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A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.
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Jan 12, 2026 • 28min
638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor
ThousandEyes
Murtaza on LinkedIn
Internet Outages Map
ThousandEyesJob Openings
Mike on LinkedIn
Coder Radio on Discord
Alice
Mike's 2026 Predictions Post
Alice Jumpstart Offer

Dec 23, 2025 • 47min
637: SEGA Christmas Special 25
Mike's Year End Post
Mike on LinkedIn
Mike's Blog
Show on Discord
Alice Promo
Dreamcast assorted references:
Dreamcast overview https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast
History of Dreamcast development https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development
The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast: A Legend Gone Too Soon (Simon Jenner) https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon
The Legacy of the Sega Dreamcast | 20 Years Later https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c
Socials & Plugs
The R Podcast https://r-podcast.org/
R Weekly Highlights https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights
Shiny Developer Series https://shinydevseries.com/
Eric on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social
Eric on Mastodon https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast
Eric on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/

Dec 19, 2025 • 21min
636: Red Hat's James Huang
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James on LinkedIn
Mike on LinkedIn
Mike's Blog
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Alice Promo
AI on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Trust and Stability: RHEL provides the mission-critical foundation needed for workloads where security and reliability cannot be compromised.
Predictive vs. Generative: Acknowledging the hype of GenAI while maintaining support for traditional machine learning algorithms.
Determinism: The challenge of bringing consistency and security to emerging AI technologies in production environments.
Rama-Llama & Containerization
Developer Simplicity: Rama-Llama helps developers run local LLMs easily without being "locked in" to specific engines; it supports Podman, Docker, and various inference engines like Llama.cpp and Whisper.cpp.
Production Path: The tool is designed to "fade away" after helping package the model and stack into a container that can be deployed directly to Kubernetes.
Behind the Firewall: Addressing the needs of industries (like aircraft maintenance) that require AI to stay strictly on-premises.
Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Red Hat AI: A commercial product offering tools for model customization, including pre-training, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
Inference Engines: James highlights the difference between Llama.cpp (for smaller/edge hardware) and vLLM, which has become the enterprise standard for multi-GPU data center inferencing.

Dec 12, 2025 • 18min
635: Tabnine's Eran Yahav
Tabnine
Eran on LinkedIn
Alice for Snowflake
Mike on X
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev

Dec 5, 2025 • 23min
634: MongoDB's Frank Pachot
Frank Pachot, a seasoned developer relations expert at MongoDB, dives into the evolution of MongoDB from a NoSQL startup to a robust document database. He discusses the advantages of JSON document storage over traditional relational tables and highlights the flexibility of MongoDB's schema. Frank explains when to avoid joins, emphasizing how embedding related data improves scalability. He also shares insights on choosing between SQL and MongoDB, and reveals his favorite Linux tools for debugging, making this conversation both enlightening and entertaining for developers!

Nov 21, 2025 • 26min
633: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
Joe on LinkedIn
Joe's Blog
Joe on X
Alice for Snowflake
Mike on X
Mike on BlueSky
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev
Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

Nov 12, 2025 • 21min
632: Graphite's Merrill Lutsky
Merrill on LinkedIn
Graphite
Alice for Snowflake
Mike on X
Mike on BlueSky
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev
Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

Nov 4, 2025 • 30min
631: Aeroview's Marc Weiner
Aeroview
Marc on LinkedIn
Alice for Snowflake
Mike on X
Mike on BlueSky
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev
Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

Oct 10, 2025 • 13min
630: Edward Schmitz
SigCore UC
SigCore UC on Crowd Supply
Alice for Power BI
Mike on X
Mike on BlueSky
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev
Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post

Sep 29, 2025 • 31min
629: Tom Totenberg from LaunchDarkly
Mike sits down with Tom Totenberg to discuss disastrous Friday night deployments, selective feature flags, Launch Darkly and more general development goodness.
Alice for Power BI
Mike on X
Mike on BlueSky
Coder on X
Show Discord
Alice & Custom Dev
Mike's Recent Omakub Blog Post
Tom's LinkedIn
LaunchDarkly


