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Publishes	Twice weekly	Episodes	300	Founded	10 years ago
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Ep. #40, Terminal Innovation in the AI Era with Orhun Parmaksiz

On episode 40 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz to explore Ratty, his experimental GPU-rendered terminal emulator that combines traditional command-line workflows with interactive 3D graphics. They dis... more

30 Jun 2026 • 43 min

Ep. #7, Exploring DORA and Progressive Delivery with Nathen Harvey

On episode 7 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team speaks with Nathen Harvey about the intersection of AI, DevOps, and user-centric software development. Together, they examine what DORA's research reveals about high-performing teams, why ship... more

24 Jun 2026 • 51 min

Ep. #1, Why Robots Are Hard with Ren Wang

On this debut episode of Lab Notes, Amir Zohrenejad is joined by Ren Wang, a researcher and PhD student at UC Berkeley, to explore the state of physical AI and why robotics has progressed differently from large language models. They discuss data scar... more

21 Jun 2026 • 40 min

Ep. #39, Agents Take the Wheel with Zach Smith

On episode 39 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Zach Smith, creator of Kplane, about rethinking Kubernetes for an AI-driven future. Zach explains how virtualized control planes could enable isolated cluster experiences a... more

18 Jun 2026 • 43 min • Most popular

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Recent Guests

Ren Wang

PhD student at UC Berkeley researching robotics and generalization/adaptation

UC Berkeley

Episode: Ep. #1, Why Robots Are Hard with Ren Wang

Zach Smith

Guest on the episode discussing Kplane and agent-first clouds

Kplane (project)

Episode: Ep. #39, Agents Take the Wheel with Zach Smith

Mark Brocato

Founder of Mockaroo; founder of Fabricate; leader in AI-driven synthetic data

Tonic AI (via Fabricate)

Episode: Ep. #56, Vibe Coding for Data with Mark Brocato

Josh Wills

Member of the technical staff in Datalogy AI, building distributed pipelines for trillion-scale pre-training

Datalogy AI

Episode: Ep. #13, Building Trillion-Scale Data Pipelines with Josh Wills

Betty Junod

Tech curious marketer focusing on making complex tech understandable for regular humans

Episode: Ep. #6, The Weird Edges of Taste with Betty Junod

Anurag Goel

CEO and founder of Render

Render

Episode: Ep. #53, Render and the New Cloud Stack with Anurag Goel

Janaki Vivrekar

Engineer at Amplitude who helped build Global Agent

Amplitude

Episode: Ep. #91, Every Failure Becomes an Eval with Janaki Vivrekar

David Crawshaw

Longtime software engineer and founder involved with xe.dev and Tailscale

xe.dev / Tailscale

Episode: Ep. #11, Why Agents Need Computers with David Crawshaw

Hugo Santos

Founder/CEO of Namespace Labs

Namespace Labs

Episode: Ep. #52, Beyond the Hyperscalers with Hugo Santos of Namespace

Hosts

Marc Campbell

Host of The Kubelist Podcast (Replicated) and related Heavybit projects; frequent host in technical discussions.

Joe Ruscio

Host with extensive involvement across Heavybit shows; known for hosting and contributing to multiple episodes.

Brian Douglas

Host involved in Open Source Ready and related discussions; frequent collaborator across episodes.

John McBride

Co-host and frequent guest across Open Source Ready and related shows; known for engineering leadership topics.

Jessica Kerr

Open Source practitioner and speaker; contributes to Observability and related conversations.

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Apple Podcasts	#105	Australia/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#225	Germany/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#250	France/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#59	Colombia/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#74	Denmark/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#108	Israel/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#168	Spain/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#171	Norway/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#216	Poland/News/Tech News
Apple Podcasts	#242	Sweden/News/Tech News

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Ep. #56, Vibe Coding for Data with Mark Brocato

Q: Tell our listeners a little bit more about Tonic AI and how Fabricate fits in to what they're building.

Mark explains that Tonic AI offers three products, with Fabricate sitting as the data-creation layer that generates data from scratch, including both structured and unstructured formats, to complement production-data tools like Structural and Textual. Fabricate emphasizes agent-driven generation, enabling data creation from schemas or even empty starts, and is designed to support AI-driven workflows and testing scenarios.

Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen

Q: What's the core transition from services to products at Determinate Nix?

Determinante Nix began as a consulting firm but is increasingly delivering productized offerings around secure packages and reproducible infrastructure, combining the best of both worlds: the agility of services with the repeatability and security guarantees of products.

Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen

Q: Why now is the right time for enterprises to adopt Nix, including Wasm support and secure packages?

The technology has matured, the ecosystem has grown, and enterprises are seeking reliable, auditable, and scalable build and deployment pipelines. Features like Wasm support, stable flakes, and secure packaging address the risk and governance concerns that slow adoption, making Nix viable for large teams and regulated environments.

Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen

Q: How would you describe Nix to a general audience?

Nix is a package manager and ecosystem designed to track precisely how software is built and configured, handling dependencies and environments in a way that makes systems reproducible and auditable, which becomes crucial as teams scale and security requirements increase.

Ep. #11, Why Agents Need Computers with David Crawshaw

Q: How do you see the role of humans changing with AI-driven code in production?

The hosts and guest discuss shifting bottlenecks from writing code to reviewing and designing safe agent workflows, the importance of safety, tooling for debugging and undo capabilities, and the idea that agents will handle routine changes while humans focus on architecture and governance.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Heavybit Podcasts

What is Heavybit Podcasts about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on practitioner-focused discussions at the intersection of software delivery, AI, and open source. Across episodes, topics like progressive delivery, CI/CD, AI-assisted development, agent-based tooling, observability, and governance in Open Source ecosystems recur, with deep dives into how engineering teams ship faster while maintaining safety and quality. Notable threads include the shifting role of humans in programming due to AI agents, the CTO playbook for scaling technical organizations, and practical, architecture-level decision making around builds, security, and multi-architecture tooling. The format tends to blend hands-on engineering detail with strategic considerations for leaders, founders, and practitioners na... more

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