The Infra Pod

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.

Chris Riccomini, ex-Distinguished engineer at Wepay and co-creator of Apache Samza, discusses the evolution of data systems, the rise of Arrow, and the future trends in database systems. Topics include domain-specific databases, object storage for edge systems, developer ergonomics, and the shift towards specialized Postgres-compatible databases.

Alvaro, CEO of Orb, discusses the evolution of billing as an infrastructure problem, from traditional seat-based to usage-based models. They explore how modern pricing trends are impacting sales strategies and the importance of aligning billing infrastructure with growth goals. The podcast also delves into the challenges of transitioning to dynamic billing systems to support evolving pricing models.

Tim and Ian reflect on 2023 infrastructure trends, focusing on cost optimization and shifting to unit economics. They delve into unpredictable success in serverless tech, evolution of React components, WebAssembly potential, and integration of AI in infrastructure products.

Andy Grove discusses his mission to build the Big Data ecosystem in Rust and the challenges he faced. He talks about using Rust for big data and building a Rust implementation of Apache Arrow. The podcast also explores optimizing Spark's performance and the future of composable data systems. It highlights exciting developments in Data Fusion and the need for better benchmark results.

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 and listen with us how the journey started, and what's Erik hot spicy future take on the serverless infra.

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 a programming framework that searches and optimizes the best prompts for the task. Come listen about the thought process around DSPy and how it can fundamentally changes how we interact with LLMs and AI models as a whole!

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 is designed from ground up to work on top of Cloud storage like S3, and also what the future implications mean.

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, that allows LLMs to call APIs automatically. We dive into how Gorilla works and what is the future implications it brings to the infra / developer space.

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 problems becomes infrastructure problems. How does the industry potentially change if we think about security problems from the infra angle? What's the hurdle and benefits? Listen in to learn more!