Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat's Zig got that C, Rust and Go don't have? (with Loris Cro)
Zig is a programming language that’s attempting to become “the new C” - the language of choice for low-level systems programming and embedded hardwar…
2 years, 8 months ago
Why did Redpanda rewrite Apache Kafka? (with Christina Lin)
Would you ever take on a rewrite of one of the largest and most popular Apache projects? And if so, what would you keep the same and what would you c…
2 years, 9 months ago
Debezium - Capturing Data the Instant it Happens (with Gunnar Morling)
This week we’re looking at Debezium - an open source project that taps into a huge number of databases and lets you stream data to other systems in r…
2 years, 9 months ago
When We Talk About Software (with Francesco Tisiot)
Ever read a bad README? We all have, and most of the time, we’ve just moved right along. A programmer that can’t communicate their ideas will find no…
2 years, 9 months ago
Semantic Search: A Deep Dive Into Vector Databases (with Zain Hasan)
As interesting and useful as LLMs (Large Language Models) are proving, they have a severe limitation: they only know about the information they were …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Data is Now is the Future of Data (with Thomas Camp)
Real-time data is gradually becoming a standard requirement in systems design. Our customers are beginning to demand it, our colleagues in other depa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Databases, Ambitions, and a Testing Silver Bullet? (With Joran Dirk Greef)
How far would you go to get the kind of database you want? How deep into the stack would you dive to re-architect a system for the kind of performanc…
2 years, 10 months ago
Starting A Tech Business. Again. And Again. And Again. (with Michael Drogalis)
Ever wanted to start a tech business? Michael Drogalis has done it successfully in the past, and now he’s trying again (and again and…) as he makes a…
2 years, 10 months ago
How Do You Assemble a Complete Software System? (with Ben Gamble)
Ask any software developer about their favourite stack, and they'll probably have strong opinions. (They might even have a snappy acronym for it, lik…
2 years, 10 months ago
Clickhouse: Faster Queries, Faster Answers (with Alasdair Brown)
In modern systems, the amount of data keeps getting larger, and the time available keeps getting shorter. So it's almost inevitable that we're augmen…
2 years, 11 months ago