Software Huddle

Tejas Kumar, part of the Developer Relations team at Datastax and author of "Fluent React," dives into AI engineering and its intersection with web development. He addresses common misconceptions about AI education and shares insights on integrating AI with frontend tech. Tejas discusses the evolution of web frameworks, highlighting the advantages of React and newer systems. He also reflects on the importance of content creation and storytelling in tech, emphasizing how developer relations can evolve in the landscape of modern conferences.

Today on the show, we have Peter Hanssens, the CEO and founder of Cloud Shuttle and creator of the DataEngBytes Conference.Peter has helped build an incredible data engineering community in Australia. He runs meetups, user groups, luncheons, and entire conferences. And he's also super knowledgeable. He's been working in the data space for a long time. We picked his brain about the history of data tooling, trends he's seeing in the industry and the relationship between data engineers and other types of engineering. Even if you aren't in the data world, we think you will enjoy the conversation.

Today we have a special guest. We have Jeremy Daly, who’s been in the cloud space for a while.Jeremy is the co-founder of Ampt, which is building an abstraction infrastructure layer on top of AWS, just to make it simpler to sift through all the different options and develop on AWS and do best practices there. So we wanted to get his opinions on a lot of different infrastructure stuff that he's seeing and how AI is changing development.We even talk about some front end stuff at the end and HTMX and whether it's real, whether it's a troll. So lots of good stuff in this episode. Timestamps01:56 Start04:28 Jeremy's Background07:26 Hard things about building ampt11:59 Infrastructure from Code17:07 App Runner20:10 Comparing ampt and PaaS27:22 Managing a lot of AWS accounts30:46 Better than AWS35:27 Thoughts on AWS deprecating services47:11 Using AI57:20 ChatGPT Adoption - Non Programmers01:06:19 AI affecting the job market01:18:37 HTMXSoftware Huddle ⤵︎X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddleSubstack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

Stephen Chin, VP of developer relations at Neo4j and Java expert, dives into the revolutionary GraphRAG architecture. He discusses how knowledge graphs can enhance generative AI performance, tackling issues like hallucinations and explainability. Stephen highlights the crucial role of these graphs in elevating customer support accuracy and efficiency. He also touches on the challenges enterprises face in deploying language models and the shift toward smarter technology investments, emphasizing mentorship and community collaboration in tech.

Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis.Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite.In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including:- Why (and when!) to use SQLite- What courses he's looking at next- How to stay sharp when doing educational content- His origin story as a programmer- Getting kids to be high agency- How PHP became classy.Linkshttps://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlitehttps://highperformancesqlite.com/TimestampsIntro 01:41Why SQLite 03:31When to use SQLite 09:14SQLite Creators 14:20Holy smokes 17:29jsonb Indexing? 22:07SQLite Course 23:54Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17Postgres Course Timing 30:26Nights and Weekends 30:46Getting into Databases 35:38Going back to Programming 39:22In 20 years 40:48Kids 42:08Making money is a skill? 47:52Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43Sustainable Business 54:23Doing SaaS 56:13Working for someone else 57:38Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34PHP 01:05:56Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31Vue 01:18:39Warp-up 01:20:41

Dax Raad, a witty tech Twitter personality known for his sharp insights, joins the conversation to discuss SST, the infrastructure as code tool he's passionate about. He shares exciting details about their new engine, Ion, and its user benefits. The duo dives into cloud provider trustworthiness, the evolution of infrastructure management, and the marketing strategies that resonate with developers. Dax also compares code-based workflows to UI tools, emphasizing coding's efficiency in handling complexity.

Manny Silva, Head of Docs at Skyflow and creator of open-source documentation verification projects, shares insights on his innovative tools, Docs as Tests and Doc Detective. He discusses how these frameworks automate documentation testing, ensuring alignment with evolving products. Topics include the challenges of maintaining documentation freshness in fast-paced environments and the importance of collaboration between technical writers and engineering teams. Manny's approach provides a systematic method to improve documentation processes, reflecting the growing need for quality in tech.

Bill Tarr, AWS SaaS Factory expert, discusses SaaS architecture challenges, infrastructure decisions, Gen AI integration, permissioning, and security in multi-tenant setup. Insights on Amazon Bedrock, control plane vs. application plane, and quickfire questions on SaaS.

In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with basically no changes to your build step. Depot is growing like crazy and just surpassed *one million* builds per month. We looked at how he found the idea for Depot and some of the technology underlying the service.Kyle also shares a ton of wisdom about building a company and specifically a developer tools company. This includes his experience in YC (including how hard he worked on his YC application) and the importance of having "model companies" that are a few steps ahead of you in the process. We talk about how the funding market has change and how he thinks about hiring, fundraising, and profitability.His advice on company building and the focus on what's important is super helpful to those in a similar position.

Author Andrew Atkinson shares insights on optimizing Postgres for Rails, including schema tightness, operation handling, and performance testing. The podcast covers Andrew's journey of writing a book, indexing pitfalls, database best practices, and advanced Postgres features. Discussions range from balancing book writing with work, investing in private companies, to potential NBA trade decisions.