Kris Jenkins

Developer Voices

Technology EN ↓ 105 episodes

Deep-dive discussions with the smartest developers we know, explaining what they're working on, how they're trying to move the industry forward, and what we can learn from them. You might find the solution to your next architectural headache, pick up a new programming language, or just hear some good war stories from the frontline of technology. Join your host Kris Jenkins as we try to figure out what tomorrow's computing will look like the best way we know how - by listening directly to the developers' voices.

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Kris Jenkins

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Bitemporal Databases: What They Are and Why They Matter, with James Henderson of XTDB 07.06.2023 56:43

As a developer, it's crucial to understand the various types of databases available so you can choose the right tool for the job. In this episode, we're shining a spotlight on bitemporal databases with James Henderson, lead developer of of a new bitemporal database called XTDB. You may have already created an ad-hoc bitemporal database without realizing it, but James and his team have been hard at...

What are the fundamentals of Data Engineering? 31.05.2023 54:33

Every business deals in data, but the internet age has ushered in an explosion of the number of different data formats we have to process from a number of different databases to get the job done. Ask any Data Scientist, and they’ll tell you a huge part of their job isn’t data science - it’s data engineering. Acquiring, processing and shipping data, and above all, understanding it. We’ve always had...

Can Kotlin take you everywhere? 24.05.2023 1:01:38

In this episode we're exploring the Kotlin programming language with an expert from Google. What does Kotlin have to offer? Is it just a Java alternative, or has it turned into something much more ambitious? Along the way we manage to discuss Scala, Function Programming vs. Object Orientation, Editors, Higher Kinded Types, Elm, React, UI architectures and multiplatform programming. A very full epi...

How Do You Get AI Into Production? 16.05.2023 47:49

AI is the new hotness, but with new approaches come new problems of scale. How do you make raw data accessible to teams of data scientists and model-builders? How do build a repeatable deployment pipeline? And how do you monitor your models once they're in production? Today's episode goes through all these reality checks with author and expert Adi Polak, who's just released a new book on the subje...

Is Gleam your next programming language? 10.05.2023 53:20

Louis Pilfold joins us to talk about Gleam, a new language that runs on Erlang's BEAM. In creating Gleam, Louis has tried to bring a new level of developer-friendliness to Erlang's famously fault-tolerant platform. If you're interested in building reliable distributed systems, exploring functional programming, learning new languages or finding out what it takes to design your own language, Louis i...