

Happy Path Programming
Bruce Eckel & James Ward
No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
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Sep 15, 2023 • 1h 20min
#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes
Expert in Scala, Rust, and durable computing platforms, John De Goes, discusses his Scala & Rust journeys, Golem Cloud, business applications parallelism need, Rust's impressive tooling, differences in meta programming models, building a command line tool with ZOCLI and GraalVM, achieving durability with WebAssembly, exploring potential of durable computing, technology stack, and simplifying reasoning about concurrent programs.

Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 9min
#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz
We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up.
Referenced Article: 10 Years of Failure Friday at PagerDuty: Fostering Resilience, Learning and Reliability
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Aug 21, 2023 • 58min
#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency
At the Rust Developer Retreat, the hosts discuss their projects and experiences with Rust. They also explore structured concurrency, anonymous types in Python and Rust, the benefits of small scopes in programming, and the Tokyo scheduler. They highlight the importance of higher-level APIs for structured concurrency and the advantages of using them in Rust.

Jul 7, 2023 • 1h 12min
#82 The Future of Programming
Bruce and James chat about the future of programming.
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Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 6min
#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi
Michael created Effect, a functional effect system inspired by Scala ZIO, for TypeScript. We chat about Functional Programming, the TypeScript language, and Effects.
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May 13, 2023 • 46min
#80 Investing in Developer Tools with Renee Shah
Renee Shah is a partner at Amplify Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. We discuss some broad industry trends: Edge, Wasm, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, and much more!
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May 6, 2023 • 1h 2min
#79 Domain-Driven Design and Moduliths with Oliver Drotbohm
We chat with Oliver Drotbohm about what Domain-Driven Design is and how it might intersect with Microservices, Monoliths, or Moduliths. Mentioned resources:
Parnas on modularity
Chris Richardson – Introducing Assemblage - a microservice architecture definition process
Spring Modulith Project
Introducing Spring Modulith
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Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 16min
#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski
First a short rant about mutability followed by learning about Smithy, an Interface Description Language (IDL), with Jakub Kozłowski.
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Apr 5, 2023 • 1h 1min
#77 Quarkus and Microservices with Holly Cummins
Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus.
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Feb 27, 2023 • 1h 1min
#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar
WebAssembly (Wasm) finds a way for the web to move forward to near-native performance while avoiding the limitations of JavaScript. In this episode we chat with Vivek Sekhar, a product manager on the Chrome team, about all the Wasm things and how they relate to a better foundation for cross-platform, high performance apps, in the browser, on the cloud, and maybe just everywhere.
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