Integration testing is always a tricky thing, fraught with problems setting up the right environment and attempting to control the... more

Sam Aaron is the creator of Sonic Pi, one of the most unusual software platforms you'll encounter. It's a live-coding... more

Evan Czaplicki—the creator of the Elm programming language —joins me to discuss the state and future of Elm, the friendly,... more

This week we're going to look at the most essential piece of firmware in a programmer's toolkit - the brain.... more

What have we learned from more than a decade of deploying microservices? Was it a good idea? Are we any... more

Pony is a language born out of what should be a simple need - actor-style programming with C performance. On... more

This week we take a look at Bevy, a new game engine written in Rust. And in particular, we look... more

Given how many languages have been written in C over the years, it's not surprising to see new languages being... more

For some kinds of application, there is no faster or cheaper way to build a user interface than in the... more

Lustre is a web framework that takes a lot of inspiration from Elm, some from React, and a surprising amount... more

I'm always interested in what factors shape the design of a programming language. This week we're taking a look at... more

This week we take a look at what you can do with a GPU when you get away from just... more

OCaml has one of the best-loved compilers available, and parts of it are surprisingly pluggable, so it's not surprising that... more

Mapping is a hugely complex task to take on. Even if you moved as much of the data-management as you... more

The terminal might be the most used development tool in history. So it's a little odd that it hasn't changed... more

A language's AST—it's abstract syntax tree—is nearly always a hidden implementation detail. It's not treated as part of the language,... more

DuckDB's become a favourite data-handling tool of mine, simply because it does so many small things well. It can read... more

RRWeb is based on a simple idea: If you capture all the DOM events in a browser session, and when... more

The ZigLang team have put an astonishing amount of effort into making Zig work an effective tool for compiling C... more

Back in 2012, José Valim started building Elixir to as a way to have his ideal programming language running on... more

There's huge pressure on Python at the moment to get faster, ideally without changing at all. One increasingly–popular way of... more

Most message systems have an opinion on the right way to do inter-systems communication. Whether it's actors, queues, message logs... more

Smalltalk is one of those programming languages that's lived out of the mainstream, but often referenced as an influence and... more

This week we take a close look at the language Inko from two perspectives: The language design features that make... more

I've often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it's a simple idea at the core... more

This week on Developer Voices we're talking to Ryan Worl, whose career in big data engineering has taken him from... more

PostgreSQL is an incredible general-purpose database, but it can't do everything. Every design decision is a tradeoff, and inevitably some... more

The actor model is a popular approach to building scalable software systems. And isn't hard to understand when you're just... more

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

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