{"podcast":{"title":"The CTO Podcast with Fexingo: Technical Leadership, Architecture, and Engineering Org","slug":"the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807","podcast_index_feed_id":7871807,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-cto-podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-cto-podcast/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":76,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:18:24.326804+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807"},"episode":{"title":"How Walmart Rebuilt Its Supply Chain with Real-Time Data","slug":"how-walmart-rebuilt-its-supply-chain-with-real-time-data","published_at":"2026-06-21T07:23:37+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-cto-podcast/episode-0064.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-cto-podcast/episode-0064.mp3","summary":"In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into Walmart's massive supply chain overhaul, focusing on how the retail giant moved from batch processing to real-time data pipelines. They discuss the technical challenges of integrating 12,000 suppliers into a unified platform, the role of edge computing in store-level inventory tracking, and what other companies can learn from Walmart's approach to balancing cost and speed. The conversation also touches on the cultural shift required to get engineering and operations teams working in sync. Perfect for CTOs and engineering leaders thinking about modernizing legacy logistics systems. #Walmart #SupplyChain #RealTimeData #EdgeComputing #InventoryManagement #Logistics #DataEngineering #RetailTech #CTO #TechnicalLeadership #EngineeringOrg #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Podcast #DataPipelines #LegacyModernization Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into Walmart's massive supply chain overhaul, focusing on how the retail giant moved from batch processing to real-ti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":690,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cto-podcast-with-fexingo-technical-leadership-architecture-and-engineering-org-7871807/episodes/how-walmart-rebuilt-its-supply-chain-with-real-time-data/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"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.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}