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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Courtland and Channing Allen interview the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
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#054 - CS Programs Should NOT Teach Git ft. ThePrimeagen
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Today, we bring back a dear guest and friend of the podcast, ThePrimeagen! Now Ex-Netflix engineer who turned his full focus to content creation surrounding software engineering and tech. In today's episode, we talk about his new Git course on boot.dev, where he shares motivations on why he decided to write a course on Git, how he incorporates it i…
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#053 - Go isn’t secure?!? ft. Low Level Learning
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In today's episode, we welcome Low Level Learning, a fellow programmer and content creator. With over 500k subscribers and his own course where he teaches low level programming topics, he came on the podcast to talk about what he knows most: C, low level concepts, AI, as well as share some of his own developer experiences and preferences that he ga…
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In today’s episode, we welcome Natalie Pistunovich, host of the Go Time podcast, OpenAI Ambassador and Google Developer Expert for Go. She advises companies on how to make the most of AI and adopt it properly and also teaches the Cloud and Infrastructure course for B.Sc. students at the HTW Berlin. In this episode, we talk all about AI driven devel…
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#051 - Should you grind leetcode? ft. NeetCode
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In today’s episode, we bring fellow developer and tech content creator NeetCode, to talk about his obstacles and observations on his path in becoming a FAANG engineer, where he shares his struggles and how he started both his tech career and content creation journeys. Among a variety of other topics, NeetCode shares his advice for anyone that’s ope…
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In today’s episode, we welcome John Crickett, veteran software engineer, having worked at Staff, VP, and C-Suite positions over the years, and now focusing on helping thousands of engineers worldwide, through his coding challenges that have you building real applications, as well as helping with the soft skills through his articles and posts about …
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In today’s episode, we bring Leandro Ostera, a seasoned software engineer, who’s currently leading the OCaml build system team, with the mission of making OCaml SaaS ready!Join us as this episode is packed with a variety of topics, where we mainly focus on the OCaml ecosystem, compare it to other languages and frameworks, but also dabble into very …
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#048 - Your command line sucks ft. Bashbunni
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Today, we're excited to have Bashbunni join us, a software developer and fellow tech content creator currently rocking it as a DevRel at Charm, whose purpose is all about glamming up the CLI experience.In this episode, we cover a lot of ground, from diving into Charm's cool libraries and their real-world applications to chatting about the self-taug…
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#047 - From Nursing to Programming ft. Trash Puppy
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In this episode, we host Trash Puppy, with her amazing story of how she went from Nursing to becoming a Software Engineer. Today, we talk about her story, why she chose Golang, her exciting personal projects and her experiences and advice as a self-taught developer.As Trash Puppy is accepting job offers at the moment, we also dove into the current …
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#046 - How I Spent $100,000/mo on CI/CD
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Today, we're thrilled to have Tommy Graves, co-founder of RWX, a company focusing on building tools that optimize build and test performance, reliability, and developer experience. In this episode, we're delving deep into the realm of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment), with a special focus on Mint - their latest CI platform. …
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Today, we bring a special "Whiskey, Web and Whatnot" edition to our podcast, where we welcome Travis Wagner and Robbie The Wagner, to talk about controversial takes regarding tech CEOs, their experiences in the field, the impact of AI and other personal preferences towards technologiesLearn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favo…
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#044 - Managers should know how to code ft. Thorsten Ball
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In today's episode, we bring Thorsten Ball, author of "Writing An Interpreter In Go" and "Writing A Compiler In Go". In this talk, we discuss the different clashes and responsibilities between Product and Engineering teams, reignite the topic of working with technical managers, explain why cookie banners are dumb, and on a more interpersonal note, …
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#043 - Nuxt.js is better than Next.js ft. Daniel Roe
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In this episode, we bring Daniel Roe, the Lead Maintainer of Nuxt.js, an open source framework that makes web development intuitive and powerful. Today, he shares his journey into the framework and sheds some light on intriguing questions surrounding its development and usage. Today's talk ranges from the origins of Nuxt to its unique features and …
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#042 - Rust is the WORST language to learn first ft. Teej DeVries
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In today's episode, we bring back Teej DeVries, the first guest ever on our podcast! Today we are discussing Teej's new course on Boot.dev on Memory Management. In this talk, we discuss the importance of memory, why Go is a C-programmer minded language, garbage collectors, among other technical topics. We also talk about why understanding the funda…
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#041 - From Roblox to software founder ft. Lewis Menelaws
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In this episode, Lane chats with Lewis Menelaws, a Full-Stack developer and entrepreneur. Today he takes us through his coding journey and insights as a developer influencer. From his early days coding Roblox games, tech stacks, and the challenges of freelancing, to his shift into content creation and thoughts on the current programming meta. Learn…
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#040 - The man who wrote the book on DynamoDB ft. Alex DeBrie
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In this episode, Lane talks to Alex DeBrie, author of the DynamoDB book. Today's talk covers various aspects such as DynamoDB's comparison with Amazon S3, its benefits, use cases, constraints, and cost considerations, while also covering other AWS and Google Cloud services. Alex also shares his insights into his journey of writing the book on Dynam…
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#039 - Get promoted by being lazy ft. Dax Raad
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In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk about personal opinions on industry practices, scale, financial decisions, infrastructure mistakes, reflections on long-term company commitments and ma…
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#038 - I Got Caught Rolling my Own Auth... feat. Dev Agrawal
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Lane chats with Dev Agrawal— content creator & Developer Advocate at Clerk! Tune in as they discuss DevRel, authentication vs. authorization, JWT, and so much more in this episode. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Dev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/devagrawal09 Dev's …
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Lane chats with Matt Holt-- a renowned figure in backend engineering and the creator of Caddy, a leading platform for serving sites and apps written in Go. In this episode, they discuss the origins of Caddy, its unique features, and Matt's journey in Go programming and web development. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your fa…
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Lane chats with BadCop-- a senior Bash engineer, Twitch streamer and the mastermind behind their online presence. From the origins of 'BadCop' to the recent emergence of 'BashCop,' they explore scripting languages, focusing on Bash, shells, terminals and more. Follow the conversation in this enlightening episode, unraveling the intricacies of onlin…
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#035 - Discussing Roc and functional systems with Richard Fieldman
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Lane chats with Richard Feldman, creator of the Roc programming language, about why he decided to create it. They discuss object oriented programming and whether it did irreparable damage to the industry - or not. Follow along as they talk about all of that and functional programming too! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your…
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#034 - Brain Oriented Programming with Philip Winston
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Lane chats with Philip Winston, a software engineer with a storied history who recently published an article titled "Brain Oriented Programming". Tune in as Lane and Philip talk about the pros and cons of object oriented programming and... guitar hero? Don't miss this episode of Backend Banter! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen o…
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#033 - WebI is not a package manager feat. AJ O'neal
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Lane chats with AJ O'Neal about giving up on Rust, the challenges of using brew from a permissions standpoint, and how, exactly, WebI is not a package manager. Tune in as they discuss why AJ developed WebI, and why you should be using it as well. AJ O'Neal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/coolaj86 WebI: https://webinstall.dev/…
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#032 - React Server Components... in Go? With JLarky
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In this episode of Backend Banter, Lane chats with JLarky about React server components... in GO. Why would anyone want to do that? Find out here! They also discuss how JLarky came up with the idea to use React in the backend, what other people think about the practice, and how he uses it to streamline his process. All this is intermixed with discu…
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#031 - Trying (Practically) Every Functional Language and Landing on OCaml with Sabine
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Lane chats with Sabine, one of the primary maintainers of OCaml.org, about how she built web apps in Django on the side, only to land her first programming job working close to the OCaml ecosystem, and quickly become enveloped in the project. Her backstory about skipping grades, dropping out of school, and teaching herself various web languages is …
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#030 - The Future of Backend JavaScript with a Node.js Maintainer: Matteo Collina
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Matteo Collina is a member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has one of the most impressive developer resumes we've ever seen. His 500 NPM modules have over 17 billion downloads. Today, he sits down with Lane to discuss Node, the future of backend web development, and Platformatic, his new startup. Learn back-end development - https:/…
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#029 - Write Laravel, not PHP (feat. Aaron Francis)
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Lane and Aaron Francis sit down to talk about Laravel and PHP, and why everyone who uses them tends to make a lot of money. There seems to be something to avoiding the technical hype cycle and just shipping web apps that people want to use. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbant…
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#028 - Learning Go: A Discussion of the Language with the Author, Jon Bodner
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#027 - 2023 vs 2001 Tech Recessions and Distributed Systems with Russ Ross
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Lane chats with his distributed systems professor from when he was a computer science undergraduate, Dr. Russ Ross. They talk about the state of the hiring market in 2023, LLVM, and of course, distributed systems! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Russ Ross's Twitter:…
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#026 - Why PubSub Architectures are Still Cool with Byron Ruth and David Gee
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Byron Ruth and David Gee from the NATS and the Synadia team join Lane today to chat about distributed systems, and more specifically, PubSub architectures. If you've ever wondered about the difference between a distributed monolith and a truly distributed system, this episode is for you. We break down NATS and how it relates to other systems like R…
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#025 - Rust Developer Admits to Enjoying Dynamic Types with Sean Walker
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Lane sits down with Sean Walker to talk about Ruby on Rails, dynamic typing, and even a bit of Rust. Sean's been writing Ruby on Rails for years, and has some opinions on DHH's recent articles. Sean Walker's Twitter: https://twitter.com/swlkr Sean Walker's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/swlkrBy Lane Wagner
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#024 - Behind HTMX: Carson Gross on the re-Rise of Hypermedia
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This is a podcast about backend development, so I couldn't miss the chance to chat with Carson Cross, the creator of HTMX and author of the book Hypermedia Systems. HTMX is all about giving backend developers the power to build modern webapps, without needing to write a line of frontend JavaScript. In a way, it's a return to the way the web used to…
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#023 - Has Web Development Regressed? A Conversation with Wes Bos
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Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has changed over the years, and where its heading next. Wes Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesbos Wes Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wesbos/ Wes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WesBos We…
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#022 - Job Hunting as a Self-Taught Programmer with Don the Developer
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If you're nervous about searching for programming jobs this episode is for you. Lane sits down with Don the Developer to chat about everything from resumes and cover letters to how to present yourself in an interview. DonTheDeveloper's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/donthedeveloperBy Lane Wagner
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#021 - TypeScript vs Elixir: An FP Showdown with Theo Browne
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Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.…
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#020 - Running SQLite on the Edge with Pekka Enberg
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Pekka is the CTO of TursoDB, a cloud database product that helps developers run SQLite on the edge. Lane and Pekka talk about all the tradeoffs involved with SQLite, as well as the tradeoffs of putting your database geographically near your backend servers. Pekka's Twitter: https://twitter.com/penberg Turso: https://turso.tech/ LibSQL: https://gith…
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The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetScale. Hope you like the pod!By Lane Wagner
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#019 - Full-time vs Freelancing vs Starting a Company with Rob Walling
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Lane chats with Rob Walling. Rob is the author of several books, including the SaaS playbook and Start Small Stay Small. He founded Drip, TinySeed and even runs MicroConf, the largest conference for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. In this episode they chat about how new backend developers can use their skills in a full time job, but …
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#018 - Data Engineering for Gophers with Miriah Peterson
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Miriah Peterson chats with Lane about how great Go tends to be for not only backend application development, but also data engineering roles. Miriah hosts Golang meetups and conferences alongside her full time job, so they also discuss how in person networking can help your new career as a programmer.…
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#017 - Writing Go at Multi-Million Dollar Companies with Mat Ryer
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Lane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat about how Mat used Go to successfully build and sell a multi-million dollar company. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.ba…
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#016 - Is Python even good? A debate with Dr. Michael Green
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Lane chats with Michael Green about Python programming on the backend side of the web stack. They debate Python's efficacy in large production projects. It gets spicy, bring a glass of milk. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgdo…
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#015 - Forking Rust into Crablang with Travis Wagner
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Lane chats with Travis Wagner, aka TechSavvyTravvy, the man behind the "crablang" fork of Rust. They talk about the issues with the Rust foundation that caused the fork, how the fork works from a technical perspective and other open-source shenanigans. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www…
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#014 - Building the Best Tools and Tests with The Primeagen
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Lane chats with The Primeagen about unit tests, how to build good cli tooling, Golang, Rust, and a ton of stuff about Prime's history and how he got into coding and came to work at Netflix. Prime's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen Prime's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen Prime origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjHFubUPLV0 A…
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#013 - Landing your First Coding Job with James Q Quick
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Lane chats with James about all his best tips for landing your first ever job as a developer. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com James on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesqquick James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesqquick James Discord: https://t.co/LUOsSs…
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#012 - Becoming a Netflix-Level Engineer with Trash Dev
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Lane chats with Trash, a Netflix engineer and code streamer on Twitch. They break down Trash's story: how he got into coding, from being a mainframe developer all the way through his days as a backend engineer to a frontend developer at Netflix. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Trash Twitter: https://twitter.com/trashh_dev Trash Twitch…
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#011 - Writing Go and doin' DevOps with Jonathan Hall
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Lane chats with Jonathan Hall, a long time Go developer, host of the cup o' go podcast, and prolific DevOps guy. They discuss what DevOps is, what it isn't and why Go is such a good option for backend and devops work. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Jonathan on Link…
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#010 - Distributed Web Apps with Kyle Simpson
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Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the backend data required for their apps to run directly on various client's devices. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.back…
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#009 - Scaling MySQL with Brian Morrison from PlanetScale
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Lane and Brian talk about scaling databases, particularly MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale platform. Brian is a developer educator at PlanetScale, and he breaks down how you can think about scaling databases for your own projects, or for the companies you work for. PlanetScale is used for cloud MySQL deployments in the new CI/CD course on Boot.de…
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#008 - Accelerating Your Coding Career with Charles Max Wood
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Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs.com and hosts myriad tech podcasts, and has spoken prolifically about how to level up your career as a developer. Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmaxw Topenddevs: https://to…
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#007 - Switching from .NET to Go with Bill Kennedy
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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…
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#006 - Building a FAANG Career with Melkey (Senior Go Dev @ Twitch)
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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…
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