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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Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 12min
#35 The Pattern of Design Patterns
As usual, Bruce & James try to figure out monads & type classes. Then something new, as they go meta on design patterns.
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Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 2min
#34 Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads with Dick Wall
FEE, FOO, FUD, and FUM (Fear, Uncertainty, and Monads) - Scala Giant, Dick Wall, joins Bruce and James to talk about life, work, and Functional Programming.
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Jul 2, 2021 • 1h 3min
#33 Rethinking "Thinking in Objects"
Object Oriented Programming might just be a series of solutions to self-created problems.
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Jun 18, 2021 • 60min
#32 Adopting Kotlin & FP with Katie Levy
Katie Levy joins Bruce & James to talk about how to help teams adopt Kotlin and Functional Programming.
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Jun 11, 2021 • 1h
#31 "ZIO's not a library it's a state of mind" with Kit Langton
Bruce and James' coauthor Bill Frasure, joins to talk with Kit Langton, creator of ZIO Magic and many other magical ZIO tools & libraries.
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May 28, 2021 • 1h 4min
#30 Programming in (not with) Scala 3 but with Bill Venners
Bruce and James chat with their long time friend Bill Venners about Scala 3 and the updates to his "Programming in Scala" book.
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May 18, 2021 • 1h 1min
#29 Contemplating Computer Cognition with Julie Amundson
Bruce and James chat with their friend Julie Amundson about AI, Machine Learning, and many related complexities. They explore what the journey is like for Data Scientists at medium / large companies where everything from data access to productionizing models, has challenges. Also we learn about the Metaflow system Julie's team built to make this journey smoother at Netflix.
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Apr 30, 2021 • 59min
#28 PREP - Performant, Reliable, Expressive, and Productive
Bruce, James, and their friend Bill are working on a new book about systems that are Performant, Reliable, Expressive, and Productive. This episode explores those themes with some significant detours along the way.
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Apr 23, 2021 • 1h 4min
#27 Side-Effects of a Scala 3 Release
With the eminent release of Scala 3, we chat about the language changes, effect systems (ZIO), and reliability.
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Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 3min
#26 Dependency Injection - Why Do We Even...
All about Dependency Injection, why we do it, and why James thinks it is terrible.
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