Podcast

Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well | David J Malan

May 11 • Ryan Peterman

1:04:30

PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White

"You have to play the game, it's totally irrational to not play the game"

May 4 • Ryan Peterman

43:39

Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov

Listen now | Barbara Liskov is a Turing Award winner known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems.

Apr 27 • Ryan Peterman

34:43

Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker

Listen now | Mike Stonebraker is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to fundamental database technologies.

Apr 20 • Ryan Peterman

56:50

AWS Distinguished Eng: Learnings From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker

Where caching is bad, thoughts on the industry, and learnings across his career

Apr 13 • Ryan Peterman

1:11:30

Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham

What he wishes he knew earlier

Apr 6 • Ryan Peterman

58:35

Amazon VP Reveals Everything He's Seen In Corporate Politics | Ethan Evans

Reorgs, firings, mutiny, promos

Mar 30 • Ryan Peterman

2:50:44

The Creator of Kubernetes On Building Kubernetes

Convincing Google, technical details, scaling for LLM workloads

Mar 23 • Ryan Peterman

1:07:15

Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring

How leveling works, unethical candidates, the role of referrals

Mar 16 • Ryan Peterman

1:42:39

OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin

Learnings from working at Google, Meta, and OpenAI

Mar 9 • Ryan Peterman

1:20:03

Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

His career learnings through booms and busts

Mar 2 • Ryan Peterman

1:16:09

Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working with Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport

Questions and learnings from his career

Feb 23 • Ryan Peterman

1:10:18

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