Tech Talk: Data and Scale with Pat Helland - The long view on distributed databases
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Pat Helland has a wealth of knowledge on building distributed data stores. He has been working on distributed data stores since 1978, when he worked on t...
31 Mar 201956min
Abstraction and Learning with Runar Bjarnason
What is abstraction? Can we have a precise definition of abstraction that, once understood, makes writing software simpler? Runar has thought a lot about abstraction and how we can choose the proper...
15 Mar 201949min
Tech Talk: Modern Systems Programming And Scala Native With Richard Whaling
Richard Whaling has an interesting perspective on software development. If you write software for the JVM or if you are interested in low level system programming, or even doing data heavy or network ...
22 Feb 201953min
Burn out and recreational coding with Jamis Buck
A decade ago Jamis Buck was not loving his job. He was an important open source contributor. He worked for the hottest trendiest software company at the time, 37 signals, creator of ruby on rails. He ...
25 Jan 201959min
Tech Talk: Software as a Reflection of Values With Bryan Cantrill
Which operating system is the best? Which programming language is the best? What text editor? Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent says that is the wrong question. Languages, operating systems and communitie...
18 Des 20181h 19min
Tech Talk: The Little Typer With Daniel Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. When it comes to type systems "I am, so far, only in the dependent types camp" - Daniel P. Friedman You can write more correct software and even rigorous...
1 Des 20181h 7min
Tech Talk: Big Ball Of Mud
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Evolving software under constrained resources is a challenge, and I think we kid ourselves when we don't admit this. Software that is providing value oft...
14 Nov 20181h
Tech Talk: God's Programming Language - Philip Wadler on Haskell
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Today I talk to Professor Philip Wadler, a very accomplished programming language researcher. Phil walks us through a principle that has guided his care...
22 Okt 20181h
