Hosted by Adam (NovaWar) and Jeff (MaximusBlack), Technical Alpha aims to put our opinions on video games, movies, and tech out into the real world where people may judge us feverishly. If things aren't on fire, we're not trying hard enough!
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This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.). Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge. The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to underst ...
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Technical Alpha Episode 368 - Stuffing and Cranberry Sauce
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2:35:31This week we talk about the pricing of the Steam Machine, the next Xbox's hopes, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#132 - Clarity Over Tooling: Velocity & Building Teams Without Drama with Loïc Houssier // CTO @ Superhuman Mail
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54:11From acquisition carve-outs to 100ms interaction rules: Engineering velocity through team clarity, not tool proliferation PartnerTOPdesk: Discover the future of internal IT in the DACH region with the "Inside ITSM 2026" report – featuring exclusive data on AI, DEX, and collaboration from 6,000 IT professionals. Download the report here OutlineHow d…
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This week we talk about the Steam Machine, Xbox having to worry about the Steam Machine... and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#131 - AI Product Strategy: When to Build and When to Wait with Matthias Keller // CPO @ Kayak
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51:41From Alexa to LLMs: Platform experiments, distribution challenges, and how AI is democratizing feature development in travel tech Tradegate Direct: Europe's most direct online broker – trade for free, efficiently, and directly on the stock exchange. Trade directly here In this episode, Matthias Keller (CPO @ Kayak) shares strategic lessons about ma…
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Technical Alpha Episode 366 - Very Premium by Technical Alpha저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we talk about the next Xbox being very premium, Twitch failing Twitchcon, Love is Blind, Jeff's new appreciation for Love on the Spectrum and more!저자 Technical Alpha Podcast
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This week we talk about content creator life, the ROG Xbox Ally, video game development, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we talk about content creator life, the ROG Xbox Ally, video game development, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#130 - From PhD Research to DuckDB: Building the Next Generation of Analytical DBs with Mark Raasveldt // CTO @ DuckDB
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53:12How single-node performance and embedded analytics are revolutionizing database architecture for modern applications Tradegate Direct: Europe's most direct online broker – trade for free, efficiently, and directly on the stock exchange. Trade directly here In this episode, we dive deep into the world of analytical databases with Mark Raasveldt, the…
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Technical Alpha 362 - Legally Distinct Monster Training
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1:08:17This week we talk about Nintendo being Nintendo with their Virtual Boy, Xbox raising prices on their consoles again, Kojima with the double header PhysInt and OD Knock, SC2 Patches, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we talk about Battlefield 6, Expedition 33 game of the year possibilities, WarCraft 3 for some reason, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 363 - 50 Percent of the Time It Works Every Time
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1:41:27Technical Alpha 363 - 50 Percent of the Time It Works Every Time by Technical Alpha저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 363 - 50 Percent of the Time It Works Every Time
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1:41:28This week we talk about Xbox increasing Game Pass Ultimate prices by 50%, EA being bought out and going private, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 262 - Legally Distinct Monster Training
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1:08:18This week we talk about Nintendo being Nintendo with their Virtual Boy, Xbox raising prices on their consoles again, Kojima with the double header PhysInt and OD Knock, SC2 Patches, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#129 - $32B Lessons: Building CTO Teams, Rapid Innovation, and Staying Customer-Connected with Solal Raveh
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48:12What Wiz's $32B acquisition teaches about scaling CTO teams, rapid innovation, and customer-centric leadership Tradegate Direct: Europe's most direct online broker – trade for free, efficiently, and directly on the stock exchange. Trade directly here What does it take to build a company worth Google's $32 billion acquisition? Solal shares the hard-…
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This week we talk about the Twitch bot crackdown, what games we'd play blindfolded, the rise of sports betting, the EVO buyout, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#128 - From Tickets to Problems: Klaus Breyer // Head of Product & Technology @ Edding
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55:33From assembly lines to problem-solving teams: practical strategies for breaking development silos Here's the thing about agile transformations: they almost never work the way they're supposed to. Teams end up more siloed than before, chasing tickets instead of solving actual problems. Klaus Breyer has seen this pattern everywhere, and he's figured …
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Technical Alpha 360 - Hop On The Magic School Bus
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1:34:50This week we talk about the highs and lows of Gamescom 2025 opening night, Stormgate layoffs, living forever, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 360 - Hop On The Magic School Bus
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1:34:51This week we talk about the highs and lows of Gamescom 2025 opening night, Stormgate layoffs, living forever, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we talk about the future of RTS, whether or not Game Pass is good enough for Microsoft's Xbox moving forward, whether or not we can cook up the next great reality tv show, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we take your questions which apparently will include the 1.0 release of Stormgate, Battlefield 6, and a checkup with Star Citizen!저자 Technical Alpha
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#127 - Kelsey Hightower's Unfiltered Truths: 25 Years of Infrastructure, DevOps, and Retiring at 42
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1:00:30Unfiltered lessons on infrastructure, career strategy, and the art of knowing when to stop. What does 25 years in tech teach you? Kelsey Hightower, a self-taught engineer who rose to become a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a key figure in the Kubernetes community, sits down with Tobi to share unfiltered insights from his extensive career and …
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#126 - AI Transformation at Scale: Practical Adoption Across 150+ Engineers with Peter Gostev // Head of AI @ Moonpig
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1:05:48Navigating AI hype versus implementation reality in large engineering organizations The AI transformation challenge isn't just technical—it's organizational. Peter Gostev, Head of AI at Moonpig, discusses building practical AI capabilities in a 600-person company while navigating the gap between AI hype and implementation reality. From managing ado…
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This week we're talking about Microsoft and Xbox layoffs, The Initiative shutdown with Perfect Dark's cancellation, and a whole lot more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#125 - Two CTO Dinosaurs vs. Today's Tech Hype with Raz Shuty // CTO @ auxmoney
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1:03:15Unfiltered insights on microservices myths, cloud cost reality, and pragmatic technical leadership Two veteran CTOs tear down today's tech hype with brutal honesty and hard-won experience. Raz Schweiger-Shuty shares his controversial approach to technical leadership at auxmoney, where he stopped a microservices rewrite and focused on business outco…
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#124 - The Path to AGI: Inside poolside’s AI Model Factory for Code with Eiso Kant
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1:03:56Building Human-Level AI for Code: Model Factories, RL at Scale, and Distributed Teams Technical Deep Dives: Poolside’s model factory: end-to-end automation from raw data to production models Scaling RL from code execution: 800,000+ containerized repos, millions of agent tasks Immutable versioning with Apache Iceberg for full traceability Distribute…
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This week we talk about Marathon being delayed, Xbox partnering with AMD, rumors of Xbox 360 emulation coming to PC, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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This week we talk about Summer Game Fest 2025, Xbox Games Showcase 2025, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#123 - From Nokia to AI-IoT: Engineering the Physical World with Bernd Groß // CEO @ Cumulocity
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1:03:07Bridging operational technology and cloud architecture for industrial-scale systems The convergence of AI and IoT is reshaping how technical leaders approach industrial systems architecture. Bernd Groß, CEO and co-founder of Cumulocity, shares insights from building Germany's leading IoT platform—from its origins as a Nokia spin-off to becoming a c…
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Technical Alpha 354 - Sony's State of State of Plays
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2:32:52This week we talk about Sony's State of Play, Witcher 4's Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, Battle Aces getting canceled, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 354 - Sony's State of State of Plays
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2:32:53This week we talk about Sony's State of Play, Witcher 4's Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, Battle Aces getting canceled, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 353 - Not A Sprint But A Marathon
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1:40:40This week we winged it on low time, but we're talking Bungie's Marathon art problem, Oblivion remaster, Kojima's USB stick and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#122 - Grid Control in Milliseconds: Engineering Energy Systems with Barbara Wittenberg // CTO @ 1KOMMA5°
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1:01:14Real-time system architecture lessons from the edge of the energy transition Technical infrastructure enables the modern energy transition. Barbara Wittenberg, CTO at 1KOMMA5°, reveals the engineering challenges behind connecting and optimizing 40,000+ household energy assets while building a unified tech platform after acquiring 80+ companies acro…
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This week we're talking about the GTA6 delays, ASUS and Xbox making a handheld, console and game price jumps, Expedition 33 success, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#121 - Canva's Playbook: Scaling Teams, Tech, and AI with Adam Schuck // Senior Engineering Director @ Canva
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1:01:03Insights into hypergrowth, late-stage career frameworks, AI adoption, and the tech powering Canva's collaborative editor. In this episode, Tobi chats with Adam Schuck, Senior Engineering Director at Canva, a company that has scaled to over 5,000 employees, 2,000+ engineers, and 230 million MAUs while remaining profitable. Adam shares his journey th…
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#120 - AI's Singularity & Commoditization: Navigating Hype vs. Reality with Georg Zoeller // Co-Founder @ C4AIL
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1:13:51Debunking AI hype, exploring security risks, and strategies for CTOs in the age of rapid change. In this episode, Tobi talks with Georg Zoeller, Co-Founder of the Centre for AI Leadership and mercenaries.ai, about the turbulent landscape of AI. Georg, with his background at Meta and deep expertise in AI strategy, cuts through the hype surrounding A…
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This week we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 pre order woes, Bungie's Marathon, how we're part of the John Wick 5 problem, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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#119 - Navigating Ambiguity and AI's Impact on Engineering feat. Ivan Kusalic // CTO @ Enpal
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56:31Leading in ambiguous environments and the impact of AI on engineering practices In this episode, Tobi talks with Ivan Kusalic, CTO of Enpal, who leads a team of 250 engineers at one of Germany's leading solar energy companies. Ivan shares insights from his extensive technical leadership journey and his recent return to coding after seven years due …
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Technical Alpha 350 - Marriage or Switch 2 Mortgage
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2:45:48This week we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 Persona 4 Reload, Game Informer returning, Microsoft maybe bringing Steam to Xbox, and more!저자 Technical Alpha
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