Best Multicasting Podcasts (2024)

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Performance Engineering on Hard Mode with Andrew Hunter 55:34

5M ago55:34

55:34

Andrew Hunter makes code really, really fast. Before joining Jane Street, he worked for seven years at Google on multithreaded architecture, and was a tech lead for tcmalloc, Google’s world-class scalable malloc implementation. In this episode, Andrew and Ron discuss how, paradoxically, it can be easier to optimize systems at hyperscale because of …

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A Poet's Guide to Product Management with Peter Bogart-Johnson 1:02:17

8M ago1:02:17

1:02:17

Peter Bogart-Johnson was one of Jane Street’s first program managers, and helped bring the art of PMing—where that “P” variously stands for “project,” “product,” or some blend of the two—to the company at large. He’s also a poet and the editor of a literary magazine. In this episode, Peter and Ron discuss the challenge of gaining trust as an outsid…

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The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg 59:37

11M ago59:37

59:37

Richard Eisenberg is one of the core maintainers of Haskell. He recently joined Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team, where he hacks on the OCaml compiler. He and Ron discuss the powerful language feature that got him into PL design in the first place—dependent types—and its role in a world where AIs can (somewhat) competently write your code for…

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Swapping the Engine Out of a Moving Race Car with Ella Ehrlich 1:00:28

1+ y ago1:00:28

1:00:28

Ella Ehrlich has been a developer at Jane Street for close to a decade. During much of that time, she’s worked on Gord, one of Jane Street’s oldest and most critical systems, which is responsible for normalizing and distributing the firm’s trading data. Ella and Ron talk about how to grow and modernize a legacy system without compromising uptime, w…

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State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care with Doug Patti 1:12:09

2y ago1:12:09

1:12:09

Doug Patti is a developer in Jane Street’s Client-Facing Tech team, where he works on a system called Concord that undergirds Jane Street’s client offerings. In this episode, Doug and Ron discuss how Concord, which has state-machine replication as its core abstraction, helps Jane Street achieve the reliability, scalability, and speed that the clien…

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Memory Management with Stephen Dolan 1:22:34

2+ y ago1:22:34

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Stephen Dolan works on Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team where he focuses on the OCaml compiler. In this episode, Stephen and Ron take a trip down memory lane, discussing how to manage computer memory efficiently and safely. They consider trade-offs between reference counting and garbage collection, the surprising gains achieved by prefetching…

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What Is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy 1:01:11

2+ y ago1:01:11

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Anil Madhavapeddy is an academic, author, engineer, entrepreneur, and OCaml aficionado. In this episode, Anil and Ron consider the evolving role of operating systems, security on the internet, and the pending arrival (at last!) of OCaml 5.0. They also discuss using Raspberry Pis to fight climate change; the programming inspiration found in British …

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Building a UI Framework with Ty Overby 1:00:04

2+ y ago1:00:04

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Ty Overby is a programmer in Jane Street’s web platform group where he works on Bonsai, our OCaml library for building interactive browser-based UI. In this episode, Ty and Ron consider the functional approach to building user interfaces. They also discuss Ty’s programming roots in Neopets, what development features they crave on the web, the unfai…

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Writing, Technically with James Somers 1:00:58

2+ y ago1:00:58

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James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose.…

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More Signals & Threads coming soon! 0:37

2+ y ago0:37

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Signals & Threads is back, and we have a fun season of topics lined up, including: Building better abstractions for design and user interfaces, the role of writing in a technical organization, the approach that different languages take to memory management...and more. We hope you’ll join us. The first episode drops September 1st.…

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An inside look at Jane Street's tech internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang 1:02:52

3+ y ago1:02:52

1:02:52

In this week's episode, the season 1 finale, Ron speaks with Jeanne, Matt, and Grace, three former tech interns at Jane Street who have returned as full-timers. They talk about the experience of being an intern at Jane Street, the types of projects that interns work on, and how they've found the transition to full-time work. You can find the transc…

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Building a functional email server with Dominick LoBraico 1:03:36

3+ y ago1:03:36

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Despite a steady trickle of newcomers, email still reigns supreme as the chief communication mechanism for the Information Age. At Jane Street, it’s just as critical as anywhere, but there’s one difference: the system at the heart of our email infrastructure is homegrown. This week, Ron talks to Dominick LoBraico, an engineer working on Jane Street…

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Language design with Leo White 1:07:59

3+ y ago1:07:59

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Equal parts science and art, programming language design is very much an unsolved problem. This week, Ron speaks with Leo White, from Jane Street's Tools & Compilers team, about cutting-edge language features, future work happening on OCaml, and Jane Street's relationship with the broader open-source community. The conversation covers everything fr…

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Clock synchronization with Chris Perl 44:28

3+ y ago44:28

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Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem to have trouble with it. Next, keep them all accurate to within 100 microseconds, and prove that you did -- now things start to get tricky. In this episode, Ron talks with Chris Perl, a systems engineer…

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Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning with Laurent Mazare 59:33

3+ y ago59:33

59:33

A conversation with Laurent Mazare about how your choice of programming language interacts with the kind of work you do, and in particular about the tradeoffs between Python and OCaml when doing machine learning and data analysis. Ron and Laurent discuss the tradeoffs between working in a text editor and a Jupyter Notebook, the importance of visual…

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Compiler optimization with Greta Yorsh 1:10:17

3+ y ago1:10:17

1:10:17

It’s a software engineer’s dream: A compiler that can take idiomatic high-level code and output maximally efficient instructions. Ron’s guest this week is Greta Yorsh, who has worked on just that problem in a career spanning both industry and academia. Ron and Greta talk about some of the tricks that compilers use to make our software faster, rangi…

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Multicast and the markets with Brian Nigito 1:02:09

3+ y ago1:02:09

1:02:09

Electronic exchanges like Nasdaq need to handle a staggering number of transactions every second. To keep up, they rely on two deceptively simple-sounding concepts: single-threaded programs and multicast networking. In this episode, Ron speaks with Brian Nigito, a 20-year industry veteran who helped build some of the earliest electronic exchanges, …

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Build systems with Andrey Mokhov 57:46

3+ y ago57:46

57:46

Most software engineers only think about their build system when it breaks; and yet, this often unloved piece of software forms the backbone of every serious project. This week, Ron has a conversation with Andrey Mokhov about build systems, from the venerable Make to Bazel and beyond. Andrey has a lot of experience in this field, including signific…

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Programmable hardware with Andy Ray 59:18

3+ y ago59:18

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The ever-widening availability of FPGAs has opened the door to solving a broad set of performance-critical problems in hardware. In this episode, Ron speaks with Andy Ray, who leads Jane Street’s hardware design team. Andy has a long career prior to Jane Street shipping hardware designs for things like modems and video codecs. That work led him to …

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Introducing Signals & Threads 0:45

3+ y ago0:45

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Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.By Jane Street

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Episode 5: Our Iron Is Rising!

7+ y ago

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After a hiatus, Leviathan426 and Galvinator93 return to discuss Destiny's forthcoming expansion, Rise of Iron. Follow us on facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/MIDA-Multicast-1682906721997291/ also follow us on twitter @galvinator93 and @leviathan426 Share, Review, Like and Subscribe!By J. McFadden and S. Galvin

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Episode 4: What is the Best Subclass?

8y ago

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Galvinator93 and Leviathan426 are back for Episode 4 of the MIDA Multicast! This week they discuss some more impressions of the April Update, talk about next weeks Iron Banner event, and then go into a discussion about subclasses and make choices on what ones are their favorites! Please like and subcribe follow on facebook by searching for Mida Mul…

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Episode 3: April update impressions

8y ago

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In the third episode of the MIDA Multicast, the guys discuss what they think of the April 12th update, what they hope to see this summer, and a very special PSA! follow the guys on twitter: Leviathan426 Galvinator93 Thanks for your listen!By J. McFadden and S. Galvin

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Episode 2: Sandbox and crucible updates!

8y ago

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This week on the Mida Multicast, Leviathan426 and Galvinator93 discuss all the sandbox, weapon, and crucible updates revealed in the April 6th stream as well as reveal what they hope could still be coming. Be sure to search for and like our page on Facebook follow us on twitter @Leviathan426 and @galvinator93…

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Episode 1: Intro / April Update / Eververse

8y ago

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In the first ever episode of MIDA Multicast, the guys tell a little about themselves, talk about the april update, and go over the Eververse controversy. https://s3.amazonaws.com/midamulticast/MIDA+-+MulticastEP1.mp3By J. McFadden and S. Galvin