Podcasts

Martijn Verburg on the JCP EC “No” Vote for the Java Platform Module System

Wesley Reisz talks to Martijn Verburg, co-founder of the London Java Community and CEO of jClarity, about the JCP EC “no” vote on the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), which is due to be shipped as part of Java 9. They talk about what JPMS offers, how it works, what the "no" vote means, and what happens next.

Rossen Stoyanchev on Reactive Programming with Spring 5 and Spring WebFlux

Rossen Stoyanchev talks to Wesley Reisz about blocking and non-blocking architectures, upcoming changes in Spring including Spring WebFlux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer. He also discusses the differences between rxJava and Reactor.

Jean Barmash on Binary RPC with gRPC and Thrift, and Constraint Theory in Product Design

Jean Barmash is the director of engineering for Compass. He talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design.

Eric Horesnyi on High Frequency Trading and How Hedge Funds are Applying Deep Learning to Markets

Eric Horesnyi, CEO @streamdata.io, talks to Charles Humble about how hedge funds are applying deep learning as an alternative to the raw speed favoured by High Frequency Trading to try and curve the market.

Jonas Bonér on the Actor Model, Akka, Reactive Programming, Microservices and Distributed Systems

Jonas Boner, CTO of LightBend and creator Akka, discusses using Akka when developing distributed systems. He talks about the Actor Model, and how every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system to be successful.