Programming Throwdown

134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De GrootDownloadHow do you test changes to your web backend or database?  Many people have a "production" and one "development" database, but the development database can easily become broken by one engineer and thus unusable for the rest of the team.  Also, how would two engineers make changes in parallel to..

As anyone who listens to the show regularly knows, I've always been fascinated by marketplaces.  How do we figure out what to charge for something, and how do we match buyers and sellers?  How does a company like Uber match drivers to riders so quickly?  Today we have Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai, to talk about marketplaces and..

00:00:15 Introduction00:01:24 Gaming setups00:12:25 News00:12:27 I was wrong, CRDTs are the future00:17:18 How we lost 54k Github stars00:21:10 DALL-E 00:25:45 Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time00:35:11: Sponsor00:36:22 Book of the Show00:36:38 Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast00:37:24 The Laundry Files00:40:35 Tool of the Show00:40:39..

I've been a big fan of Brave Browser ever since attending a presentation from Brandon Eich back in 2017.  Brave was one of the first browsers to aggressively block the ability for websites to share information on your computer without your consent (i.e. third party cookies).  I'm so excited to sit down with Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Ser..

"Hacking" is a word that evokes awe from the public, laughter from developers, and pure fear from technology leaders.  But what really is hacking?  What does trust really mean and how do we acquire and keep trust on the Internet?  It turns out that, while hacking is associated with computers, the methods behind it have been around since the dawn of..

Brief Summary: What is Web 3.0? Guest speaker Michelle Lee, Product Lead of Protocol Labs, shares how web 3.0 will revolutionize the Internet and bring trust back into the web. 00:00:25 Introduction00:01:36 Michelle Lee’s career 00:03:10 What is human-computer interaction?00:04:55 The Google Sheets user experience00:06:19 Google Checkout, user feed..

Summary:What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.Notes:00:00:16 Introduction00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?00:27:30 The d..

Brief Summary:Programming is difficult as it is, but imagine how difficult it was without all the current tools, compilers, synthesizers, etc. that we have today. Eran Yahav, Chief Technology Officer at Tabnine shares how AI is currently helping with code writing and how it could change in the future.00:00:16 Introduction00:00:51 Eran Yahav’s progr..

Brief Summary:Erez Berkner, CEO of Lumigo, talks about his company, going serverless, and why you should too. He shares his experience and tips regarding serverless computing and its ever-growing opportunities in modern computing.00:00:16 Introduction00:01:43 Introducing Erez Berkner00:06:27 The start of Lumigo00:10:42 What is Serverless00:20:10 Ch..

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