Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJava's Cutting Edge Comeback (with Josh Long)
Java’s has been evolving faster than any 30 year old language has a right to do, and there’s probably no-one more pleased about it than my guest this week - Josh Long. He’s a Java & Kotlin programmin…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
The State & Future of Apache Kafka (with Anatoly Zelenin)
I’m joined this week by one of the authors of Apache Kafka In Action, to take a look at the state of Kafka, event systems & stream-processing technology. It’s an approach (and a whole market) that’s …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit (with Andrew Lamb)
Building a database is a serious undertaking. There are just so many parts that you have to implement before you even get to a decent prototype, and so many hours of work before you could begin worki…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Jupyter's Architecture Unpacked (with Afshin Darian & Sylvain Corlay)
Jupyter’s become an incredibly popular programming and data science tool, but how does it actually work? How have they built an interactive language execution engine? And if we understand the archite…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Nix, The Build-Everything Language (with Julian Arni)
Ever since we invented makefiles, the programming world has been wrestling with the problem of building software stacks reliably. This week we’re going to look at one of the most ambitious solutions …
Published on 7 months ago
Graphite: Image Editing as a Syntax Tree (with Keavon Chambers & Dennis Kobert)
Graphite is a new image editor with an interesting architecture - it’s a classic UI-driven app, an image-manipulation language, and a library of programmable graphics primitives that any Rust coder c…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
ReScript: A Better Typed JavaScript? (with Gabriel Nordeborn)
ReScript is a strongly-typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript, and that puts it squarely in competition with TypeScript. So why would a JavaScript developer choose to learn it next? W…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
A universal query engine in Rust (with Predrag Gruevski)
Trustfall is a library based on a simple question - what happens if we can query absolutely anything? If you could join REST APIs and databases with filesystems and dockerfiles? It’s possible in theo…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Raspberry Pi Hardware & A Lisp Brain (with Dimitris Kyriakoudis)
Dimitris Kyriakoudis is a researcher, programmer and musician who's combining all three talents to build dedicated music hardware. Specifically a device called the µseq, which reads Lisp programs and…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Software Systems Aren't Just Software (with Diana Montalion)
If you want to build really large software systems well, you have to stop thinking of them as just software systems. Beyond a certain size, everything your software touches becomes part of the wider …
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago