Building AI Products at Amazon & Amazon Q - Anoop Deoras (Director, AWS Agentic AI)
Large tech companies have been rapidly embracing AI. Amazon in particular has been innovating rapidly with many recent announcements (Nova, Tranium 3, Bedrock Agents, & more), this episode dives into Amazon Q and Agentic AI at Amazon / AWS.Anoop Deoras is the Director of AWS Agentic AI and previously was a Principal Technologist at Netflix. In this episode we dive into the following areas:* The progression of AI over ~20 years* Building recommendation engines before Transformers* How AWS approached building Amazon Q* State of Coding Agents Today and Biggest Challenges around CodeGen* How AI Can Handle Large Scale Codebase Migrations* What Agents Change Compared to Current Codegen* Memory and Future Agentic ApplicationsWhere to Find Anoop:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoopdeoras/* Twitter: https://x.com/adeorasWhere to Find Shomik:* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/* Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com
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Building AI Driven Workflows - Eoin Hinchy (CEO, Tines)
For those who are interested in how AI is impacting workflows of teams across industries, this is the episode for you.Eoin Hinchy is the CEO & Founder of Tines, a workflow builder for security-minded teams. He was previously the Sr Director of Security for Docusign and practiced security engineering at many others startups and corporations previously. In this episode we dive into the following areas:* The Founding Story Behind Tines* The Evolution of SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, & Remediation) over the past 10 years* How Tines Moved From Building for Security Teams to a Horizontal Worfklow Builder* How Tines Using AI to Enrich the Customer Experience* Customer Use Cases for AI* How Agents Will Impact Workflows in the Futuer* Why Attackers Don’t Need to Use AIWhere to Find Eoin:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoinhinchy/* Twitter: https://x.com/eoinhinchy* Website: https://www.tines.com/Where to Find Shomik:* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/* Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com* Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com
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Enterprise News - March 11 w/ Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart)
For anyone who’s interested in a recurring podcast that covers the Enterprise news from the past few weeks, this is the episode for you. In this episode, Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart) & Shomik Ghosh (Partner, Boldstart) dive into key Enterprise Software news from the 2 weeks prior. This is the first such episode and we’d love to hear your thoughts! Please let us know if you’d like to hear this more by reaching out, commenting, tweeting, etc!* Nvidia Earnings* OpenAI GPT 4.5 release* Microsoft leasing vs building datacenters (along with a cancelled datacenter build)* Grok 3 release on largest GPU cluster* Claude 3.7 release with reasoning* Claude Code* Confluent Earnings* Stripe Annual Report on AI company revenue growth* Microsoft Deprecating Skype and Amazon Shutting Down Chime* Quantum Chips released by Google and Amazon This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com
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Data Streaming for AI - Andrew Sellers (Head of Technology Strategy, Confluent)
This episode is for whomever is interested in data workloads for AI particularly event streaming and how those will be used in AI model training and inference.Andrew Sellers is the Head of Technology Strategy at Confluent. He was previously CTO at QOMPLX and CTO of the US Air Force Academy. In this episode, we dive into technology in the government and what changes for event streaming in the context of AI models. We cover technical aspects of data streaming, customer use cases for AI & event streams, and differences between inference workloads and training workloads for data streams.Where to Find Andrew Sellers:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjsel/Where to Find Shomik:* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/* Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com* Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google.Covers:(01:52) - Background as CTO of US Air Force Academy(04:26) - How the Public Sector Optimizes Tech Decisions & Procurement(7:34) - Enterprise Data Strategies for AI(9:30) - Why Decoupling is More Important than Latency for Data Streaming Needs(12:30) - In-Stream Processing(17:10) - Bi-Directional Streaming(18:50) - AI Agents Impact on Streaming(21:10) - Inference Workflow Impact on Streaming(27:04) - Customer Use Cases(36:25) - Agent Use for Internal Product Workloads(38:12) - Real Time Data Attach Rates to Inference This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com
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AI Security in Coding Workflows - Ty Sbano (CISO, Vercel) & Emilio Escobar (CISO, Datadog)
This episode is for whomever is curious about diving deep into AI Security and how CISOs think about it within internal and external workflows. Ty Sbano is the CISO of Vercel, the leading web experience hosting and deployment platform. He was previously CISO at Sisense and previously Sr Director of Security at Lending Club, Target, and Capital One. I’m also joined by Emilio Escobar, CISO of Datadog as a co-host. In this episode, we dive into how AI changes security practices, how to manage AI security around external products and internal workflows, and whether AI leverages existing primitives or involves new paradigms. For any security practitioners and founders, this is the episode for you!Where to Find Ty Sbano:* Twitter: https://x.com/TySbano* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysbano/Where to Find Emilio:* Twitter: https://twitter.com/eaescob* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilioesc/* Emilio’s Newsletter: Developer First SecurityWhere to Find Shomik:* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/* Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com* Software Snack Bites Podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com
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