Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We learn the motivations behind Haskell and why it is the pinnacle of Functional Programming from Kris Jenkins, a Developer Advocate at Confluent. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a set of tools & practices that help engineers be more productive. We chat with Justin Reock, field CTO at Gradle, about why more organizations need DPE and what that really means.  Learn more at: https://gradle.com/developer-productivity-engineering/ Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

After being told many times that Nix is all we dream for when it comes to software packaging, we finally chat with Domen Kožar and learn all about Nix. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive and happier.  We chat with a co-creator of Pants, Benjy Weinberger, about the history, motivations, and future of the build tool. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Simon Vergauwen shares about Arrow, a collection of Functional Programming libraries for Kotlin.  Sincere apologies for Bruce & James' bad audio.  We forgot to change our input device but figured we'd still publish this as it is tolerable and Simon has so much good stuff to say.  (His audio is great) Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Grace Jansen joins us to chat about how bees and biology can help us better understand software development tools & paradigms like Reactive, Kubernetes, and maybe parts of the 15 Factor App methodology (a modernized version of the Twelve-Factor App methodology). Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce continues his archaeological dig into the foundations of mainstream programming. Referenced blog: Why Are There Functions? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Andrew Harmel-Law shares a better way to make decisions in software teams using the "Advice Process" which he has used in a number of teams resulting in happier, more productive programmers. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF