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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 about the foundations of the tech industry. Recorded primarily from our offices and homes, but one day we hope to record in a bar somewhere. Cheers!
Unknown Host hosts Tech on the Rocks, a technology show with 30 episodes published.
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 robots. Guillaume traces h
In this episode, Nitay and Kostas sit down with Sergey Arkhangelskiy, founder of Positronic, to dig into the state of physical AI and what it will really take to bring general-purpose robotics into the real world. Sergey
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 early days of Apache Hudi t
In this episode, we sit down with Rohan Katyal and Raghav Sethi, co-founders of Milana, to discuss the shift from passive analytics to the world’s first AI Product Engineer. Rather than just providing another dashboard t
Jamie, a seasoned startup founder and former Dropbox engineer, shares insights on building distributed systems, scaling storage solutions, and the impact of AI on infrastructure and application development. Discover prac
In this episode, we sit down with the full founding team of Wild Moose — CEO Yasmin Dunsky, CTO Roei, and VP R&D Tom Tytunovich — to explore how they’re transforming production debugging from an art into a science using
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 still so manual, how s
Summary In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Kostas and Nitay sit down with Wes McKinney the creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, and long-time leader in the Python data ecosystem. Wes walks us thr
Summary In this conversation, the founders of Bauplan, Jacopo and Ciro, share their extensive backgrounds in AI and data infrastructure, discussing the evolution of NLP and the challenges faced in the industry. They high
Summary Brett — founder & CEO of Micro — joins Nitay and Kostas to share how he’s turning email into a knowledge graph and rebuilding CRM right inside the inbox. He traces a path from Google’s M&A and Allo product team t
Summary Steve Klabnik has spent the last 15 years shaping how developers write code—from teaching Ruby on Rails to stewarding Rust’s explosive growth. In this wide-ranging conversation, Steve joins Kostas and Nitay to un
Summary Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn how Cloudflare enables developers to build
Summary In this episode, Erik reflects on his long and storied tech career—from the days of punch cards to founding multiple startups, including a stint at Splunk. At 61, he offers a unique perspective on how the industr
Summary In 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 incremental views engine.
Summary In this episode, Viktor Kessler shares his journey and insights from his extensive experience in data management—from building risk management systems and data warehouses to working as a solutions architect at Mo
Summary In this episode, Apurva Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Responsive, recounts his extensive journey in stream processing—from his early work at LinkedIn and Confluent to his current venture at Responsive. He explains
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 between raw data and bu
In this episode, we chat with Yaron Hadad, a fascinating individual who transitioned from theoretical physics to entrepreneurship. We explore his groundbreaking work on black holes and gravitational waves, and learn abou
In this episode, we chat with Philippe Noël, founder of ParadeDB, about building an Elasticsearch alternative natively on PostgreSQL. We explore the challenges and benefits of extending PostgreSQL versus building a separ
In this episode, we chat with Ben, founder of Espresso AI, about his journey from building Excel Python integrations to optimizing data warehouse compute costs. We explore his experience at companies like Uber and Google
Jamie Turner
keynote speaker, professor, author, workshop leader, CNN contributor · Convex
1 appearance on this show
Wes McKinney
pandas
1 appearance on this show
Brett
Video Game Let's Plays · Skeleton House
1 appearance on this show
Josh Howard
Senior Director of Product Marketing for Executive Audiences · Databricks
1 appearance on this show
Apurva Mehta
co-founder and CEO · Summit Peak Investments
1 appearance on this show
David Jayatillake
Co-Founder and CEO · Delphi Labs
1 appearance on this show
Ben Lerner
Managing Director of Lerner Associates · Espresso AI
1 appearance on this show
Ivan
leader from South Africa · Carr’s Billington
1 appearance on this show
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