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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson

Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi workflow scheduler. In this episode, Erik joins Sean Falconer to talk about the motivation for founding his company, the market gap in ML and AI tooli...

Jul 31, 2025•40 min

RxJS with Ben Lesh

RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates. Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write b...

Jul 29, 2025•50 min

Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani

JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, especially in research-heavy or strategy-driven environments. Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack and he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about making use of small models for diverse applications. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailp...

Jul 24, 2025•41 min

Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper

Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer-friendly interface. Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at Railway. He joins the show to talk about the company and its platform. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from AI to quan...

Jul 22, 2025•42 min

Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of AI and decentralized technologies. His current venture is called NEAR AI , and He’s focused on building open-source infrastructure, tools, and products for Agentic, pri...

Jul 17, 2025•49 min

TypeScript with Jake Bailey

TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer productivity and code safety. The TypeScript compiler performs type checking at compile time, catching errors before code is run, and also transforms TypeScript code into clean, standards-compliant JavaScript. Jake Bailey is Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft where he works on TypeScript, and has made major contributions to the TypeScript compiler. Jake...

Jul 15, 2025•46 min

MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy

Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans layers of the cloud stack, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless configurations, to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in context. The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is emerging as a potential standard for connecting LLM applications to external data sources and tools. It has rapidly gained traction across the industry wi...

Jul 10, 2025•54 min

SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the wider tech industry. In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, discuss the strategic implications of Meta’s $14 billion stake in Scale AI , and examine how competition in the AI space is reshaping relationships between tech giants like Microsoft , OpenAI , and ...

Jul 08, 2025•46 min

AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings

Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python-based data science more accessible, efficient, and scalable. Anaconda has also invested heavily in AI tool development. Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at Anaconda. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox...

Jul 03, 2025•49 min

ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang

ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. It has over a million servers running containerized applications, and this required the company to find a networking solution that could handle high throughput while maintaining stability. eBPF is a technology for dyna...

Jul 01, 2025•48 min

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