Happy Path Programming

Grace Jansen joins us to chat about how bees and biology can help us better understand software development tools & paradigms like Reactive, Kubernetes, and maybe parts of the 15 Factor App methodology (a modernized version of the Twelve-Factor App methodology). Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce continues his archaeological dig into the foundations of mainstream programming. Referenced blog: Why Are There Functions? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Andrew Harmel-Law shares a better way to make decisions in software teams using the "Advice Process" which he has used in a number of teams resulting in happier, more productive programmers. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Finally Bruce gets a whole episode about Python with our friend Luciano Ramalho , author of Fluent Python .  In the words of Luciano: "Thanks James and Bruce for the most enjoyable podcast panel I ever had!" Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

No doubt that Rust is hot right now. We chat with Christopher Hunt about his journey through Java, Scala, and many other languages and learn why he is now using Rust. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Rod Johnson (creator of Spring Framework) reflects on his programming and chess journeys. References: ScalaDays 2013 Talk Stockfish Chess Engine Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James often rant about build tools but it turns out they are hard to get right. We dive into the reasons with Josh Suereth who maintained sbt (a Scala build tool) for a number of years. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Our co-author on Effect Oriented Programming, Bill Frasure, joins us to chat about his programming journey and his involvement in last week's ZIO 2.0 release. Book repo: https://github.com/EffectOrientedProgramming/book Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Mark McGranaghan joins us to talk about how the Muse app uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) for local-first data synchronization. More details on Local-first: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ Referenced article about hybrid logical clocks: https://archive.jlongster.com/using-crdts-in-the-wild Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Tonya Moore has been helping build developer communities for years. We discuss how to deal with jerks and the importance of building on a foundation of compassion. Referenced blog from Bill Venners: https://www.artima.com/articles/compassion-in-our-community Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Kotlin Language designer Roman Elizarov, joins us to talk about finding the right balances when designing Kotlin. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Gabriella Gonzalez joins to teach us about the Dhall configuration language they created and Nix. References: The Dhall configuration language Henk: a typed intermediate language Pants Build Tool The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model Haskell for all: How to use NixOS for lightweight integration tests How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer Discuss this episode: https://discord.g...

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, joins us to chat about Scala, Effects, Exceptions, Experiments, and other Exciting stuff. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We explore with Matt Anger a blog he wrote about migrating from Python to Kotlin and the trade offs engineering teams make when deciding which technologies to use. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We explore with Daniel Terhorst-North how social and technical feedback loops can help us build the right thing faster. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald , about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming. Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Magnus Madsen, language designer for the Flix programming language, joins us to talk about the driving principles and innovative features of the language. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Open Source is an essential foundation for pretty much everything. How do we fund it appropriately? What do we do about Log4Shell-types of issues?  Donald Fischer of Tidelift joins us to discuss these economic and human issues. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

A stroll through 20 years of Spring with Josh Long. Also: Bruce, James, and Josh announce their new Ska band. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Hope you all have a happy & healthy holiday! Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Testcontainers are one of James' favorite modern technologies and in this episode we chat with Sergei Egorov, one of the project creators.  We learn about what Testcontainers are and the new Testcontainers Cloud service created by Sergei's new company, AtomicJar. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Jorge Vasquez has been working on a way to have more precise data modeling while not sacrificing performance or ergonomics. Smart Types in ZIO Prelude are the answer, and they are amazing! Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Heather Miller, Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon, joins us to talk about her research into composability in distributed systems, the challenges with serialization, and a better approach to Chaos Engineering. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

The creator of the new Roc programming language, Richard Feldman, joins us to talk about rocking developers worlds' with better tools & paradigms. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We dive deep on GraalVM and learn from Alina Yurenko about all the problems it solves. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF