Best Bruce Eckel And James Ward Podcasts (2024)

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#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile 1:06:04

5d ago1:06:04

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We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production. Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD…

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#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies 1:14:36

21d ago1:14:36

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We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org). Resources: James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

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#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel 59:13

1M ago59:13

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We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others. Resources: Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life UC Berkeley Greater Good Scie…

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#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira 1:00:15

2M ago1:00:15

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We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

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#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee 1:07:31

2M ago1:07:31

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We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity. Mentioned TDD Article: The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice Discuss this episode: ⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

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#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling 59:06

3M ago59:06

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When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral. Resources: Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/ Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNIbgV6j-Y James' very slow Scala ZIO implemen…

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#92 Virtual Threads Looming with Adam Warski 1:07:37

4M ago1:07:37

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We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels. Referenced articles & code: Ox EasyRacer Client Go statement considered harmful Go-like selects using jox channels in Java Limits of Loom's performance Fast and Scalable Channels in Kotlin Coroutines Discuss thi…

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#91 'Tis The Season For Reducing Gradle Friction 1:07:23

4M ago1:07:23

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Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo: https://github.com/jamesward/graboo Buy your Happy Path Programming Shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#90 The Best Manager with Sushila Sahay 44:42

5M ago44:42

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Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what makes her such a great manager. We also dive a bit into open source business models since Sushila has deep experience in that realm. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#89 Algebraic Effects with Kyo (Flavio Brasil) 1:07:45

5M ago1:07:45

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We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#88 Developers Thriving In the Flow with Arty Starr 1:15:08

6M ago1:15:08

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Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer momentum and ways that developers can find joy through more time in the flow state. Referenced resources: SpringOne Talk Arty's Idea Flow Book FlowInsight Discuss this episode: ⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#87 Diving Deeper into Wasm with Zalim Bashorov 1:07:11

7M ago1:07:11

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Zalim Bashorov (@bashorov) works on Kotlin/Wasm at JetBrains and answers our many questions about Wasm, GC, the Component Model, and other future proposals. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#86 The Journey to OCaml with Sabine 1:10:34

7M ago1:10:34

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Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about this journey and some of the reasons why OCaml is an awesome modern language. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#85 Scala, Rust, and Durable Computing with John De Goes 1:19:34

8M ago1:19:34

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Our chat with John De Goes starts with his Scala & Rust journeys, then goes into Golem Cloud, a serverless durable computing platform underpinned by Wasm, and ends with a discussion about whether business applications really need parallelism. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#84 Inevitable Failure with Dormain Drewitz 1:09:11

8M ago1:09:11

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We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode but we recovered and wrapped things up. Referenced Article: 10 Years of Failure Friday at PagerDuty: Fostering Resilience, Learning and Reliability Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#83 Rust Developer Retreat & Structured Concurrency 58:12

8M ago58:12

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At the Rust Developer Retreat we explored Structured Concurrency with Tokio. With the attendees we chat about our projects and things learned, liked, and disliked about Rust. Then dive into Structured Concurrency generally and specific implementations. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#82 The Future of Programming 1:12:16

10M ago1:12:16

1:12:16

Bruce and James chat about the future of programming. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#81 TypeScript & Effects with Michael Arnaldi 1:06:20

10M ago1:06:20

1:06:20

Michael created Effect, a functional effect system inspired by Scala ZIO, for TypeScript. We chat about Functional Programming, the TypeScript language, and Effects. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#80 Investing in Developer Tools with Renee Shah 45:37

12M ago45:37

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Renee Shah is a partner at Amplify Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. We discuss some broad industry trends: Edge, Wasm, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, and much more! Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#79 Domain-Driven Design and Moduliths with Oliver Drotbohm 1:02:13

12M ago1:02:13

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We chat with Oliver Drotbohm about what Domain-Driven Design is and how it might intersect with Microservices, Monoliths, or Moduliths. Mentioned resources: Parnas on modularity Chris Richardson – Introducing Assemblage - a microservice architecture definition process Spring Modulith Project Introducing Spring Modulith Discuss this episode: https:/…

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#78 Immutability & IDLs for Declarative Services with Jakub Kozłowski 1:16:15

1y ago1:16:15

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First a short rant about mutability followed by learning about Smithy, an Interface Description Language (IDL), with Jakub Kozłowski. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#77 Quarkus and Microservices with Holly Cummins 1:00:58

1y ago1:00:58

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Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar 1:01:00

1y ago1:01:00

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WebAssembly (Wasm) finds a way for the web to move forward to near-native performance while avoiding the limitations of JavaScript. In this episode we chat with Vivek Sekhar, a product manager on the Chrome team, about all the Wasm things and how they relate to a better foundation for cross-platform, high performance apps, in the browser, on the cl…

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#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins 1:07:19

1y ago1:07:19

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We learn the motivations behind Haskell and why it is the pinnacle of Functional Programming from Kris Jenkins, a Developer Advocate at Confluent. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#74 Developer Joy = Developer Productivity with Justin Reock 1:07:59

1+ y ago1:07:59

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Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a set of tools & practices that help engineers be more productive. We chat with Justin Reock, field CTO at Gradle, about why more organizations need DPE and what that really means. Learn more at: https://gradle.com/developer-productivity-engineering/ Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar 1:02:13

1+ y ago1:02:13

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After being told many times that Nix is all we dream for when it comes to software packaging, we finally chat with Domen Kožar and learn all about Nix. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

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#72 Pants Makes Developers Happier & More Productive with Benjy Weinberger 1:08:03

1+ y ago1:08:03

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The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive and happier. We chat with a co-creator of Pants, Benjy Weinberger, about the history, motivations, and future of the build tool. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#71 Functional Programming in Kotlin with Simon Vergauwen (Sorry about the terrible audio) 1:03:16

1+ y ago1:03:16

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Simon Vergauwen shares about Arrow, a collection of Functional Programming libraries for Kotlin. Sincere apologies for Bruce & James' bad audio. We forgot to change our input device but figured we'd still publish this as it is tolerable and Simon has so much good stuff to say. (His audio is great) Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF…

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#70 Understanding Software Through Bees & Biology With Grace Jansen 1:03:47

1+ y ago1:03:47

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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…

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#69 Polymorphism Unbound 1:07:01

1+ y ago1:07:01

1:07:01

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

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#68 The End of Ivory Tower Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law 1:08:48

1+ y ago1:08:48

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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

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#67 Swallowed by a Python with Luciano Ramalho 1:23:29

1+ y ago1:23:29

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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

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#66 The Journey to Rust with Christopher Hunt 1:20:05

1+ y ago1:20:05

1:20:05

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

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#65 Rod's Gambit - Spring, Scala, TypeScript, and Chess with Rod Johnson 1:04:33

1+ y ago1:04:33

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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

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#64 Building Build Tools is Hard with Josh Suereth 1:03:58

2y ago1:03:58

1:03:58

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

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#63 ZIO 2 dot Ohhhhh! with Bill Frasure 1:26:17

2y ago1:26:17

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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

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#62 Musing About Local-First Sync & CRDTs with Mark McGranaghan 1:06:05

2y ago1:06:05

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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://dis…

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#61 Compassionate Communities with Tonya Moore 1:04:52

2y ago1:04:52

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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…

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#60 Kotlin Language Design with Roman Elizarov 1:02:59

2y ago1:02:59

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

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#59 Goetz's Law, Dhall, and Nix (With Gabriella Gonzalez) 59:49

2y ago59:49

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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 …

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#58 Scala 3: Significant indentation and other things we love (With Martin Odersky) 1:08:31

2y ago1:08:31

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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

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#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger) 1:00:02

2y ago1:00:02

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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

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#56 Feedback Loops & Software is Like Surgery (With Daniel Terhorst-North) 1:26:42

2y ago1:26:42

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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

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#55 Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald) 1:08:20

2y ago1:08:20

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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

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#54 Flix: Designing a principled programming language with Magnus Madsen 1:16:53

2y ago1:16:53

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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

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#53 Open Source: Free as in Hot Dogs (With Donald Fischer) 1:01:58

2+ y ago1:01:58

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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

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#52 Reveling in Nonsense With Josh Long 1:22:19

2+ y ago1:22:19

1:22:19

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

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#51 James' New Kotlin PM Job 1:03:37

2+ y ago1:03:37

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

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#50 Testcontainers (Like Uber but for Integration Tests) with Sergei Egorov 1:05:26

2+ y ago1:05:26

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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…

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#49 Smart Types (Like Regular Types, Only Smarter) with Jorge Vasquez 1:04:01

2+ y ago1:04:01

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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

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