Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Ben and Ryan talk to Rob Skillington, CTO and co-founder of Chronosphere. They talk about how buy vs. buy is a false choice, lessons learned from building developer tooling at Uber, and why building developer tools needs more than technical skills.

Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns

Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns

Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, and how companies (and investors) should respond to uncertain economic conditions.
Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte

Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte

Giamir Buoncristiani, tech lead for the Stacks design system at Stack Overflow, joins Ryan for a conversation about all things front end, including how he joined Stack with a mandate to modernize the front-end user interface and why Stack Overflow developers are such big fans of Svelte.