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"Real answers. No fluff. Rare combination."

Kenji Yamamoto · Indie Hacker, $12k MRR

"I prep for Monday standups with Friday's episode."

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Rodrigo Silva · Founding Engineer, Resend

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Fatima Al-Hassan · Principal Eng, Shopify

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Noah Park · VP Eng, Loom

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Three sessions. Three people who actually shipped it. Each one better than the last.

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EP. 01
Open SourceNode.jsPerformance

Priya Nair

Open Source Maintainer · Node.js Core Team

How Node.js handles 10M concurrent connections

"The PR that changed everything got merged at 2 AM by someone I'd never met. That's the whole story."

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EP. 02
AI InfrastructureSeries BSystems

Marcus Webb

Founder & CTO · Helion (Series B)

Rebuilding the inference stack from scratch at scale

"We burned $2M finding out that the bottleneck wasn't the model — it was the tokenizer."

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Live: March 28, 2026 · 9 PM EST

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EP. 03
API DesignStripeEngineering Culture

Anya Kowalski

Principal Engineer · Stripe

Why Stripe's API hasn't had a breaking change in 14 years

"Backward compatibility isn't a constraint. It's the only product decision that actually compounds."

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