The Infra Pod brings you insightful and thought-provoking discussions on the world of infrastructure software. This podcast is started by two engineers, Ian Livingstone (tech advisor for Snyk) and Tim Chen (General Partner at Essence VC), team up with a rotating cast of guests to dive deep into the latest trends and hot topics in the software infrastructure space.
45 episodes transcribedIan and Tim sat down with Dane (SVP of Emerging Tech and Incubation at Cloudflare) to chat about Cloudflare's journey of incubating emerging infra...
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 fronten...
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 in...
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)...
Ian and Tim sat down with Michele (CEO of EvolutionQ, founder of Institute for Quantum Computing) that has been building quantum safe security product...
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 chatte...
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...
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 yo...
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 i...
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 sharin...
Ian and Tim sat down with Alvaro (CEO of Orb) about how he dived into the Billing problem as a engineer, and now building a company Orb that's pow...
Tim and Ian sat down to talk about what we learned in 2023 and our reflection on Infrastructure companies and projects as a whole! Come sit down and...
Ian and Tim sat down with Andy Grove (creator Datafusion, Apache Arrow PMC chair) to talk about his original mission to build the Big Data ecosystem i...
Ian and Tim sat down with Erik (CEO of Modal Labs) that's gaining wide adoption of the serverless platform built for data teams. Come sit down a...
Ian and Tim sat down with Omar Khattab about the research project DSPy, that's changing how users interact with LLMs from creating prompts to have...
Ian and Tim invited the cofounders of Warpstream (Serverless Kafka built on S3) to talk about the tradeoffs of building a new Streaming product that i...
Ian and Tim are back to interview another YAIGer Shishir G. Patil, who is a PhD at Berkeley that worked on the popular LLM research + project Gorilla,...
Ian (Snyk) and Tim (Essence VC) sat down with Mike (CEO of Smallstep) to talk about how software security will change, as we see more security problem...
YAIG Maxis Ian Livingstone (Snyk) and Timothy Chen (Essence VC) are back this time with another maxi Guido Appenzeller (ex-VMWare & Intel Group CT...
Transactions is what makes critical applications with state works in production, and it has been decades of research and iterations of having develope...
