Lessons from Production
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Lessons from Production brings you real-world stories from tech leaders who’ve been in the trenches. Each episode dives into the challenges, hard-earned lessons, and behind-the-scenes insights from building and scaling technology in production. No fluff, just practical takeaways from experts who’ve lived it.
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The podcast covers a variety of themes including technology development, AI innovation, and product scalability. Episodes delve into specific topics such as building user-friendly AI tools and evolving traditional software like spreadsheets. For instance, one episode discusses creating an AI assistant that respects user privacy, while another tackles the complexities of modernizing spreadsheets for enhanced collaboration.

Lessons from Production brings you real-world stories from tech leaders who’ve been in the trenches. Each episode dives into the challenges, hard-earned lessons, and behind-the-scenes insights from building and scaling technology in production. No fluff, just practical takeaways from experts who’ve lived it.
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I’m joined by Bhanu from TiDB and Nikhil from ElasticRun. We dive into what it really takes to run open source databases at scale, from architecture choices to reliability challenges, performance tuning, and real-world war stories. Whether you're managing distributed systems or just curious about how companies like ElasticRun use TiDB in production, there's a lot to learn from this one.
TiDB Cloud free trial here. Shoutout to them for sponsoring this podcast.
TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database built for real-time analytics on transactional data. It combines the best of both OLTP and OLAP, making it ideal for modern applications needing scale, speed, and flexibility.
Want to be a guest on the show? I’m always looking to chat with builders, founders, and engineers working on interesting problems. Connect with me at [email protected], I’d love to hear your story.

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