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Hosted by Matt Klein, creator of Envoy and co-founder of bitdrift, Beyond the Noise goes inside the minds of the engineers, founders, and technical leaders defining the next era of app-based computing.
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Randy Shoup: He Grew Up Inside Xerox PARC, Then Built eBay's First Real-Time Search Engine (opens the original)
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Randy Shoup's path into software started before he was born. His father, Richard Shoup, was one of the earliest computer science PhDs in the country and part of the original crew at Xerox PARC, where he built Superpaint, the world's first digital paint program with a live video frame buffer. Randy grew up begging to spend weekends in that lab... then set out to become an international lawyer instead, until two years at Oracle and a law firm internship convinced him engineering was the better fit
Joe Beda: K8s, Culture, and Code That Survives Contact (opens the original)
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Joe Beda has been on the frontlines of a changing industry for many years. From shipping Internet Explorer on physical CDs at Microsoft in the mid-'90s, to helping stand up Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Storage, co-creating Kubernetes, founding Heptio and selling it to VMware, then walking away from the industry entirely, he's seen it all (or at least, seen a lot). In this episode, Joe joins Matt Klein to unpack what it actually felt like inside Microsoft's hyper-aggressive culture vers
Charity Majors: AI and the End of the Three Pillars (opens the original)
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Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb and co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering, sits down to talk about how AI is forcing a rethink of observability, engineering practice, and the "three pillars" model she's spent years pushing back on. Charity traces her path from an off-grid childhood in rural Idaho to a piano scholarship, San Francisco startups, Parse, Facebook, and eventually starting Honeycomb - by her own admission, partly to get out of burn
Inside Home Depot's Edge Platform with Dillon TenBrink (opens the original)
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Dillon TenBrink, distinguished engineer at The Home Depot, joins Matt to trace an unusual path into the industry: farm kid from central California, no college, straight into Bay Area startups at 19, then dot-com bust, seven or eight years inside a regulated power utility, and now 15 years at Home Depot. Along the way he picked up networking as a hands-on apprentice at Nortel, six months of a senior engineer teaching him BGP and LACP on the whiteboard. The back half gets into what technology actu
Cedric Beust: Mobile's Hardest Problems Never Change (opens the original)
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Cedric Beust, creator of TestNG and JCommander, one of the early members of the Android team, and the engineer behind the original Android Gmail app, joins Matt to trace 20+ years of mobile from the inside. He walks through building Gmail for J2ME feature phones before Android existed, what Google actually acquired when it bought Android (concepts and Sidekick experience, not a working OS), why Java won as the platform's language, and the Eric Schmidt/Steve Jobs dynamic playing out as the iPhone
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