Podcasts

Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale

Yao Yue spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they’ve seen at Twitter.

Martin Hadley on R and the Modern R Ecosystem

In this podcast Werner Schuster talks to Martin Hadley, data scientist at University of Oxford. They discuss the state of the R language, the rich R ecosystem that covers development (RStudio), notebooks for publication (R Notebooks, RPubs), writing web apps (Shiny), and the pros/cons of the different data frames implementations.

Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification

In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification.

Kotlin Lead Language Designer Andrey Breslav on Android Support, Language Features and Future Plans

Following Google’s announcement at Google I/O 2017 that Kotlin would be getting first class support on Android, Wesley Reisz spoke to Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer of Kotlin at JetBrains.

Sachin Kulkarni Describes the Architecture behind Facebook Live

Wesley Reisz talks to Sachin Kulkarni, director of engineering at Facebook, about the engineering challenges for Facebook live, and how it compares to the video upload platform at Facebook.