Best Object Oriented Podcasts (2024)

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063 - Upgrading OOUX and ORCA and Why the Masterclass is going on Pause 37:17

2h ago37:17

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There are big changes coming to the world of OOUX. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia talks about bumping the ORCA process up from 15 to 16 steps. She also discusses the upcoming Cohort 10, which will mark the tenth anniversary of OOUX! And to celebrate that milestone she has devised four new bonuses for this cohort. Plus, why we will be puttin…

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#184 - Contract Testing Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide - Lewis Prescott 53:05

7m ago53:05

53:05

“Contract testing is a form of testing where you are verifying two systems have the same shared understanding about the expectations." Lewis Prescott is the coauthor of “Contract Testing in Action”. In this episode, join us to demystify contract testing and its critical role in modern software development. Discover how contract testing ensures reli…

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From J2ME, over Bluetooth and Speech Recognition to AI 50:10

1h ago50:10

50:10

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruce Hopkins about: transition from Basic to Java, work on Bluetooth technology and writing a book on Bluetooth for Java, involvement with Sun Microsystems and Java ME, becoming a Java Champion, shift to AI and natural language processing research, development of speech recognition and hands-free web navigation sys…

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#183 - Mastering Team Leadership by Embracing Conflicts and Building Resilience - Hari Haralambiev 1:02:22

2d ago1:02:22

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“Strong teams embrace conflict. They use it as a tool, and they have their great way of handling disagreements." Hari Haralambiev is co-founder of SoftSkillsPills.com and author of the leadership newsletter “A Leader’s Tale”. In this episode, we discuss essential elements of team leadership and dynamics. Hari begins by sharing his insights on what …

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Project Valhalla: Value Types, Nullability and Float16 1:03:01

25m ago1:03:01

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz (@paulsandoz) about: Project Valhalla's origins and goals, value types vs reference types, heap and stack flattening optimizations, Value objects and data transfer objects,nullability constraints, enums and values,implicit constructability, potential performance gains, challenges in retrofitting value ty…

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Justin Sheehy on Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype 45:33

4d ago45:33

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At the recent InfoQ Dev Summit Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful opening keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of artificial intelligence hype. The talk was aimed at software practitioners who might be feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments and inflated expectations surrounding AI.We’re sharing Justin’s fu…

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#182 - Building a Quality-Driven Culture: Enhancing Quality Practices Using QPAM - Janet Gregory & Selena Delesie 54:05

5d ago54:05

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“We have 10 different aspects of quality, and testing is just a subset of activities in the overall quality culture. You need to have a good testing practice, but it’s just a tiny part of quality culture." Janet Gregory and Selena Delesie are the co-authors of “Assessing Agile Quality Practices Using QPAM”. In this episode, we discuss how to elevat…

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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my! 1:47:21

6d ago1:47:21

1:47:21

It's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers. View the full show notes here: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode238 News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atla…

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OpenRewrite: Transforming Java Code at Scale 47:33

6d ago47:33

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Schneider (@jon_k_schneider) about: OpenRewrite as an open-source tool for code transformation using lossless semantic trees (LSTs),recipes as programs that manipulate the LST,YAML configuration for defining recipes,dry run and in-place code modification options,separation of open-source and commercial aspe…

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#181 - Engineer Your Career and Your Life: Timeless Career Advice and the Power of Small Bets - Louie Bacaj 1:02:51

12d ago1:02:51

1:02:51

“Engineers make this mistake of thinking that if they just do the work, they’re going to be rewarded. But it’s just not how it happens. Be heads down, add the value, do great work, but don’t forget to make the noise." Louie Bacaj is a software engineer and engineering leader who turned entrepreneur. In this episode, Louie shares his unique career j…

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JVector: Cutting-Edge Vector Search in Java 54:59

19d ago54:59

54:59

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: discussion of JVector, a Java-based vector search engine, Apache Kudu as an alternative to Cassandra for wide-column databases, FoundationDB - is a NoSQL database,explanation of vectors and embeddings in machine learning, different embedding models and their dimensions, the Hamming di…

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Jumping – Knox Game Design, June 2024 34:22

14d ago34:22

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Comparison of jumping statistics from various characters in classic platformer games. Analysis of states in jump cycles. Demo of implementation of jump for a 2D platformer game. Links and Notes Demo Code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/jumping FCEUX – https://fceux.com/web/home.html…

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062 - Proof that OOUX Works with Kate Redfern and Philippe Fara 1:14:19

16d ago1:14:19

1:14:19

Kate Redfern is a Senior UX Consultant at Manifesto, a digital experience agency that works with clients in the non-profit and government space. Philippe Fara is the Digital Experience Manager for Renfrewshire Council. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia, Kate, and Philippe discuss using the ORCA process to raise user competency scores for the R…

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Human-Centered Agile with Daniel Boos, Joe Montalbano and Brad Lehman 29:38

21d ago29:38

29:38

The book Human-Centered Agile by Joe Montalbano and Brad Lehman offers strategies to combine Agile and UX. Daniel Boos, co-lead of UX practices and Swiss Railways read the book, but still has questions, for example about organizations where agile may not fit, shared services teams, scaling agile, or the plethora of Ops that are emerging. Luckily Jo…

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#180 - Becoming a Distinguished Engineer, Public Speaking, and Early Retirement - Kelsey Hightower 1:00:30

19d ago1:00:30

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“Learn the difference between activities and impact. Sometimes we spend our career trying to get really great at activities. Always ask yourself, what is the impact of the work I’m doing?” From Google Distinguished Engineer to early retirement, Kelsey Hightower has a career journey filled with lessons for tech professionals at every stage. In this …

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Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka 1:05:15

20d ago1:05:15

1:05:15

View the show notes on the web: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode237 In the past couple of episodes, we'd gone over what Apache Kafka is and along the way we mentioned some of the pains of managing and running Kafka clusters on your own. In this episode, we discuss some of the ways you can offload those responsibilities and focus on writing stre…

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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) vs. Data-Oriented Programming (DOP) in Java 1:31:57

20d ago1:31:57

1:31:57

An airhacks.fm conversation with Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about: the advantages and challenges of Object-oriented programming (OOP) vs data-oriented programming (DOP) in Java, using Java record classes, sealed interfaces, and switch expressions to implement business logic outside of data classes, the advantages of polymorphism and transparent persi…

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#179 - Bottlenecks of Scaleups - Tim Cochran & Kennedy Collins 51:29

26d ago51:29

51:29

“As a startup, as a scaleup, you often get one chance. If the first impression is something that’s slow, doesn’t work, is down entirely, people will move on and go find some other way to solve that problem." Tim Cochran and Kennedy Collins are the co-authors of the “Bottlenecks of Scaleups” series published on Martin Fowler’s website. In this episo…

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Decentralizing Decision Making with Shawna Martell & Dan Fike 38:43

26d ago38:43

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In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Shawna Martell and Dan Fike, about the Navigators program at Carta and how they are finding ways to decentralize decisions and empower individual contributors. The quality of technical decisions is improved, and decisions are reached more quickly because the people involved are close to the relevant context.…

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From JSP to Rife and From Kotlin to Java 58:26

26d ago58:26

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An airhacks.fm conversation with ethauvin (@Erik C. Thauvin) about: Erik previously on: "#298 The bld Power User", running a high-traffic link blog using JSP and Tomcat, challenges with caching and performance, meeting Geert Bevin through discussions about URL encoding, evaluating and migrating his blog to the Rife framework, appreciating Rife's le…

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#178 - Leveling Up Through Coding Challenges, Real-World Projects, and Personal Brand - John Crickett 52:28

1M ago52:28

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“99% of us aren’t working in big tech. There’s this impression that everybody works in big tech. There’s a huge world of software development out there that almost gets forgotten about in social media." John Crickett is the creator of “Coding Challenges” and a seasoned software engineer with over 30 years of experience. In this episode, John shares…

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Meryem Arik on LLM Deployment, State-of-the-art RAG Apps, and Inference Architecture Stack 37:56

1M ago37:56

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In this podcast, Meryem Arik, Co-founder/CEO at TitanML, discusses the innovations in Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies including current state of large language models, LLM Deployment, state-of-the-art Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) apps, and inference architecture stack for LLM applications.Read a transcript of this …

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Nuts and Bolts of Apache Kafka 1:37:26

1M ago1:37:26

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Topics, Partitions, and APIs oh my! This episode we're getting further into how Apache Kafka works and its use cases. Also, Allen is staying dry, Joe goes for broke, and Michael (eventually) gets on the right page. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode236 News Thanks for the reviews! angingjellies …

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The bld Power User 1:08:02

1M ago1:08:02

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Erik C. Thauvin (@ethauvin) about: previously Erik on "#287 How Linkblog Happened",from Rife to bld, Gert on "#284 No Dependencies--Or How Rife 2 and Bld Happened",the simplicity and power of bld compared to Gradle and Maven, using Java as the build language without any DSLs or plugins, the advantages of a direct ap…

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061 - OOUXing English Football with Will Poole 1:13:11

1M ago1:13:11

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Will Poole is Head of User Experience at Kyan, a digital product agency that specializes in strategy, design, and engineering, expertly crafting digital experiences to solve complex problems and drive innovation. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Will talk about Will's journey to finding OOUX, the challenges of bringing OOUX to Kyan, and u…

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#177 - Simple Object-Oriented Design: Principles for Writing Clean & Maintainable Software - Mauricio Aniche 53:16

1M ago53:16

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“Every software gets more complex over time. What we need to do as engineers is to find ways so that we can work with increasing complexity, but not increasing the cost of maintaining the software." Mauricio Aniche returns to the podcast for the second time and discuss with me his latest book, “Simple Object-Oriented Design”. Our discussion explore…

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Edo Liberty on Vector Databases for Successful Adoption of Generative AI and LLM based Applications 34:29

1M ago34:29

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In this podcast, Edo Liberty, Founder and CEO at Pinecone, discusses the importance of vector databases in the successful adoption of Generative AI and LLM based applications and how vector databases are different from traditional data stores.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4aHaVGi Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newslette…

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Observability-Driven Development with Digma, Serverless and Java 1:03:06

1M ago1:03:06

1:03:06

An airhacks.fm conversation with Roni Dover (@doppleware) about: previously Roni on airhacks.fm "#252 BDD: Bug Driven Development vs. Continuous Observability",discussion about the Java community and its focus on innovation, Digma and Java,Digma's growth and user feedback, observability as a tool for early issue detection and better code design, th…

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Exploring ONNX, Embedding Models, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Langchain4j 1:09:00

1M ago1:09:00

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Dmytro Liubarskyi (@langchain4j) about: Dmytro previously on "#285 How LangChain4j Happened",discussion about ONNX format and runtime for running neural network models in Java, using langchain4j library for seamless integration and data handling, embedding models for converting text into vector representations, stra…

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Flood Fill Recursion – Knox Game Design, May 2024 26:01

2M ago26:01

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Overview of recursion and an explanation of a simple flood fill algorithm. Example demo in MonoGame with C# code. Links and Notes Demo Code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/floodfill MonoGame – https://monogame.net/By Knox Game Design

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#176 - Acing the System Design Interview - Zhiyong Tan 48:24

2M ago48:24

48:24

“Always remember that system design interview is not about perfection. It is about trade-offs and being able to communicate them clearly and concisely." Zhiyong Tan is the author of “Acing the System Design Interview”. In this episode, he joins me in demystifying the system design interview process. He shares insights into what to expect, how to ta…

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Architecture Modernization with Nick Tune 33:20

2M ago33:20

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In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Nick Tune, co-author of the book Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical Alignment of Software, Strategy, and Structure. The discussion includes how to know if it makes sense to invest in an architecture modernization journey, how to get started, what benefits you can expect to achieve and how to measur…

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Intro to Apache Kafka 2:04:48

2M ago2:04:48

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We finally start talking about Apache Kafka! Also, Allen is getting acquainted with Aesop, Outlaw is killing clusters, and Joe is paying attention in drama class. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode235 News Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 (www.atldevcon.com) Intro to Apache K…

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#175 - How to Solve Real-World Data Analysis Problems - David Asboth 57:10

2M ago57:10

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“All data scientists and analysts should spend more time in the business, outside the data sets, just to see how the actual business works. Because then you have the context, and then you understand the columns you’re seeing in the data." David Asboth, author of “Solve Any Data Analysis Problem” and co-host of the “Half Stack Data Science” podcast,…

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Deepthi Sigireddi on Distributed Database Architecture in the Cloud Native Era 37:24

2M ago37:24

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In this podcast, Vitess CNCF project technical lead Deepthi Sigireddi discusses the architecture of cloud native distributed databases, sharding, replication, and failover. She also talks about what DB developers should consider when choosing distributed databases.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3JWNJbTSubscribe to the Software …

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High-Performance Java, Or How JVector Happened 1:01:16

2M ago1:01:16

1:01:16

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Ellis (@spyced) about: Jonathan's first computer experiences with IBM PC 8086 and Thinkpad laptop with Red Hat Linux,becoming a key contributor to Apache Cassandra and founding datastax,starting DataStax to provide commercial support for Cassandra,early experiences with Java, C++, and python,discussion abou…

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Slots. Slots. Slots. 1:25:02

2M ago1:25:02

1:25:02

Why can we not have slots in Livewire components?sBy Daniel Coulbourne & Caleb Porzio

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060 - Organizing a Team Around Objects with Ghyslain Olier 59:18

2M ago59:18

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Ghyslain Olier is the Design Director at Content Square and has 15 years of experience in product design. In this episode of the podcast, Sophia and Ghyslain discuss using OOUX to organize your team, why your O's, R's, C's, and A's are your competitive advantage, plus thoughts on OOUX and AI! LINKS: Connect with Ghyslain on LinkedIn Sign up for the…

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#174 - The Hard Truths of Software Development and How to Succeed - Venkat Subramaniam 58:00

2M ago58:00

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“Raise the bar of the team so that they bring sustainable practices. If your code stinks, no matter how you desire to be agile, you cannot respond to the change." Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is a renowned figure in the software development community, an award-winning author and founder of Agile Developer, Inc. In this episode, Venkat sheds light on the …

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If LLMs Do the Easy Programming Tasks - How are Junior Developers Trained? What Have We Done? 51:27

2M ago51:27

51:27

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Anthony Alford and Roland Meertens about the future of software development and the training of new developers, in a world where Large Language Models heavily contribute to software development.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ycggYv Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for yo…

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StackOverflow AI Disagreements, Kotlin Coroutines and More 1:41:39

2M ago1:41:39

1:41:39

https://www.codingblocks.net/episode234 Reviews iTunes: ivan.kuchin News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 https://www.atldevcon.com/ Topics People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-over…

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LLama2.java: LLM integration with A 100% Pure Java file 1:01:28

2M ago1:01:28

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An airhacks.fm conversation with Alfonso Peterssen (@TheMukel) about: discussion about Alfonso's early programming experience and participation in the IOI competition, studying computer science and functional programming with Martin Odersky, internships at Google and Oracle Labs working on compilers and the Espresso project implementing a JVM in Ja…

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