{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes","title":"Inside Home Depot's Edge Platform with Dillon TenBrink","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3196,"description":"Dillon TenBrink, distinguished engineer at The Home Depot, joins Matt to trace an unusual path into the industry: farm kid from central California, no college, straight into Bay Area startups at 19, then dot-com bust, seven or eight years inside a regulated power utility, and now 15 years at Home Depot. Along the way he picked up networking as a hands-on apprentice at Nortel, six months of a senior engineer teaching him BGP and LACP on the whiteboard.\nThe back half gets into what technology actually looks like at retail scale: 2,300 stores across North America, an edge platform Dillon's team built that runs in the back of every store, and the integration work that pulled disparate data sources into a single view of customer, catalog, and SKU. His observability principle is the sharpest through-line: bandwidth is finite, so summarize at the edge and ship only what matters, and apply the same discipline to cloud. \"The metric has no value if it's just noise.\" He and Matt close on AI opening prototyping to people who don't write code, with Dillon's line \"today's vibe code is tomorrow's legacy\" landing as the hot take.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YI0Unx6Qb9KLViuYiPEmdR6Iz3pDcmFiJ4_Mhk4teL0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNzIw/MTRiOTUwM2NmNGNl/NzkyYzM4NzM3OTFm/NjUyMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}