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 346 - Until You're 47
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2:37:12This week we're talking about Sony's State of Play, GTA6 confirmations, Smite and Paladins in trouble, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#117 - Navigating AI Trends with Dat Tran // Partner & CTO @ DATANOMIQ, VP AI/ML @ Beams Safety AI
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1:08:42Tobi and Dat discuss AI's impact on technical leadership, tools, deep learning, and Europe's innovation scene, including practical use cases for AI agents. AI is moving faster than ever, and staying ahead of the curve is a challenge for every tech leader. In this episode, Dat Tran joins Tobi to break down what’s happening in the AI space, from cutt…
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Technical Alpha 345 - Leave The Dinosaurs Alone
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2:46:38This week we're talking about Xbox first party on Playstation with Forza Horizon 5, Bloodborne remake or remaster incoming, the new Battlefield game alpha footage, Fantastic 4 First Steps, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 344 - We're Going To Need 16X The Dollars
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3:03:00This week we're talking about DeepSeek upending the AI cart, NVIDIA trying to pick up everything that fell off the cart, Bioware pivoting, No Man's Sky being goated, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 343 - Xbox Obscura
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1:40:32This week we're talking about Xbox's Developer Direct 2025, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#116 - Exploring Platform Engineering feat. Camille Fournier // CTO @ Open Athena & Author @ O'Reilly Media
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1:03:04Platform Teams and DevOps Optimization: Insights from Camille Fournier on platform engineering, career growth, and CTO strategies for success. How do you create an effective platform team and optimize DevOps? Tobi interviews Camille Fournier about her career, technical insights, and best practices in platform engineering. Camille shares her journey…
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Technical Alpha 342 - Switch 2 Electric Boogaloo
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2:46:32This week we're talking the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement, Mario Kart 9, what Xbox needs to do next week for their Developer Direct, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 342 - Technical Alpha 342 - Switch 2 Electric Boogaloo
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2:46:33This week we're talking the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement, Mario Kart 9, what Xbox needs to do next week for their Developer Direct, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 341 - Enable DLSS For 4X The Podcast
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2:04:51This week we're talking about NVIDIA's fancy new 50XX graphics cards, DLSS 4, the possible next Xbox, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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115 - Exploring Growth and Compliance feat. Dennis Winter // CTO @ Börse Stuttgart
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1:02:08Scaling Tech in Regulated Industries: Engineering Growth with Security, Compliance, and Culture Ever wondered how regulated companies like stock exchanges handle tech growth? Dennis Winter (CTO @ Börse Stuttgart) shares how to build engineering organizations in regulated environments. With experience from embedded systems to leading tech at Solaris…
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Technical Alpha 340 - Ho Ho Holy Game Awards
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2:23:22This week we're talking about The Game Awards 2024 winners, announcements and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 340 - Ho Ho Holy Game Awards
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2:23:23This week we're talking about The Game Awards 2024 winners, announcements and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#114 - Building an SDK feat. Dr. Daniel Hauschildt // CPTO @ IMG.LY
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41:06The Tech and Business Side of Building an SDK Get insight into the SDK business (and learn about cross-platform performance and developer marketing) with Dr. Daniel Hauschildt (MD & CPTO at IMG.LY). As a client-side offering (no servers!), IMG.LY needs to take extra steps to ensure reliability on all devices 📱, platforms 💻 and browsers 🌐. From craf…
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This week we're talking about The Game Awards 2024 nominees and drama, Sony maybe buying out FromSoft's parent company, Steam getting proper season pass support, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#113 - Faster Incident Response feat. Tim Armandpour // CTO @ PagerDuty
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50:10Planning AND Practice: The Secret to Incident Response Plan and PRACTICE for better incident response with insights from Tim Armandpour, CTO of PagerDuty. Learn the secrets to resilience from the team that mitigated the impact of a major outage—handling a 250% traffic surge while delivering on their SLA. Listen to find out: 🛠️ Why planning AND prac…
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Technical Alpha 338 - Downloadable Content of the Year
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1:51:51This week we're talking about The Game Awards 2024 nominees and drama, Sony maybe buying out FromSoft's parent company, Steam getting proper season pass support, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#112 - Cross Functional Team Members feat. Daniel Bartholomae // CTO @ optilyz
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49:10Cross-Functional Team Members: What, Why, How Find out about cross-functional team members with Daniel Bartholomae, CTO at optilyz (direct mail SaaS). At optilyz, team members wear multiple hats—whatever hats they need to own the product lifecycle. From product management and design to development and customer engagement, this model eliminates silo…
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Technical Alpha 337 - Hello Caller
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1:38:06This week we're kicking back and answering some questions from the patrons!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 336 - All This Before GTA 6
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2:34:08This week we're talking about Bethesda's veteran systems designer talking about the industry's sustainability, PS5Pro reviews, AMD 9800X3D hammering Intel, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#111 - Organising for Impact feat. Eric Bowman // CTO @ King
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56:20Output → Outcome → Impact | Product + Tech | Adjacent Possibilities How do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commer…
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Technical Alpha 335 - Patches McGee
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2:17:39-- Get an Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/ott. It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! Get a 2-year plan plus +4 bonus months with a HUGE discount. PATREON: http://patreon.com/lagtv LAGTV discord: / discord Twitch: http://twitch.tv/technicalalpha The Grind Paperback Now Shipping: - https://amzn.to/2SoOy0F Watch Pod…
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#110 - Developer Efficiency feat. Rebecca Murphey // Field CTO @ Swarmia & Co-Author of Build
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53:29Aligning engineering with business outcomes, developer productivity and developer experience Become a more effective team in this CTO podcast featuring Rebecca Murphey, Field CTO of Swarmia and co-author of Build. From her years of experience working in the developer productivity organizations at Stripe and Indeed and now at Swarmia, Rebecca knows …
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Technical Alpha 334 - Definitely Awake
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2:15:47This week we talk about 343 becoming Halo Studios, Steam letting you know the game is a license only, and some long winded rants while we both stay awake!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 334 - Definitely Awake
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2:15:48This week we talk about 343 becoming Halo Studios, Steam letting you know the game is a license only, and some long winded rants while we both stay awake!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#109 - Cloud Cost Optimisation feat. Claire Fautsch // CTO @ Joblift
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39:08From 100k to 30k: How Joblift slashed their monthly cloud bill Save Money on Cloud Costs with Claire Fautsch (CTO @ Joblift). Find out how the team at Joblift slashed monthly cloud costs from €100K to €30K without compromising performance.Listen to find out:📊 How to build dashboards 📈 How to align cloud costs with business KPIs🤝 How to get the enti…
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Technical Alpha 333 - Eight Hundred Million
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2:19:50This week we're talking about the Nintendo and AI, California cracking down on digital sales, Guerilla Games making Horizon Online, Ubisoft shattering Concord's record, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#108 - Monitoring as Code feat.Hannes Lenke // CEO & Co-founder @ Checkly
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1:02:43How DevOps has Changed QA Keep an eye on the latest trends in this CTO podcast episode featuring Hannes Lenke (CEO and Co-founder of Checkly). Hannes shares insights from over a decade of shaping the testing and monitoring landscape. From AI-powered mobile testing to cloud-based browser testing to synthetic monitoring, he has seen it all.Listen to …
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Technical Alpha 332 - Four Hundred Million
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1:32:34This week we're talking about the Assassin's Creed Shadows getting delayed, Concord being more expensive than we thought, Nintendo vs Pocket Pair, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 332 - Four Hundred Million
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1:32:35This week we're talking about the Assassin's Creed Shadows getting delayed, Concord being more expensive than we thought, Nintendo vs Pocket Pair, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 331 - See You In Nintendcourt
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1:57:18This week we're talking about the PS5 Pro price, Concord nose diving, Palworld getting sued, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#107 - Sustainability Over Hypergrowth feat.Tuomas Artman // CTO @ Linear
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1:01:16Grow the business, not the headcount with insights from Tuomas Artman (CTO of Linear). Saying no to hypergrowth helped Linear succeed, but how did they do it? How did they build a high-quality product with a smaller team? Listen to find out: How to achieve quality products without increasing headcount 🌱 Avoiding feature bloat: The pitfalls of custo…
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#106 - Meritocracy, Backend and Engineer-led Sales feat. Shyam Sankar // CTO @ Palantir Technologies
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48:36Diversity in Meritocracy Through Rebellion 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 nugge…
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#105 - Trust & Accountability in Remote Teams feat. Sabrina Farmer // CTO @ GitLab
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51:08AI-driven DevSecOps Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience.Listen to find out:How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages develop…
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Technical Alpha 330 - Old Dog Old Tricks
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3:00:15This week we're talking about Deadlock leaks, Game Informer closing, Stormgate, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 330 - Old Dog Old Tricks
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3:00:16This week we're talking about Deadlock leaks, Game Informer closing, Stormgate, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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This week we're talking about Stormgate in detail after Jeff's first few days with it, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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This week we're talking about Stormgate in detail after Jeff's first few days with it, and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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#104 - End-to-End Technical Independence feat. Alexander Matthey // CTO @ Adyen
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59:00Independent. Direct. Security First Discover the benefits of end-to-end technical independence with Alexander Matthey, CTO of Adyen.Learn why Adyen cherishes its in-house strategy as Alexander shares how Adyen’s extreme technical independence (no third-party vendors) enables efficiency in everything from libraries to security. Listen to find out: S…
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Technical Alpha 328 - Three Ten Thirty Thirty
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3:29:08This week we essentially just talk about whatever including a lot of childhood gaming memories and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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Technical Alpha 328 - Three Ten Thirty Thirty
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3:29:09This week we essentially just talk about whatever including a lot of childhood gaming memories and more!Autor: Technical Alpha
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