Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWriting, Technically with James Somers
Episode 10
James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts aro…
5 years ago
More Signals & Threads coming soon!
Signals & Threads is back, and we have a fun season of topics lined up, including: Building better abstractions for design and user interfaces, the r…
5 years ago
An inside look at Jane Street's tech internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang
Episode 9
In this week's episode, the season 1 finale, Ron speaks with Jeanne, Matt, and Grace, three former tech interns at Jane Street who have returned as f…
5 years, 10 months ago
Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico
Episode 8
Despite a steady trickle of newcomers, email still reigns supreme as the chief communication mechanism for the Information Age. At Jane Street, it’s …
5 years, 10 months ago
Language design with Leo White
Episode 7
Equal parts science and art, programming language design is very much an unsolved problem. This week, Ron speaks with Leo White, from Jane Street's T…
5 years, 11 months ago
Clock synchronization with Chris Perl
Episode 6
Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem t…
5 years, 11 months ago
Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning with Laurent Mazare
Episode 5
A conversation with Laurent Mazare about how your choice of programming language interacts with the kind of work you do, and in particular about the …
5 years, 11 months ago
Compiler optimization with Greta Yorsh
Episode 4
It’s a software engineer’s dream: A compiler that can take idiomatic high-level code and output maximally efficient instructions. Ron’s guest this we…
5 years, 11 months ago
Multicast and the markets with Brian Nigito
Episode 3
Electronic exchanges like Nasdaq need to handle a staggering number of transactions every second. To keep up, they rely on two deceptively simple-sou…
6 years ago
Build systems with Andrey Mokhov
Episode 2
Most software engineers only think about their build system when it breaks; and yet, this often unloved piece of software forms the backbone of every…
6 years ago