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More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you"ve never met

More than a Refresh is a new podcast dedicated to learning about data and the people behind it through lively conversation, diverse topics, and engaging guest speakers. We explore professional trends within the ecosystem including trouble spots, privacy, equity, democratization, and future directions. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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00:14:14

MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Small Wins Create Exponential...

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2026/02/05

In this episode, JD is joined by Alan Lazaros for a conversation about systems, consistency, and the long game behind meaningful progress. While most people focus on big breakthroughs, this discussion explores how small, intentional actions—repeated daily—compound into exponential results over time.Drawing from personal experience and years of coaching, Alan reflects on health, wealth, relationships, and fulfillment as interconnected systems. Rather than chasing intensity or quick wins, the episode

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00:12:10

How Your AWS Storage Decisions Shape Cost,...

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2026/01/27

In this AWS-focused episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with James Campbell about one of the most common (and most expensive) sources of cloud surprises: storage choices. James breaks down how AWS offers an overwhelming number of options across EBS, S3, and Glacier tiers, and why “flexibility” often translates into misconfiguration, avoidable spend, and hidden performance bottlenecks.They also dig into a frequent pain point: backups and snapshots. JD and James explain what people

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00:11:06

MTAR T3D Sessions: How AgentFS Rethinks State,...

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2026/01/22

In this episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with Glauber Costa about AgentFS, a virtual file system designed to solve one of the hardest problems in modern AI infrastructure: managing state and data isolation for fast-moving, sandboxed AI agents. Glauber explains how AgentFS treats the data layer as part of the sandbox itself, enabling agents to snapshot, move, and resume execution in milliseconds without relying on heavy infrastructure.They explore why traditional systems become

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01:24:46

MTAR 53: Enshittification, Open Standards, and the...

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2026/01/15

JD welcomes back Andrew Sullivan, former Chair of the Internet Architecture Board and former President & CEO of the Internet Society. Listen in as they continue their conversation on the “enshittification” of the internet, how consolidation and regulation are reshaping a network built on open standards, and why we may be closer than we think to losing the internet as we once knew it.

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00:12:15

MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Wellness is Key to Performance...

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2026/01/13

JD sits down with Amanda Nystrom to explore an often-overlooked reality in the tech industry: wellness is not a personal side concern—it’s a performance issue.Drawing parallels between system audits, Postgres health checks, and human behavior, Amanda explains why teams can’t expect long-term reliability, scalability, or high performance if they ignore the health of the people behind the systems. Just as neglected infrastructure leads to outages and technical debt, ignored habits and burnout

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00:10:27

MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Code Generation Still Matters

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2026/01/08

In this episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with Andrew Smith, Senior Developer/DBA, about a foundational concept in software engineering that quietly powers modern systems: code generation and single sources of truth.Andrew walks through the evolution of code generation—from early macros and assembly language to modern model-driven architectures—and explains why generating code from a centralized definition is one of the most effective ways to build scalable, maintainable

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00:10:27

MTAR T3D Sessions: Why Monitoring Isn’t Enough: The...

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2025/12/19

Welcome back to More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions.In this episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with Justin Graf, Senior DBA & Engineer at Command Prompt, about a topic every Postgres team needs to understand: why monitoring alone isn’t enough—and why full logging is essential for diagnosing database problems. Justin explains how organizations often rely solely on monitoring tools like PGStatStatements, CloudWatch, or Datadog, without realizing that these tools can’t

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00:12:28

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Greg Dostatni (DBA)...

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2025/12/04

In this special AWS-focused T3D segment, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with Greg Dostatni, Senior DBA at Command Prompt, to unpack a topic that every team running PostgreSQL in the cloud eventually needs to face: how your AWS decisions today shape your flexibility, cost, and vendor dependencies tomorrow.Drawing on years of experience with platform migrations, cloud transitions, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Greg explains why AWS is powerful and convenient—but not

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00:13:00

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with James Campbell of...

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2025/11/20

James breaks down the difference between checking the box for compliance and implementing meaningful, real-world security. From encryption-at-rest misunderstandings to SQL injection vulnerabilities that still plague organizations today, he explains why companies often miss the point — and how to approach security controls in a way that actually protects your data.If you’ve ever felt stuck in endless compliance meetings, wrestled with vague requirements like “encryption at rest,” or questioned

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00:13:33

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Kevin Jernigan of J4...

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2025/11/13

Welcome to Episode 13 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions!In this session, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with Kevin Jernigan, Chief Product Officer at J4 Capital LLC, whose career spans decades across the world’s biggest database and cloud companies.Kevin walks us through his journey from Oracle, AWS (Aurora PostgreSQL), MongoDB (Atlas Serverless), and Google Cloud, reflecting on what it meant to “reinvent the wheel” in database engineering — and why he ultimately

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00:10:59

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Valerii Herman of...

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2025/10/30

Welcome to Episode 14 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Valerii Herman, Python Developer at Command Prompt, about Cython — a superset of Python that combines Python’s simplicity with C’s performance.Valerii explains how Cython lets developers keep the readability of Python while selectively compiling performance-heavy sections into C extensions. Beyond speed, he shares how Cython can also be used for code obfuscation, making it

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00:12:01

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Eugene Dubinin of...

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2025/10/23

Welcome to Episode 11 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Eugene Dubinin, Senior Developer & Project Lead at Command Prompt, about strategies for fighting web application registration spam — a problem they faced firsthand while maintaining the Postgres Conference website.Eugene explains why simple measures like CAPTCHAs and honeypots aren’t enough on their own, and how a pipeline of layered defenses can drastically reduce

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00:12:06

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Andrew Sullivan of...

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2025/10/16

Welcome to Episode 10 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Andrew Sullivan — President of Anvil Walrus Den Holdings, Inc. and longtime Internet engineer and policy leader.Andrew explains how the open, decentralized Internet envisioned by its founders is being reshaped by the dominance of just a handful of tech giants. From Canada’s policy battles with Meta and Google to the way platforms have replaced the open web for billions of

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00:11:00

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Hunter O'Brien of...

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2025/10/07

Welcome to Episode 9 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsIn this episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with Hunter O’Brien, Jr Sysadmin/Jr DBA at Command Prompt, to talk about why monitoring isn’t one-size-fits-all.They explore how out-of-the-box tools often give shallow insights, and why teams should leverage their QA and test environments to improve production monitoring.Hunter shares examples like catching Postgres sequence wraparound, setting up smarter disk

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00:13:31

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Silona Bonewald,...

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2025/10/02

Welcome to Episode 8 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Silona Bonewald, Open Source Standards Pioneer and InnerSource Expert, about 10 things you didn’t know about blockchain.Silona takes a historical and systemic look at how blockchain emerged long before Bitcoin, and why its uses go far beyond cryptocurrency.💡 If you’ve only heard blockchain discussed in the context of crypto, this 10-minute talk will change how you see its

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00:11:17

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Brian Fehrle of...

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2025/09/23

Welcome to Episode 6 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with his colleague Brian Fehrle, DBA at Command Prompt, to dive into one of the toughest challenges for fast-growing applications: scaling your database without breaking the bank.Brian shares real-world lessons on what happens when traffic spikes, why simply “throwing more hardware at it” is a dangerous (and expensive) band-aid, and how smarter approaches—like monitoring PostgreSQL

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00:11:39

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Alan Chavez of Torta...

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2025/09/11

Welcome to Episode 5 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Alan Chavez — Product Engineer specialized in Growth, and Chief Technology Officer at Torta Studios — about the practice of growth engineering and how data-driven decisions shape the success of new products.Alan shares how retention and activation metrics drive real business outcomes, why retention curves are critical signals of product viability, and how activation

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00:12:09

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Greg Dostatni of...

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2025/09/04

Welcome to Episode 4 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Greg Dostatni, DBA at Command Prompt, about the Kubernetes mantra “cattle, not pets” — and why that doesn’t always hold true when it comes to PostgreSQL databases.They explore why stateless services scale easily in Kubernetes, but databases face serious challenges around failover, replication, and recovery. Greg makes the case that databases must be treated as pets —

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00:12:28

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Dr. Aaron N....

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2025/08/12

Welcome to Episode 3 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake sits down with Dr. Aaron N. Cutshall, Principal Data Architect at SQLRV, LLC., to discuss the power and performance benefits of set-based processing in relational databases like PostgreSQL.With database experience dating back to the 1980s, Aaron shares why set-based thinking is disappearing from modern education, how treating a database like a file system hurts performance, and why

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00:10:25

MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Victor Olex of SlashDB

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2025/08/05

Welcome to Episode 2 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Victor Olex, Founder and CEO of SlashDB — a platform that instantly turns databases into RESTful APIs with support for JSON, XML, CSV, and even a full HTML-based UI for exploring and querying data.They explore how SlashDB stands out in a crowded API ecosystem — including in comparison to tools like PostgREST, which expose PostgreSQL as a RESTful API — by offering a

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