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The Fastest Distributed Database in the World | Adam Szymański
Adam Szymański shares how Oxla, the fastest distributed database, reduces infrastructure costs while delivering unmatched performance.
Rahil Parekh
Oct 8, 20244 min read


A Brief History of simplyblock and the Evolution of Storage Technologies | Michael Schmidt
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, the host, Chris Engelbert and Michael Schmidt discuss the evolution of storage technologies.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 20, 20243 min read


Network Infrastructure for AI | Marc Austin
In this CF episode, Rob Pankow talks to Marc Austin about the importance of building AI cloud networks that performant and cost-effective.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 17, 20244 min read


Timeplus: Streaming Analytics for Realtime Data | Jove Zhong
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert sits down with Jove Zhong, co-founder of Timeplus, a streaming analytics platform.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 13, 20244 min read


Integration Tests Done Right: Testcontainers | Oleg Šelajev
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Oleg Šelajev, about the integration testing with Testcontainers.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 6, 20244 min read


Making LLMs Reliable | Mahmoud Mabrouk
In this CF episode, Rob Pankow talks to Mahmoud Mabrouk to discuss the reliability challenges of LLMs and importance of prompt engineering.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 4, 20244 min read


Introduction to Side Channel Attacks using CacheWarp | Michael Schwarz
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert sits down with Michael Schwarz, to discuss side-channel attacks and CacheWarp.
Rahil Parekh
Sep 2, 20244 min read


Building AI Agents with Java and Semantic Kernel | Bruno Borges
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert interviews Bruno Borges about building AI agents using Java and Semantic Kernel.
Rahil Parekh
Aug 23, 20245 min read


Reselling spare GPU and data center capacity | Mihai Mărcuță
In this CF episode, Rob Pankow talks to Mihai Mărcuță to discuss leveraging spare GPU and data center capacity for cloud services.
Rahil Parekh
Aug 20, 20245 min read


How to Build a Serverless Postgres | Gwen Shapira
In this episode of Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert Gwen Shapira how they built a serverless Postgres platform designed for SaaS apps.
Rahil Parekh
Aug 16, 20245 min read


PostgreSQL for Everything | Mike Freedman
On the Cloud Commute, Chris Engelbert and Mike Freedman, CTO of Timescale, discuss how TimescaleDB extends PostgreSQL for time-series data.
Rahil Parekh
Aug 9, 20245 min read


Unifying customer data | Steven Renwick
In this CF episode, Rob Pankow talks to Steven Renwick about the critical need for unifying customer data
Rahil Parekh
Aug 6, 20245 min read


Automatically secure your application with your personal Application Firewall | Hannes Ullman
In this episode of simplyblock’s Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert sits down with Hannes Ullman, co-founder and CTO of Bifrost Security
Rahil Parekh
Jul 26, 20244 min read


How to connect millions of devices every day through MQTT | Dominik Obermaier
In this CC episode, Chris Engelbert and Domink Obermaier discuss how HiveMQ connects millions of devices through MQTT (a messaging protocol)
Rahil Parekh
Jul 19, 20245 min read


Getting Started with Graph Databases with Jennifer Reif from Neo4j
In this episode of the Cloud Commute podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Jennifer Reif, a Developer Advocate at Neo4j.
Rahil Parekh
Jul 12, 202419 min read


Machine Learning driven Database Optimization with Luigi Nardi from DBtune (interview)
Luigi Nardi, Founder & CEO of DBtune, talks about database optimization, the role of ML, data privacy and the rice of vector databases.

Chris Engelbert
Jun 27, 202419 min read


How I designed PostgreSQL High Availability with Shaun Thomas from Tembo (video + interview)
Shaun Thomas, high availability solutions for Postgres databases expert, discusses his journey, Tembo, Kubernetes & the future of Postgres.

Chris Engelbert
Jun 20, 202417 min read


Easy Developer Namespaces with Multi-tenant Kubernetes with Alessandro Vozza from Kubespaces (video + interview)
Alessandro Vozza discusses his Kubernetes journey and the cloud-native community, his new project Kubespaces, and future Kubernetes trends.

Chris Engelbert
Jun 14, 202413 min read


Policy Management at Cloud-Scale with Anders Eknert from Styra (video + interview)
Anders Eknert, of Styra, discusses the functionality of the Open Policy Agent project & the benefits of a unified policy management system.

Chris Engelbert
Jun 7, 202417 min read


Your CI/CD Pipeline is a Production system with Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane (video + interview)
Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane stresses that deployment pipelines act as cluster admins & must be securely handled like production systems.

Chris Engelbert
May 31, 202414 min read
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