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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.

What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)

100 hours 28 mins; March 26, 2026

Asciinema: Terminal Recording Done Right (with Marcin Kulik)

86 hours 46 mins; February 19, 2026

Building the SpacetimeDB Database, Game-First (with Tyler Cloutier)

101 hours 5 mins; February 04, 2026

Will Turso Be The Better SQLite? (with Glauber Costa)

111 hours 27 mins; December 11, 2025

Can Google's ADK Replace LangChain and MCP? (with Christina Lin)

65 hours 21 mins; November 20, 2025

Building Observable Systems with eBPF and Linux (with Mohammed Aboullaite)

71 hours 24 mins; October 31, 2025

Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)

71 hours 38 mins; October 09, 2025

Getting New Technology Adopted (with Dov Katz)

65 hours 15 mins; September 24, 2025

From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)

72 hours 12 mins; September 10, 2025

Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)

84 hours 57 mins; August 22, 2025

InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)

109 hours 23 mins; July 30, 2025

Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd)

78 hours 6 mins; July 17, 2025

The $500 Billion Integration Problem, And One Possible Solution (with Marty Pitt)

91 hours 33 mins; July 04, 2025

Making Software Crash Before It Breaks (with Isaac Van Doren)

57 mins; June 19, 2025

Making Apache Kafka Diskless (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat)

89 hours 29 mins; June 05, 2025

Java's Cutting Edge Comeback (with Josh Long)

84 hours 29 mins; May 23, 2025

The State & Future of Apache Kafka (with Anatoly Zelenin)

72 hours 22 mins; May 08, 2025

DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit (with Andrew Lamb)

92 hours 10 mins; April 25, 2025

Jupyter's Architecture Unpacked (with Afshin Darian & Sylvain Corlay)

89 hours 11 mins; April 10, 2025

Nix, The Build-Everything Language (with Julian Arni)

80 hours 36 mins; March 27, 2025

Graphite: Image Editing as a Syntax Tree (with Keavon Chambers & Dennis Kobert)

77 hours 32 mins; March 13, 2025

ReScript: A Better Typed JavaScript? (with Gabriel Nordeborn)

92 hours 53 mins; February 20, 2025

A universal query engine in Rust (with Predrag Gruevski)

75 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2025

Raspberry Pi Hardware & A Lisp Brain (with Dimitris Kyriakoudis)

94 hours 43 mins; January 23, 2025

Software Systems Aren't Just Software (with Diana Montalion)

110 hours 14 mins; January 16, 2025

Building Fyrox: A Rust Game Engine (with Dmitry Stepanov)

103 hours 45 mins; January 09, 2025

Testing TVs At Scale With Elixir (with Dave Lucia)

76 hours 5 mins; December 19, 2024

Programming As An Expressive Instrument (with Sam Aaron)

110 hours 1 min; December 05, 2024

Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)

50 mins; November 28, 2024

Programmers, ADHD, And How To Manage Them Both (with Chris Ferdinandi)

99 hours 14 mins; November 21, 2024

MicroServices For Better And Worse (with Ian Cooper and James Lewis)

47 mins; November 14, 2024

Pony: High-Performance, Memory-Safe Actors (with Sean Allen)

73 hours 23 mins; October 31, 2024

Architecting a Rust Game Engine (with Alice Cecile)

78 hours 8 mins; October 23, 2024

Writing a CAD Language in Rust (with Adam Chalmers)

82 hours 48 mins; October 16, 2024

Text User Interfaces in Rust (with Orhun Parmaksız)

66 hours 23 mins; October 09, 2024

Designing The Lustre Web Framework (with Hayleigh Thompson)

64 hours 27 mins; October 02, 2024

Faust: A Programming Language For Sound (with Romain Michon)

78 hours 1 min; September 25, 2024

GPUs, from Simulation to Encryption (with Agnès Leroy)

63 hours 48 mins; September 18, 2024

The State of Full-Stack OCaml (with António Monteiro)

87 hours 15 mins; September 11, 2024

Multiplatform Maps Built As Layers on Rust (with Ian Wagner)

61 hours 18 mins; August 21, 2024

Building a New Terminal App (with Zach Lloyd)

67 hours 39 mins; August 14, 2024

Building A Programming Language From Its Core (with Peter Saxton)

61 hours 21 mins; August 07, 2024

Practical Applications for DuckDB (with Simon Aubury & Ned Letcher)

68 hours 4 mins; July 31, 2024

Recording and Replaying the Browser (with Justin Halsall)

62 hours 50 mins; July 24, 2024

Zig as a Multi-OS Build System (with Loris Cro)

79 hours 5 mins; July 17, 2024

Creating and Evolving Elixir (with José Valim)

102 hours 21 mins; July 10, 2024

PyO3: From Python to Rust and Back Again (with David Hewitt)

94 hours 29 mins; July 03, 2024

NATS & Jetstream: The System Communication Toolkit (with Jeremy Saenz)

71 hours 4 mins; June 26, 2024

Cuis Smalltalk and the History of Computing's Future (with Juan Vuletich)

78 hours 53 mins; June 19, 2024

The Inko Programming Language, and Life as a Language Designer (with Yorick Peterse)

84 hours 21 mins; June 12, 2024

Building the Zed Text Editor (with Nathan Sobo)

83 hours 51 mins; June 05, 2024

Reimplementing Apache Kafka with Golang and S3

83 hours 4 mins; May 29, 2024

Extending Postgres for High-Performance Analytics (with Philippe Noël)

67 hours 33 mins; May 22, 2024

Designing Actor-Based Software (with Hugh McKee)

72 hours 2 mins; May 15, 2024

ByteWax: Rust's Research Meets Python's Practicalities (with Dan Herrera)

61 hours 54 mins; May 08, 2024

Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)

84 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2024

Batch Data & Streaming Data in one Atom (with Jove Zhong)

51 mins; April 24, 2024

Advanced Memory Management in Vale (with Evan Ovadia)

69 hours 31 mins; April 17, 2024

Bringing Pure Python to Apache Kafka (with Tomáš Neubauer)

66 hours 38 mins; April 03, 2024

Taking Erlang to OCaml 5 (with Leandro Ostera)

63 hours 47 mins; March 27, 2024

How Apache Pinot Achieves 200,000 Queries per Second (with Tim Berglund)

74 hours 28 mins; March 20, 2024

Neovim: Creating, Curating and Customising your Ideal Editor (with TJ DeVries)

67 hours 41 mins; March 13, 2024

Creating Hackathons that Work (with Jon Gottfried)

62 hours 52 mins; March 06, 2024

Automate Your Way to Better Code: Advanced Property Testing (with Oskar Wickström)

67 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2024

Bridging the Gap Between Languages (with Martin Johansen)

49 mins; February 21, 2024

If You Want Better Code, Do It For Me (with Jonathan Schneider)

62 hours 48 mins; February 14, 2024

Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)

80 hours 12 mins; February 07, 2024

Verse, Haskell & Core Language Design (with Simon Peyton Jones)

83 hours 7 mins; January 31, 2024

Shouldn't Data Connections Be Easier? (with Ashley Jeffs)

75 hours 25 mins; January 24, 2024

What can game programming teach us about databases? (with Tyler Cloutier)

65 hours 31 mins; January 17, 2024

Is Odin, "programming done right"? (with 'Ginger' Bill Hall)

60 hours 4 mins; January 10, 2024

Can Event-Driven Architecture make Software Design Easier? (with Bobby Calderwood)

69 hours 59 mins; January 03, 2024

How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister)

52 mins; December 27, 2023

Roc - A Functional Language looking for those Software Sweetspots (with Richard Feldman)

61 hours 48 mins; December 20, 2023

If Kafka has a UX problem, does UNIX have the answer? (with Luca Pette)

79 hours 29 mins; December 13, 2023

Will we be writing Hare in 2099? (with Drew DeVault)

54 mins; December 06, 2023

Startups Should Solve Real People's Real Problems (with Michael Drogalis)

51 mins; November 29, 2023

Is Flink the answer to the ETL problem? (with Robert Metzger)

64 hours 26 mins; November 22, 2023

What's Zig got that C, Rust and Go don't have? (with Loris Cro)

83 hours 52 mins; November 15, 2023

Why did Redpanda rewrite Apache Kafka? (with Christina Lin)

49 mins; November 08, 2023

Debezium - Capturing Data the Instant it Happens (with Gunnar Morling)

62 hours 38 mins; November 01, 2023

When We Talk About Software (with Francesco Tisiot)

32 mins; October 25, 2023

Semantic Search: A Deep Dive Into Vector Databases (with Zain Hasan)

62 hours 0 mins; October 18, 2023

The Future of Data is Now is the Future of Data (with Thomas Camp)

61 hours 15 mins; October 11, 2023

Databases, Ambitions, and a Testing Silver Bullet? (With Joran Dirk Greef)

66 hours 40 mins; October 04, 2023

Starting A Tech Business. Again. And Again. And Again. (with Michael Drogalis)

54 mins; September 27, 2023

How Do You Assemble a Complete Software System? (with Ben Gamble)

70 hours 27 mins; September 20, 2023

Clickhouse: Faster Queries, Faster Answers (with Alasdair Brown)

75 hours 3 mins; September 13, 2023

What problems does Apache Kafka Solve? (with Neil Buesing)

62 hours 16 mins; September 06, 2023

DIY Consensus: Crafting Your Own Distributed Code (with Benjamin Bengfort)

67 hours 34 mins; August 30, 2023

Teaching, Guiding & Inspiring The Next Generation of Programmers (with James Q. Quick)

53 mins; August 23, 2023

jOOQ - Crossing the Object-Relational Bridge (with Lukas Eder)

49 mins; August 09, 2023

Inside the World of Competitive Coding (with Mathis Hammel)

55 mins; July 26, 2023

Unison: A Programming Language for Distributed Computing

62 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023

The Evolution of Databases & the Future of Database Technology (with Ben Stopford)

49 mins; July 12, 2023

The Open Source AI Revolution Begins Now...

48 mins; July 05, 2023

Gren: The friendly, fullstack, functional future?

62 hours 54 mins; June 28, 2023

PostgreSQL in the Cloud

33 mins; June 21, 2023

Building a Thriving Community Around Your Software with Ale Murray

55 mins; June 13, 2023

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

56 mins; June 07, 2023

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