Conversations with the people who keep large systems running — outages, migrations, and the decisions nobody writes conference talks about.
Every other Tuesday · 45 to 60 minutes
Episode 84 Playing
Rewriting the scheduler while it was running
54:16
12 Aug
Episode 83
What a 41-minute outage actually costs
Walking the timeline of a connection-pool failure, and why the health check made it worse.
With Dana Køhler
48:02
29 Jul
Episode 82
Migrating 2.1 billion rows over a weekend
Checkpoints, dual writes and the moment they nearly rolled it all back on Saturday night.
With Tom Silva and Priya Mahal
61:44
15 Jul
Episode 81
The team that deleted staging
Ephemeral environments, the objections they expected, and the two that turned out to be right.
With Lena Rask
44:20
01 Jul
Episode 80
Pricing infrastructure without lying to yourself
Unit economics, hidden egress, and the spreadsheet that finally made the margin legible.
With Aiko Tan
52:11
17 Jun