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Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it

Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software and mechanical systems, and much more. Ian Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, and before that worked at Google,

Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across

George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment,

Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where system components communicate through events that are generated by producers, and pushed to consumers. This design is often contrasted with a request-driven architecture, where components communicate with each other by sending requests and receiving responses. Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages.

OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It lets users grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites, but without giving away passwords. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google,