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Chapter № 027 Jul 14, 2026 •37:56

S12 E27: The Real-Time Scaling Tax: Why High-Volume WebSockets Kill Monolithic Performance and How AnyCable Decoupled the Real-Time Layer with Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians

Engineering Leadership Software Architecture Scaling Systems Real-Time Systems

Irina Nazarova grew up in Russia, and has lived in Portugal, Turkey, and now, San Francisco. She got a computer science degree, but felt like an imposter in …

Chapter Mar 19, 2026 •22:23

S12 Bonus: Why Paper-Heavy Back-End Portals Fail Agents and the Rise of Client-Facing, Real-Time Transaction OS with Reannah Wyatt, Founder & CEO of The Real Time

Startup Founder Product Development Real-Time Systems

Reannah Wyatt is from Bandera, TX, raised on a 4th generation cattle and horse ranch. Eventually, she went to West Texas for school, rodeoing for Howard University, specifically …

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Chapter № 028 Dec 09, 2025 •22:12

S11 E28: The Temporal Correctness Crisis: Why Static RAG Context Leads to Broken AI Agent Actions and How to Engine-Unify Real-Time Streaming Data with Hojjat Jafarpour, Founder & CEO of DeltaStream

Data Engineering Real-Time Systems AI Agents AI Integration

Hojjat Jafarpour lives with his family in California. He got his PhD in databases and data streaming, back when the landscape was different and data streaming wasn't "cool" …

Chapter May 01, 2025 •32:56

S10 Bonus: Optimizing Remote Workplace Engagement: Replacing Flat Video Grids and Enhancing Virtual Collaboration with Real-Time Spatial Audio Ecosystems with Erik Braund, Founder & CEO of Katmai Tech

Startup Founder Real-Time Systems Developer Experience

Erik Braund was born and raised in Alaska. Growing up, he played competitive hockey and built computers for his Dad's company and eventually others. He grew up with …

Chapter Dec 31, 2024 •49:02

S10 Favorite: Streaming the Paycheck: Building Real-Time Earned Wage Access with Matt Pierce of Immediate

Fintech Real-Time Systems Payments & Billing

Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started out in healthcare tech for a decade or …

Chapter Nov 14, 2024 •22:05

S10 Bonus: The Real-Time Voice and Video Boom: Eradicating GPU Cold Starts and Serverless Latency for Interactive AI with Michael Louis, Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebrium

LLM & Generative AI Real-Time Systems Cloud Architecture

Michael Louis grew up in South Africa, spending the first 25 years of his life there. From a young age, and being surrounded by an entrepreneurial family, he …

Chapter Oct 10, 2024 •22:24

S10 Bonus: The Real-Time Language Breakthrough: Eliminating Call Center Friction and Building Future-Proof LLM Infrastructure with Heiki Riesenkampf, Founder of Commonbase

LLM & Generative AI Real-Time Systems AI Integration

Heiki Riesenkampf is from a tiny country called Estonia, later studying computer science in London and doing his post grad in Zurich. He has been into machine learning …

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Chapter № 003 Sep 17, 2024 •23:34

S10 E3: The Trillion-User Scalability Crisis: Re-Architecting Bitcoin’s Layer 2 for Instant, Enterprise-Grade Global Liquidity with Kevin Hurley, Co-Founder & CTO of Lightspark

Fintech Scaling Systems Real-Time Systems

Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings …

Chapter Apr 25, 2024 •20:23

S9 Bonus: The Metadata Breakthrough: Bypassing Legacy Tree Walks and Scaling Real-Time AI Dataset Ingestion with Björn Kolbeck, Co-Founder & CEO of Quobyte

Data Engineering Scaling Systems Real-Time Systems

When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech?". He has made his hobby into his job, being exposed to …

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Chapter № 019 Apr 09, 2024 •30:03

S9 E19: The Event-Native API Revolution: Unifying Synchronous Rest and Asynchronous Kafka Pipelines with Linus Håkansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee

Software Architecture API Design Real-Time Systems

Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family …

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Chapter № 016 Mar 19, 2024 •25:11

S9 E16: Bypassing Kong and Azure APM: Implementing Global Edge Rate Limiting and Decentralized API Key Governance with James Perkins, Co-founder & CEO of Unkey

Infrastructure API Design Real-Time Systems

James Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 years. He had planned to be a special education teacher …

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Chapter № 008 Jan 23, 2024 •21:15

S9 E8: The IoT Data Backbone: Engineering Ultra-Lightweight MQTT Architectures and Scaling Critical Edge Infrastructure with Roger Light, Creator of Eclipse Mosquitto & Co-Founder of Cedalo

Infrastructure Software Architecture Real-Time Systems

Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in parallel, he …