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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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Mar 15, 2022 • 1h
#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)
We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use.
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Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 27min
#56 Feedback Loops & Software is Like Surgery (With Daniel Terhorst-North)
We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster.
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Mar 3, 2022 • 1h 8min
#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)
We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald, about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming.
Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in.
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Feb 5, 2022 • 1h 17min
#54 Flix: Designing a principled programming language with Magnus Madsen
Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language.
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Jan 21, 2022 • 1h 2min
#53 Open Source: Free as in Hot Dogs (With Donald Fischer)
Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues? Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues.
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Jan 14, 2022 • 1h 22min
#52 Reveling in Nonsense With Josh Long
A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band.
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Dec 24, 2021 • 1h 4min
#51 James' New Kotlin PM Job
Hope you all have a happy & healthy holiday!
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Dec 17, 2021 • 1h 5min
#50 Testcontainers (Like Uber but for Integration Tests) with Sergei Egorov
Testcontainers are one of James' favorite modern technologies and in this episode we chat with Sergei Egorov, one of the project creators. We learn about what Testcontainers are and the new Testcontainers Cloud service created by Sergei's new company, AtomicJar.
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Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 4min
#49 Smart Types (Like Regular Types, Only Smarter) with Jorge Vasquez
Jorge Vasquez has been working on a way to have more precise data modeling while not sacrificing performance or ergonomics. Smart Types in ZIO Prelude are the answer, and they are amazing!
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Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 2min
#48 Composability in Distributed Systems - Because Math! With Heather Miller
Heather Miller, Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon, joins us to talk about her research into composability in distributed systems, the challenges with serialization, and a better approach to Chaos Engineering.
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