Utilizing AI internally to iterate faster and empower smaller teams to upskill w/ Vivek Raghunathan #263
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Utilizing AI internally to iterate faster and empower smaller teams to upskill w/ Vivek Raghunathan #263

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 7, 202637 min

Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of Engineering @ Snowflake, joins the Engineering Leadership Community Podcast to discuss all things AI – most importantly, how Snowflake is utilizing AI internally to iterate faster with smaller, focused teams. Vivek shares how AI and lower coding costs ultimately help Snowflake implement tighter feedback loops between customer & eng teams to speed up product development rollout and how Snowflake empowers their orgs to upskill when it comes to AI. Jerry & Vivek also break down what quality leadership looks like across the board and the role of AI in shaping today’s eng leaders. ABOUT VIVEK...

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This episode is brought to you by Sedaro. If your team runs Kubernetes, chances are upgrades can feel risky. That's what the Talos platform is for. It's built on immutable, minimal OS designed for Kubernetes.

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Immutable means clusters cannot drift, so they stay identical and upgrades are a non-event. Minimal means there is almost nothing to attack. 50 binaries, no shell, no SSH, so it's secured by default. Upgrades gets boring, security gets boring, and that's exactly the point.

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Check it out at Siderolabs.com. That's S-I-D-E-R-O labs.com. I'll tell you what I did. I told all my leaders, you're taking the week off to get your, all your, your entire team is taking the week off to upskill themselves. And my attitude is this is the highest leverage thing you can be doing right now. This is how you make sure you can be relevant for the next decade.

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