Welcome to OAT! Join us to discuss ideas and tools that make our software and development processes faster, more efficient, and healthy! We talk about performance improvements and valuable optimizations to software development processes like testing, debugging, running in production, open-sourcing or collaborating. Learn from experts how they improved their products, engineering processes or life habits and apply those in your work! Hosted in the UK by two software engineers: Ivan Valkov, th ...
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Tom Wilkie’s Path to CTO at Grafana Labs: Startups, Pivots, and Perseverance
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Tom Wilkie, the CTO of Grafana Labs, talks to us about his professional journey. We cover how he got into software engineering, his first startup, working as an EM at Google, and what motivated him to go back to an IC role. We talk about his time at Grafana from when they were only 25 people to now when Grafana Labs has more than a thousand employe…
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Databases, Drive, and Diversity - Lessons from Xata's CEO Monica Sarbu
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Monica Sarbu, the CEO and founder of Xata.io, talks to us about her inspiring journey from getting into tech to building Xata - the serverless database platform for modern apps. We chat about the founding of her first company, Packetbeat, its acquisition by Elastic, and her time as a director there. We talk about mentoring, diversity, and hiring en…
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Building a Global Scale Authorization Startup: The Story of AuthZed's Co-Founder Jimmy Zelinskie
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In this episode, we talk with Jimmy Zelinskie, co-founder and CPO of AuthZed, about his journey in building a global scale OSS authorization startup. Jimmy shares insights into the creation and evolution of SpiceDB, an open-source database optimized for authorization decisions. We chat about Jimmy’s story of transitioning from an engineer to a prod…
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The Open Source Data Movement Unicorn: Michel Tricot's Airbyte Story
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In this episode, we talk with Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, about his journey in building a successful open-source data movement platform, the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and insights into startup culture and balancing work with family life. Michel shares his experiences from being a software engineer to leading a…
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Profiling, AI, and Creating a Startup Culture: Insights from PolarSignals' Founder Frederic Branczyk
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In this episode, we sit down with Frederic Branczyk, founder of PolarSignals, to explore the intersection of advanced profiling techniques, AI-driven optimizations, and the nuances of building a successful startup culture. Frederic shares his journey from a technical contributor to a startup leader, offering insights into both the technological and…
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Optimizing SW Adoption & Maintenance: API Compatibility Guarantees with Björn Rabenstein
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Today we have a very special guest, Björn Rabenstein, ultra experienced engineer, long time Prometheus maintainer. In this episode we touch on the topic of versioning and backward or forward compatibility of software APIs and interfaces. Learn how to make your code nice for others or use versioned components effectively for yourself. We discuss sem…
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Optimizing Productivity with Mindfulness, Self-Compassion & Motivation
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In this episode we discuss an important topic of productivity in our live and work. We explore often forgotten topic of motivation for our work, self-compassion, energy balance to tackle tedious tasks and healthy habits for software development, meetings and more! We also touch on the topic of social media use. References: Amazon Prime moving out o…
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Optimizing Freedom as a Digital Nomad with Becky Pauley
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Working from a tent, prioritizing your electricity between your monitor or cooking dinner, canal boat life, and more. These are some of the things we talked about with Becky Pauley at KubeCon Europe 2023. This episode covers all the great things about the digital nomad lifestyle, but also dives into some of the challenges. Join us for the interesti…
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Optimizing Cloud Native by Interviewing KubeCon EU Attendees: Efficiency, AI adoption, WASM, eBPF
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In this episode we do a little retrospective on the last week KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam. We also share and discuss amazing answers from a few quick interviews Bartek performed with epic KubeCon attendees. You won't believe what we learned! Big THANKS to all interviewees for amazing answers: Christina, Harsh, Michael, Jimmy and Raphaël! Reference…
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Optimizing SRE Productivity with AI feat. Alex Jones, founder of k8sgpt
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AI is already changing how different industries operate with tools like ChatGPT and Github Copilot. Today we talk about a new tool, k8sgpt, that gives you SRE superpowers using AI. We are joined by its creator, Alex Jones - Director of Kubernetes Engineering at Canonical. We talk about how tools that utilize AI are built, how they change our day to…
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Optimizing DevOps and Organizational Structure: Solving The Phoenix Project
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In this episode Ivan asks Bartek to solve the problems presented in the book "The Phoenix Project". We talk about DevOps, organizational structures, the mythical 10x engineer, the value of mentors, and why Kubernetes does not just magically solve all of the above. No prior reading of "The Phoenix Project" required - we also try to keep spoilers to …
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Optimizing Prometheus Efficiency with Bryan Boreham
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Have you ever wondered how people find performance bottlenecks and improve them in complex systems? What tools and techniques work in real life applications? When should you stop optimizing? Well, this is the episode for you. Our first ever guest, Bryan Boreham from Grafana Labs, sits down with us and walks us over his experience of optimizing the …
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Optimizing Cognitive Load with Middlewares and Tripperwares
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episode{pod="oat"} 0 # Welcome to our first, number 0 (ofc, arrays always start from zero), episode! The first episode is about something very hands-down and actionable in the software--the middleware coding pattern! What is it? Is it under-hyped? What are the alternatives? Before the main topic, Ivan & Bartek discuss (20m) some exciting tech news …
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