179: Project Planning
Patrick and Jason discuss project planning and management for software teams. They cover why planning matters, how frameworks like SMART goals, Gantt charts, Scrum, Agile, and Kanban fit together, and...
3 Feb 20251h 43min
178: Working from Home
Patrick and Jason revisit working from home and the realities of remote engineering work. They cover communication, scheduling, home-office setup, motivation, distractions, and why remote work is not ...
3 Dec 20241h 45min
177: Vector Databases
Patrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They discuss how these systems store and query high-dimensional vec...
4 Nov 20241h 28min
176: MLOps at SwampUp
James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco System Administrator to DevOps Difference between DevOps and MLOps Getting Started with DevOps Luke Marsden: CEO of Helix ML How to start a business at 15 years...
24 Sep 20241h 58min
175: Resume Writing
Patrick and Jason discuss how to write a strong technical resume that gets attention without becoming bloated or misleading. They cover what to include, what to avoid, how automated screening changes ...
16 Aug 20241h 40min
174: Devops
Patrick and Jason explain DevOps and how it relates to site reliability, build systems, testing infrastructure, and release processes. They cover infrastructure as code, CI/CD, deployment strategies, ...
10 Juni 20241h 25min
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Patrick and Jason discuss unit testing, regression testing, and system testing, with a focus on when mocking actually helps. They explain mocks versus fakes, testing tradeoffs, and the practical role ...
29 Apr 20241h 35min
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Patrick and Jason explain transformers and large language models from the ground up. They cover attention, encoders and decoders, self-supervised learning, RLHF, and the key architectural ideas that m...
11 Mars 20241h 26min
