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Podcast•Feb 19, 2026•19 min
Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare Launched a Pay-per-Crawl Model
In this episode, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang chat with Cloudflare VP Will Allen about the newly launched pay‑per‑crawl model that lets publishers charge crawlers for access. They explain how AI‑driven content scraping has upended the traditional open‑versus‑block internet paradigm, prompting a shift toward giving sites control over data usage. The technical deep‑dive covers Cloudflare’s bot categorization and WAF rules that trigger a 402 “Payment Required” response, while also contrasting enterprise data‑licensing contracts with the flexible, programmatic pay‑per‑use approach.
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Podcast•Feb 17, 2026•40 min
Data Is the New Oil, and Your Database Is the only Way to Extract It
In this episode, Ryan interviews Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft, about the rapid evolution of Microsoft's database offerings, including SQL Server, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, and how they fit into a unified Azure data platform....
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Podcast•Feb 13, 2026•35 min
Even Your Voice Is a Data Problem
In this episode, Ryan interviews Scott Stephenson, CEO and co‑founder of Deepgram, about the latest advances in voice AI, focusing on how deep learning improves speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech accuracy across diverse dialects and noisy environments. They discuss Deepgram’s scalable, affordable...
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