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Why Make Apache Kafka Diskless? (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat)
How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That’s the big question in this episode as we look at one of the many attempts to build a version of Kafka that u...
Java’s Cutting Edge Comeback (with Josh Long)
Java’s has been evolving faster than any 30 year old language has a right to do, and there’s probably no-one more pleased about it than my guest this week - Josh Long. He’s a Java & Kotlin programming...
The State & Future of Apache Kafka (with Anatoly Zelenin)
I’m joined this week by one of the authors of Apache Kafka In Action, to take a look at the state of Kafka, event systems & stream-processing technology. It’s an approach (and a whole market) that’s h...
DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit (with Andrew Lamb)
Building a database is a serious undertaking. There are just so many parts that you have to implement before you even get to a decent prototype, and so many hours of work before you could begin workin...
Jupyter’s Architecture Unpacked (with Afshin Darian & Sylvain Corlay)
Jupyter’s become an incredibly popular programming and data science tool, but how does it actually work? How have they built an interactive language execution engine? And if we understand the architec...
Nix, The Build Everything Language (with Julian Arni)
Ever since we invented makefiles, the programming world has been wrestling with the problem of building software stacks reliably. This week we’re going to look at one of the most ambitious solutions a...
Rust-Powered Graphics Editor: How Graphite's Syntax Trees Revolutionize Image Editing
Graphite is a new image editor with an interesting architecture - it’s a classic UI-driven app, an image-manipulation language, and a library of programmable graphics primitives that any Rust coder co...
ReScript: A Better Typed JavaScript? (with Gabriel Nordeborn)
ReScript is a strongly-typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript, and that puts it squarely in competition with TypeScript. So why would a JavaScript developer choose to learn it next? Wh...
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