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Physical AI and the Future of Robotics with Sergey Arkhangelskiy of Positronic
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Sergey Arkhangelskiy, founder of Positronic, to dig into the state of physical AI and what it will really take to bring general-purpose robotics into…
Building the Open Lakehouse for the AI Era with Shubham Baldava from DataZip / OLake
In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Shubham Baldava, co-founder of DataZip and creator of OLake, to trace the evolution of the modern open lakehouse — from the early…
From Session Replays to Autonomous Improvement: Shipping the First AI Product Engineer with Milana
In this episode, we sit down with Rohan Katyal and Raghav Sethi, co-founders of Milana, to discuss the shift from passive analytics to the world’s first AI Product Engineer. Rather than just…
From Exabyte Storage to Reactive Backends: Jamie Turner on Building Convex After Dropbox
Jamie, a seasoned startup founder and former Dropbox engineer, shares insights on building distributed systems, scaling storage solutions, and the impact of AI on infrastructure and application…
From Art to Science: Wild Moose and the Future of AI-Powered Debugging
In this episode, we sit down with the full founding team of Wild Moose — CEO Yasmin Dunsky, CTO Roei, and VP R&D Tom Tytunovich — to explore how they’re transforming production debugging from an…
From Notebooks to Production: Xorq’s lockfile Approach for Reproducible, Portable ML Pipelines
In this episode, Hussain shares the story behind xorq: a “lockfile for ML pipelines” that makes notebook work easier to reproduce, debug, and ship. We talk about why the research→production path is…
From pandas to Arrow: Wes McKinney on the Future of Data Infrastructure
SummaryIn this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Kostas and Nitay sit down with Wes McKinney the creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, and long-time leader in the Python data…
Navigating the Future of AI and Data Infrastructure with Bauplan
SummaryIn this conversation, the founders of Bauplan, Jacopo and Ciro, share their extensive backgrounds in AI and data infrastructure, discussing the evolution of NLP and the challenges faced in the…
Email as a Knowledge Graph: Micro CEO Brett on Rebuilding CRM at the Inbox
SummaryBrett — founder & CEO of Micro — joins Nitay and Kostas to share how he’s turning email into a knowledge graph and rebuilding CRM right inside the inbox. He traces a path from Google’s…
Community, Compilers & the Rust Story with Steve Klabnik
SummarySteve Klabnik has spent the last 15 years shaping how developers write code—from teaching Ruby on Rails to stewarding Rust’s explosive growth. In this wide-ranging conversation, Steve joins…
How Cloudflare Reinvents Serverless at Global Scale with Josh Howard
SummaryJosh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn how Cloudflare enables…
Business Physics: How Brand, Pricing, and Product Design Define Success with Erik Swan
SummaryIn this episode, Erik reflects on his long and storied tech career—from the days of punch cards to founding multiple startups, including a stint at Splunk. At 61, he offers a unique…
Incremental Materialization: Reinventing Database Views with Gilad Kleinman of Epsio
SummaryIn this episode, Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, shares his unique journey from PHP development to low-level kernel programming and how that evolution led him to build an innovative…
From Data Mesh to Lake House: Revolutionizing Metadata with Lakekeeper
SummaryIn this episode, Viktor Kessler shares his journey and insights from his extensive experience in data management—from building risk management systems and data warehouses to working as a…
Reinventing Stream Processing: From LinkedIn to Responsive with Apurva Mehta
SummaryIn this episode, Apurva Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Responsive, recounts his extensive journey in stream processing—from his early work at LinkedIn and Confluent to his current venture at…
Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data with David Jayatillake from Cube
In this episode, we chat with David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, about semantic layers and their crucial role in making AI work reliably with data. We explore how semantic layers act as a bridge…
From black holes to AI in mathematics: AI Innovation in Mathematics and Health with Yaron Hadad
In this episode, we chat with Yaron Hadad, a fascinating individual who transitioned from theoretical physics to entrepreneurship. We explore his groundbreaking work on black holes and gravitational…
Building a Native Search Engine in PostgreSQL: ParadeDB's Journey to Replace Elasticsearch with Philippe Noël
In this episode, we chat with Philippe Noël, founder of ParadeDB, about building an Elasticsearch alternative natively on PostgreSQL. We explore the challenges and benefits of extending PostgreSQL…
Optimizing SQL with LLMs: Building Verified AI Systems at Espresso AI with Ben Lerner
In this episode, we chat with Ben, founder of Espresso AI, about his journey from building Excel Python integrations to optimizing data warehouse compute costs. We explore his experience at companies…
Security as Code: Building Developer-First Security Tools with David Mytton
In this episode, we chat with David Mytton, founder and CEO of Arcjet and creator of console.dev. We explore his journey from building a cloud monitoring startup to founding a security-as-code…
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