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.

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.

Peter Bourgon on Gossip, Paxos, Microservices in Go, and CRDTs at SoundCloud

QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Weaveworks' Engineer, Peter Bourgon. Bourgon discusses his work at Weaveworks, discovering and imlemeting CRDTs for time-stamped events at Soundcloud, building Microservices in Go with Go Kit and the state of package management in Go.