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Avg. Duration 1h 11m
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Since May 2023
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Deep-dive discussions with the smartest developers we know, explaining what they're working on, how they're trying to move the industry forward, and what we can learn from them.

You might find the solution to your next architectural headache, pick up a new programming language, or just hear some good war stories from the frontline of technology.

Join your host Kris Jenkins as we try to figure out what tomorrow's computing will look like the best way we know how - by listening directly to the developers' voices.

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What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)

Mar 26, 2026 1h 40m

AI is changing the way we all build software — that much seems clear. But the landscape is moving so fast that even the people paid to keep up are struggling. MCP or skills? Fine-tune or just prompt?…

Asciinema: Terminal Recording Done Right (with Marcin Kulik)

Feb 19, 2026 1h 26m

I have a theory that only bad projects get finished — good ones keep finding new things to do. Asciinema is a case in point. What started as a way to share terminal sessions with friends has, over 14…

Building the SpacetimeDB Database, Game-First (with Tyler Cloutier)

Feb 04, 2026 1h 41m

Eighteen months ago, Tyler Cloutier appeared on the show with what sounded like an ambitious (some might say crazy) plan: build a new distributed database from scratch, then use it to power a…

Will Turso Be The Better SQLite? (with Glauber Costa)

Dec 11, 2025 1h 51m

SQLite is embedded everywhere - phones, browsers, IoT devices. It's reliable, battle-tested, and feature-rich. But what if you want concurrent writes? Or CDC for streaming changes? Or vector indexes…

Can Google's ADK Replace LangChain and MCP? (with Christina Lin)

Nov 20, 2025 1h 5m

How do you build systems with AI? Not code-generating assistants, but production systems that use LLMs as part of their processing pipeline. When should you chain multiple agent calls together versus…

Building Observable Systems with eBPF and Linux (with Mohammed Aboullaite)

Oct 31, 2025 1h 11m

How do you monitor distributed systems that span dozens of microservices, multiple languages, and different databases? The old approach of gathering logs from different machines and recompiling apps…

Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)

Oct 09, 2025 1h 11m

Git might be the most ubiquitous tool in software development, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. What if we could keep Git compatibility while fixing its most frustrating aspects—painful merges,…

Getting New Technology Adopted (with Dov Katz)

Sep 24, 2025 1h 5m

Getting new technology adopted in a large organization can feel like pushing water uphill. The best tools in the world are useless if we're not allowed to use them, and as companies grow, their…

From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)

Sep 10, 2025 1h 12m

How confident are you when your test suite goes green? If you're honest, probably not 100% confident - because most bugs come from scenarios we never thought to test. Traditional testing only catches…

Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)

Aug 22, 2025 1h 24m

How would you build a Heroku-like platform from scratch? This week we're diving deep into the world of cloud platforms and infrastructure with Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render.Starting from the…

InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)

Jul 30, 2025 1h 49m

How hard is it to write a good database engine? Hard enough that sometimes it takes several versions to get it just right. Paul Dix joins us this week to talk about his journey building InfluxDB, and…

Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd)

Jul 17, 2025 1h 18m

If AI coding tools are here to stay, what form will they take? How will we use them? Will they be just another window in our IDE, will they push their way to the centre of our development experience,…

The $500 Billion Integration Problem, And One Possible Solution (with Marty Pitt)

Jul 04, 2025 1h 31m

Ever wondered why data integration is still such a nightmare in 2025? Marty Pitt has built something that might finally solve it.TaxiQL isn't just another query language - it's a semantic layer that…

Making Software Crash Before It Breaks (with Isaac Van Doren)

Jun 19, 2025 57m

At 23, Isaac is already jaded about software reliability - and frankly, he's got good reason to be. When your grandmother can't access her medical records because a username change broke the entire…

Making Apache Kafka Diskless (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat)

Jun 05, 2025 1h 29m

How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That’s the big question in this episode as we look at one of the many attempts to build a version of Kafka that…

Java's Cutting Edge Comeback (with Josh Long)

May 23, 2025 1h 24m

Java’s has been evolving faster than any 30 year old language has a right to do, and there’s probably no-one more pleased about it than my guest this week - Josh Long. He’s a Java & Kotlin…

The State & Future of Apache Kafka (with Anatoly Zelenin)

May 08, 2025 1h 12m

I’m joined this week by one of the authors of Apache Kafka In Action, to take a look at the state of Kafka, event systems & stream-processing technology. It’s an approach (and a whole market)…

DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit (with Andrew Lamb)

Apr 25, 2025 1h 32m

Building a database is a serious undertaking. There are just so many parts that you have to implement before you even get to a decent prototype, and so many hours of work before you could begin…

Jupyter's Architecture Unpacked (with Afshin Darian & Sylvain Corlay)

Apr 10, 2025 1h 29m

Jupyter’s become an incredibly popular programming and data science tool, but how does it actually work? How have they built an interactive language execution engine? And if we understand the…

Nix, The Build-Everything Language (with Julian Arni)

Mar 27, 2025 1h 20m

Ever since we invented makefiles, the programming world has been wrestling with the problem of building software stacks reliably. This week we’re going to look at one of the most ambitious solutions…

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