Software Sessions

Federico has been writing backends for web applications since 2012 and is the co-founder and chef of alto;code. He wrote a post on GitHub named " How I write backends " that summarizes his process. We discuss: His current stack Redis as a primary data store Reducing the number of layers in your software How duplicating input validation makes code harder to understand Integration tests over unit te...

Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable, an on-demand marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing labor. He's also the host of the Code Story podcast where tech leaders reflect on the path they took to create their products. We talk about: Leaving the corporate world How poor estimation and scoping nearly sunk his agency Why bad software is worse than no software Hiring for an agen...

Daniel is the co-author of the book "The Good Parts of AWS" and previously worked at AWS on the CloudWatch team. He left last year after over 8 years at Amazon to work on his own projects. He's currently working on an end-to-end encrypted user database SaaS called Userbase. Daniel is also openly sharing his experiences building an audience, writing a book, and building Userbase on twitter. We talk...

Ben is the CEO of Tuple , a pair programming application for remote developers. He currently co-hosts The Art of Product with Derrick Reimer. We talk about: His first crazy programming job Why you should speak at conferences The trade-offs of remote work Why great coworkers should be the #1 priority for new developers How these are "the good old days" of Tuple Ben's favorite smash bros character ....

Kyle is the creator of Neocities a free web hosting site that encourages people to build creative personal websites in the spirit of GeoCities . He's currently working on restorativland where people interested in the history of the web can discover websites originally hosted at places like GeoCities and Myspace Music. Kyle Drake Personal Site @kyledrake Projects Neocities restorativland Other Link...

Jack Ellis Personal Site @JackEllis Fathom Analytics Fathom Analytics (SAAS version, Affiliate link with $10 discount) Fathom Lite (Open-source, original Golang version) We rebuilt Fathom Analytics from the ground up and moved to Laravel Vapor How we built a GDPR compliant website analytics platform without using cookies Laravel Laravel (PHP web framework) Laravel Vapor (Serverless provisioning an...

Vincent is the creator of Zola (Formerly Gutenburg), a Static Site Generator built with Rust and Tera , a Jinja2-like template engine. If you create a site with Zola, Vincent would appreciate you adding your site to the EXAMPLES file in the repository. You can also take a look at the source for this website which is currently built with Zola. Vincent Prouillet Personal Site @20100Prouillet Zola Zo...

Daniel is the Director of Product at HAProxy Technologies. This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio. Theme music is 12:30 AM by Crystal Cola. Links HAProxy Community Edition HAProxy Technologies Blog @danielcorbett_ Keepalived Linux Virtual Server Nginx Envoy Timestamps and Transcript are coming soon.

Cassidy is a developer and instructor at React Training and the Director of Outreach at cKeys, a Seattle based organization that promotes learning electronics through mechanical keyboards. She previously worked at Amazon, CodePen, L4 Digital, Clarifai, and Venmo. However, she's probably best known for promoting diversity in tech, creating cool mechanical keyboards, and making memes. Cassidy Person...

Samuel is a member of the Ruby core team. He's working on making it safer and easier to write scalable applications in Ruby. Conference Talks: Fibers are the Right Solution The Journey to One Million Posts: Asynchronous Ruby Fibers Are the Right Solution Early Hints and HTTP/2 Push with Falcon 2019 Ruby Association Grant Source with comments on why the Global VM Lock exists Ruby gems: Async Falcon...

Aaron is on both the ruby and rails core teams. He's best known for making puns, teaching others, and his contributions to the internals of ruby. Lately he's been focusing on a compacting garbage collector for ruby. This episode originally aired on Software Engineering Radio. Timestamps: 00:40 - What Aaron likes about Ruby 04:43 - Interpreted vs Compiled 07:00 - Why the ruby interpreter is written...

Mubs is an amazingly prolific creator. He's built 85 side projects which are all listed on his website and was Product Hunt's Maker of the Year in 2016. His output is inspiring and he offers great advice on how to approach building side projects of your own. Mubashar Iqbal Personal Site @mubashariqbal Projects Projects Pod Hunt Hacker News Day Will Robots Take My Job? Pod Hunt Stack Laravel Larave...

Felienne is an associate professor at Leiden University who brings a unique perspective on programming education backed by scientific research. She also runs the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL) in order to study the best ways to teach programming. Keynote at Strange Loop How to Teach Programming (and other things?) Related Research Papers How is Programming Taught at Code Clubs The Effec...

Julia Evans is best known for her zines and blog posts that break down technical topics in a friendly way. She has written educational material on everything from Linux system calls to working with managers. She joins us to talk about what she learned while writing her latest zine: HTTP: Learn your browser's language . Timestamps: 0:50 - Why write a zine about HTTP? 1:21 - What's a header that cou...

Topics: Deciding when to use Rust Concurrency in Rust When to create a separate service Introducing Rust at Sentry Challenges of writing Python modules in Rust Creating Symbolicator, a Rust web service that processes debug files Using Actix to create Symbolicator Why Rust doesn't need a Django or Rails equivalent Concerns about the stability of the Rust ecosystem and the lack of shared solutions W...