Avi Freedman, CEO of Kentik, discusses AI-driven observability, natural language processing for data exploration, AI's role in anomaly detection, and the need for a semantic model for comprehensive observability. They also talk about AI's impact on jobs, managing cloud diversity, on-premises vs. cloud cost analysis, and the challenges of migrating to the cloud.

Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS, discusses how the framework uses a real DOM approach for efficient rendering. The podcast explores SolidJS's evolution, comparison with React, handling asynchronous code, speed optimizations, the ecosystem, and future developments, empowering developers in open source, and the evolving relationship between companies and open source software.

Sammy Steele, Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, shares insights on scaling databases, including challenges faced in infrastructure growth, horizontally sharding databases to minimize developer impact, navigating scalability challenges, implementing transactions in a sharded system, and managing large tables to avoid database failures.

Senior Staff Software Engineer Ian Williams from Cruise, Google, Lyft, and eBay discusses the challenges in building self-driving cars, including integrating sensors, ML models, and engineering systems. Topics cover ML perception tasks, safety in ML systems, perception systems in autonomous vehicles, and real-time model challenges in deploying self-driving cars.

Ben Huber, a security engineer, discusses penetration testing, attack vectors, security tools, and integration of security in development. Gregor Vand, a security-focused technologist, explores secure authentication, user engagement strategies, and understanding attack surfaces in cybersecurity.

George Mathew, Managing Director at Insight Partners, shares insights on his data-first investment thesis, the AI business landscape, and his book recommendations. Jocelyn Houle, Senior Director of Product Management, discusses enterprise AI applications, human feedback loops, and the evolution of product design in software development.

Alex Bouchard, co-founder of Hookdeck, discusses event-driven architecture, building event bridges, and expanding Hookdeck's capabilities. The podcast explores challenges in API consumption, managing asynchronous workflows, simplifying event-driven architectures, ensuring data integrity, and verifying event authenticity.

Justin Richer, OAuth expert at Authlete, discusses OAuth's history, delegation protocol, and Authlete API. Topics include OAuth's relationship with OpenID Connect, advantages of scoped access, and implementing OAuth in financial services. The episode explores the innovative approach of off-lead services, explains OAuth through an airline analogy, and emphasizes the importance of standards in product development.

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, Jay Phelps, talks about his career and work at Netflix. They discuss seamless user experiences, tech migration challenges, GraphQL versatility, and balancing new tech adoption. The conversation also touches on personal piano playing anecdotes and Star Wars theories.

Dan Myers from Snowflake and Sean discuss the future of application development on Snowflake, the evolution of the platform to support data-intensive apps, unlocking data value with native apps, exploring the architecture and deployment processes, and the engaging Snowflake community.