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Alexa's Input (AI)

Alexa Griffith
AI Security
Artificial Intelligence
Kubernetes
Mlops
Genai
Open Source
Data Poisoning
Wafer
Bloomberg
Promptfoo
Slos
B-Line
North Cloud
Security
Amazon Web Services
Digital Twin
Google
Regulation and Policy
Hedgehog
AI Infrastructure

Alexa’s Input is a podcast about how technology actually moves forward. Hosted by Alexa Griffith, it features conversations with engineers, founders, CEOs, and leaders shaping today’s tech landscape. Each episode digs into the decisions behind the systems — what’s being built, what’s being questioned, and why it matters now. Opinions are my own Linktree: linktr.ee/alexagriffith YouTube: ht... more

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In this episode of Alexa's Input (AI), I sit down with Alex Zenla, founder and CTO of Edera.

Alex grew up in a small town in Alabama, found a computer young, and started building. Her story is unlike many in tech. She taught herself to program and g... more

AI agents have created more possibilities for engineers than ever before. But what does daily life actually look like for the builders who've gone all in?

In my very first panel episode, I sit down with Adam Anzuoni from Cursor, Taylor Dolezal from ... more

Most engineers think reliability means avoiding outages. Vlad Leyberov learned the opposite lesson: sometimes you have to intentionally cause a 100% outage to fix the system faster.

Vlad is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google, running system... more

In this episode of Alexa's Input (AI), I sit down with David Aronchick, co-founder and CEO of Expanso and former product lead for Kubernetes at Google.

Data is growing everywhere outside your data center. Solar panels in remote across a country. Sec... more

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Recent Guests

Alex Zenla
Founder and CTO of Edera
Edera
Episode: Personal Security with Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera
Taylor Dolezal
Head of open source at Dosu
Dosu
Episode: Paying Attention in the Age of Agents
Peter Bell
Head of a CTO organization, Gather.dev
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Episode: Paying Attention in the Age of Agents
Vlad Leyberov
Site reliability engineer with experience at Google, Meta, and Amazon
Google, Meta, Amazon
Episode: Systems, Scale, and SRE with Vlad Leyberov
David Aronchick
Former Google Kubernetes Engine lead, co-founder of Kubeflow, founder of Expanso
Expanso
Episode: David Aronchick on Distributed Data Orchestration with Expanso
Robert Shaw
Member of the Technical Staff at Red Hat; lead maintainer of LLMD and VLM
Red Hat
Episode: How vLLM and llm-d Changed AI Inference with Rob Shaw
Emilio Andere
Co-founder and CEO of Wafer
Wafer
Episode: Intelligence Per Watt with Emilio Andere
Sal Furino
Customer Reliability Engineer at Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Episode: Building Reliable Systems at Bloomberg with Sal Furino
Kaan Divitoğlu
Co-founder of Laila, New York-based dating app focused on date plans and real-world connections
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Episode: Laila: Reinventing Dating as a Social Marketplace with Kaan Divitoğlu

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Alexa Griffith
Host of Alexa's Input AI

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Systems, Scale, and SRE with Vlad Leyberov
Q: You did already bring up an incident that really sticks with you. what incident have you been through that changed how you think about reliability and system design?
An outage from the Amazon Alexa team in 2018 involved a poison-peel scenario where a device update corrupted records, causing devices to go dark and the back-end to slow or fail to communicate; the team had to decide whether to push a hard reset by dropping a table to recover, which, while drastic, could restore a clean state and prevent longer rolling failures.
David Aronchick on Distributed Data Orchestration with Expanso
Q: How do you balance customer needs with product vision in a startup?
Listen first to identify the top problems customers have, avoid over-promising, and prioritize features that address the most critical pain points, even if it means delaying grand plans in favor of reliability and adoption.
David Aronchick on Distributed Data Orchestration with Expanso
Q: What was the first feature you implemented at Expanso?
We focused on logs and observability, not replacing existing tools but enabling data to stay near its source with better structure, schema enforcement, and provenance so downstream systems could rely on cleaner, contextual data.
David Aronchick on Distributed Data Orchestration with Expanso
Q: How did your Kubernetes experience shape your approach to Expanso?
It taught me the importance of building community-driven, transparent open source ecosystems and the need to provide a clear, collaborative path for contributors, which we applied to Expanso by emphasizing ease of use, extensibility, and practical edge-focused capabilities.
How vLLM and llm-d Changed AI Inference with Rob Shaw
Q: How does speculative decoding fit into current deployments?
Speculative decoding accelerates the decoding phase by predicting tokens in advance, increasing throughput without sacrificing accuracy, and is expected to become mainstream as tooling and adoption improve.

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This show consistently explores how technology decisions shape real-world systems, often centered on AI, software reliability, security, and infrastructure. Episodes feature engineers, founders, and leaders who share concrete choices behind architecture, product strategy, and organizational change, highlighting practical trade-offs between on-prem and cloud, governance, and security in AI-enabled environments. A standout pattern is a focus on building reliable, scalable tech—whether optimizing AI hardware, securing software supply chains, or architecting enterprise-grade AI adoption—delivered through candid conversations and actionable takeaways for practitioners, builders, and tech decision-makers.

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4. Vlad Leyberov
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7. Emilio Andere
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