E143: Bringing Software Engineering Best Practices to Data

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Dr. Shirley Strum: The Echoes of Our Origins 39:06

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"So I think this whole idea of cumulative culture is a way to make humans exceptional. But it's clear to me that humans are exceptional, and seeing it through baboon glasses, I can understand in a different way why they're exceptional. But many of the things that we think are uniquely human are actually present in other animals." - Dr. Shirley Strum Dr. Shirley Strum is a groundbreaking anthropologist who has spent over five decades living alongside wild baboons in Kenya. Her work has transformed our understanding of these intelligent, socially complex animals — their relationships, their adaptability, and the intricate societies they create. In her new book, Echoes of Our Origins , Shirley challenges long-held beliefs about evolution, the human-animal divide, and what it truly means to coexist. This conversation is about science — but it’s also about humility, hope, and the messy, beautiful complexity of life on Earth. Links: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53757/echoes-our-origins https://anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/shirley-strum.html…

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Tim Delisle and Nico Joseph are Co-Founders of FiveOneFour, the company attempting to bring a software developer-like experience to data and analytics stacks. Together, they're second-time founders who previously founded data integration company Datalogue, which Nike acquired in 2021.

In this episode, we break down the software engineering practices that would benefit data teams, their approach to market education (ie. things like templates to get users started), why open source is a requirement for a product like this, where we are on the journey to democratize access to data, their approach to monetization & more!

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E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI 32:44

לפני 11 ימים32:44

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Emma Burrows is Co-Founder & CTO of Portia AI , the platform to build AI agents in regulated environments. Their open source Python SDK provides a developer framework for predictable and stateful agentic workflows. Portia AI has raised around $5M from investors including General Catalyst and First Minute Capital. In this episode, we dig into: Why they built an end-to-end platform from agent planning to deployment The focus on accuracy as their true north star metric Their paid contribution program How their found their initial ICP in regulated industries Why 2026 will be the year of agents Her best fundraising advice (hint: never really stop fundraising)…

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E177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!) 43:33

לפני 5 weeks43:33

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Alan Braithwaite is Co-Founder & CTO of RunReveal , the security data platform with real-time monitoring, built-in detections, and AI-powered investigations. Today, they manage and analyze security logs for teams at Harvey, ClickHouse, Cloudflare, and Temporal. RunReveal has multiple open source projects including event stream processing library kawa and query language pql . RunReveal has raised from investors including Costanoa, Modern Technical Fund, and Runtime Ventures. In this episode, we dig into: Why today's modern security teams are rethinking data management The benefits of building RunReveal on ClickHouse How they worked with early believers / customers like Temporal Their open source strategy and building trust with the community through open sourcing components like their event processing library Their MCP server and enabling security teams to use AI to automate investigations (including the launch of their new remote MCP server )…

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E176: Why All AI Agents Will Need Cloud Sandboxes 37:19

לפני 7 weeks37:19

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Vasek Mlejnsky is Co-Founder & CEO of E2B , the open-source runtime for executing AI-generated code in secure cloud sandboxes. Essentially, they give AI agents cloud computers. Their open source repos, particularly e2b which has 9K GitHub stars, have been widely adopted to help securely run AI-generated code. E2B has raised $12M from investors including Decibel and Sunflower. In this episode, we dig into: Why agents need a sandbox Building a new category of infra tooling, much like LaunchDarkly Some of their viral content moments - including Greg Brockman sharing their videos Figuring out the right commercial offering Why they don't agree with pricing per token Why moving from Prague to the Bay Area felt essential for them as founders…

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E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store 39:42

לפני 12 weeks39:42

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Roman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly , the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale benefits. Their open source dragonflydb has 28K stars on GitHub. Dragonfly has raised $21M from investors including Quiet Capital and Redpoint. In this episode, we dig into: The challenges with Redis The users that have really benefitted from Dragonfly (high scale + real-time needs - gaming, B2C) The benefits of being multi-threaded How they got some of their bigger users / customers like Twilio, SoFi, and Spotify…

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E174: The SDF / DBT Acquisition (1 + 1 = 3) 39:43

לפני 14 weeks39:43

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Lukas Schulte is Co-Founder & CEO of SDF Labs , the developer platform that scales SQL understanding across organizations, which was recently acquired by data transformation unicorn dbt Labs . In this episode, he's joined by Anders Swanson , Senior Developer Experience Advocate at dbt, to discuss the acquisition and future of data engineering. In this episode, we dig into: How the acquisition happened, as well as the M&A process How dbt thinks about building capabilities internally vs. making acquisitions How the SDF platform will improve the lives of dbt users The most challenging parts about the integration What the future developer experience for data teams will be like A glimpse into the future of data engineering…

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E173: Feature Flagging with OpenFeature 35:03

לפני 17 weeks35:03

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Andrew Norris is Co-Founder & CEO of DevCycle , the leading feature flagging platform based on the OpenFeature project. OpenFeature provides a standard for feature flagging unifying tools behind a common interface and avoiding vendor lock-in at the code level. DevCycle is a product created by Taplytics , the platform for marketing and product teams to A/B test. In 2023, they raised $5M to scale DevCycle. In this episode, we dig into: The creation of DevCycle through insights at Taplytics Learning to sell to engineers (DevCycle) vs. marketing teams (Taplytics) The decision to keep Talytics going vs. focus solely on DevCycle Why engineers prefer open standards like OpenFeature How their GTM works alongside OpenFeature…

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E172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster 35:22

לפני 18 weeks35:22

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Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear , the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote environment. Their project, mirrord , has 4K stars on GitHub and is loved by users at companies like SentinelOne, Flexport, and Run.ai . In this episode, we dig into: How traditional staging environments create friction for cloud developers Their unique approach that allows for concurrency - and educating the market on it How open source helped build trust with big, enterprise customers early The story behind their first big customer win Focusing on a killer, fast time to value implementation Introducing monetization early, and how their products align with open source mirrord…

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E171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects 40:08

לפני 19 weeks40:08

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Manik Surtani is Head of Open Source and Bradley Axen is Principal Engineer at Block. Manik was key to launching Block's Open Source Programs Office and Bradley is a major open source contributor - including the project Goose which is Block's extensible AI agent project. It currently has over 11K stars on GitHub and has been used for a number of internal use cases at Block as well as by the general AI builder ecosystem. In this episode, we dig into: Block's history releasing and supporting open source projects, and how that led to the creation of the programs office How big companies like Block approach open source and come up with ideas for projects like Goose The Goose project and how it's different from other agent frameworks…

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E170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex 39:19

לפני 20 weeks39:19

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Nikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex , the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars on GitHub and is a library to build full-stack web apps. Reflex has raised $5M from investors including Lux Capital. In this episode, we dig into: The power of deploying apps using only Python Balancing abstraction and code level access for users The challenges low code frameworks have had becoming production-grade The apps users are building with Reflex How he thought about Reflex Cloud Their vision to be as big as React…

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E169: Building New Standards for Observability - Lightstep & OpenTelemetry 38:31

לפני 21 weeks38:31

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Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder & CEO of observability platform Lightstep as well as Co-Creator of open source observability frameworks OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry . Lightstep was acquired by ServiceNow in 2021 and OpenTelemetry was released in 2019 and has since become the standard observability framework. In this episode, we dig into: The founding story for Lightstep - including the initial pivot into the idea The benefits Lightstep got from open sourcing OpenTracing The OpenTracing and OpenCensus merger into OpenTelemetry Why OpenTelemetry has been so widely adopted Ben's perspective on the many companies building with OpenTelemetry today How their team made the decision to take the ServiceNow acquisition Company building learnings around team building (& more!)…

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E168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB 39:36

לפני 23 weeks39:36

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Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealDB , the next generation serverless cloud database for modern applications. Their open source database, also called surrealdb , has 30K stars on GitHub. SurrealDB has raised $26M from investors including FirstMark and Georgian. In this episode, we dig into: Taking a broad vs. niche approach to building a new database How coming from a non-traditional DB background helped Tobie take a new, first principles approach How graph databases best reflect how humans think The importance of design for infra products How enterprises vs. SMBs / individual users view their value How open source helped them develop trust with large companies Planning out their cloud offering…

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E167: Taking on Network Security with a Zero Trust Approach with NetBird 34:50

לפני 24 weeks34:50

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Misha Bragin is the Founder & CEO of NetBird , the open source zero trust networking platform that allows companies and individuals to create secure private networks without the hassle of corporate networks. Their open source, also called netbird , has over 12K stars on GitHub and connects devices into a secure WireGuard-based overlay network. NetBird has raised $4M from investors including InReach Ventures. In this episode, we discuss: Pivoting away from their initial hardware-based approach How the growth in remote employees has driven demand Why VPNs needed to be reinvented Why they use the WireGuard protocol What's different about their approach vs. Tailscale Managing big and small users at the same time Why most technical founders should hire a technical marketer early…

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E166: Making Open Source Reliable & Secure with Fossa 40:06

לפני 25 weeks40:06

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Kevin Wang is Founder & CEO of Fossa , the product security platform that automates compliance & security across open source third party code, suppliers, and tools. In this episode, we discuss: Where Kevin's interest in open source started Learning to work with big enterprises The shift from scanning to fixing Repositioning from an engineering to security platform Resisting the market pressure to push hard into AI…

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E165: Can DevTools Get to $1B ARR? 42:52

לפני 26 weeks42:52

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Max Stoiber is Co-Founder & CEO of Stellate , the GraphQL edge platform recently acquired by Shopify. In this episode, we discuss: The Stellate journey from idea to initial traction to acquisition The market size (and limitations) for GraphQL, APIs, and DevTools How he ran a top-notch acquisition process for Stellate Why startups fail…

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E164: Taking on Auth0 with Open Source Zitadel 34:02

לפני 27 weeks34:02

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Florian Forster is Co-Founder & CEO of Zitadel , the cloud security platform aiming to build the future of identity and access management. Their open source project, also called zitadel , provides identity infrastructure and has 10K stars on GitHub. In this episode, we dig into: The benefits of having an open source auth vendor Authentication vs. authorization Building the "GitLab for identity" Why customization matters for an auth product Demand for self-hosting options for auth Appealing to developers and security teams…

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