Podcast Episodes

From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)

How confident are you when your test suite goes green? If you're honest, probably not 100% confident - because most bugs come from scenarios we never…

11 months ago

Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)

How would you build a Heroku-like platform from scratch? This week we're diving deep into the world of cloud platforms and infrastructure with Anurag…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)

How hard is it to write a good database engine? Hard enough that sometimes it takes several versions to get it just right. Paul Dix joins us this wee…

1 year ago

Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd)

If AI coding tools are here to stay, what form will they take? How will we use them? Will they be just another window in our IDE, will they push thei…

1 year ago

The $500 Billion Integration Problem, And One Possible Solution (with Marty Pitt)

Ever wondered why data integration is still such a nightmare in 2025? Marty Pitt has built something that might finally solve it.

TaxiQL isn't just an…

1 year, 1 month ago

Making Software Crash Before It Breaks (with Isaac Van Doren)

At 23, Isaac is already jaded about software reliability - and frankly, he's got good reason to be. When your grandmother can't access her medical re…

1 year, 1 month ago

Making Apache Kafka Diskless (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat)

How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That’s the big question in this episode as we look at one of t…

1 year, 2 months ago

Java'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…

1 year, 2 months 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 technol…

1 year, 3 months 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 …

1 year, 3 months ago