Episode 109: eBay's Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup
In this episode we discuss with Randy Shoup, Distinguished Architect at eBay, about architectural pinciples and patterns used for building the highly scalable eBay infrastructure. The discussion is st...
8 Sep 20081h
Episode 108: Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming and Haskell
We start our discussion with a brief look at what Haskell is and how a pure functional language is different from non-pure languages. We then look at the basic building blocks and the philosophy of th...
29 Aug 200850min
Episode 107: Andrew Watson on the OMG
This episode is a discussion with Andrew Watson, Technical Director of the Object Management Group. The episode is structured into five parts. We start with the history of the OMG and its early work. ...
19 Aug 20081h 7min
Episode 106: Introduction to AOP
This episode is a systematic introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (in contrast to the interview with Gregor Kiczales). We discuss the fundamentals of AOP, define many of the relevant terms and...
9 Aug 20081h 4min
Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising
In this episode we're talking to Linda Rising about retrospectives. We start by defining what a retrospective is and discuss some of the logistics of making it work for software projects. We then look...
30 Jul 20081h 13min
Episode 104: Plugin Architectures
In this episode we talk with Klaus Marquardt about building systems out of plugins. After briefly introducing the concept of a plugin in contrast to modules and related software engineering concepts, ...
20 Jul 200856min
Episode 103: 10 years of Agile Experiences
In this episode we're talking to Jens Coldewey about his experiences in 10 years of introducing agile techniques to project teams. We discuss real-world examples and the lessons learned and strategies...
10 Jul 200855min
Episode 102: Relational Databases
In this espisode we take a closer look at relational database systems and the concepts behind them. We start by discussing the relational paradigm, its concepts and ramifications, and go on to archite...
30 Jun 20081h 3min
