Happy Path Programming
Bruce Eckel & James Ward
No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
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Dec 10, 2021 • 1h 4min
#49 Smart Types (Like Regular Types, Only Smarter) with Jorge Vasquez
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!
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Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 2min
#48 Composability in Distributed Systems - Because Math! With Heather Miller
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.
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Nov 17, 2021 • 1h
#47 The Future of Programming Rocs! With Richard Feldman
The creator of the new Roc programming language, Richard Feldman, joins us to talk about rocking developers worlds' with better tools & paradigms.
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Nov 5, 2021 • 60min
#46 What Problem Does GraalVM Solve? All of them. Featuring Alina Yurenko
We dive deep on GraalVM and learn from Alina Yurenko about all the problems it solves.
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Oct 29, 2021 • 1h 1min
#45 ZIO 2 - Better, Faster, Friendlier with Adam Fraser
Adam Fraser is a core contributor to Scala ZIO. He joins us to chat about improvements in ZIO 2 and how we can grow adoption.
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Oct 29, 2021 • 60min
#44 Tired of Getting N+1'd by Your ORM? A Chat With Alexander Ioffe.
We chat with Alexander Ioffe, maintainer of the Quill library, about database access approaches and Scala metaprogramming.
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Oct 25, 2021 • 1h 4min
#43 Rúnar Bjarnason is Jackhammering the Foundations of Programming
We've mentioned the futuristic Unision programming language many times but now we dive deep with one of the co-founders.
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Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 26min
#42 The answer to life, the universe, and everything is an abstraction with Viktor Klang
The legendary Viktor Klang chats with Bruce & James about information loss, reactive, emergence, and many other mind expanding topics.
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Sep 26, 2021 • 1h
#41 "Never gonna give you up" (FP that is) with Wiem Zine Elabidine
Bruce and James hear about Wiem's journey in Functional Programming, her contributions to Scala ZIO, and how she never gave up despite the challenges she faced.
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Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 17min
#40 Poisoned Agile with Barry Hawkins
Bruce and James chat with Barry Hawkins about software methodologies, their triumphs and abuses.
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