Tractable

Hosted by Kshitij Grover

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Tractable is a podcast for engineering leaders to talk about the hardest technical problems their orgs are tackling — whether that's scaling products to deal with increased demand, racing towards releases, or pivoting the technical stack to better cater to a new landscape of challenges. Each tractable podcast is an in-depth exploration of how the core technology underlying the world's fastest growing companies is built and iterated on. Tractable is hosted by Kshitij Grover, co-founder and CTO at Orb. Orb is the revenue design platform for AI and SaaS companies. Built on raw usage data, Orb unifies pricing, billing, and revenue intelligence so companies can evolve how they monetize as fast as they ship.

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September 30, 2024Episode 1441 min

Nile Co-Founder Gwen Shapira: The Tenet of Multi-Tenancy

In this episode of Tractable, Orb CTO and Co-founder Kshitij Grover and Gwen Shapira, Co-founder of Nile, explore the cutting-edge world of multi-tenancy and serverless Postgres offerings for modern SaaS applications. This podcast episode delves into Nile's innovative approach to virtual tenant databases, the complexities of managing mixed data blocks, and the challenges of building a database offering tailored to diverse customer needs. Gwen uncovers insights into the decision-making process of building on Postgres and the relentless focus on reliability for ongoing operations.

August 7, 2024Episode 1330 min

Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht: Not just latency, but velocity

In this episode of Tractable, Orb CTO Kshitij Grover interviews Dane Knecht, the SVP of Emerging Technology and Incubation at Cloudflare. Together, they explore Cloudflare's innovative approach to infrastructure, AI integration, and developer platform. The conversation spans a discussion on their custom-built infrastructure as well as an upcoming product launch focused on AI, and includes insights into Cloudflare's unique positioning at the forefront of internet software products. Join us as we discuss the complexities of AI, developer platforms, and the future of the Internet.

June 25, 2024Episode 1244 min

Axiom CEO Neil Jagdish Patel: No more sampling

In this episode of Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover interviews Neil Jagdish Patel, the Co-founder and CEO of Axiom, a serverless logging tool used by companies like Prisma, M1 Finance, and Cal.com. Neil talks about Axiom's flexibility and trade-offs, focusing on its efficiency in data ingest, storage, and query execution, also Axiom's potential to become a central tool for events within organizations, its commitment to accessibility, and upcoming product launches. Neil also shares insights on Axiom's approach to optimizing interconnects, query planning, and execution, and its storage architecture utilizing AWS S3; Axiom's product philosophy, support for various data ingest methods, and its emphasis on customer experience.

June 11, 2024Episode 1140 min

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors - Production, revisited

In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover is joined by Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to discuss Observability 1.0 and 2.0 and the critical shift from fragmented data sources to a unified source of truth for more efficient debugging and problem-solving. From identifying signs of organizations entrenched in '1.0 thinking' to the need for shorter feedback loops, Charity examines the key factors driving the evolution of observability tools and practices.

April 15, 2024Episode 1037 min

Felt CTO Can Duruk: A New Direction for Maps

On the latest episode of the Tractable podcast, cofounder and CTO of Orb, Kshitij Grover, sits down with Can Duruk, co-founder and CTO of Felt, the world's first collaborative mapping tool. From the technical complexities of map rendering to the broad-reaching impact of their software, this episode highlights how Felt has changed the way we visualize and utilize geographic data. Join us as Can shares the intricate world of mapping, the origins of Felt, and the diverse applications of their platform across industries.

March 22, 2024Episode 937 min

Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson: Scalable on-demand compute for the cloud

In this episode of the Tractable podcast, Kshitij Grover, the cofounder and CTO of Orb, interviews Eric, the founder and CEO of Modal. They discuss Eric's technical background, his experience building a music recommendation system at Spotify, and his journey to founding Modal. The conversation delves into the challenges faced in the early days of Spotify, the evolution of serverless technology, and the unique approach taken by Modal in simplifying cloud deployments, especially focusing on data, AI, and machine learning workloads.

March 12, 2024Episode 843 min

Render VPE Uma Chingunde: The Future of the Cloud

In this episode of Tractable, Kshitij Grover sits down with special guest Uma Chingunde to explore the intricacies of managing and optimizing complex technical platforms. Uma delves into the critical importance of constant investment in AI to ensure reliability and staying ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. The discussion also dig into the necessity of transparency and communication during critical incidents, emphasizing a blameless approach and the impact of decision-making on key operational changes. Uncover the challenges and strategies involved in running mission-critical workloads, the value of developer experience, and the intricate balance of serving different user segments. Tune in for a deep dive into the world of technical platform management and the thought processes behind significant decisions.

February 23, 2024Episode 741 min

WarpStream CEO Richard Artoul: reinventing an infrastructure primitive

In this episode of Tractable, Orb's podcast with engineering leaders, Kshitij Grover dives deep on Warpstream. Warpstream is a cost-effective Kafka-compatible streaming platform built to be simpler to manage than traditional Kafka solutions, built on top of Richie's previous experiences managing large-scale data systems at both Datadog and Uber. WarpStream is not only architected to save companies inter-AZ costs but also to provide them a stateless system that's easier to manage with often-acceptable tradeoffs on end to end latency. RIchie talks about how Warpstream being in the critical path for other companies' infrastructure influences the GTM strategy and the architecture: serverless pricing is an important mechanic to make Warpstream a foundational building block, and it influences how the team thinks about reliability as a mission-critical part of the offering.

January 27, 2024Episode 646 min

Sentry CTO David Cramer: Running Sentry at Scale

In this episode of the Tractable Podcast, Kshitij Grover, CTO at Orb, interviews David, the CTO of Sentry. Sentry, known for industry leading error and performance monitoring, has become one of the world’s most admired developer tools. Sentry is the tool of choice for over 90,000 companies including developers at Atlassian, GitHub, and Disney+. David shares the origin story of Sentry, tracing its evolution from an opinionated open-source project to a critical part of the modern software stack. Kshitij and David talk about technical challenges, strategic decisions, and leadership styles that have shaped Sentry over the last decade, including its product expansion and adaptability to industry demands. David explores Sentry’s unique approach to growth, with an emphasis of how its open-source model influenced the GTM motion of the company in pursuit of market share. The conversation also touches on the complexities of supporting a diverse range of frameworks and technologies, Sentry’s approach to AI, and the company’s extremely recognizable brand campaigns.Sentry can’t fix this — but maybe David can.

December 5, 2023Episode 554 min

Materialize CTO Nikhil Benesch: Making data operational

Nikhil Benesch, CTO at Materialize, joins me to discuss the evolution of Materialize from its origins at Cockroach to a production-grade system powering companies like Ramp and General Mills. Nikhil shares the the origin story of Materialize, the progress from Streaming Data Warehouse to Operational Data Warehouse, and the the challenges of offering cloud-native solutions. Additionally, Nikhil explains the trade-offs between freshness, consistency, and responsiveness, and discusses future advancements, including spill-to-disk functionality and expanded data inputs and outputs.

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