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Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom
Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.
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Charles Humble and Wes Reisz Take a Look Back at 2018 and Speculate on What 2019 Might Have in Store
Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about autonomous vehicles, GDPR, quantum computing. Microservices, AR/VR and more
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Colin Eberhardt on What WebAssembly Is, and Plans for Version 2.0
In this podcast Wes talks to Colin Eberhardt, the technology director at Scott Logic, about what WebAssembly (WASM) is, a bit of the history of JavaScript, and plans for WebAssembly 2.0 including the threading model and GC.
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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.
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Preslav Le on How Dropbox Moved off AWS and What They Have Been Able to Do Since
In March 2016 Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le about what they have been able to do since.