Cyber Crimes in the Early Days of Cloud Computing
Today on the show we welcome Scott Aker who regales us with a tale of a seedy group of hackers breaking into cloud compute services in order to steal compute power for their own nefarious aims. Scot...
6 Dec 202345min
Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? An Entire Episode about Language Philosophy
This week Erik asks Mike what living person he'd want to meet and then volunteers a person he would _not_ want to meet, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Then Erik promises Mike that if they spend an hour talking ...
29 Nov 202356min
Kubernetes CPU Limits Got You Down? Come on down to our complaint clinic and we'll get you sorted out!
On this episode, Mike and Erik talk Kubernetes requests and limits as well as the Linux CPU scheduler. Erik complains impotently and Mike sagely breaks down the problem and then Erik complains some mo...
22 Nov 202350min
Disconnect from the Internet: the Morris Worm Is Out of Control! (A True Crime story!)
This week on the 35th anniversary of the infamous Morris Worm, Mike and Erik look back at this sensational true crime story. Computers will be disconnected from the internet and wiped clean! Network s...
15 Nov 202347min
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
