Software at Scale
Utsav Shah
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Discussions on running software systems, teams, and products.
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May 16, 2023
Software at Scale 57 - Scalable Frontends with Robert Cooke
Listen now (56 min) | React is not enough
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Apr 17, 2023
Software at Scale 56 - SaaS cost with Roi Rav-Hon
Listen now (28 min) | Disclaimer: you might hear how tired I am of Datadog bills throughout this episode.
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Mar 15, 2023
Software at Scale 55 - Troubleshooting and Operating K8s with Ben Ofiri
Listen now (44 min) | Everything you wanted to know about running Kubernetes, and more.
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Feb 1, 2023
Software at Scale 54 - Community Trust with Vikas Agarwal
Listen now (41 min) | Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, AI and ML - this episode really has it all
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Dec 28, 2022
Software at Scale 53 - Testing Culture with Mike Bland
Listen now (67 min) | Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Mike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer productivity/platform engineering. We talk about the
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Nov 17, 2022
Software at Scale 52 - Building Build Systems with Benjy Weinberger
Listen now (63 min) | Benjy Weinberger is the co-founder of Toolchain, a build tool platform. He is one of the creators of the original Pants, an in-house Twitter build system focused on Scala, and was the VP of Infrastructure at Foursquare. Toolchain now focuses on Pants 2
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Oct 13, 2022
Software at Scale 51 - Usage based Pricing with Puneet Gupta
Listen now (65 min) | Puneet Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Amberflo, a cloud metering and usage based pricing platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we discuss Puneet’s fascinating background early at AWS as a GM and his early experience at Oracle Cloud. We initially discuss why AWS shipped S3 as its first product before any other services. After, we go over the cultural differences between AWS and Oracle, and how usage based pricing and sales tied into the organization’s culture and efficiency.
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Sep 8, 2022
Software at Scale 50 - Redefining Labor with Akshay Buddiga
Listen now (76 min) | Akshay Buddiga is the co-founder and CTO of Traba, a labor management platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Sorry for the long hiatus in episodes! Today’s episode covers a myriad of interesting topics - from being the star of one of the
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Jun 23, 2022
Software at Scale 49 - State Management with James Cowling
Listen now (53 min) | James Cowling is the co-founder of Convex, a state management platform for web developers. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the state of web development in the industry today, and the various different approaches to make it easier.
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Jun 9, 2022
Software at Scale 48 - API Gateway Management with Josh Twist
Listen now | Josh Twist is the co-founder and CEO of Zuplo, a programmable, developer friendly API Gateway Management Platform. We discuss a new category of developer tools startups - API Gateway Management Platforms. We go over what an API Gateway is, why do companies use gateways, common pain-points in gateway management, building reliable systems that serve billions of requests at scale. But most importantly, we dive into the story of Josh’s UK Developer of the Year 2009 award.
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May 26, 2022
Software at Scale 47 - OpenTelemetry with Ted Young
Listen now (94 min) | Ted Young is the Director of Developer Education at Lightstep and a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode dives deep into the history of OpenTelemetry, why we need a new telemetry standard, all the work that goes into building generic telemetry processing infrastructure, and the vision for unified logging, metrics and traces.
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May 10, 2022
Software at Scale 46 - Authorization with Or Weis
Listen now (49 min) | RBAC, ABAC, GBAC, OPAL, and even more acronyms in this deep-dive of permission management
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Apr 20, 2022
Software at Scale 45 - Q/A with Jon Skeet
Listen now (50 min) | Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET. He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth. Additionally he is the primary maintainer of the
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Mar 22, 2022
Software at Scale 44 - Building GraphQL with Lee Byron
Listen now (65 min) | Lee Byron is the co-creator of GraphQL, a senior engineering manager at Robinhood, and the executive director of the GraphQL foundation. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts We discuss the GraphQL origin story, early technical decisions at Facebook, the experience of deploying GraphQL today, and the future of the project.
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Mar 1, 2022
Software at Scale 43 - Growth at Loom with Harshyt Goel
Listen now (44 min) | Harshyt Goel is a founding engineer and engineering manager of Platform and Integrations at Loom, a video-messaging tool for workplaces. He’s also an angel investor, so if you’re looking for startup advice, investments, hiring advice, or a software engineering job, please reach out to him on
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Feb 10, 2022
Software at Scale 42 - Daniel Stenberg, founder of curl
Listen now (47 min) | Daniel Stenberg is the founder and lead developer of curl and libcurl. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts This episode, along with others like this one, reminds me of this XKCD: We dive into all the complexity of transferring data across the internet.
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Jan 25, 2022
Software at Scale 41 - Minimal Entrepreneurship with Sahil Lavingia
Listen now (59 min) | Is company building worth it for highly paid software engineers?
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Jan 7, 2022
Software at Scale 40 - Talent Management with Nikita Gupta
Listen now (36 min) | Nikita Gupta is a Co-Founder & CTO at Symba, a platform that helps manage talent development programs like internships. Internships are one of the most effective ways for hiring at a software company, but there’s a lot of work that goes into managing successful interns. With hiring getting harder across the industry due to increased competition and funding, I thought it would be interesting to dive into understanding how to manage successful internship programs.
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