Tech on the Rocks
de Kostas, Nitay
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When LLMs Write the Database: Code Generation, Semantic SQL, and the…
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Join Kostas and Nitay as they speak with amazingly smart people who are building the next generation of technology, from hardware to cloud compute.
Tech on the Rocks is for people who are curious about the foundations of the tech industry.
Recorded primarily from our offices and homes, but one day we hope to record in a bar somewhere.
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- When LLMs Write the Database: Code Generation, Semantic SQL, and the Cost of AI Operators with Immanuel Trummer · 1 h 2 min · Episodul 34Immanuel Trummer is a professor at Cornell University working where database systems meet large language models. He started on this before ChatGPT, back when every talk needed a…
- OCSF, Schemas, and the Convergence of Security and Data Engineering with Zach Schmerber · 58 min · Episodul 33Zach joins Kostas and Nitay to trace how security data turned into a full-blown data engineering problem. He walks through his path from hospital networks with a sprawling attack…
- Feeding the Agents: Fast Structured Data Retrieval with Arrow — Ian Cook, Co-founder & CEO of Columnar · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 32In this episode, we talk with Ian Cook, co-founder and CEO of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow Project Management Committee, about ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) and…
- Falling Into Databases: The DuckDB Story with Hannes Mühleisen · 54 min · Episodul 31In this episode, we sit down with Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder and CEO of Duck Labs and co-creator of DuckDB, for a wide-ranging conversation about how a self-described outsider…
- Rebuilding the Robot Stack: Why Robotics Needs a New Real-Time OS with Guillaume Binet (Copper Robotics) · 56 min · Episodul 30In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Guillaume Binet, founder of Copper Robotics, to dig into one of the most overlooked problems in modern robotics: the software…
- Physical AI and the Future of Robotics with Sergey Arkhangelskiy of Positronic · 52 min · Episodul 29In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Sergey Arkhangelskiy, founder of Positronic, to dig into the state of physical AI and what it will really take to bring…
- Building the Open Lakehouse for the AI Era with Shubham Baldava from DataZip / OLake · 58 min · Episodul 28In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Shubham Baldava, co-founder of DataZip and creator of OLake, to trace the evolution of the modern open…
- From Session Replays to Autonomous Improvement: Shipping the First AI Product Engineer with Milana · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 26In this episode, we sit down with Rohan Katyal and Raghav Sethi, co-founders of Milana, to discuss the shift from passive analytics to the world’s first AI Product Engineer…
- From Exabyte Storage to Reactive Backends: Jamie Turner on Building Convex After Dropbox · 59 min · Episodul 27Jamie, a seasoned startup founder and former Dropbox engineer, shares insights on building distributed systems, scaling storage solutions, and the impact of AI on infrastructure…
- From Art to Science: Wild Moose and the Future of AI-Powered Debugging · 53 min · Episodul 25In this episode, we sit down with the full founding team of Wild Moose — CEO Yasmin Dunsky, CTO Roei, and VP R&D Tom Tytunovich — to explore how they’re transforming production…
- From Notebooks to Production: Xorq’s lockfile Approach for Reproducible, Portable ML Pipelines · 57 min · Episodul 24In this episode, Hussain shares the story behind xorq: a “lockfile for ML pipelines” that makes notebook work easier to reproduce, debug, and ship. We talk about why the…
- From pandas to Arrow: Wes McKinney on the Future of Data Infrastructure · 1 h 22 min · Episodul 23Summary In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Kostas and Nitay sit down with Wes McKinney the creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, and long-time leader in…
- Navigating the Future of AI and Data Infrastructure with Bauplan · 59 min · Episodul 22Summary In this conversation, the founders of Bauplan, Jacopo and Ciro, share their extensive backgrounds in AI and data infrastructure, discussing the evolution of NLP and the…
- Email as a Knowledge Graph: Micro CEO Brett on Rebuilding CRM at the Inbox · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 21Summary Brett — founder & CEO of Micro — joins Nitay and Kostas to share how he’s turning email into a knowledge graph and rebuilding CRM right inside the inbox. He traces a path…
- Community, Compilers & the Rust Story with Steve Klabnik · 59 min · Episodul 20Summary Steve Klabnik has spent the last 15 years shaping how developers write code—from teaching Ruby on Rails to stewarding Rust’s explosive growth. In this wide-ranging…
- How Cloudflare Reinvents Serverless at Global Scale with Josh Howard · 52 min · Episodul 19Summary Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn…
- Business Physics: How Brand, Pricing, and Product Design Define Success with Erik Swan · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 18Summary In this episode, Erik reflects on his long and storied tech career—from the days of punch cards to founding multiple startups, including a stint at Splunk. At 61, he…
- Incremental Materialization: Reinventing Database Views with Gilad Kleinman of Epsio · 52 min · Episodul 17Summary In this episode, Gilad Kleinman, co-founder of Epsio, shares his unique journey from PHP development to low-level kernel programming and how that evolution led him to…
- From Data Mesh to Lake House: Revolutionizing Metadata with Lakekeeper · 57 min · Episodul 16Summary In this episode, Viktor Kessler shares his journey and insights from his extensive experience in data management—from building risk management systems and data…
- Reinventing Stream Processing: From LinkedIn to Responsive with Apurva Mehta · 58 min · Episodul 15Summary In this episode, Apurva Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Responsive, recounts his extensive journey in stream processing—from his early work at LinkedIn and Confluent to his…
