Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Browse by what a video is for, then narrow to your industry. Tap any video to play it right here.
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Cline UPDATE: BEST AI Coding Agent Now Builds & Uses Custom Tools Autonomously!
AI coding agent builds tools autonomously in IDE
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Cloudflare Workers Explained
Breaks down how Workers run code at the edge without managing any servers.
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Complete LangChain Tutorial Beginner To Advance 2026
Complete LangChain from basics to production
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From Postgres to ClickHouse and Back: Building a Unified OLTP + OLAP Database
Unified OLTP plus OLAP for AI workloads
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Getting Started with Supabase
Goes from empty project to a working backend in one unbroken sequence, with generous zoom on the exact fields clicked.
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Grafana Cloud Demo in Under 5 minutes | Full Stack Observability and more
Under five minutes to see dashboards, logs, and traces unified inside Grafana Cloud.
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Grafana Tutorial for Beginners | What is Grafana | Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring
Prometheus metrics and dashboard creation
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Intro to Warp: terminal, agents, and cloud
Tight screen capture where every keystroke shows a real workflow win, blending live terminal footage with clean callouts so AI features feel earned.
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Introduction to dbt in 2026 | What is Data Build Tool
Modern data transformation platform guide
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Langchain Tutorial For Beginners 2026 | AI Agents For Data Engineers
LLM framework for AI agents
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Mastering Python Dependency Management with UV Astral
UV package manager for dependency management
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Observability and Security for the AI Era
Shows how Datadog extends observability and security practices to monitor AI agents and LLM applications.
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Pinecone AI Vector Database | Fast Semantic Search & RAG Power
Semantic search and RAG with vectors
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Pinecone Just Demoted Vector Search. Here's the Knowledge Layer
Pinecone knowledge layer features
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Pinecone Vector Database Tutorial 2026 | Getting Started With Pinecone
Vector database for RAG and search
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POSTHOG FULL TUTORIAL | How to Use PostHog for Product Analytics & Session Replay
Complete PostHog analytics tutorial
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PostHog Product Analytics vs Web Analytics - How to Track Your Entire User Journey
Track user journeys with product analytics
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PostHog: The All-in-One Product Analytics Platform with AI
All-in-one analytics platform with AI
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Turso and SQLite: Scaling Databases from Edge to Cloud
Distributed SQLite at the edge globally
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Vercel Product Walkthrough (2026)
A speed run that takes one web app from idea to deployed infra in a single thread, each feature advancing the same build.
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What is ClickHouse Database in 2026? The Fastest Open-Source OLAP Explained
OLAP database with 100x faster analytics queries
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Zed Tutorial 2026 | How to Code Smarter with This Code Editor
High-performance code editor tutorial
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Auth0: The Identity Platform for Developers
Explains how Auth0 handles login, MFA, and identity so developers do not build it themselves.
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Build Your First RAG Application Using LlamaIndex
Building retrieval augmented generation apps
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Cline (ClaudeDev) UPDATE: The BEST AI Coding Agent!
VS Code extension edits code in real-time
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Dagger Modules: un couteau suisse pour moderniser vos pipelines de CI/CD
Modernizing CI/CD workflows with modules
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Dagger: The Missing Ingredient for Your Disastrous CI/CD
Container-based CI/CD execution anywhere
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Deploy any application with one click using Render | Cloud Application Platform
One-click deployment platform overview
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Every Figma Product in 100 Seconds
A speed run format packs the whole product suite into 100 seconds, one tight beat per tool.
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From Legacy to Durable: Migrating Enterprise Workflows to Temporal
Enterprise workflow migration patterns and practices
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Getting started with GitHub Copilot
Shows the grey ghost text suggestion appearing and accepted with Tab in real editor footage, the hardest thing to explain.
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Getting Started with LangSmith (1/8): Tracing
First lesson in LangChain's official series on tracing LLM calls inside LangSmith.
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Getting Started with Retool, Full Platform Walkthrough
Builds a real internal tool live by dragging components and wiring a query, showing the core value as cause and effect.
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How Plaid Works
Invisible fintech plumbing made legible: motion graphics turn data moving between bank and app into an animated system diagram.
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Intro to Hex
Shows the notebook interface plus AI agents that help analysts build data apps faster.
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Introducing the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
Narrative film that follows one issue from assignment to merged PR, using confident motion graphics and real repo footage to make an agent tangible.
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Introduction to Pulumi: Modern Infrastructure as Code
Introduction to infrastructure automation
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Introduction to Terraform
HashiCorp's co-founder explains how Terraform standardizes infrastructure lifecycle management.
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Juspay Payment Orchestration | The Operating System for Enterprise Payments
Explains how Juspay routes transactions across 100+ payment methods to cut failure rates
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LangChain Tutorial 2025 | Build LLM Apps, Chains & Agents Step-by-Step
Building LLM apps and agents
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Learn Fivetran in 15 Minutes | End-to-End PostgreSQL to Snowflake Data Pipeline Demo
PostgreSQL to Snowflake pipeline demo
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Lightning-fast analytical queries on massive datasets with ClickHouse
High-performance analytical queries at scale
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On .NET Live | Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi
.NET integration for infrastructure as code
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Prisma ORM Full Course 2025 | Become a Prisma Pro in 2.5 Hours
Comprehensive Prisma ORM course
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Pulumi Tutorial: Introduction, Benefits, and Demo of Modern Infrastructure as Code
Modern IaC benefits and demonstrations
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Pulumi Tutorial: Modern Infrastructure as Code with Real Programming Languages
Modern infrastructure automation patterns
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Python Tutorial: UV - A Faster, All-in-One Package Manager to Replace Pip and Venv
Fast Python package manager in Rust
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Temporal at Netflix, Serverless Workflow DSL, and TypeScript SDK Demo
TypeScript SDK demo for serverless workflows
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Temporal: Open Source Durable Workflows for Apps & AI Agents
Durable execution platform for reliable workflows
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The Weaviate Vector Database - Bring AI-native applications to life
Vector database for AI-native applications
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Turn Observability Chaos into Control: Chronosphere Explained in 60s
A rapid pitch for how Chronosphere tames runaway observability data and cost.
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Ultimate Guide to HashiCorp Core Products: Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad
Complete overview of infrastructure tools
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Unleashing the Power of Fivetran & Databricks: A Beginner's Guide
Fivetran and Databricks for pipelines
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Voice AI, RCS Messaging, and more! - $ twilio update Episode 1
The first episode of Twilio's regular update series, covering new voice AI and RCS messaging capabilities.
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Weaviate vs Qdrant | Which Vector Database is Best in 2025
Vector database comparison and analysis
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What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)?
Category defining explainer that teaches the CDP concept with real customer examples first, earning trust before it mentions the product.
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What is GumLoop | Intro to the No Code AI Automation Platform
No-code platform builds production AI agents instantly
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What is Honeycomb.io? 2025
An updated overview of Honeycomb's observability platform built for modern software.
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What is the Temporal Platform? | Explainer Series
Explains how Temporal's durable execution keeps application workflows reliable through failures.
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Add Authentication to Your Next.js App in 100 Seconds with Clerk
Speedrun format that ships real auth in under two minutes, pairing punchy editing with legible code zoom so the value lands fast.
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Build Your First No-Code AI Agent | Full Relevance AI Tutorial
No-code platform to build and deploy AI agents
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CockroachDB explained in 60 seconds
A 60 second breakdown of the cloud native, distributed SQL database's core pitch.
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Cursor Tutorial for Beginners (AI Code Editor)
AI-assisted code generation and editing guide
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DuckDB & MotherDuck for Beginners: Your Ultimate Guide
Introduces the hybrid local and cloud execution model that pairs DuckDB with MotherDuck.
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Elastic Security | AI Assistant Demo
Demos the AI Assistant surfacing real time, personalized alert insights for security teams.
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Getting Started with Segment
Handles an invisible data routing product with a clear source to destination visual model before the dashboard walk.
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Getting Started with Supabase Vector Databases
A getting started walkthrough for storing and querying vector embeddings in Supabase's Postgres database.
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How Grafana Alloy Works: Demo | Grafana
Shows how Grafana Alloy collects and routes telemetry data across an observability stack.
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Introduction to Frontend Observability in Grafana Cloud (Demo) | Grafana
Demos real user monitoring for web apps through Grafana Cloud's frontend observability tools.
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Introduction to Semgrep
Overview of lightweight static analysis tool for finding security bugs
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Lithic: Making Cards Simpler
Card issuing API that simplifies payment processing infrastructure
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Looker Core on Google Cloud
Shows how Looker Core folds full BI power directly into a Google Cloud project.
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Metabase demo: See Metabase in action in 5 mins
Goes from a database connection to an interactive dashboard in five minutes flat.
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Next.js Conf 2024 Opening Keynote
Founder led keynote that builds a real app on stage, turning framework release notes into a narrative demo with crisp code reveals.
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Postgres on Neon: a new approach to database development
Frames serverless Postgres around the real pain of branching and scaling, then proves each claim with fast product footage instead of slideware.
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Powered by Airbyte | Airbyte Demo
Demonstrates syncing data from hundreds of connectors into a warehouse or lake.
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Redis 2024 Year in Review
Redis recaps a year of Query Engine, vector search, and client side caching launches.
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Reinventing AI Agents with Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu
Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu explains her approach to building AI agents that reason reliably, not just chat
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Send Marketing Emails via API with Resend
Developer first demo that writes and sends real code on screen, matching the brand typography so the product's design taste carries through.
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Smart Vault | Explainer Video
A tight Yum Yum Videos explainer that turns document management, an unglamorous category, into a clear and watchable pitch.
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Take a walk through the PlanetScale dashboard
Teaches the branch, schema change, deploy request model by actually performing it live in the dashboard.
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Weights and Biases: Streamlining machine learning and AI experimentation
ML experimentation platform for developers
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Bringing Real-Time Multi-Table Updates from the Database
Explains a genuinely hard realtime feature with a calm build from problem to live demo, using synced editor and UI panes to show updates push.
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BrowserStack Test Management Demo
Shows how BrowserStack centralizes test cases and cross-browser runs in one dashboard
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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform: Introductory Overview
An introductory overview of the Data Intelligence Platform, tying data engineering, ML, and governance together.
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dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote
Coalesce keynote walking through new dbt features for the analytics engineering workflow.
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Hello Weaviate - Introduction
Weaviate Academy's opening unit on what the open source vector database actually does.
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Introducing Webflow
Shows designers building a live responsive site visually, proving the no code claim on screen instead of asserting it.
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Introduction to Snyk
Comprehensive walkthrough of Snyk's developer-first security platform for finding vulnerabilities in code and dependencies
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Is Coding Right for You? Attend the Masai Coding Workshop
Guidance for students considering a coding career through Masai
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Masai School: How to Learn Coding with Sahil Shah Comedy
Entertaining approach to explaining Masai's coding bootcamp model
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Mendable: Chat powered search for your developer docs
Conversational search interface for documentation
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Raycast Full Tutorial
Surfaces the invisible keystrokes and command palette with on screen key overlays that match the app's fast feel.
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Replit Teams for Education Basics: Let's Get Started!
Onboarding workshop for teachers setting up a free classroom coding environment.
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Scaler Academy Free Online Courses with Certificate
Overview of Scaler's free and paid learning options
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Sentry in Six Minutes
Ruthlessly scoped tour that shows the actual debugging path from error to fix, proving a demo can cover breadth without losing a developer.
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Teleport SSH Server Access Demo
Privileged access management for SSH and server infrastructure
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Teleport: Revolutionizing SSH
Secure SSH access with session recording and role-based access control
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Vercel Product Walkthrough
A named host walks the real product; the git push to live preview flow is captured end to end so the deploy payoff lands.
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Weaviate Demo, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Vector Search, Generative Feedback Loops
Live demo of RAG, vector search, and generative feedback loops running on Weaviate.
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What Is ClickHouse?
Explains the columnar storage design that makes ClickHouse fast for analytical queries.
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What is Tailscale SSH? | Tailscale Explained
Part of Tailscale's own explainer series on how SSH access works over its mesh network.
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Datadog Product Tour
Threads many products into one incident story so platform breadth feels like a coherent journey, with smooth transitions between dashboards.
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Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas - A Modern Database!
Live walkthrough of spinning up an Atlas cluster, loading sample data, and querying it in minutes.
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Gravity Forms | Explainer Video
Yum Yum Videos makes a WordPress forms plugin's flexibility legible with a clean animated metaphor instead of a feature list.
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Intro to Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Walks through how the lakehouse unifies data warehousing and AI workloads in one platform.
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Intro to Linear
Shows the tool at the speed it promises, every interaction snappy to embody built for how you work.
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Move money easier, grow faster with Modern Treasury
Frames payment operations as one system of record for moving, tracking and reconciling money.
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New Webflow and Spline: 3D Product Demo
Shows a 3D element wired into a real page, alternating polished result and builder view so you see payoff and mechanism.
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Replit's AI Features for Education | Madhav @ Replit @ EdFest 2022
Conference talk on bringing AI-assisted coding into the classroom via Replit's browser IDE.
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Snyk Demo in 20 Minutes | 2022
A twenty minute walkthrough covering Snyk Open Source, Code, Container, and IaC scanning in one session.
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The Brief: Fall 2022 , Introducing Column's API
Real banking infrastructure API for property managers and platforms
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The Postman API Platform for Technology Companies
Explains how technology companies use the Postman API Platform to design, test, and monitor APIs.
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Turborepo in 2 Minutes
Matt Pocock explains how Turborepo speeds up monorepo builds with smart caching.
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What is Fivetran?
Explains automated data pipelines that sync sources into a warehouse without custom ETL code.
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What is GitHub?
BUCK casts comedian Phil Wang as a wry guide and builds the rubber duck debugging motif into the clearest explanation of what GitHub does.
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What is New Relic? | New Relic Platform Demo
Tours the observability platform for monitoring, debugging, and improving software performance.
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CockroachDB: A True Distributed SQL Database
Explains how CockroachDB speaks Postgres compatible SQL with ACID transactions at scale.
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Datadog Continuous Profiler Demo
Teaches one deep feature: zooms into flame graphs and line level attribution so you see the exact bottleneck being found.
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Digital Ocean App Platform (Vidico)
Commits to one sustained metaphor, a builder coding at the bottom of the ocean, giving an abstract PaaS one concrete world.
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Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas
A hands on tour of the Atlas UI, from cluster creation to connecting an app for the first time.
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Getting Started with Plaid in 3 Minutes
Fast developer-facing tour of linking a bank account and pulling data through the Plaid API.
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HashiCorp Nomad, A Simpler Way to Orchestrate Your Containers
Shows Nomad's streamlined scheduler handling both containerized and legacy workloads.
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Intro to Wiz, Cloud Security That Accelerates Business
Introduces how Wiz gives security teams full visibility across cloud environments.
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Marqeta Platform Overview
Explains modern card issuing as programmable infrastructure other fintechs build products on.
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Postman Platform Overview: Be API-First, Not API-Last, Kin Lane, Postman | Postman Galaxy 2021
A Postman Galaxy talk making the case for API first development, with a look at the platform's workflow.
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Retool, 4 Minute Demo
Builds a working internal tool live end to end from a database, proving build speed as the value prop in one continuous take.
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Snowflake, Twilio for Healthcare Virtual Care Demo
Builds a working telehealth flow live from Video, Conversations and Messaging APIs, making an API story concrete.
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Snyk: Developer Security Platform
Introduces Snyk's developer first approach to finding and fixing vulnerabilities inside the IDE and CI pipeline.
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What is PlanetScale?
Distills database branching into one memorable metaphor, pairing plain narration with animated schema diagrams for an infrastructure concept.
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What is Snowflake? 8 Minute Demo
Sequences a full load, transform, share, query story in eight minutes, mapping one sentence to one on screen action.
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What Is Twilio? SMS and Voice API's explained
Communications API for integrating SMS and voice into apps
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Wiz Intro: Secure everything you build and run in the cloud
Positions Wiz as a single graph based view of risk across cloud infrastructure.
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Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Follows a single trace from a slow request down to the offending service, so value is shown as a chase not a feature tour.
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Elastic Observability Overview
Shows how the Elastic Stack unifies logs, metrics, and traces into one observability view.
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Honeycomb Observability Platform Demo
A Honeycomb engineer demos querying high cardinality production data in real time.
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Pulumi in Three Minutes
A quick tour of managing cloud infrastructure with real programming languages instead of YAML.
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Teleport for SSH and Kubectl
Centralized access management for servers and Kubernetes clusters
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Welcome to Zapier!
Turns invisible API automation into a concrete when this then that story across familiar apps.
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A New Era of No-Code (No Code Conf Opening)
A manifesto not a feature reel: cinematic pacing sells an entire category and ethos, design without engineers, before selling the tool.
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What is Apache Kafka®?
Tim Berglund's lightboard breakdown of how Kafka streams and stores event data.
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What is Terraform Cloud?
Mitchell Hashimoto's whiteboard illustration of what Terraform Cloud adds on top of Terraform.
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What is Twilio?
Makes a developer API tangible by tracing a text and call through code to a real phone.
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Announcing Framer X
Design to code reveal demos live interactive prototypes, blurring the design and dev boundary by showing components run in real time.
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Introduction to HashiCorp Consul with Armon Dadgar
Explains how Consul connects, configures, and secures services across any runtime.
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Introduction to HashiCorp Vault with Armon Dadgar
A whiteboard walkthrough of how Vault stores and controls access to application secrets.
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Introducing Razorpay: Accept Payments Online, the simple way
Walks developers through accepting online payments the simple way, positioning the API as the whole pitch.
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Meet Airtable
Reframes a spreadsheet as a database by dragging records into calendars and galleries on screen.
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Crazy Egg Explainer Video
The conversion famous animated walkthrough of heatmaps, credited with a large lift in paid signups.
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The Original Dropbox Demo (MVP screencast)
A screencast MVP that validated demand before the product shipped, stuffed with Hacker News Easter eggs.
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