In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian are joined by guest Elliot Durbin, General Partner at Bold Start Ventures. They dive deep into the world of inception-stage investing, the evolution of venture capital, and shed light on the complexities of backing infrastructure companies. 00:00 Introduction 00:14 Guest Introduction 00:53 Investing Across Technological Waves 02:02 What to Look for in Founders 29:58 Premature Scaling and Failure Modes 37:54 Future of AI and Venture Capital 45:50 Closing Remarks
Future of Data in Climate and Earth Sciences In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian sat down with the cofounders of Earthmover Ryan and Joe to discuss the cloud native multi-dimensional data lake they're building for climate and geospatial data. They delve into the role of advanced data handling methods, multidimensional array data, the impact of cloud-native technologies, and how these influence various sectors ranging from insurance to environmental resilience. 00:00 Introduction 00:09 Excitement for Earthmover 00:44 Ryan's Background 03:46 Joe's Involvement 07:54 Definition and Value of Earth Science Data 10:08 Industry Applications 14:37 Challenges and Traditional Methods 19:19 Cloud-Native Solutions 27:09 Data Management in the Cloud 35:05 Spicy Future! 40:46 Contact and Conclusion
Ian and Tim this time around sat down and talk about their learnings interviewing the great guests we had on this podcast, and picked our favorite moments and learnings. And of course, our own spicy hot takes for 2025!
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim and Ian sat down with with Sagar Batchu (CEO of Speakeasy) about APIs and software development. Sagar shares his journey in creating Speakeasy, challenges in API development, market trends, and his unique perspective on the future of QA in the context of rapidly advancing AI technology. A must-listen for anyone involved in the tech and developer tools / API space! 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Guest Introduction: Sagar Batchu 00:22 Founding Speakeasy 01:36 Insights and Catalyst for Building APIs 02:02 Challenges in API Development 03:57 Who Needs to Build an API? 07:09 Speakeasy's Unique API Product 12:11 Customer Journeys and Learnings 18:00 API Design Principles and Success 28:08 Spicy Future: QA's Resurgence 36:22 AI's Impact on APIs 38:33 Closure and Contacts
Ian and Tim sat down with Jonathan Schneider, CEO of Moderne, about large-scale source code refactoring and the journey of starting a company focused on automating this complex task. Jonathan shares insights from his experience at Netflix and discusses the intricacies of automatic refactoring, the importance of maintaining code consistency, and the interplay between deterministic rules and AI tools in managing code migrations. The conversation touches on the applications and challenges of using AI in code refactoring and explores the potential for hybrid solutions in the future. 00:00 Introduction to the Infra Pod 00:19 Jonathan Schneider's Background and Journey 01:07 Challenges in Code Migrations 03:16 Moderne's Unique Approach to Code Refactoring 05:13 Technical Deep Dive: Abstract Syntax Trees and Lossless Semantic Trees 15:05 AI in Code Refactoring 25:10 Future of Code Migrations and Hybrid Approaches 32:40 Spicy Takes and Industry Predictions 39:35 Conclusion and Contact Information
You probably already notice our name has changed if you get this episode! Listen to Tim and Ian talk about how we started this podcast, why we changed our name and what we're planning for the podcast as well. Follow and share us in all the social channels -> http://www.infrapod.io X: @theinfrapod Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-infra-pod/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfraPod
Ian and Tim sat down with Guy Podjarny (CEO of Tessl, ex-CEO of Snyk) to talk about his new journey to build Tessl, that's aiming to build a fundamental change in AI-native software development. We sat down to talk about Guy's views on what's happening in AI powered developer tools, why he's taking a bold bet and how it can change this whole industry.
Ian and Tim sat down with Mukund (Senior Director of Product Security at Chime) to talk about his history to building security teams and projects, and how he views the industry when it comes to building a product security culture, evaluating buy vs build, and how AI is already changing the security practice.
Ian and Tim sat down with Ted Nyman (ex-CTO of Github, CEO of Cased) to chat about how it feels like to be part of the early days of Github, how did it made its way from a little known project to what it became today. We also discussed about Ted's new startup Cased and how it's transforming Devops as well.
Ian and Tim saw down with Akshay Shah (CTO of Buf) to talk about how his experience at Uber where the company decided to go 'schema-first' to address the challenges of a microservices architecture and loosely structured data. Akshay also shares his 'spicy hot take' on the limitations of the big data and data science hype, and the need for more converged, end-to-end data platforms.
Ian and Tim sat down with Dane (SVP of Emerging Tech and Incubation at Cloudflare) to chat about Cloudflare's journey of incubating emerging infra areas like security and AI, and how it becomes products Cloudflare customers can use at scale.
Ian and Tim sat down with David (founder of Arcjet and Console.dev), where David is building a new company that's bringing security to the frontend stack, so developers can provide security from day one and at the edge. Come listen to how this trend is starting and what is David believing that would happen for security in the future!
Ian and Tim sat down with the cofounders of CedarDB (https://cedardb.com/) that's building a all-in-one database that merges both OLAP and OLTP into one. Listen to our chat to hear how they got started from the academics and now jumping into making this database to take on all workloads.
Ian and Tim sat down with Ron (CEO of Flox, Nix foundation chair) to talk about the origins of Nix (functional package manager for Unix-like systems) and the adoption story so far, what are Flox doing to bring adoption to the masses.
Ian and Tim sat down with Michele (CEO of EvolutionQ, founder of Institute for Quantum Computing) that has been building quantum safe security products for enterprises to adopt, to talk about where Quantum Computing is today and how close we are to see the tipping point where majority enterprises will care and adopt solutions.
Ian and Tim sat down with Darren who is the cofounder of Acorn Labs that's building open source infrastructure to build AI applications. We chatted about their first project which is GPTScript, allows developers to use english language mixed with programming languages and templates to generate apps in a more structured way. Join us to listen about how the team brought their experience from working on Kubernetes during the Rancher days, and what their outlook and spicy take about the future of developers powered with AIs!
Ian and Tim sat down with Damon Fletcher (CEO of Millwork Analytics), after running as a CFO at DataRobot and Tableau for many years, decided to start a startup as he sees how infrastructure cost is no longer a feature but a product that he sees organizations need to run their business successfully in the future.
Ian and Tim sat down with Ovais Tariq from Tigris Data, that's building a new S3 that's globally distributed by default, etc. Listen in if you are intrigued about why we need a new S3, and what would the world look like if we see everything built on object storage!
Ian and Tim sat down with Chang She from LanceDB to talk about what's happening on the vector db world, and how Lance started from a file format into a tensor data lake.
Ian and Tim sat down with Chris Riccomini (ex-Distinguished eng at Wepay, co-creator of Apache Samza) to talk about the spicy takes he has been sharing on his blog Materialized View and even further takes in the future of what the data system world will look like!