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Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic

Jose Quaresma

Booking Overview

This is a technical interview podcast focused on scalability, reliability, performance, and high-traffic system design, featuring senior engineering leaders, infrastructure founders, and enterprise technology executives. Agencies could credibly pitch CTOs, principal engineers, cloud and AI infrastructure specialists, observability experts, and founders with hands-on experience operating systems at scale; booking difficulty is high because guests typically have substantial leadership credentials and experience at major technology companies.

Metrics

Episodes: 25

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Male

Listener location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 3.0k subscribers

Instagram: 427 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@queue-it.com

marketing@queue-it.com

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Host

Jose Quaresma - VP of Customer Experience & Solutions at Queue-it, working with major businesses to design and operate reliable systems during periods of exceptionally high demand.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior technical and business leaders with hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating high-scale infrastructure, including CEOs, founders, senior staff engineers, AI infrastructure leaders, cloud strategists, and executives from major technology companies.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership of infrastructure or cloud initiatives at major technology companies, Founding or building enterprise infrastructure products, Contributions to open-source systems or industry specifications, Operating large-scale, high-availability systems, Executive leadership of major cloud, AI, or IT-services organizations

Recent Guest Discussions

Suman Karumuri - Petabyte-scale Observability, Cloud-native Log Search, Separating Compute From Storage, Opentelemetry, And The Impact Of Agentic AI On Log Systems.

Klaus Koefoed - Sovereign Cloud, Sovereign AI, European Infrastructure, Data And Operational Sovereignty, Hybrid And Multi-cloud Strategy, And Enterprise AI Infrastructure.

Satyam Sam Dhar - Cloud Prem Deployments, Enterprise Data Ownership, Compliance, Customer-controlled Infrastructure, AI Evaluation, Self-hosted Language Models, And GPU Constraints.

Recent Topics

Scalability, Reliability, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic
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Bot Traffic as a Capacity and Cost Problem with Netacea CTO Andy Still

October 13, 2026

Andy Still has spent nearly 30 years keeping high-traffic websites standing, starting in rock and pop ticketing before there was a cloud to scale into. Today he is CTO and Co-Founder of Netacea, a bot and agent trust platform. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Andy walks host Jose Quaresma through what automated traffic actually costs, from autoscaling bills and stolen loyalty points to skewed analytics that steer a business toward the wrong decisions. His starting point: bots ar...

How to Trust an AI Agent with AWS's Alexander Günsche and Queue-it's Moji Sarooghi

September 01, 2026

When an AI agent shows up at your checkout, most systems still see a bot and block it. Alexander Guensche is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and the lead of TSAI, the Trust Signals for Agentic Interactions protocol that AWS is building with Trusted Shops. Moji Sarooghi is a Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, global leader of online traffic orchestration and managing high traffic events for the worlds biggest brands. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, the two of them ...

Rebuilding Observability for the Agentic AI Era with Suman Karumuri

July 07, 2026

Suman Karumuri has spent 17+ years building observability systems at Amazon, Twitter, Pinterest, Slack, and Airbnb. He was tech lead for Zipkin at Twitter, co-authored the OpenTracing specification that fed into OpenTelemetry, and has now replaced Elasticsearch twice at high-traffic platforms. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Suman walks host Jose Quaresma through KalDB, the open-source, cloud-native log search engine he is building into a product, which runs at petabyte scale a...

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Frequently asked questions

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How do I get in touch with Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic?

Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic is hosted by Jose Quaresma. Its publicly listed emails are info@queue-it.com and marketing@queue-it.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic?

The publicly listed emails for Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic: info@queue-it.com and marketing@queue-it.com.

How many listeners does Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic have?

Podseeker estimates Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic?

Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior technical and business leaders with hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating high-scale infrastructure, including CEOs, founders, senior staff engineers, AI infrastructure leaders, cloud strategists, and executives from major technology companies. Common among recent guests: Leadership of infrastructure or cloud initiatives at major technology companies; Founding or building enterprise infrastructure products; Contributions to open-source systems or industry specifications. Recent guests include Suman Karumuri, Klaus Koefoed, and Satyam Sam Dhar.

How hard is it to get booked on Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic?

High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

What topics does Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic cover?

Recent episodes cover Scalability, Reliability, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

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