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Bringing Pure Python to Apache Kafka (with Tomáš Neubauer)
The “big data infrastructure” world is dominated by Java, but the data-analysis world is dominated by Python. So if you need to analyse and process h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Taking Erlang to OCaml 5 (with Leandro Ostera)
Erlang wears three hats - it’s a language, it’s a platform, and it’s an approach to making software run reliably once it’s in production. Those last …
2 years, 4 months ago
How Apache Pinot Achieves 200,000 Queries per Second (with Tim Berglund)
The likes of LinkedIn and Uber use Pinot to power some astonishingly high-scale queries against realtime data. The numbers alone would make an impres…
2 years, 4 months ago
Neovim: Creating, Curating and Customising your Ideal Editor (with TJ DeVries)
TJ DeVries is a core contributor to Neovim and several of its most interesting sub-projects, and he joins us this week to go in depth into how Neovim…
2 years, 5 months ago
Creating Hackathons that Work (with Jon Gottfried)
Done right, a Hackathon can be a fantastic place to be a programmer - you get time and space to build and learn, in a room full of like-minded people…
2 years, 5 months ago
Automate Your Way to Better Code: Advanced Property Testing (with Oskar Wickström)
One of the most promising techniques for software reliability is property testing. The idea that, instead of writing unit tests we describe some prop…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bridging the Gap Between Languages (with Martin Johansen)
If you ever feel overwhelmed by the number of different programming languages, this week’s episode might just offer you some solace, as we talk about…
2 years, 5 months ago
If You Want Better Code, Do It For Me (with Jonathan Schneider)
A lot of programming is split into the mechanical work of writing what you know, and the creative work of figuring out what you don’t know. Wouldn’t …
2 years, 5 months ago
Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)
SQLite could do with a little competition, so when I invited the co-creator of DuckDB in to talk, I thought we'd be discussing the perils of trying t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Verse, Haskell & Core Language Design (with Simon Peyton Jones)
This week we talk to Simon Peyton Jones, a veteran language designer and researcher, and key figure in the development of Haskell. Haskell. Simon has…
2 years, 6 months ago