Shyam Sankar // CTO @ Palantir Technologies

Discover new ways to do things with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, who is working to deprecate backend development using their experience with 150 independent dev teams running a collection of 5,000 microservices. Yet this podcast is more than that (although I was blown away by the demo)—expect great nuggets of wisdom on meritocracy, data, and of course, backend. Think of this podcast as a series of back-to-back nuggets of wisdom that not only help you make sense of what you've observed but also open your mind to emerging trends.

Listen to find out

• 👨‍🍳 How French Restaurants Inspired Engineer-led Sales
• ⚖️ Finding Success in Contradicting Ideas 
• 🧑‍💻 The Two Types of Engineers: Artists 🎨 vs. Hackers 🔧 
• 🏗️ How he is working on deprecating backend development
• 📊 Why data is only as good as the decisions it guides and actualizes
• 📚 The Power of Ontologies
• 🧩 Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning
• 🌈 Diversity in meritocracy through acts of rebellion 💥 
• ℹ️ Why you need to reduce information asymmetry
• +🤖 Like Analog to Digital: How LLMs will change things