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

How far would you go to get the kind of database you want? How deep into the stack would you... more

Ever wanted to start a tech business? Michael Drogalis has done it successfully in the past, and now he's trying... more

Ask any software developer about their favourite stack, and they'll probably have strong opinions. (They might even have a snappy... more

In modern systems, the amount of data keeps getting larger, and the time available keeps getting shorter. So it's almost... more

Neil Buesing is a seasoned Apache Kafka® user, and a respected voice from the Kafka community who specialises in helping... more

How do distributed systems work? If you've got a database spread over three servers, how do they elect a leader?... more

How do you get started as a programmer? And how do experienced programmers help them as they start their journey? This... more

Sooner or later, every programmer will have to cross the gap between their programming language and their database. It feels... more

Whether you're trying to ace the coding interview, sharpen your programming skills or just have some fun learning new things,... more

"Software development has not caught up with the internet age." So says this week's guest, Rúnar Bjarnason. But what does... more

Have you ever been overwhelmed by the number of databases on offer? This week we welcome database expert Ben Stopford... more

LLMs like ChatGPT are not just fascinating, they're becoming increasing useful in our working lives. They've graduated from novelty to... more

Time to put another new #programming language - and its creator - under the spotlight, as we talk to Robin... more

What's going on with Postgres? Joining us for his perspective is Raouf Chebri, a Developer Advocate for PostgreSQL and the... more

Are you trying to build the community around your software? And what does "building a community" really mean? What are... more

As a developer, it's crucial to understand the various types of databases available so you can choose the right tool... more

Every business deals in data, but the internet age has ushered in an explosion of the number of different data... more

In this episode we're exploring the Kotlin programming language with an expert from Google. What does Kotlin have to offer?... more

AI is the new hotness, but with new approaches come new problems of scale. How do you make raw data... more

Louis Pilfold joins us to talk about Gleam, a new language that runs on Erlang's BEAM. In creating Gleam, Louis... more