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Season 2 Episode 43
So the Surfer's Journal, a surfing magazine, has a feature called "Best I Ever Saw" where they ask people in the surfing world to remark on the best …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Value of Software with Irina Telyukova
Season 2 Episode 42
Mike asked me the other day: "what's all this software actually worth?" Turns out he was talking about raw dollars. Who the hell knows? I said. Is th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Software News Roundup (with No AI news! (sorta))
Season 2 Episode 41
This week Mike and Erik committed to discussing the non-AI news out there in the software world. There's a lot of non-AI stuff going almost undiscuss…
1 year, 11 months ago
Agile Trashers Part 2: the Trashening
Season 2 Episode 40
In this follow-up to last week's episode on agile processes, Mike and Erik investigate the various criticisms of Agile and even come up with a few ne…
1 year, 11 months ago
Agile Trashers Part 1: a pre-history
Season 2 Episode 39
If you develop software professionally, chances are you use an agile process as the framework for scheduling and dividing work. You probably don’t l…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Nine Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Season 2 Episode 38
One day Erik decided to foolishly not worry about the 9 fallacies of distributed computing. Surprisingly, Mike seemed to indicate that was fine to do…
2 years ago
Hidden Vibrations of the Universe: Compositionality
Season 1 Episode 37
This week we take on the subject of compositionality, an ultra-abstract concept that might just underlie all the programming things we do.
Does this …
2 years ago
The Burnouts of the Century
Season 2 Episode 36
Following publication of a recent report where 80%(!) of software engineers and managers are reporting burnout, Mike and Erik take on the difficult t…
2 years ago
Monoliths vs Microservices
Season 2 Episode 35
Did you ever wake up one day and realize your microservices architecture had transformed into a large distributed monolith? Did your boss come to you…
2 years, 1 month ago
The End of the Fullstack Developer Era
Season 2 Episode 34
Mike made this argument recently that the era of the full stack developer is over. The so-called stacks are still around, but they're now surrounded…
2 years, 1 month ago