The Podcast
Two shows. Zero hype. Honest conversations with engineers building and breaking things at scale — exploring what actually works when the demo is over.
01 — The Shows
The Unboxing
Every episode picks one tool, framework, or pattern and runs it against real production criteria. No benchmarks, no vendor demos — just what happens when engineers actually use it.
Field Notes
Shorter, sharper episodes from engineers who've been through it. Cost disasters, incident retrospectives, migration nightmares — real stories, real lessons.
Latest episode · The Unboxing
02 — Upcoming
03 — Archive
04 — Guests
Ananya Rao
Staff Engineer · Razorpay
Ep 24 — The cost of agentic AI
Vikram Sethi
ML Lead · Swiggy
Ep 25 — Does RAG still matter?
Priya Nair
Platform Engineering · CRED
Ep 26 — Kubernetes cost wars
Rohan Mehta
Infrastructure Lead · Zepto
Ep 23 — Platform fatigue
Nisha Kapoor
Principal SRE · Flipkart
Ep 21 — The $40k Kubernetes bill
Daniel Okoro
Engineering Manager · GitHub
Ep 27 — AI code review (upcoming)
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