Backend Banter

Sabine, primary maintainer of OCaml.org, shares her journey of becoming involved in the OCaml project, skipping grades, dropping out of school, and teaching herself various web languages. She also discusses creating a platform for sewing patterns, the challenges of their first web project, transitioning from sewing to development, and the struggles and learning experiences of working with OCaml and Rust.

Matteo Collina, member of the Node.js technical steering committee and creator of 500 NPM modules with over 17 billion downloads, discusses the future of backend JavaScript. They explore topics such as becoming a member of the Node.js technical steering committee, the importance of having a plan for a business or project, challenges and innovations in Node.js, and improving performance by deduplicating requests. They also touch on the comparison of a backend JavaScript framework and Node.js for faster API development, multiple users accessing the same page and hitting the database simultaneously, and unpopular opinions about TypeScript. The conversation concludes with the guest sharing contact information and hinting at future technical discussions.

Aaron Francis, web developer and Laravel expert, joins Lane to discuss the evolution of PHP and its usage in Laravel. They explore different programming communities and the challenges of discussions on Twitter. The speakers also share their opinions on dynamic typing, PHP and React, and the current state of React and web development.

Author of 'Learning Go' discusses writing the book and transitioning from Java to Go. They explore stability and trade-offs in software development. Balancing customer experience and reliability in mission-critical software. Sidecar applications and challenges in transitioning to Go. Favorite tools in the Go space and the challenges of immutability.

Lane chats with his distributed systems professor, Dr. Russ Ross, about the hiring market in 2023, experiences during the tech recessions in 2001 and 2023, challenges of distributed systems, transitioning to distributed systems, frustration with online platforms for tech discovery, and opinions on object-oriented programming and ideological purity in engineering circles.

Byron Ruth and David Gee from NATS and Synadia discuss distributed systems and PubSub architectures. They compare NATS to RabbitMQ and Kafka, covering benefits like reliability and decoupling. They explore advantages of pub-sub over synchronous communication and express unpopular opinions about HTTP and event sourcing.

Lane sits down with Sean Walker to talk about Ruby on Rails, dynamic typing, and even a bit of Rust. Sean's been writing Ruby on Rails for years, and has some opinions on DHH's recent articles.Sean Walker's Twitter: https://twitter.com/swlkrSean Walker's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/swlkr

This is a podcast about backend development, so I couldn't miss the chance to chat with Carson Cross, the creator of HTMX and author of the book Hypermedia Systems. HTMX is all about giving backend developers the power to build modern webapps, without needing to write a line of frontend JavaScript. In a way, it's a return to the way the web used to work pre-React.Find more about HTMX below!https://htmx.org/https://hypermedia.systems/https://bigsky.software/https://twitter.com/htmx_org

Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has changed over the years, and where its heading next.Wes Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesbosWes Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wesbos/Wes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WesBosWes site: https://wesbos.com/Wes Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesbos/

If you're nervous about searching for programming jobs this episode is for you. Lane sits down with Don the Developer to chat about everything from resumes and cover letters to how to present yourself in an interview.DonTheDeveloper's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/donthedeveloper