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Conversations with amazingly smart people who are building the next generation of technology, from hardware to cloud. Hosted by @cpard.bsky.social @nitayj.bsky.social

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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New episode! Zach joins Kostas and Nitay on OCSF and why security data became a data engineering problem: petabyte scale breaking the Splunk-style stack, schema on read vs schema on write, the unknown-unknowns problem, and monitoring agents. techontherocks.show/33
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Tech on the Rocks | OCSF, Schemas, and the Convergence of Security and Data Engineering with Zach Schmerber
Zach 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 surface, into tigh...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Why do we see so many robot demos but so few real deployments? Guillaume Binet of Copper Robotics says it's the software stack, so he's building a new real-time OS for robots. 🎧 techontherocks.show/30
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Tech on the Rocks | Rebuilding the Robot Stack: Why Robotics Needs a New Real-Time OS with Guillaume Binet (Copper Robotics)
In 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 stack that runs the rob...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ep 28: Building the Open Lakehouse for the AI Era with Shubham Baldava from DataZip / OLake Hudi vs. Iceberg vs. Delta, sub-10-min CDC for fintech, Arrow-based ingestion, and what Iceberg decoupling from Parquet means for AI. 🎧 techontherocks.show/28
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Tech on the Rocks | Building the Open Lakehouse for the AI Era with Shubham Baldava from DataZip / OLake
In 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 lakehouse — from the earl...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Never bait and switch developers." @jt.lol watched CRDTs promise magic on day one and deliver misery by month six. Convex starts with serializable transactions and typed, reactive code instead - and it turns out that's what AI agents write best too. episode link below
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New episode of Tech on the Rocks! From Art to Science: Wild Moose and the Future of AI-Powered Debugging The full founding team breaks down how their "microagents" replicate the muscle memory of senior engineers to investigate production incidents in under a minute.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Shipping ML is still weirdly manual: notebooks, translation layers, and “it ran last week” debugging. New episode with Hussain on xorq . a lockfile-style model for pipelines: declare → lock → reproduce / port / inspect lineage. 🎧 techontherocks.show/24
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Tech on the Rocks | From Notebooks to Production: Xorq’s lockfile Approach for Reproducible, Portable ML Pipelines
In 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 research→production path is...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New episode: chatting with bauplan founders Jacopo Tagliabue and Ciro Greco on shipping AI with real-world data constraints. Why listen 1. Data pipelines determine model effectiveness, far more than most teams admit.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What if email isn’t an inbox—it’s your company’s knowledge graph? 🧠 @thatguybg.bsky.social breaks down: acquisition reality (retention/culture > price), startup energy vs. big-co burnout, Launch House, and Micro’s AI layer that turns mail into CRM/hiring/sales apps + proactive updates” link below
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@steveklabnik.com Joined us on an episode where we discussed about Why: • Cargo & friendly errors > benchmarks • 6-week releases > years-long committees • How Rust united Ruby, FP & C++ devs • Next-gen picks and many more! Check the episode on your favorite platform!
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚀 New Episode Alert! ‪@cloudflare.social‬'s Josh Howard, dives into serverless computing at the edge with Durable Objects & Workers. Learn how to build globally scalable, stateful apps easily & reliably. Check our profile to listen to the episode on your favorite platform.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Investors must embrace uncertainty and unpredictability when backing innovative, rapidly evolving technologies. Eric Swan from ep.18
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Most companies do not use off-the-shelf dev environment solutions; they create highly customized setups unique to their needs. @ivanburazin.bsky.social from ep.9
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The halting problem does not prevent proving equivalence for many practical code transformations, making formal verification feasible in many cases. Ben Sigelman from ep.11
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Edge computing platforms that run containers close to users improve performance and enable new application architectures. David Mytton from ep.10
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Automation that enables one-click spin-up of complex dev environments is a critical pain point for large enterprises. @ivanburazin.bsky.social on Developer Environments in Enterprise from ep.9
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
AI agents capable of autonomously performing tasks on our behalf remain limited but hold transformative potential for freeing human creativity. Dean Pleban on AI & the Future from ep.4
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Ownership ambiguity over data pipelines and infrastructure is a major source of friction in data and ML workflows. Dean Plebal on User & Market Strategy from ep.4
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Automatic theorem proving complements conjecture generation by providing tools to verify and prove newly discovered formulas. Yaron Hadad on Scientific Research & Collaboration from ep.13
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Personal and professional growth often intertwine, with experiences abroad and advanced education shaping global perspectives. Roy Ben Alta on Career & Education from ep.8
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Formal verification tools like TLA+, FizzBee, and Antithesis serve different stages: design-level verification versus implementation-level testing. Jayaprabhakar(JP) Kadarkarai on Formal Methods & Verification from ep.5
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Engineering excellence requires continuous learning from past successes and failures, which is often documented and shared in high-quality engineering cultures. Jayaprabhakar(JP) Kadarkarai from ep.5
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Decentralized data architectures require robust infrastructure for managing governance, access controls, and rules across distributed data sources. Viktor Kessler from ep.16
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Startups and new products increasingly prioritize serverless models to reduce user friction and accelerate adoption. @philippemnoel.bsky.social from ep.12
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Legacy APIs based on static configurations (e.g., YAML with embedded SQL) often give way to more dynamic, code-driven approaches for flexibility and power. Varant Zanoyan & Nikhil Simha from ep.2
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into everyday tools like smartphones and laptops will accelerate the shift toward AI-driven task automation. Dean Pleban from ep.4
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The value proposition of formal methods becomes clear when dealing with complex distributed transactions involving multiple independent services. Jayaprabhakar(JP) Kadarkarai from ep.5
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
User experience and developer interaction with complex data abstractions remain a significant challenge beyond the technical integration. Nikhil Simha & Varant Zanoyan from ep.2
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AI agents and automated operators require actionable metadata to autonomously coordinate data usage and pipeline stability. Viktor Kessler from ep.16 on the importance of metadata and catalogs for the future of AI and agentic architectures.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Successful AI developer tools must balance synchronous co-pilot style assistance with asynchronous autonomous agent workflows. @ivanburazin.bsky.social from ep.9
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Managing AI access and permissions requires careful role-based controls to prevent over-privileged AI actions in enterprise environments. Well said, even before hashtag#MCP was as popular as today. @ivanburazin.bsky.social from ep.9
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Erik’s been in tech longer than some programming languages. @splunk founder, and now building something new with AI. We get into building from first principles, surviving PLG, brand as a GTM edge, and what Erik’s building next. Check it on your favorite podcast platform!
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 New episode! Gilad Kleinman (Epsio) joins us to talk reinventing materialized views: think real-time query results, CDC-powered incremental updates, and serious Rust performance—all seamlessly integrated with your database. don’t miss it! 🎧👇
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Tech on the Rocks | Incremental Materialization: Reinventing Database Views with Gilad Kleinman of Epsio
SummaryIn 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 build an innovative inc...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New episode! “From Data Mesh to Lake House: Revolutionizing Metadata with Lakekeeper” Features Viktor Kessler sharing his journey from risk management systems to a startup transforming metadata with Apache Iceberg. 🎧👉
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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…
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New episode: Reinventing Stream Processing with @apurvamehta.com from @responsive.dev We cover: Real-time vs low latency in streaming Why stateful streaming is hard at scale RocksDB, Postgres limitations SQL vs flexible APIs Decoupling state & compute with SlateDB. 🎧 👉
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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…
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New episode: “Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data” with @jayatillake.bsky.social . We discuss how semantic layers bridge raw data and AI, achieving 100% accuracy for natural language queries, and what’s next for LLM-powered data pipelines. 🎧 techontherocks.show/14 🎧
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Tech on the Rocks | Semantic Layers: The Missing Link Between AI and Data with David Jayatillake from Cube
In this episode, we chat with David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, about semantic layers and their crucial role in making AI work reliably with data. We explore how semantic layers act as a bridge ...
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dive into the mind of Yaron Hadad as he talks everything from theoretical physics through AI to practical health tech. Learn about his Ramanujan machine's impact on mathematics, the challenges of nutrition science, and intriguing predictions for physics' future. This episode has it all.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New episode! We talked with Philippe Noël about building ParadeDB, an exciting Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres that offers fast full-text search and analytics with zero ETL. Search is becoming the primary interface for data-heavy applications - and AI.
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
From optimizing Google Search to optimizing Snowflake bills: How espresso_ai's founder Ben Lerner, combined ML expertise with systems performance to help companies cut cloud costs. Fascinating journey and insights from Ben in our latest episode 🎙️
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Join us at another episode of Tech on the Rocks, this time with @davidmytton.social of Arcjet. We talk about security as code, security in a world of AI and dev tooling. Check the episode here: buff.ly/4ggWGeO
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Tech on the Rocks @totrrocks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Join Ivan on Tech on the Rocks for a fascinating discussion about the evolution of web development. 15 years ago browser limitations made coding a challenge, a stark contrast to today’s powerful browser. Ivan also reflects on how predictions from that era hold up in today’s landscape. Link below.
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