Podcast Episodes

Cuis Smalltalk and the History of Computing's Future (with Juan Vuletich)

Smalltalk is one of those programming languages that’s lived out of the mainstream, but often referenced as an influence and an important part of pro…

2 years, 1 month ago

The Inko Programming Language, and Life as a Language Designer (with Yorick Peterse)

This week we take a close look at the language Inko from two perspectives: The language design features that make it special, and the realities of be…

2 years, 2 months ago

Building the Zed Text Editor (with Nathan Sobo)

I’ve often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it’s a simple idea at the core with an almost infinite scope for featur…

2 years, 2 months ago

Reimplementing Apache Kafka with Golang and S3

This week on Developer Voices we’re talking to Ryan Worl, whose career in big data engineering has taken him from DataDog to Co-Founding WarpStream, …

2 years, 2 months ago

Extending Postgres for High-Performance Analytics (with Philippe Noël)

PostgreSQL is an incredible general-purpose database, but it can’t do everything. Every design decision is a tradeoff, and inevitably some of those t…

2 years, 2 months ago

Designing Actor-Based Software (with Hugh McKee)

The actor model is a popular approach to building scalable software systems. And isn’t hard to understand when you’re just reading about the beginner…

2 years, 2 months ago

ByteWax: Rust's Research Meets Python's Practicalities (with Dan Herrera)

Bytewax is a curious stream processing tool that blends a Python surface with a Rust core to produce something that’s in a similar vein to Kafka Stre…

2 years, 3 months ago

Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)

Mojo is the latest language from the creator of Swift and LLVM. It’s an attempt to take some of the best techniques from CPU/GPU-level programming an…

2 years, 3 months ago

Batch Data & Streaming Data in one Atom (with Jove Zhong)

Every database has to juggle the need to process new data and to query old data. That task falls to any system that “does stuff and remembers stuff”.…

2 years, 3 months ago

Advanced Memory Management in Vale (with Evan Ovadia)

Rust changed the discussion around memory management - this week's guest hopes to push that discussion even further.

This week we're joined by Evan Ov…

2 years, 3 months ago