Name: Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization | Blitzscaling 12 by Greymatter by Greylock in Programming
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Description: This is session 12 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by Nirav Tolia, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Epinions, who is then interviewed by John Lilly.

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This is session 12 of Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, a Stanford University class taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh. This class features a guest lecture by Nirav Tolia, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Epinions, who is then interviewed by John Lilly.  

Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization | Blitzscaling 12

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Matt Stine, global CTO of architecture at Pivotal. He is the presenter of the O’Reilly live online training course "Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns," and he has spoken about cloud-native architecture at the recent O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference and O’Reilly Security Conference.

Matt Stine on Cloud-Native Architecture

This week’s podcast features a chat with Vitor Olivier. Vitor is a partner at NuBank (a technology-centric bank in Brazil). This podcast hits on topics from several of Nubank’s recent QCon talks and includes things like: Nubank’s stack, functional programming, event sourcing, defining service boundaries, recommendations on reasoning about services, tips (or tweaks) on the second iteration of their initial architecture and more.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Property-based testing and Schemas (or Clojure.Spec)are complementary.
- Clojure’s functional nature and Datomic’s features are a match for Nubank’s requirements.
 - A (micro)service needs to be able to create the full representation of the core feature it’s handling.
 - GraphQL is useful to abstract away the distributed system complexity from the mobile (or frontend) developers.
 - Nubank’s uses a combination of monitoring and sanity checks in real time at various level to keep systems consistent. 
- Once an invariant is broken, the system will try to fix it automatically.

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Architecting a Modern Financial Institution with Vitor Olivier, Thoughts on Immutability, CI/CD, FP

On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Chris Swan. Chris is the CTO for the global delivery organisation at DXC Technology. Chris is well versed in DevOps, Infrastructure, Culture, and what it means to put all these together. Today’s topics include both DevOps and NoOps, and what Chris calls LessOps, what Operations means in a world of Serverless, where he sees Configuration Management, Provisioning, Monitoring and Logging heading. The podcast then wraps talking about where he sees validating code in a serverless deployment, such as canaries and blue-green deployments.

Why listen to this podcast:

* Serverless still requires  ops - even if the ops aren’t focused on the technology
* Even with minimal functions, the amount of configuration may exceed it by a factor of three
* Disruptive services often move the decimal point
* ML is the ability to make the inferences and AI is the ability to make decisions based on those inferences

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Chris Swan on DevOps and NoOps, plus Operations and Code Validation in a Serverless Environment

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. This episode was recorded during Iconversations, Greylock's new virtual speaker series event.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | Go Anywhere, Get Anything

How do tech startups go from idea…to iconic? Greymatter’s weekly podcast features interviews with VCs, founders, and tech visionaries on everything from AI, marketplaces, and cybersecurity as well as company-building strategies like growth, finding product-market-fit, and recruiting top talent. Founders and VCs offer candid accounts of success, failure, and adaptation. Greymatter delivers practical insights mixed with the bold optimism that defines entrepreneurship.

Nirav Tolia on Growing Nextdoor and the Path to Monetization | Blitzscaling 12

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