Boot.dev

Backend Banter

Technology EN ↓ 82 episodes

The only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers. Lane Wagner, the founder of Boot.dev, interviews successful backend engineers to get their takes on various trends, technologies, and career tips for new backend developers. Golang, Python, JavaScript, and Rust are the programming languages most commonly discussed, but speakers dabble in all sorts.

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#007 - Switching from .NET to Go with Bill Kennedy 26.06.2023 39:06

Bill Kennedy joins Lane on this episode of Backend Banter to discuss his origin story: why he left .NET and the Microsoft stack years ago to become a full-time Go developer. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your podcast player - https://www.backendbanter.fm Bill Kennedy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet Ardan Labs: https://www.ardanlabs.com/

#006 - Building a FAANG Career with Melkey (Senior Go Dev @ Twitch) 19.06.2023 37:03

I chat with Melkey, a senior Go developer at Twitch about how he would reverse engineer his successful backend software engineering career at FAANG if he were starting over. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Melkey Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelkeyDev Melkey Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/melkey

#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa 12.06.2023 57:22

Lane chats with Glauber Costa, a founder of Turso DB, maintainer of the Linux kernel, and ex-Scylla DB developer. If you're curious how databases scale up to trillions of records, or how they scale out to geographic edge platforms, this conversation is for you. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Glauber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glcst Turso DB: https://turso.tech/ Leave a review...

#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B 05.06.2023 39:25

Lane chats with Simon B, a PHD in electrical engineering from the UK who has founded startups, worked as a CTO, and publishes educational coding content under the alias "All the Code"! They talk about Simon's experience breaking into the software development industry. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen to the podcast: https://backendbanter.fm Find Simon: https://allthecode.co/p...

#003 Architecting a Backend that Serves Millions with Adam Elmore 29.05.2023 43:37

Lane chats with Adam Elmore, cofounder of StatMuse about how he builds scalable B2C backend infrastructure on AWS. They discuss the pros and cons of some of the new serverless stuff Adam works with, and how that plays into legacy code bases. Learn backend development - https://boot.dev Podcast Homepage: https://backendbanter.fm Adam's links: https://adam.dev

#002 - Serverless Architecture and SST with Dax Raad 22.05.2023 34:05

Lane chats with Dax Raad, SST framework maintainer about the future of serverless infrastructure. They cut through the hype to figure out how serverless can help backend developers build robust and scalable systems. Learn backend development - https://boot.dev Dax on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thdxr Dax on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thdxr

#001 - Elegance in OCaml with TJ DeVries 16.05.2023 38:50

Lane and TJ DeVries chat about OCaml and why functional programming can result in more elegant and readable code. TJ is a core maintainer of NeoVim and explains how contributing to open source has had a huge positive impact on his coding career. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev TJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teej_dv TJ on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/teej_dv TJ on YouTube: https...