At 23, Isaac is already jaded about software reliability - and frankly, he's got good reason to be. When your... more

How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That's the big question in this episode... more

Java's has been evolving faster than any 30 year old language has a right to do, and there's probably no-one... more

I'm joined this week by one of the authors of Apache Kafka In Action, to take a look at the... more

Building a database is a serious undertaking. There are just so many parts that you have to implement before you... more

Jupyter's become an incredibly popular programming and data science tool, but how does it actually work? How have they built... more

Ever since we invented makefiles, the programming world has been wrestling with the problem of building software stacks reliably. This... more

Graphite is a new image editor with an interesting architecture - it's a classic UI-driven app, an image-manipulation language, and... more

ReScript is a strongly-typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript, and that puts it squarely in competition with TypeScript. So... more

Trustfall is a library based on a simple question - what happens if we can query absolutely anything? If you... more