Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith

Faster CI/CD Builds + Building a Developer Tools Company with Kyle Galbraith

Author: Software Huddle July 11, 2024 Duration: 1:16:57
In this episode, Kyle Galbraith tells us about his company, Depot.dev, which is a way to make Docker builds and GitHub action runners complete much faster with basically no changes to your build step. Depot is growing like crazy and just surpassed *one million* builds per month. We looked at how he found the idea for Depot and some of the technology underlying the service. Kyle also shares a ton of wisdom about building a company and specifically a developer tools company. This includes his experience in YC (including how hard he worked on his YC application) and the importance of having "model companies" that are a few steps ahead of you in the process. We talk about how the funding market has change and how he thinks about hiring, fundraising, and profitability. His advice on company building and the focus on what's important is super helpful to those in a similar position.

Every week on Software Huddle, Alex DeBrie and Sean Falconer sit down with a different expert from across the tech landscape. The conversations are less about quick tips and more about substantive discussions, digging into the real challenges and decisions behind building software, launching products, and navigating the industry's constant shifts. You'll hear from practitioners who have been in the trenches, offering perspectives that blend deep technical knowledge with hard-won business and entrepreneurial experience. Alex brings his specialized expertise as the author of The DynamoDB Book and an AWS Data Hero, while Sean contributes a unique viewpoint shaped by over two decades as an engineer, founder, and marketing executive, recognized as a Snowflake Data Superhero. Together, they create a space where complex topics in software development and technology trends become accessible and genuinely engaging. This podcast is for anyone who wants to move beyond surface-level news and understand the "why" behind the tools and strategies shaping our digital world. Tune in for a thoughtful huddle that feels more like a candid conversation between colleagues than a formal interview.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 79

Software Huddle
Podcast Episodes
Enterprise-grade Dev Environments with Ivan Burazin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:33
Today’s guest is Ivan Burazin, the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, an actual creator of the Shift Developer Conference that he sold some time ago to Infobip. Ivan has tons of experience building developer tools, he has be…
Operational Data Warehouse with Nikhil Benesch [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:56
Today's episode is with Nikhil Benesch, who's the co-founder and CTO at Materialize, an Operational Data Warehouse. Materialize gets you the best of both worlds, combining the capabilities of your data warehouse with the…
Multi-tenancy with Khawaja Shams [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:04
Today's episode is with Khawaja Shams. Khawaja is the CEO and co-founder of Momento, which is a Serverless Cache. He used to lead the DynamoDB team at AWS and now he's doing Memento. We talk about a lot of different thin…
All about Rust with Tim McNamara [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:51:56
In today's episode with Tim McNamara, we talk all about Rust. Tim is one of the leading educators in the whole Rust educational space. He wrote the Rust in Action book, which is probably the best Rust book out there. He…
Becoming an Epic Web Developer with Kent C Dodds [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:39
Today, we have Kent C Dodds on the show. If you don't know Kent, he's a well known expert in JavaScript, Web Development and Teaching. His courses like Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and Epic Web Dev have helped countle…
SQL Meets Vector Search with Linpeng Tang of MyScale [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:38
Welcome back to an episode where we're talking Vectors, Vector Databases, and AI with Linpeng Tang, CTO and co-founder of MyScale. MyScale is a super interesting technology. They're combining the best of OLAP databases w…
What is a Vector Database with Yujian Tang [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:44
Today's guest is Yujian Tang from Zilliz, one of the big players in the vector database market. This is the first episode in a series of episodes we’re doing on vectors and vector databases. We start with the basics, wha…
Serverless Clickhouse with Tyler Wells [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:12
Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well as Twilio. While at Twilio, Tyler helped build a data platfo…
Elasticsearch Fundamentals with Philipp Krenn [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:09
Today, we have Philipp Krenn on the show. He's the head of DevRel for Elastic, and we took a deep dive on all the Elasticsearch stuff like Indexes, Mappings, Shards and Replicas and how to think about performance and all…
Building a Better C with Loris Cro from Zig Software Foundation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:25
Zig is a new programming language with big ambitions: to be a better C. Loris Cro is the VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, and he takes us through the ins and outs of Zig -- how was it created, what problem…