Backend Banter

Lane chats with Sabine, one of the primary maintainers of OCaml.org , about how she built web apps in Django on the side, only to land her first programming job working close to the OCaml ecosystem, and quickly become enveloped in the project. Her backstory about skipping grades, dropping out of school, and teaching herself various web languages is fascinating, give it a listen. Learn back-end dev...

Matteo Collina is a member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has one of the most impressive developer resumes we've ever seen. His 500 NPM modules have over 17 billion downloads. Today, he sits down with Lane to discuss Node, the future of backend web development, and Platformatic, his new startup. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player:...

Lane and Aaron Francis sit down to talk about Laravel and PHP, and why everyone who uses them tends to make a lot of money. There seems to be something to avoiding the technical hype cycle and just shipping web apps that people want to use. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Aaron Francis' Twitter: https://twitter.com...

Lane chats with his distributed systems professor from when he was a computer science undergraduate, Dr. Russ Ross. They talk about the state of the hiring market in 2023, LLVM, and of course, distributed systems! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Russ Ross's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_russross?lang=en Like &...

Byron Ruth and David Gee from the NATS and the Synadia team join Lane today to chat about distributed systems, and more specifically, PubSub architectures. If you've ever wondered about the difference between a distributed monolith and a truly distributed system, this episode is for you. We break down NATS and how it relates to other systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka, and more. Learn back-end developme...

Lane sits down with Sean Walker to talk about Ruby on Rails, dynamic typing, and even a bit of Rust. Sean's been writing Ruby on Rails for years, and has some opinions on DHH's recent articles. Sean Walker's Twitter: https://twitter.com/swlkr Sean Walker's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/swlkr

This is a podcast about backend development, so I couldn't miss the chance to chat with Carson Cross, the creator of HTMX and author of the book Hypermedia Systems. HTMX is all about giving backend developers the power to build modern webapps, without needing to write a line of frontend JavaScript. In a way, it's a return to the way the web used to work pre-React. Find more about HTMX below! https...

Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has changed over the years, and where its heading next. Wes Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesbos Wes Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wesbos/ Wes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WesBos Wes site: https://wesbos.com/ Wes Linkedin: https://...

If you're nervous about searching for programming jobs this episode is for you. Lane sits down with Don the Developer to chat about everything from resumes and cover letters to how to present yourself in an interview. DonTheDeveloper's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/donthedeveloper

Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.

Pekka is the CTO of TursoDB, a cloud database product that helps developers run SQLite on the edge. Lane and Pekka talk about all the tradeoffs involved with SQLite, as well as the tradeoffs of putting your database geographically near your backend servers. Pekka's Twitter: https://twitter.com/penberg Turso: https://turso.tech/ LibSQL: https://github.com/libsql/libsql

The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetScale. Hope you like the pod!

Lane chats with Rob Walling. Rob is the author of several books, including the SaaS playbook and Start Small Stay Small. He founded Drip, TinySeed and even runs MicroConf, the largest conference for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. In this episode they chat about how new backend developers can use their skills in a full time job, but how those skills are also unbelievably valuable wh...

Miriah Peterson chats with Lane about how great Go tends to be for not only backend application development, but also data engineering roles. Miriah hosts Golang meetups and conferences alongside her full time job, so they also discuss how in person networking can help your new career as a programmer.

Lane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat about how Mat used Go to successfully build and sell a multi-million dollar company. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Mat Ryer's Twitter: https://twitte...

Lane chats with Michael Green about Python programming on the backend side of the web stack. They debate Python's efficacy in large production projects. It gets spicy, bring a glass of milk. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgdotdev Michael's site: https://michaelgreen.dev/ Zer...

Lane chats with Travis Wagner, aka TechSavvyTravvy, the man behind the "crablang" fork of Rust. They talk about the issues with the Rust foundation that caused the fork, how the fork works from a technical perspective and other open-source shenanigans. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Travis's Twitter: https://twitt...

Lane chats with The Primeagen about unit tests, how to build good cli tooling, Golang, Rust, and a ton of stuff about Prime's history and how he got into coding and came to work at Netflix. Prime's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen Prime's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen Prime origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjHFubUPLV0 Article on Mocks: https://blog.boot.dev/clean-code/...

Lane chats with James about all his best tips for landing your first ever job as a developer. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com James on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesqquick James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesqquick James Discord: https://t.co/LUOsSsixq2 Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjo...

Lane chats with Trash, a Netflix engineer and code streamer on Twitch. They break down Trash's story: how he got into coding, from being a mainframe developer all the way through his days as a backend engineer to a frontend developer at Netflix. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Trash Twitter: https://twitter.com/trashh_dev Trash Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trash_dev Trash YouTube: h...

Lane chats with Jonathan Hall, a long time Go developer, host of the cup o' go podcast, and prolific DevOps guy. They discuss what DevOps is, what it isn't and why Go is such a good option for backend and devops work. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Jonathan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhallio/ Cup o G...

Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the backend data required for their apps to run directly on various client's devices. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Kyle on Linkedin: https://www.linked...

Lane and Brian talk about scaling databases, particularly MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale platform. Brian is a developer educator at PlanetScale, and he breaks down how you can think about scaling databases for your own projects, or for the companies you work for. PlanetScale is used for cloud MySQL deployments in the new CI/CD course on Boot.dev that just dropped! Brian on Twitter: https://twi...

Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs.com and hosts myriad tech podcasts, and has spoken prolifically about how to level up your career as a developer. Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmaxw Topenddevs: https://topenddevs.com/