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Cockroach Lab’s Big Ideas in App Architecture is a podcast for architects and engineers building modern data-intensive applications and systems. In every weekly episode, an innovator joins the show to share useful insights from their experiences building reliable, scalable, maintainable systems. Welcome to Big Ideas in App Architecture!
A fryer doesn't need a live sales stream; your next architecture meeting might need that kind of restraint.
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A practical listen for engineers building AI agents that need to wait on people without losing their place.
Durable software is the real subject of this episode. Peter Kraft, co-founder of Dboss, makes the case that AI agents waiting on permissions or human attention need infrastructure that can hold state while work is paused.
Brian Chambers links Chick-fil-A's cloud adoption and digital growth to the judgment required behind scalable infrastructure.
Chick-fil-A's infrastructure story opens on a useful boundary: sales transactions belong in systems built to collect data, not in a fryer. Brian Chambers, the company's chief architect, uses that line to explain how technology choices changed as the business grew from $1 billion…
A grounded episode on moving banks from inherited mainframes toward modern architectures without betting everything at once.
Banking's legacy mainframe problem gives the episode a useful center of gravity: older systems, built by specialists now leaving the workforce, still have to be reworked without compromising availability or continuity.
A practical look at how utility software connects home energy use with infrastructure planning.
Utility software is easiest to understand when it is tied to things people already notice: a bill, a flickering light, or a home using more electricity than expected.
A clear, candid episode on how Double's Danish traction met the tougher economics of launching in Los Angeles.
Double co-founder and CTO Matthias Fjellvang brings a grounded builder's view to the harder side of launching a dating app. The episode tracks Double's shift from strong traction in Denmark toward Los Angeles, where the team expected proof from a smaller market to make the next…
Insurance modernization feels concrete when policy systems, payment timing, and operational discipline all have to line up.
The episode keeps coming back to policy administration, mainframe-era habits, and the plain work of keeping data and money lined up. Mike Murphy uses the New York Life challenge to show why older platforms last so long, and what has to shift before a move forward is possible.
A clear look at how research became a usable streaming-data product.
This episode follows Arjun Narayan, the CEO and co-founder of Materialize, as he moves from researcher to founder and uses that path to make the company feel concrete.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
This episode features an interview with Sachin Joshi, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Vimeo, discussing his role in integrating and automating business applications across departments and exploring the impact of Gen AI.
This episode features an interview with Ericsson chief architect Anand Bajaj about how AI, automation, and virtualization are transforming the telecommunications industry.
This episode features an interview with Kishore Koduri from Ameren discussing his experience in transforming legacy applications to cloud-based systems and the strategic decisions needed for successful business outcomes in utility companies.
This episode features an interview with Erol Kavas, a director at PwC and AWS ambassador, discussing multi-cloud strategies, cloud automation, and common mistakes enterprises make during cloud migration.
This episode features an interview with Joshua Prisman, Chief Architect at Index Exchange, discussing his experience in ad tech architecture and his previous 17-year role at FICO working on decision management platforms.
This episode features software architect Tomer Karin discussing how AI agents and CI/CS (continuous integration/continuous solution) can transform development workflows and optimize code deployment.
This episode features an interview with Cameo's CTO discussing the company's tech stack, cloud architecture, engineering culture, and new Gen AI features.
An interview with data infrastructure expert Nishant Raman discussing his career journey and insights on scaling data systems from startups to enterprises.
This episode features an interview with cloud architect Masaru Hoshi about his unexpected career path into data and cloud architecture at Qlik, including a discussion about his unique background and the historical Diefenbunker location.
This episode features an interview with Brian Johnson, an Enterprise Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton, discussing his career journey, perspectives on cloud and scalable infrastructure, and design philosophy for architecting large applications.
This episode features an interview with Madalina Tanasi, CTO of Collibra, discussing her career, engineering philosophies, team building, and perspectives on AI governance in data intelligence.
This episode features an interview with Majeed Fatemian, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Ventures, discussing his work on a data platform handling billions of events and his previous experience at Ubisoft on games like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed.
This episode features an interview with Gajanan Chinchwerkar, CTO at Hypermode, discussing his three decades of experience with databases and how data trends have evolved in the AI era.
This episode features an interview with Matt Bowman, VP of Engineering at Yext, discussing leadership principles, team development, and how they design digital products for B2B customers.
This episode features an interview with Mike Gordon, VP of Platform Engineering at Fivetran, discussing reliability, scalability, and engineering practices in data infrastructure.
This episode features an interview with Jason Valentino, Head of Engineering Enablement at BNY Mellon, discussing his experiences building innovation pilots, developer experience teams, and platform engineering practices at companies like Cockroach One Labs and Peloton.
This episode features an interview with GitHub's Senior Cloud Architect Ari Levigny discussing strategic AI and cloud solutions, GitHub Copilot, and modern development practices.
This episode features an interview with Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball discussing his career journey, the founding of Cockroach Labs, the importance of their database technology, and the implications of AI for the future of tech.
This episode features an interview with Joe Duffy, founder and CEO of Pulumi, discussing his background at Microsoft, the inspiration behind starting the company, and the technology behind Infrastructure as Code.
This episode features an interview with Meg, the executive director of platform engineering at Estée Lauder, discussing how she fosters joyful work environments and strong engineering culture through neuroleadership principles.
This episode features a conversation with Peter Mattis, co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs, discussing his background, the architecture of CockroachDB, and the future of serverless databases.
This episode features an interview with Andrew Sellers, head of technology strategy at Confluent, discussing data streaming platforms, AI integration, and future technology planning.
This episode features an interview with Jim Hatcher, a senior sales engineer at Cockroach Labs, discussing his career journey and insights into infrastructure modernization, AI, microservices, and database technology.
This episode features an interview with Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb, discussing her career, insights from Facebook's internal tooling Scuba, and rethinking observability in scalable systems and AI-driven environments.
This episode features an interview with Nicholas Mayer, a senior cloud architect at Maximus, discussing his journey in cloud technology and how his team helps federal agencies modernize to the cloud while balancing innovation and security challenges.
This episode features an interview with Samad Shah, a senior network architect at Equifax, discussing the evolution of network security, cloud transformation, and modernizing applications from IBM mainframes.
This episode features an interview with JP Grace, CTO at Endear, discussing omnichannel CRM solutions for direct-to-consumer retail brands and his journey from coding to leadership.
This episode discusses what defines a 10x engineer and how to foster a data-driven, innovative engineering culture at Amplitude, emphasizing customer understanding and product ownership.
This episode features an interview with Peter Mattis, co-founder and CTO/CPO of Cockroach Labs, discussing his background in tech and insights on building AI-native organizations.
This episode features an interview with Mike Wilbanks, CTO at Spark Labs, discussing his journey in tech, the evolution of developer technologies including design patterns and databases, and the integration of generative AI in development.
This episode features Rob Reed, a technical evangelist at Cockroach Labs, discussing his journey into database technology and his passion for the company's products.
This episode features an interview with Vlad Edelman, CTO of FiscalNote, discussing his journey from computer scientist to CTO, the company's evolution as a data and intelligence startup, and topics like technology, generative AI, and product development.
This episode features an interview with Ryan Berry, Senior VP of Cloud Architecture at OneStream Software, discussing how his team leverages Azure to build a scalable, resilient, and secure SaaS platform for enterprise financial software.
This episode features an interview with Akshay Kayastha from ConverseNow about building conversational AI to address labor shortages and improve customer experience in the food tech industry.
This episode features an interview with software engineer and author Marianne Bellotti about rescuing and modernizing large legacy systems in technology.
This episode features an interview with Sid, an engineering manager at Route, discussing his role in building an all-in-one post-purchase platform while briefly touching on his gaming interests in Zelda's Tears of the Kingdom.
This episode features an interview with Shadi Rostami discussing her career journey and leadership philosophy for building a data-driven and innovative engineering culture at Amplitude.
This episode features an interview with Alexis Lowe, a Principal Engineer at Moonpig, discussing how the company built an efficient, optimized solution using event-driven architecture for personalization and scalability across multiple regions with zero downtime.
This episode features an interview with Unmesh Joshi about his book 'Patterns of Distributed Systems', exploring common patterns in distributed systems and advice for those working with them.
This episode features an interview with Majeed Fatemian, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Ventures, discussing his work on a data platform handling billions of events and his career experiences at companies like Ubisoft.
This episode features an interview with Jordan Thoms, CTO and co-founder of Kami, discussing how the company scaled 25x and built educational tools to improve classrooms worldwide.
This episode features an interview with Chick-fil-A's chief architect Brian Chambers about the technology infrastructure that supports their customer journey and business growth.
This episode features an interview with Ignacio Segovia, Chief Architect at Altimetrik, discussing his journey, the company's approach to product engineering, and his leadership philosophy for building great teams.
This episode features an interview with Rodrigo Senra, VP of Engineering at LoadSmart, discussing his career from academia to early Python adoption in Brazil and his work in data science and machine learning.
This episode features an interview with Mike Hurwitz, a software architect at Bluecore, discussing his tech career journey and how his team builds data-driven solutions for retail marketing.
Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize, discusses his journey from liberal arts to computer science, the influence of the Spanner paper, and founding Materialize to democratize streaming data with SQL.
Mike Murphy, Corporate VP at New York Life, discusses the unique challenges of modernizing insurance application architecture, including legacy policy systems, horizontal scaling, and AI's potential to transform legacy code migration.
This episode features Hans Knecht discussing his experiences as an SRE, focusing on scaling developer support systems and insights from his work at Capital One and Mission Lane.
David interviews Peter Kraft, co-founder of DBOS, about turning application progress into database checkpoints so programs can recover after crashes.
Big Ideas in App Architecture interviews Brian Chambers, Chick-fil-A’s chief architect, about technology decisions during the company’s growth from roughly $1 billion to $19 billion in sales.
Chris Tura, a PwC director, describes how banks are replacing aging mainframe systems as the engineers who built them retire.
Grant Muller, Vice President of Software Strategy and Architecture at Xylem, traces his path from childhood software projects and digital film interests to 20 years in utility technology.
A production mistake affecting 100,000 users became a five-minute recovery using Cockroach time-travel queries.
Adam Koch explains how Paycor delivered a PPP data extract within one week during COVID-19.
Host Tim interviews Yolanda Davis about her background in software engineering and her role leading the Dataflow Operations Team at Cloudera.
Host interviews database expert Andy Pavlo about his background and research in database systems, leading to discussion of Ottertune.
Host introduces guest Matt Ranney, principal engineer at DoorDash, who shares his background in internet routing and VoIP.
Host Tim Vail interviews Greg Mohica, CTO of Alloy Automation, about his background in engineering and the founding story of his company.
Host Tim Vail interviews Mike Beaufort, CTO of Greenhouse Software, about his journey from failed startups to big company experience and back to startups.