Mark Huang, Co-founder of Gradient, discusses the exciting world of autonomous AI agents and extending context windows for AI models. They explore the impact of longer context windows on use cases and share insights on advancements in AI technology.

Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a vector database will play in the future of AI applications, and how Weaviate works under the hood.We also get into why a specialized vector database is needed versus using vectors as a feature within conventional databases. Bob van Luijt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/Sean on X: https://x.com/seanfalconerSoftware Huddle ⤵︎X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddleSubstack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

Today, we have Talia Nassi on the show. Talia’s been leading Developer Advocacy at Akamai.Akamai is in a really interesting space where they've been around for a long time, as a CDN provider, as a security provider, and now they acquired Linode, and acquired a bunch of other companies which has expanded them into more of like a full fledged cloud provider.We had a really interesting discussion talking about the expansion, we also talked about her thoughts on infrastructure as code, multi cloud, and just getting into DevRel and what that experience has been like for her.

Today we have Brian Rinaldi from LaunchDarkly on the show. This is the final episode of our in person coverage at the SHIFT Conference in Miami. And although Brian works at LaunchDarkly, we actually didn't talk at all about his employer and instead chatted about Jamstack. Brian has a long history with Jamstack, has written a lot about it.Jamstack was popularized and created by Netlify. And there's been a lot of history of controversy with the term. Some people think of it's merely a branding ploy or a marketing thing, and others find it simply confusing because we have terms like LAMP stack, MEAN stack and MERN stack.So Jamstack automatically gets lumped in with those, but it's not actually a technology stack. It's an architectural pattern. Recently, Jamstack has been giving away to what is known as composable frontends and we picked Brian's brain on this and what this means not only for Jamstack, but also the future web development.

Today we have Emanuel Lacić on the  show. He was in academia for a while. Now he’s been working at Infobip for the last couple of years, building some of this AI stuff and putting it into production. We picked his brain about the best practices when it comes to AI and what we can expect to see over the next couple of years.

Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we caught up with her there. Nylas is a unified API for email, calendar, and contacts. We talked to Christine about why she started Nylas, and the challenges with building an API for email.Email is this massive distributed system with a very diverse set of implementations, it's a super gnarly ecosystem going back decades. It's generally not something you want to spend a lot of time on if you don't have to. Christine was a lot of fun to have on the show.Follow Christine: https://twitter.com/spangFollow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconerFollow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrieNylas: https://www.nylas.com/Software Huddle ⤵︎X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddleSubstack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com

Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip. Ivan has tons of experience building developer tools, he has been working on dev environments for over a decade.In this interview, we talk about another company he founded called CodeAnywhere that eventually led to the founding of Daytona. Daytona is a dev environment management platform. It sits between your IDE and the cloud, taking care of standardizing your dev environments, regardless of whether you're building on your desktop or deploying to production.They're taking the best of what leading technology companies like Google, Uber, and Meta have built internally and bringing that to the rest of the world.Software Huddle ⤵︎X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddleSubstack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both worlds, combining the capabilities of your data warehouse with the immediacy of streaming. This fusion allows businesses to operate with data in real-time.We discussed the data infrastructure stuff of it, how they built it, how they think about billing, how they think about cloud primitives and what they wish they had.

Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache.  He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and now he's doing Memento. We talk about a lot of different things, including multi-tenancy and cellular architecture and what it's like to build on AWS and sell infrastructure products to end customers and just a lot of other really good stuff.We hope you enjoy this episode.01:12 Introduction03:38 multi-tenancy 08:13 S3 and Tigris15:09 Aurora19:11 Momento31:21 Cellular Architecture41:16 Most people are doing cross-AZ wrong52:23 Elasticsearch01:03:08 Rapid Fire

In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in Action book, which is probably the best Rust book out there. He has a YouTube channel, he taught and did a lot of educational work on Rust at Amazon AWS.We talked about object ownership and object lifetimes and just all these interesting things that Rust has and why is this language loved by so many and why it's continuing to grow.He also gets into what it's like being an independent educator, creator, and some of the difficulties with that, how to get started, and how he deals with doubt.