Lessons from Production
Lessons from Production brings you real-world stories from tech leaders who’ve been in the trenches. Each episode dives into the challenges, hard-earned lessons, and behind-the-scenes insights from building and scaling technology in production. No fluff, just practical takeaways from experts who’ve lived it.
Episodes
5 episodes
Scaling Open Source Databases
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I’m joined by Bhanu from TiDB and Nikhil from ElasticRun. We dive into what it really takes to run open source databases at scale, from architecture choices to reliability challenges, performance tuni...
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Episode 5
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52:56
How to Achieve Cloud Cost Observability?
Observability has been the buzzword across the stack, and businesses are toiling hard to achieve end-to-end visibility. While tech observability is fairly mature, cloud cost observability remains a missing link.In this episode of Lesson...
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Episode 4
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1:02:09
Making DevSecOps Work by Balancing Speed, Security & Scale
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I sit down with Mark Mishaev, Chief Architect at Checkmarx (shoutout for sponsoring this episode), ...
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Episode 3
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42:48
Designing AI That Gets Out of Your Way
Sanskar started his journey as an open source contributor in India, moved to London to work at Bloomberg, and recently quit his job to move to San Francisco and build his own AI startup, Amurex. In this episo...
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Episode 2
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48:09
Building the Spreadsheet of the Future
Google Sheets and Excel have been the default for decades. But why haven’t spreadsheets really evolved, even though millions rely on them every day? And what does it actually take to build a better one in 2025?In this first episode of Le...
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Episode 1
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