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Back to SearchComplexity Part 2: Out of the Tar Pit
Season 2 Episode 4
This week Mike and Erik conclude their discussion on complexity with a review of the 2006 fan-favorite paper "Out of the Tar Pit."
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2 years, 5 months ago
The Three Faces of Complexity
Season 2 Episode 3
As programmers, we want to control complexity and simplify our software, but these things are often hard for us to define. We know them when we see t…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Short History of Deploying Software
Season 2 Episode 2
This week Mike and Erik chat about deploying software and try to understand how it used to be and characterize what it's mostly like now. What are th…
2 years, 6 months ago
It's Gonna Take a Lot of Fireworks to Clean This Place Up
Season 2 Episode 1
Mike and Erik share debugging stories...
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2 years, 6 months ago
The Charlie Brown Property of Software: Something Bad Will Eventually Happen
Season 1 Episode 20
In this last recording for 2023, Mike and Erik talk about embarrassing things they've done at work over the years. These are mistakes, errors, screwu…
2 years, 6 months ago
How To Swim with Sharks: An Interview with Chris Staszak
Season 1 Episode 19
In this episode Mike and Erik talk to Chris Staszak who works for a startup investor in San Diego. Chris teaches the pair of hosts how to pitch start…
2 years, 7 months ago
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Liskov
Season 1 Episode 18
This week on the show, Mike and Erik discuss the work of Barbara Liskov. Their discussion includes a tour through types, concurrency, and distributed…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cyber Crimes in the Early Days of Cloud Computing
Season 1 Episode 17
Today on the show we welcome Scott Aker who regales us with a tale of a seedy group of hackers breaking into cloud compute services in order to steal…
2 years, 7 months ago
Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? An Entire Episode about Language Philosophy
Season 1 Episode 16
This week Erik asks Mike what living person he'd want to meet and then volunteers a person he would _not_ want to meet, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Then Eri…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kubernetes CPU Limits Got You Down? Come on down to our complaint clinic and we'll get you sorted out!
Season 1 Episode 15
On this episode, Mike and Erik talk Kubernetes requests and limits as well as the Linux CPU scheduler. Erik complains impotently and Mike sagely brea…
2 years, 8 months ago