Podcasts

Martin Thompson on Aeron, Binary vs Text for Message Encoding, and Raft

Martin Thompson discusses consensus in distributed systems, and how Aeron uses Raft for clustering in the upcoming release.

Streaming: Danny Yuan on Real-Time, Time Series Forecasting @Uber

In this podcast, Yuan discusses everything from the scale Uber operates at to the major steps for training/deploy models in an iterative (almost Darwinistic) fashion, and wraps up with his advice for software engineers who want to begin applying machine learning into their day-to-day job.

Sander Mak on the Java Module System

Sander Mak discusses the module system with Java. We’ll hit on some of the practical advice he’s seen preparing and then implementing migrations to 9 (with and without the classpath). We’ll discuss some of the benefits and pitfalls to look for as you plan and execute your migrations.

Andrea Magnorsky on Paradigm Shifts and the Adoption of Programming Languages

In this podcast we talk about paradigm shifts and the adoption of programming languages with Andrea Magnorsky, tech lead at Goodlord on their engineering squads; she has a background in Scala, C#, and organised conferences.

Anne Currie on Organizational Tech Ethics, Including Scale, GDPR, Algorithmic Transparency

Wes Reisz and Anne discuss issues such as the implications (and responsibilities) of the massive amount of scale we have at our fingertips today, potential effects of GDPR (EU privacy legislation), how accessibility is a an example of how we could approach tech ethics in software, and much more.