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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 Scaling 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 Jun 15, 2026 •15:57

Developer Chats – Pavel Shchekotov

Engineering Leadership Scaling Systems

Today, we are continuing our series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talking with Pavel Shchekotov, Founding Engineer …

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Chapter № 019 May 19, 2026 •38:06

S12 E19: The Real Estate Draw Nightmare: Automating Underwriting and Risk Mitigation Across $3T in Real Estate Finance Data with Thomas Schlegel, Principal Software Engineer at Built

Engineering Leadership Data Engineering Scaling Systems

Thomas Schlegel lives in Nashville, TN, but grew up in rural Virginia. He didn't have the internet for a large portion of his childhood - but, his friends …

Chapter Mar 04, 2026 •27:33

Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota

Engineering Leadership Software Architecture Scaling Systems

Today, we are continuing our series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talking with Oleksandr Piekhota, Principal Software …

Chapter Dec 08, 2025 •31:28

Developer Chats - Svyatoslav Babinets of Meta

Engineering Leadership Scaling Systems

Today, we are kicking off a new series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talking with Svyatoslav Babinets, …

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Chapter № 024 Nov 04, 2025 •30:50

S11 E24: The Agent Swarm Architecture: Moving Beyond Single-Prompt Bots to Orchestrate 5,000 Parallel AI Agents Safely in Production with Mrinal Wadhwa, Founder & CTO of Autonomy

Startup Founder AI & Machine Learning Scaling Systems

Mrinal Wadhwa grew up in India with a Dad in the Armed Forces, so he moved around a lot. His mother was a teacher for 40+ years, and …

Chapter Sep 11, 2025 •31:09

S11 Bonus: The Cloud Tax & The 10,000 JVM Milestone: Why Performance Optimization is the Only Way to Scale Enterprise AI Without Blowing Your Budget with Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul

Startup Founder API Design Scaling Systems

Simon Ritter has been in the IT industry for 40 years. He went from university to work on Unix in the early days, employed by AT&T and programming …

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Chapter № 008 Jul 15, 2025 •34:09

S11 E8: The $10B L2 Juggernaut: Re-Architecting Coinbase Wallet, Embracing Token Decentralization, and Scaling Ethereum for One Billion Users with Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base & Head of Protocols at Coinbase

Startup Founder Infrastructure Scaling Systems

Jesse Pollak grew up in Washington, DC, attending a Quaker school through graduating in high school. He played competitive soccer, which was a huge part of his life. …

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Chapter № 001 May 27, 2025 •21:20

S11 E1: The 7-Year Revenue Drought: Surviving Near-Zero Growth to Build a $1.5B Cloud Analytics Juggernaut with Rob Woollen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sigma Computing

Startup Founder Data Engineering Scaling Systems

Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has …

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Chapter № 013 Dec 10, 2024 •31:26

S10 E13: The Scale-to-30-Billion Era: Re-Architecting Postgres and Managing Viral Traffic Surges for the World’s Largest Gaming Community with Josh Levine, CTO of Chess.com

Engineering Leadership Scaling Systems

Josh Levine lives in Brooklyn, NY. He started programming when he was 6 years old, when his Dad brought home an Apple 2. He realized that though there …

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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

Startup Founder Infrastructure Scaling 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 Aug 27, 2024 •29:16

S9 Favorite: From Oracle & AWS Aurora to CTO of MongoDB: Scaling Document Databases with Mark Porter

Infrastructure Software Architecture Scaling Systems

Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey for him. He got his first 4k computer in middle …