The Infra Pod

AI Is the Fourth Application Architecture! Chat with Dave McJannet (ex-CEO of Hashicorp, CEO of Dome Systems)

1,000 tokens per second: the case against predicting one word at a time (Kumar, VP of Engineering at Inception Labs)

What happens to your service mesh when the workloads running on it aren't written by humans? (Chat with William at Buoyant)

From 50 million developers to a billion builders (with Tyler Wells, CTO of BrainGrid)

Building a model that can prove theorems (with Shubo from Axiom Math)

Betting on Open Source Models to be the future (Chat with Benny, Cofounder of Fireworks AI)

Specialized inference and model customization are becoming the primary drivers of AI infrastructure as businesses seek to move beyond generic frontier models. Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen highlights that while foundation models handle general tasks, vertical-specific applications—such as coding or healthcare—bene...

Building a successful infra product between all the AI apps and model providers (chat with Louis from OpenRouter)

OpenRouter serves as a critical infrastructure layer for AI development by abstracting the complexity of model selection, billing, and provider reliability. Initially conceived to de-risk developers from unpredictable token costs and vendor lock-in, the platform has evolved into a comprehensive control plane that now p...

From 30 Seconds to 20ms: Solving Browser Speed for AI Agents (Chat with Catherine from Kernel)

Coding agents need infra to apply code changes! (Chat with Tejas from Morph)

Let's chat about vibe coding & Ralph! (Chat with Dexter at Humanlayer)

Building a bug-free vibe coding world (Chat with Akshay from Antithesis)

Infra Pod 2025: Our Favorite Moments, Hottest Takes, and What’s Next

From Spark to Eventual: Reinventing Data for the AI Era (Chat with Sammy from Eventual)

Render is defining what taste means in backend infra (Chat with Anurag from Render)

Bazel and the Next Wave of AI Developer Infrastructure (Chat with Alex Eagle from Aspect Build)

The AI Analyst is coming to change Data Teams (Chat with Lucas from Gravity)

The next cloud to overtake AWS are AI sandboxes?! (Chat with Ivan from Daytona)

Future of File Storage for AI ( Chat with Hunter, CEO of Archill)

Turning Gaming PCs to Serverless CI for AI! (Chat with Aditya from Blacksmith)

Building the Future of AI with Long-term Memory (Chat with Charles from Letta)