Happy Path Programming
No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
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Latest episodes
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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Feb 18, 2023 • 1h 7min
#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins
We learn the motivations behind Haskell and why it is the pinnacle of Functional Programming from Kris Jenkins, a Developer Advocate at Confluent.
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Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 8min
#74 Developer Joy = Developer Productivity with Justin Reock
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/
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Jan 6, 2023 • 1h 2min
#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar
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.
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Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 8min
#72 Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive with Benjy Weinberger
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.
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