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Technically We Have Code Reviews and the LLM Semantic Layer

Jul 10, 2026
We talk with TextQL CTO Mark Hay about spam classification at Meta, Locality of Behavior, and the correct by construction Semantic Layer.

Who Needs Testers Anyway?

Jun 26, 2026
Pia Weidermayer shares how to think about testing if you actually care about quality, regardless if AI is included or not.

You Wouldn't Implement A Database

Jun 19, 2026
Jeff Kuo tells us about technical trials and tribulations of building the original database with a spreadsheet interface.

What If Tools Are Not Expensive To Build

Jun 12, 2026
Tudor Girba questions how should we be creating software.

DR: Staying resilient in the cloud

Jun 5, 2026
Seth Eliot shares his tales of cloud resiliency, art of backups, and how recovering from a disaster may end up in a disaster.

Eat your security vegetables

May 29, 2026
Chris Farris, AWS Security Hero, joins us to talk about how DevOps tech debt is spoiling your agentic AI journey, perils of security tech debt and opportunities to make it all better.

Automatic Data Pipelining: One More Turtle Ahead

May 15, 2026
We sit down with Corvic CTO Donald Nguyen to explore enterprise data hoarding, subjective embeddings, Firecracker VMs, and the nightmare of securing AI agents.

The Human Value Versus AI Legacy Code

May 11, 2026
Cassidy Williams joins to discuss the impacts of AI, non-traditional software engineer backgrounds, and making sense of the changing world.

Who needs a server?

May 1, 2026
Lena Fuhrimann joins us to talk about all things serverless, having fun with infrastructure, and why we can't ignore the human factor.

How to build a monolith the right way

Apr 24, 2026
Ian Duncan shares his experience with a monolithic CI/CD pipelines and gives tips on what tools to use as your monolith grows.

Infrastructure as code: why you can never avoid thinking

Apr 17, 2026
Tools or frameworks? Erik dives into the challenges of infrastructure as code, infra migrations, code reviews and the perennial problem of validation.

GPU versus CPU: What is engineering really doing for us

Apr 9, 2026
Join Jaikumar Ganesh talks about the CPU/GPU divide, creative hiring strategies and the responsibility of the engineering organization

Upskilling your agents

Mar 28, 2026
Dan Wahlin from Microsoft joins us to talk about agentic coding, deploying to the cloud and agent security.

There's no way it's DNS...

Mar 20, 2026
How much do you know about the protocol that everything is built upon? Simone Carletti talks about abstractions, standards, and the joy of DNS.

Getting better at networking

Mar 15, 2026
Don't be alarmed, we mean the computer networking kind. Daan Boerlage nerds out on IPv6 and explains how it makes your cloud bill cheaper.

Varied Designer Does Vibecoding: Why testing always wins

Mar 6, 2026
We quiz Matt Edmunds, long time UX and product designer, on pratical AI-assisted software development

DevOps trifecta: documentation, reliability, and feature flags

Feb 20, 2026
Melinda Fekete talks about her love of documentation in the age of LLMs, reliability challenges, and using feature flags when building a feature flag platform.

The Productivity Delusion: Gizmos, Resentment Metrics, and the Art of Deleting Code

Jan 30, 2026
Dorota Parad debugs the industry's obsession with productivity, arguing that measuring code is really factory widgets nonsense.

Project Yellow Brick Road: Creative, Practical, and Unconventional Engineering

Jan 16, 2026
Paul Conroy joins to tell us all about trolling scrapers and Running Elections with unconventional engineering solutions using Google Sheets and Cloudflare.

Special: The DORA 2025 Critical Review

Jan 2, 2026
Dorota, CEO of Authress, guides us on the adventure to roast the 2025 DORA report — Focusing what productivity really means, the impact to our organizations, and who AI is really for.

Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here!

Dec 15, 2025
Sam Goto from Chrome talks us through the treacherous adventure of getting auth into browser land

Are we building the right thing?

Dec 4, 2025
Elise Stanley Brevald walks us through what it means to focus on the user experience and how to collaborate with Engineering effectively.

Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring

Nov 20, 2025
Olga Kundzich joins to discuss why cloud-native apps decay in six months due to shifting dependencies and how OpenRewrite uses Lossless Semantic Trees to automate refactoring.

AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking

Oct 31, 2025
John Papa shares insights into the creation of VS Code, GitHub Copilot, where software testing went wrong, experiences at Disney, and what comes next for AI.

Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks

Oct 20, 2025
Lawrence Jones reveals just how incident.io is automatically diagnosing production issues, talks about everything from running customer code on virtual machines to creating one-time runbooks for any incident.

The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases

Oct 2, 2025
Adam Korga, author of the satirical guide to IT euphemisms, dissects infamous tech disasters, the fallacy of 'doing Agile,' and the crucial lessons of survivorship bias in postmortems