Get in Loser, We’re Going High Frequency Trading
Have you ever wished you could trade billions of dollars in stocks and bonds from an Excel spreadsheet? Do you get impatient when your code takes longer than one microsecond to run? If so, then the ex...
1 Nov 20231h 20min
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Lamport
This week Mike and Erik talked about Leslie Lamport's work. Lamport has been called "the father of distributed systems" and we cover Lamport clocks, Paxos, TLA+ and others of his ideas. For music, E...
25 Okt 20231h 9min
Things We've Changed Our Minds About
You can probably learn a lot about a person by asking what they've changed their minds about. In a long career as a software engineer, you will have a lot of opportunities to change your mind. This we...
18 Okt 202351min
How Government Is Like Building Software Applications: An Interview with Frank Holland, a political and governmental affairs strategist.
Lithium mining! Water policy! Housing! Software development! What do these things have to do with each other? Let’s find out in this week’s episode, an interview with Frank Holland, a political and go...
11 Okt 20231h 15min
Are Second Systems Inevitable
Mike and Erik talk about second systems and weigh whether we can ever even avoid the things in the first place. Acronyms loom large in this conversation, both IRS and AWS come up. Here are some lin...
4 Okt 202349min
Ideas We Found in the Bog
Mike and Erik talk about super powers and then discuss technologies that were around in previous decades which seemed like they were going to be a big deal and then faded away. Mike also talks about H...
20 Sep 202342min
Why Does Some Tech Get Popular?
Mike and Erik talk betamax and ask the question: why do some technologies get popular? Your podcast hosts are on the case! Mike tells the story of going to the "Professional Developer Conference" and ...
13 Sep 202348min
Quotes tennis
This week Mike and Erik play a game called "quotes tennis" where they try to trip each other up with quotes from the field that the other struggles to disagree with. It's a battle of wits: do you know...
6 Sep 202357min
