# The CTO Podcast with Fexingo: Technical Leadership, Architecture, and Engineering Org

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Official site: https://www.fexingo.com/
Author: Fexingo
Episodes: 76

## Resource

Lucas and Luna sit down in front of a whiteboard to dissect the decisions that shape technical organizations. Each episode of The CTO Podcast with Fexingo examines a specific engineering leadership challenge — from scaling a microservices architecture without creating a distributed monolith, to managing the cognitive load of a 200-engineer org, to choosing between a monorepo and polyrepo strategy based on team topology. The conversations are grounded in real-world cases: how Etsy restructured its data pipeline after a 2019 outage, why Stripe’s API versioning policy reduces breaking changes, or what Basecamp’s choice of SQLite over PostgreSQL says about product philosophy. Lucas brings the journalistic rigor — citing commit histories, RFCs, and postmortems — while Luna pushes back with the pragmatics of org dynamics, hiring constraints, and technical debt. There are no hot takes, no vendor pitches, no ‘best practices’ without trade-offs. Each episode ends with a specific tension left unresolved: the optimal number of direct reports for a VP of Engineering, the point at which a monolith should be broken apart, or whether a platform team should own the CI/CD pipeline. The listener is…

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## Episodes
- [How Loom Rebuilt Its Video Engine for Async Communication](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-loom-rebuilt-its-video-engine-for-async-communication) — 2026-06-27T07:43:41+00:00
- [How Discord Rebuilt Its Voice Engine for Zero Packet Loss](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-discord-rebuilt-its-voice-engine-for-zero-packet-loss) — 2026-06-26T19:55:41+00:00
- [How Airbnb Rebuilt Search for 8 Million Listings](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-airbnb-rebuilt-search-for-8-million-listings) — 2026-06-26T07:31:12+00:00
- [How GitLab Built a Single Codebase for One Million CI Pipelines](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-gitlab-built-a-single-codebase-for-one-million-ci-pipelines) — 2026-06-25T19:41:58+00:00
- [How Slack Rebuilt Its Search Index for 10 Million Daily Queries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-slack-rebuilt-its-search-index-for-10-million-daily-queries) — 2026-06-25T07:31:09+00:00
- [How Notion Rebuilt Its Sync Engine for Offline-First](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-notion-rebuilt-its-sync-engine-for-offline-first) — 2026-06-24T19:53:24+00:00
- [How Notion Rebuilt Its Block Engine for Hybrid Local-Sync](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-notion-rebuilt-its-block-engine-for-hybrid-local-sync) — 2026-06-24T07:33:55+00:00
- [How MongoDB Rebuilt Its Document Store for Multi-Terabyte Workloads](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-mongodb-rebuilt-its-document-store-for-multi-terabyte-workloads) — 2026-06-23T19:52:30+00:00
- [How Doordash Rebuilt Delivery Logistics for Peak Demand](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-doordash-rebuilt-delivery-logistics-for-peak-demand) — 2026-06-23T07:30:41+00:00
- [How Cloudflare Migrated 30 Million Requests Per Second Without Downtime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-cloudflare-migrated-30-million-requests-per-second-without-downtime) — 2026-06-22T19:34:01+00:00
- [How Canva Built a Collaborative Design Platform at Scale](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-canva-built-a-collaborative-design-platform-at-scale) — 2026-06-22T07:28:20+00:00
- [How GitHub Actually Migrated 100 Million Repos to a New Storage Engine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-github-actually-migrated-100-million-repos-to-a-new-storage-engine) — 2026-06-21T19:54:36+00:00
- [How Walmart Rebuilt Its Supply Chain with Real-Time Data](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-walmart-rebuilt-its-supply-chain-with-real-time-data) — 2026-06-21T07:23:37+00:00
- [How Pinterest Rebuilt Its Recommendation Engine for 500 Million Users](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-pinterest-rebuilt-its-recommendation-engine-for-500-million-users) — 2026-06-20T19:40:54+00:00
- [How Anthropic Built Claude 3 for Enterprise Reliability](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-anthropic-built-claude-3-for-enterprise-reliability) — 2026-06-20T07:20:06+00:00
- [How Spotify Rebuilt Its Recommender System for 600 Million Users](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-spotify-rebuilt-its-recommender-system-for-600-million-users) — 2026-06-19T19:36:59+00:00
- [How Netflix Rebuilt Its CDN for 300 Million Subscribers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-netflix-rebuilt-its-cdn-for-300-million-subscribers) — 2026-06-19T07:03:26+00:00
- [How Walmart Rebuilt Its Supply Chain with Real-Time Data](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-walmart-rebuilt-its-supply-chain-with-real-time-data-2) — 2026-06-18T19:20:11+00:00
- [How Datadog Monitors Its Own Infrastructure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-datadog-monitors-its-own-infrastructure) — 2026-06-18T07:11:34+00:00
- [How Figma Rebuilt Its Multiplayer Engine for 500 Users per File](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-figma-rebuilt-its-multiplayer-engine-for-500-users-per-file) — 2026-06-17T19:12:14+00:00
- [How Cloudflare Built Its Global Network for 30 Million Requests per Second](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-cloudflare-built-its-global-network-for-30-million-requests-per-second) — 2026-06-17T07:17:58+00:00
- [How Stripe Migrated Payment Routing to 99.999% Uptime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-stripe-migrated-payment-routing-to-99-999-uptime) — 2026-06-16T19:15:42+00:00
- [How Datadog Monitors Its Own 100-Terabyte Infrastructure](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-datadog-monitors-its-own-100-terabyte-infrastructure) — 2026-06-16T07:13:43+00:00
- [How Stripe Rebuilt Payment Routing for 99.999% Uptime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-stripe-rebuilt-payment-routing-for-99-999-uptime) — 2026-06-15T19:36:17+00:00
- [How Supabase Rebuilt Postgres for Real-Time Apps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/how-supabase-rebuilt-postgres-for-real-time-apps) — 2026-06-15T07:11:18+00:00

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