Podcasts

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.

Sid Anand on Building Agari’s Cloud-Native Data Pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Serverless

Wesley Reisz talks to Sid Anand, a data architect at cybersecurity company Agari, about building cloud-native data pipelines. The focus of their discussion is around a solution Agari uses that is built from Amazon Kinesis Streams, serverless functions, and auto scaling groups.

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.

Daniel Bryant on Microservices and Domain Driven Design

Wesley Reisz talks to Daniel Bryant on moving from monoliths to micro-services, covering bounded contexts, when to break up micro-services, event storming, practices like observability and tracing, and more.

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.