#distributed-systems
11 episodes
#1725: Orchestrating AI Swarms: The New Infrastructure
Forget chatbots: AI orchestration is now the key to scaling intelligent agents in the enterprise.
#1652: AI Gateways: The Nginx for Your AI Stack
Why agentic AI needs a unified control plane to route models, aggregate tools, and cut costs.
#1647: Monorepos: Better Modularity Than Multi-Repos?
Why putting all your code in one repository can actually enforce better boundaries than separate repos.
#1506: The Apache Way: Powering the Global Digital Backbone
Explore how the Apache Software Foundation governs the world's most critical data tools and why "Community Over Code" is the secret to its success.
#1233: Why "Just Use Postgres" Isn't Always Enough
Can one database do it all? Explore why hardware constraints and data geometry keep specialized databases like Snowflake and ClickHouse alive.
#1032: Ancient Backups: How History Survived the Delete Command
Discover how ancient civilizations used monks, clay jars, and geographic diversity to create the world's first distributed data networks.
#917: Agent Mirror Organizations: Scaling AI Memory and Logic
Herman and Corn dive into Cloud Code and nested AI agents. Can "agent mirror organizations" solve the context window crisis?
#849: Web 3.0 in Practice: Beyond the Hype to Hybrid Reality
Explore the shift from location to content-addressing as we dive into the real-world state of Web 3.0 and distributed systems in 2026.
#683: The Pied Piper Reality: Building a Truly Distributed Web
Herman and Corn explore the technical and legal hurdles of replacing massive data centers with a global peer-to-peer network of consumer devices.
#605: Building a Unified Supercomputer: From SSI to CXL
Herman and Corn explore how to turn separate servers into a unified supercomputer using high-speed interlinks and resource pooling.
#586: The Heartbeat of Civilization: High-Precision Timekeeping
Why spend $1,000 on a clock? Herman and Corn explore the high-stakes world of NTP hardware and the precision timing keeping civilization in sync.