SO MANY THINGS need to go right just so you can watch a TikTok! | E2215

You know, what engineers do is troubleshoot, fix problems. They create problems, and then they fix the problems they created. There's a lot of interest now in how to use AI, especially gen AI, and how that can ease the burden of IT operations. The moment you get on a phone and you're looking at a TikTok video, I mean, the number of layers that are involved to deliver that, not withstanding the physical infrastructure to deliver the audio and video content, but the infrastructure software and physical infrastructure that it takes to store the media, it's a very complex environment and people want more of this faster. Just for fun, can you walk me through some of the software that goes into making a TikTok appear on my phone, for example? The videos have to be stored somewhere, so there's some quality control. So there are software associated with that. And then when the video gets edited and uploaded and stored, you wanna make sure that there's no data loss, no integrity compromise on the video. And then the distribution aspect of it, and then there's edge caching. You don't want somebody looking at the video to hit the back end server each time, and so there's what's called content distribution networks involved. This Week in Startups is brought to you by Uber. Bad data equals bad AI. Your AI is only as good as the data it learns from. Uber? That's right. Uber AI solutions now works with enterprises around the world to source, label, evaluate, and scale real world high quality data for every industry everywhere so that you can focus on building the next big thing. High quality data equals smarter and faster AI. Uber.com/twist. Perspective AI. Surveys, they never capture what customers are really thinking. That's why we use Perspective AI, real insights straight from your customers. And the first two months are on us. Just go to getperspective.ai/twist. And CLA, innovation takes balance. Our CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors can help you get from start up to where you want to end up. Get started now at claconnect.com/tech. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Twist. And if you are in The United States, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so I presume you are listening to us on the plane, from the car, wherever you are. We're glad you're spending the day before the great holiday with us. Now on the show today, New Bern, a Twist five hundred company that is building what it calls an agentic AI SRE. What does that mean? Well, it means they're applying modern AI technology to helping companies ensure that their cloud setup actually works. As the cloud becomes more complicated, there's more wires and tubes to connect, and this company wants to make sure that you never get them crossed. Then Jason talks to SubjectAI. It is a really cool company in the ed tech space. Like some others, it's helping students have more personalized educational tools and also helping …