Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes
bitdriftHosted 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. Forget the buzzwords — this is where the people shaping modern systems share how they really build, debug, and scale.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 25 | Founded | a year ago |
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In this episode, Matt talks with David Crawshaw, co-founder and CTO of Tailscale and co-founder and CEO of exe.dev. David's love of computers started in northern Australia, where he taught himself to program by hacking on the Clipper-based medical re... more
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 pai... more
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, found... more
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... more
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 re... more
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 fe... more
Aaron He, Director of Engineering for Tinder's Client Platform team, joins Matt Klein to trace a decade of mobile engineering at scale, from writing Xamarin apps in C# to native Android, and into today's debates over React Native and Kotlin Multiplat... more
In this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt talks with Nicki Stone, a Principal Engineer who oversees development of the Amazon Shopping App. Nicki's path there runs through a finance desk where she taught herself to code out of boredom, one of the fir... more
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Across episodes, the show centers on hard-nosed engineering leadership, platform-scale challenges, and the practical realities of building, debugging, and scaling modern apps. Conversations frequently dive into cross‑platform mobile strategy, performance optimization, and developer productivity, often anchored by real-world war stories—outages, debugging gambits, and the tradeoffs of tooling and architecture decisions. Guests span senior engineers, platform leaders, and open‑source contributors from large tech companies to startups, with plenty of actionable takeaways on measurement, team alignment, and modernization efforts. A notable edge is the mix of historical context (SDKs, open source tooling, and the evolution of mobile and web infr... more
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