Reliable Software by Default with Jeremy Edberg

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Screaming in the Cloud

Corey Quinn

654 episodes

5 days ago

Screaming in the Cloud with Corey Quinn features conversations with domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing. Topics discussed include AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and the "why" behind how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.

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Reliable Software by Default with Jeremy Edberg

Screaming in the Cloud

35 minutes

3 months ago

Reliable Software by Default with Jeremy Edberg

Reliable software shouldn't be an accident, but for most developers it is. Jeremy Edberg, CEO of DBOS and the guy who scaled Reddit and Netflix, joins Corey Quinn to talk about his wild idea of saving your entire app into a database so it can never really break. They chat about Jeremy's "build for three" rule, a plan for scale without going crazy, why he set Reddit's servers to Arizona time to dodge daylight saving time, and how DBOS makes your app as tough as your data. Plus, Jeremy shares his brutally honest take on distributed systems cargo cult, autonomous AI testing, and why making it easy for customers to leave actually keeps them around.

Public Bio:
Jeremy is an angel investor and advisor for various incubators and startups, and the CEO of DBOS. He was the founding Reliability Engineer for Netflix and before that he ran ops for reddit as its first engineering hire. Jeremy also tech-edited the highly acclaimed AWS for Dummies, and he is one of the six original AWS Heroes. He is a noted speaker in serverless computing, distributed computing, availability, rapid scaling, and cloud computing, and holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.

Show Highlights

(02:08) - What DBOS actually does

(04:08) - "Everything as a database" philosophy and why it works

(08:26) - "95% of people will never outgrow one Postgres machine"

(10:13) - Jeremy's Arizona time zone hack at Reddit (and whether it still exists)

(11:22) - "Build for three" philosophy without over-engineering

(17:16) - Extracting data from mainframes older than the founders

(19:00) - Autonomous testing with AI trained on your app's history

(20:07) - The hardest part of dev tools

(22:00) - Corey's brutal pricing page audit methodology

(27:15) - Why making it easy to leave keeps customers around

(34:11) - Learn more about DBOS

Links
DBOS website: https://dbos.dev

DBOS documentation: https://docs.dbos.dev

DBOS GitHub: https://github.com/dbos-inc

DBOS Discord community: https://discord.gg/fMqo9kD

Jeremy Edberg on Twitter: https://x.com/jedberg?lang=en

AWS Heroes program: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/