Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele
Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it
Weaving Generative AI into DevSecOps
Software development has historically been a time-intensive and often tedious process that requires tooling and configuration. Generative AI is changing that process, and offers software engineers the ability to dramatically streamline the application development process, improve code quality, and deliver more functionality. To reap such benefits, they need to put the
Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with Ian Williams
Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software
Security Engineering with Ben Huber
Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much
Startup Investing with George Mathew
George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being
Podcast Episodes
Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele
Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently...
Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with Ian Williams
Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software...
Security Engineering with Ben Huber
Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much...
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a16z Podcasting with Sonal Chokshi
The a16z Podcast is a show that is produced by Andreessen Horowitz, an investment fund based in Silicon Valley. The a16z Podcast covers topics including software engineering, biology, media, cryptocurrencies and entrepreneurship. A16z is one of the most popular...
