CloudCannon is bringing developers and content editors together.
Published 03/14/24
In episode 7 of Generationship, Rachel speaks with Wei Lien Dang of Unusual Ventures about the landscape of Generative AI and what it means from an investment standpoint. They analogize previous platform shifts to better understand what’s happening with LLMs today, and together they unpack the qualities investors seek out when investing in the world of AI.
Published 02/27/24
In episode 67 of o11ycast, Martin, Jess, and Liz dive deep on performance engineering. Pulling heavily from Liz’s extensive experience in the field, they share insights on utilizing data to balance resources like developers’ time and infrastructure costs. Listeners can expect to learn helpful lessons on infrastructure optimization, performance data accessibility, and why Honeycomb embraced Kubernetes.
Published 02/27/24
In episode 6 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Mark Wallace of Global Worldwide. The conversation kicks off with a deep dive on Mark’s philosophical stance that LLMs are actually thinking. Additionally, they explore the risks of using commercial LLMs, the difficulty of fine-tuning LLMs, and the crossroads of game infrastructure and generative AI.
Published 02/20/24
In episode 142 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Alex Olivier and Emre Baran of Cerbos. This conversation explores tools for managing roles and permissions within an organization, the value of audit logs, decoupled authorization, attribute-based access control (ABAC), and the pain points that inspired Cerbos.
Published 02/15/24
In episode 5 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers shares interviews from Heavybit’s 2023 DevGuild: AI Summit on October 19th, 2023. This Open Space unconference brought together a community of 200+ to discuss how AI will change the face of software development. This episode features event highlights and insights from industry experts: Christine Spang of Nylas, Heidi Waterhouse of Sym, Paul Biggar of DarkLang, Raiya Kind of Code and Concept, and Seema Patel of Stifel Venture Banking.
Published 01/30/24
In episode 141 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Vignesh Ravichandran of Omnigres, a developer-first application platform. They discuss the latest trends in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) space, the inspiration behind Omnigres, and invaluable lessons for founders on finding product-market fit.
Published 01/25/24
In episode 140 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with James Perkins of Unkey. This talk examines the difficulties developers face when issuing auth keys to end users. James also shares lessons from his firsthand experience scaling an open source side project into a full time startup.
Published 01/18/24
In episode 66 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Iris Dyrmishi of Miro. They dive deep on what it takes to build an observability platform with open source tooling. Additionally, they explore the expense of outsourcing observability, the journey from logs to traces, tips for adopting new tools, and the spread of the FinOps movement.
Published 01/17/24
In episode 40 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with open source pioneer Dave McAllister. Dave shares stories and lessons from his 40-year career in tech including working for DEC, NASA, Adobe, Red Hat, Splunk, and NGINX. Additionally, they discuss Linux’s rise to popularity in the early days of open source, SGI’s contribution to modern cinematic effects, predictions around AI, and the overlap of open source and LLMs.
Published 01/17/24
In episode 4 of Generationship, Rachel speaks with Michael Sawka of Wave Terminal (known as Command Line Inc. at the time of this recording). This talk focuses on the terminal, how easily it’s overlooked, and what’s missing from the terminals we use today. Other topics explored include the security implications of commercial LLMs, the risks AI poses to programming as an occupation, and the hard lessons Michael learned on the journey to building Wave Terminal.
Published 01/16/24
In episode 139 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Matt Dupree of ATLAS. This talk focuses heavily on LLMs and how they're elevating UX. Additionally, Brian and Matt explore AI hallucinations, tips for predicting where LLMs might be most impactful, and insights on why most code in future apps may be generated by AI.
Published 12/28/23
In episode 3 of Generationship, Rachel speaks with Steven Schkolne of MightyMeld. They discuss cultural myths surrounding AGI, theories on machine consciousness, philosophical insights on how humans might hybridize with machines, Steven’s literary influences, and how generative AI is helping humans advance their creative abilities.
Published 12/26/23
In episode 138 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Nick Taylor of OpenSauced. This talk explores the improvements and new features developers can expect from Next.js 14, as well as expert advice on choosing a frontend framework and navigating the unique challenges of open source projects.
Published 12/14/23
In episode 39 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie recount their experience at KubeCon 2023 and share interviews from the event with guests like Matt Butcher and Radu Matei of Fermyon, Umair Khan of Stacklet, Anna Reale of Keptn, Solomon Hykes of Dagger, Bailey Hayes of wasmCloud, and many more.
Published 12/13/23