Big Ideas in App Architecture
by Cockroach Labs
Latest episode
Sovereignty, Scale, and the Infrastructure Behind the Bet
Sovereignty, Scale, and the Infrastructure Behind the Bet
About this podcast
Cockroach Lab’s Big Ideas in App Architecture is a podcast for architects and engineers building modern data-intensive applications and systems. In every weekly episode, an innovator joins the show to share useful insights from their experiences building reliable, scalable, maintainable systems.
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Episodes
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- Sovereignty, Scale, and the Infrastructure Behind the Bet · 41 minIn iGaming, there's no room for error: transactions are bank-level regulated, traffic spikes are massive and unpredictable, and a minute of downtime means a customer lost to a…
- Introducing Cockroach Continuum | A Big Ideas in App Architecture Exclusive · 36 minThis episode marks a big moment for Cockroach Labs, a refreshed brand and the introduction of Cockroach Continuum! David Joy sits down with Tara Jana (TJ), who joined Cockroach…
- A Love Letter to the Database: Industry Shifts, Lessons Learned, and What's Next with Perry Krug · 45 minPerry Krug has been close to databases his entire career — from Couchbase in the NoSQL era to three years at Pinecone working on vector search. In this conversation with David…
- The Everything Trap: Building AI Software That Lasts with Sam Hilsman · 48 minGenerating working software with AI has never been easier, but every shortcut a team takes today is a debt it pays back later. In this episode, David talks with Sam Hilsman…
- Why Inference Engineering Is the Next Big Role in AI with Philip Kiely · 52 minMost teams moving AI into production quickly discover that generating an output is the easy part; running it reliably, efficiently, and at scale is a discipline of its own.In…
- Distributed Systems, Linkerd, and the Cost of Network Calls with William Morgan from Buoyant · 46 minIn Kubernetes environments, concerns like retries, security, observability, and traffic control often end up scattered across application code, leading to duplicated logic…
- Making Software as Durable as Data with Peter Kraft from DBOS · 44 minMost workflow and orchestration tools rely on external systems and fragile state management, making it hard for applications, especially AI agents to recover from failures or…
- Breaking the Pillars: Rethinking Observability with Charity Majors · 50 minMost observability platforms are built around siloed signals, metrics, logs, and traces; not the rich context engineers actually need. The architecture of observability tooling…
- How to Transform Dev Workflows with CI/CS and AI Agents with Tomer Karin · 34 minMost CI/CD pipelines are built to detect failure, not to resolve it. As software systems grow more distributed and complex, that limitation is becoming a bottleneck for…
- AI, Market Cycles, and the Systems Built to Outlast Them with Cockroach Labs CEO & Co-founder Spencer Kimball · 1 h 1 minMost databases are designed for success cases. Real systems fail– the difference is whether they’re built and tested for it. In this episode, David sits down with Spencer…
- How to Scale Data Infrastructure from Startup to Enterprise · 38 min · Episode 58In this episode, David sits down with Nishant Raman, a seasoned data infrastructure expert, to explore the evolving world of data engineering, AI integration, and building…
- Code, Cloud and Karate: The Unlikely Path to Cloud Architecture · 40 min · Episode 57In this episode, David sits down with Masaru Hoshi, a cloud architect at Qlik, to explore his unexpected journey into cloud architecture, the cultural influences that shaped his…
- How to Build an AI-Native Organization · 43 min · Episode 56In this episode, David sits down with Peter Mattis, co-founder, CTO, and CPO of Cockroach Labs, to dive into the world of resilient databases, the evolution of AI in tech, and…
- Inside Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi’s Founder & CEO · 44 min · Episode 55In this episode, David sits down with Joe Duffy, CEO of Pulumi, to explore the revolutionary changes in cloud infrastructure and the power of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Pulumi…
- Inside Ericsson: How AI and Automation Are Shaping Telecom · 53 min · Episode 54Connectivity has become as essential as power and water—without it, our modern world would grind to a halt. In this episode, David sits down with Anand Bajaj, Chief Architect at…
- Unboxing the Cloud: AI, Microservices, and Resilient Databases · 55 minWhat does it take to build systems that thrive in today’s fast-evolving tech landscape? In this episode, we talk with Jim Hatcher, Solutions Engineer at Cockroach Labs, about…
- Strategic AI and Cloud Solutions: GitHub’s Blueprint for Modern Development Success · 40 minIn this episode, David welcomes Ari LiVigni, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at GitHub, for an engaging conversation about cloud infrastructure, cloud adoption, AI, and…
- Cloud Architecture in the Public Sector: Balancing Innovation and Security · 1 h 3 minEver wondered how cloud architecture works in the public sector? In this episode, David Joy is joined by Nik Mayer, Principal Cloud Architect at Maximus, a company that partners…
- GenAI Meets Celebrity: Inside Cameo’s Journey from Startup to Stardom · 51 minThis week, David is joined by Dom Scandinaro, CTO at Cameo, the platform that allows users to send personalized videos from celebrities and creators. Scandinaro gives an in-depth…
- The Journey From Mainframe to Adopting Generative AI With Equifax’s Senior Network Architect · 56 minIn this episode, our host David Joy speaks with Samarth Shah, Senior Network Architect at Equifax to learn about the steps they took to modernize from the mainframe to the cloud…
