Bytewax is a curious stream processing tool that blends a Python surface with a Rust core to produce something that's... more

Mojo is the latest language from the creator of Swift and LLVM. It's an attempt to take some of the... more

Every database has to juggle the need to process new data and to query old data. That task falls to... more

Rust changed the discussion around memory management - this week's guest hopes to push that discussion even further. This week we're... more

The "big data infrastructure" world is dominated by Java, but the data-analysis world is dominated by Python. So if you... more

Erlang wears three hats - it's a language, it's a platform, and it's an approach to making software run reliably... more

The likes of LinkedIn and Uber use Pinot to power some astonishingly high-scale queries against realtime data. The numbers alone... more

TJ DeVries is a core contributor to Neovim and several of its most interesting sub-projects, and he joins us this... more

Done right, a Hackathon can be a fantastic place to be a programmer - you get time and space to... more

One of the most promising techniques for software reliability is property testing. The idea that, instead of writing unit tests... more

If you ever feel overwhelmed by the number of different programming languages, this week's episode might just offer you some... more

A lot of programming is split into the mechanical work of writing what you know, and the creative work of... more

SQLite could do with a little competition, so when I invited the co-creator of DuckDB in to talk, I thought... more

This week we talk to Simon Peyton Jones, a veteran language designer and researcher, and key figure in the development... more

Benthos wants to be part of your Data Engineering toolkit - it's there as a quick and easy way to... more

The world of game programming might seem a million miles away from 'regular' programming. But they still have to deal... more

Odin's creator, Bill Hall, makes some bold claims about the language, including that it's "programming done right". Before that starts... more

This week's guest describes Event Sourcing as, "all I'm going to use for the rest of my career." But what... more

One of our oldest languages meets one of our newest sciences in this episode, as we talk with Professor Christian... more

Sometimes, what a programming language makes harder is just as important as what it makes easier. For a simple example,... more

One of the recurring themes in the big data & data streaming worlds at the moment is developer experience. It... more

This week we're back on systems programming with Hare. A C-like language for the ages. We talk to its creator,... more

A few months ago, Michael Drogalis quit his job and decided launch 4 viable startup business ideas in 4 months,... more

Integration is probably the last, hardest, and least well thought-out part of any large software project. So anything that makes... more

Zig is a programming language that's attempting to become "the new C" - the language of choice for low-level systems... more

Would you ever take on a rewrite of one of the largest and most popular Apache projects? And if so,... more

This week we're looking at Debezium - an open source project that taps into a huge number of databases and... more

Ever read a bad README? We all have, and most of the time, we've just moved right along. A programmer... more

As interesting and useful as LLMs (Large Language Models) are proving, they have a severe limitation: they only know about... more

Real-time data is gradually becoming a standard requirement in systems design. Our customers are beginning to demand it, our colleagues... more