Deploy Friday: Your source for everything Open Source
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#59 Must you code — Exploring multiple paths to work in tech
January 24, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBContinuing our focus on women in tech, we discuss the multiple pathways to enter the tech industry, including coding, with our 3 guests, Elena Kolevska, a Senior Technical Enablement Architect at Redislabs, Helen Tabunshchyk, Director of ‘Women Who Code’ London, and Kristina Kushner, a Senior Project Manager at PMP. Coding’s gendered history Though it’s not the case anymore, coding used to be more friendly to women. Helen explains, “Until the mid-1980s, programming was most often a woman'...
#58: Empowering Women for Leadership Roles
January 20, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBToday we speak with three leaders and women in tech, Susan An, the Senior Sales Director of Tessian, Jessica Alderson, the Co-Founder & CEO of So Syncd, and Maria Antinkaapo, VP of Customer Success at Platform.sh, on the gender imbalance in tech, including the impact of internal and external biases. Fixing the disparity in tech requires a perspective shift The ratio of women to men in tech is often as unbalanced as 25:75. Susan is blunt, “We don't have enough female talent or leaders. Glob...
#57: Know the enemy — assessing the cybersecurity threat
January 20, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBOur guests today, Jane Frankland, owner and CEO of KnewStart, Fareedah Shaheed, CEO and founder of Sekuva, and Eliza-May Austin, Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company, help us determine the state of the cybersecurity world today and how it can affect you. Defining cybersecurity All three guests admit the term “cybersecurity” is broad. Eliza May says,” Cybersecurity is broad for a reason; it has to encompass lots of different avenues of data; computer, network, phone, apps, and there is a soc...
#55: Golem Network — Anonymous, unstoppable, and censorship-resistant applications
January 12, 2022 23:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBWe speak with María Paula Fernández, Mattias Nystrom, and Stefan Adolf about the Golem Network, and the implications of creating a future internet based on distributed computing, with more focus on privacy. The Golem Network The Golem Network is an accessible, reliable, open access and censorship-resistant protocol, which democratizes access to digital resources and connects users through a flexible, open source platform. As María Paula Fernández defines it, “At the highest level, Golem is...
#56: EZContent, the Drupal distribution for headless content publishing
January 12, 2022 23:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBEZContent is a Drupal distribution, decoupled framework, and publishing platform created by Srijan. It has many out-of-the-box reusable components for layout building and editing, including AI and machine learning features. We discuss EZContent with experienced Drupal folks, Ishan Mahajan, Kamalpreet Kaur, and Vinay KG. EZContent’s features address modern-day marketer’s needs As a CMS, EZContent has many features that make editors’, publishers’, and marketers’ lives easier, such as a drag-...
#56: EZContent, the Drupal distribution for headless content publishing
January 12, 2022 23:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBEZContent is a Drupal distribution, decoupled framework, and publishing platform created by Srijan. It has many out-of-the-box reusable components for layout building and editing, including AI and machine learning features. We discuss EZContent with experienced Drupal folks, Ishan Mahajan, Kamalpreet Kaur, and Vinay KG. EZContent’s features address modern-day marketer’s needs As a CMS, EZContent has many features that make editors’, publishers’, and marketers’ lives easier, such as a drag-...
#53: Is the Future of E-commerce Headless?
January 11, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBAs e-commerce has developed as an industry, the old guard e-commerce tools are phasing out to make way for new guard: headless e-commerce. Our two guests today, Product Marketing Manager at Strapi, Anastasiia Shpiliak, and Ryan Szrama, founder of Centarro, discuss the benefits of headless e-commerce and how to achieve it with Strapi and Centarro. Strapi + headless e-commerce Strapi is an open source, Node.js based, headless CMS with an e-commerce solution. Why headless? As Anastasiia expla...
54: Does your API Spark Joy — Learn decluttering with GraphQL
January 11, 2022 22:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBCalling APIs to retrieve data can be a difficult and messy process. Our two guests, Mark Stuart and Shruti Kapoor, are both engineers at PayPal who use GraphQL to bring order to their APIs and data. What is GraphQL GraphQL is a query language for your API, but as Shruti says, “A common myth people have about GraphQL is that we’re querying the database. But we’re not; we’re querying the API.” She adds, “GraphQL provides a way to call your API and get the data that you need.” Mark adds his o...
#52: OpenStack in the Enterprise; the Path to Your Own Cloud
December 02, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBOpenStack: scalable, automated cloud infrastructure We introduced OpenStack, powerful open source software that automates the management of hardware and infrastructure, in our 50th episode. Organizations like Sardina Systems use OpenStack to offer their clients scalable, pay-as-you-grow cloud infrastructure. Today we have two guests from Sardina Systems, Kenneth Tan and Mihaela Constantinescu, who manage OpenStack installations for their customers. Our other guest, Dr. Jens Krüger, uses Sar...
#51: The Power of Women in Tech
November 04, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThree different paths to tech Elina Valeeva, CEO of Meditivity, Anna Radulovski, Founder of Coding Girls, and Claudia Mendes Silva, Project Manager for Siemens and an Ambassador of Portugal’s Women in Tech chapter, each came into the tech industry in their own ways. Claudia Mendes Silva and Elina Valeeva both met Ayumi Moore, the President and Founder of Women in Tech through their tech connections. When Elina met Ayumi at a tech conference, she says, “We had a really deep conversation ...
#50: Open Infrastructure Foundation
November 04, 2021 22:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBThe Open Infrastructure Foundation Julia Kreger, Mark Collier, and Mohammed Naser are all part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), a nonprofit that builds communities around IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service. The OIF is vast and global — it spans 100,000 members across over 180 countries, and it focuses on projects in multiple areas, including: Edge computing Container Infrastructure Public/Private hybrid cloud AI and Machine Learning CI/CD The OIF origin story The Foundatio...
#48 Fission: Fast app publishing for front end devs to ship web native apps
November 03, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBDefining Fission Fission is an edge app publishing platform for front-end developers. As Boris Mann, one of its creators, defines it, “Fission is a stack of tools, identity files, and data storage that gives developers everything that's needed to run a full web app using only the front end.” Out of the box, Fission has some key benefits. Runs anywhere: server, phone, laptop, or a mixture Easy to deploy Automatic updates Identity security and authorization Fission offers great develop...
#49: Azul, Open Source, and the Zulu Build of OpenJDK
November 03, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBAzul, the JVM, and the JDK Simon Ritter and Geertjan Wielenga are the brains behind Azul, a company focused on providing the best Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) possible. It’s also the biggest Java-only company in the world. As Simon says, “Azul is all about Java.” Azul has two products: Zing — A high-performance JVM. As Simon describes it, “Zing is where we've taken open JDK, we've taken Hotspot, replaced certain parts of it, and then make it into a high-perfor...
#47: Minimizing risks in code deployment
October 12, 2021 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBReducing risk when deploying code is a huge priority for many DevOps teams, and incidentally, the reason behind our podcast's name, Deploy Friday. Today, we speak with experts Jackie Balzer and Maryann Bell about best practices for risk reduction during code deployment. Defining code deployment Code deployment can depend on the scale of your organization. Maryann and Jackie both work at large companies (Adobe and Spotify, respectively), where deployment likely differs from an individual de...
#43: Move your Java Microservices to the cloud with Payara
September 08, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBOur guests today Rudy de Busscher, on the Payara Sales team, and Fabio Andres Turizo, a Payara Engineer, speak with us about the importance of standards, what Jakarta EE offers developers, and using Payara. Defining Payara Payara is a cloud-native, open source middleware platform that’s both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile compatible. It comes in two versions; community and enterprise. With the enterprise version, you get access to partners in the community, and very long-term support — 10 ye...
#45: The Next Generation Servlet Engine to your cloud application
September 08, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWhat is Jetty? Today, our guests share their extensive experience with Jetty. Greg Wilkins is the original software engineer for Jetty and Simone Bordet is a Jetty Committer. Jetty itself is an HTTP server and container for deploying Java servlets that run on HTTP, and it was also the first Java application server to be deployed as a clickable JAR file. Jetty started as a small open source project, and then moved to the Eclipse Foundation in 2009, where it still finds its home today. Greg ...
#44: 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know
September 08, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MB“97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know” is a book of collected wisdom by cloud engineering experts. Our two guests today, Michelle Brenner and Dan Moore, both contributed chapters, and we speak with them about the book and the state of cloud engineering in 2021. What is cloud engineering? With most companies having at least part of their infrastructure in the cloud, some form of cloud engineering knowledge is necessary. Dan says, “I would say that a cloud engineer is someone who works...
#42: Subatomic Reactive Systems in cloud
August 31, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBToday we’ll be talking about reactive programming, Quarkus and Mutiny with our experts, Clement Escoffier and Julien Ponge, both Principal Software Engineers at Red Hat. Why use reactive programming Reactive programming differs from the “traditional” imperative paradigm. Reactive is a programming approach that centers on events (and reacting to them!). It helps build robust, efficient, concurrent applications and systems, and it lets you handle more load while using resources more efficien...
#41: Empowering business automation with Quarkus
August 30, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBBusiness automation has been used in other industries for years. Now it’s available for software development. Our Red Hat guests Karina Varela and Donato Marrazzo tell us how business automation can help bridge the gap between business and technical teams. What is business automation? According to Red Hat, “Business automation is the alignment of business process management (BPM) and business rules management (BRM) with modern application development to meet changing market demands.” Ka...
#41: Empowering business automation with Quarkus
August 30, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBBusiness automation has been used in other industries for years. Now it’s available for software development. Our Red Hat guests Karina Varela and Donato Marrazzo tell us how business automation can help bridge the gap between business and technical teams. What is business automation? According to Red Hat, “Business automation is the alignment of business process management (BPM) and business rules management (BRM) with modern application development to meet changing market demands.” Ka...
#40: Composer 2 and Packagist
August 28, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBComposer 2.0 Jordi Boggiano and Nils Aderman are the original authors of Composer, a near-universal package and dependency manager for PHP, and it just hit a major milestone: Composer 2.0. The two join us in this episode to give us the download on Composer 2 improvements and updates. But first, Nils helpfully defines Composer for us. “Composer is a package manager, or as we sometimes refer to it, a dependency manager. It’s responsible for installing and managing your project’s different v...
#39: The Platform.sh Agency Partner Program
August 23, 2021 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBWhat is the Platform.sh Partner Program For digital agencies, Platform.sh offers a number of incentives and benefits that make our service more attractive and your business more profitable. The team behind the Digital Agency Partner Program, and our guests today, explain how this partner program includes exclusive pricing, co-selling, and special features. Revamping the partner program We brought on Chantal Pastorek to revamp and relaunch the Platform.sh partner program. Now, as our Agen...
#38: Innovation despite lockdown, progress during COVID-19
August 12, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBThe OpenideaL origin story OpenideaL is an ideas and innovation management software created by Linnovate. Based on Drupal, OpenideaL is the leading open source solution for running innovation and ideation campaigns through a community. Elroi, the CEO at Linnovate, explains the project’s origins started, interestingly enough, with the Israeli government, before pivoting to enterprises. “Enterprises realized that it’s a very good solution for them, and they adopted it, either to hear their co...
#37: Be an API integration genius with Pizzly
August 11, 2021 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBBearer: good tidings for developers Pizzly is an open source, OAuth integration proxy created by Bearer. It handles dozens of pre-configured APIs like Asana, Basecamp, Salesforce, Slack, Google Sheets, and more, and lets you quickly add even more APIs with a generic JSON configuration schema. Says Guillaume, Co-Founder and CEO of Bearer, “Pizzly is all about being able to connect to APIs in very fast and simple ways.” How Pizzly does it Pizzly’s dashboard lets you enable and configure the A...
#36: Open source authoring: creating a new CMS guidebook
August 10, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBWriting a TYPO3 Guidebook as a Collective Effort With upwards of 600 features, writing about a fully featured, open source CMS like TYPO3 can be a challenge. In this episode, Felicity Brand, Heather McNamee, and Jeffrey A. McGuire talk about how they co-authored a TYPO3 guidebook in concert with the TYPO3 community. The need for this guidebook As Jeffrey A. McGuire tells it, TYPO3 wanted a book for a diverse audience, ranging from developers, newbies, project analysts, students, educator...
#35: Feature Spotlight — Source Operations to run your fleets
August 02, 2021 17:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBWebsite maintenance is a common challenge, especially for agencies running dozens or even hundreds of sites. Platform.sh uses an internally-developed feature, Source Operations, to effectively manage its “fleets” of web applications. Defining a fleet Augustin Delaporte, Director of Enterprise and Fleets at Platform.sh, defines a fleet like this.“As soon as you start having more than one web application that you're managing, you’re running a fleet, basically. You're facing constraints, you'...
#34: GraphQL vs REST — Choosing the right tool
July 29, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBGraphQL is an open source, declarative language that you can use to source data from your APIs. In a backend landscape with disparate APIs that all need to be tied together, GraphQL is like a middle layer interface between them. Josh Oppenheim, a software engineer and one of our guests today, adds to this definition. “GraphQL allows you to declaratively say, ‘Hey, I want this data to look like this,’ and expect what you get back. So every time that call is made, it's always going to come b...
#33: From Dev to Deploy with Helidon, the lightweight Java microservices framework
July 28, 2021 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIntroducing Oracle Helidon Helidon is an open source, microservice framework for writing applications. As our two Oracle guests today, Dmitry Kornilov and Dmitry Alexandrov explain, Helidon is named after the Greek symbol for a swallow, a bird that’s extremely fast and maneuverable; just like Helidon. Helidon helps developers with two “flavors” Helidon has two development experiences, which our guests like to call “flavors”: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. While both are extremely fast, there...
#32: Elasticsearch — lightning-fast search at scale with ease
July 01, 2021 22:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBElasticsearch: Easy, fast, and reliable Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open source full-text search and analytics engine; it allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and near real-time. As one of our guests, Jay Miller says, Elasticsearch is “the original idea of making search easy, fast, reliable.” Today with Jay Miller and Ricardo Ferreira, we'll discuss the success cases, tips, why you should use a search engine in your project, and where the project is he...
#31: The BIPOC experience (Black Indigenous People of Color) in tech
June 30, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBGuest Anjuan Simmons and host Robert Douglass explore the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experience in the tech world. Facing additional burdens As a Black manager and leader with 25 years of experience in the technologist space, Anjuan carries more burdens than most. He lists: Being many people’s first Black manager Being looked at as a “token hire” Dealing with stereotypes others have about Black people Anjuan sums it up, “Really, I have to do two jobs: the job I was...
#30: Database Spotlight — MySQL
June 18, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBMySQL is an open source, multi-user, and multi-threaded database management system. What’s more, it’s still growing, as our guests, Airton Lastori and Dave Stokes, longtime users of MySQL, emphasize. We asked Airton and Dave about the newest, most exciting, and lesser-known features of MySQL. They responded enthusiastically. All quotes in this list from Dave Stokes. Recursive CTE: as Dave explains it, this is “...an easy, painless way to write subqueries. They’re easier to comprehend than...
#29: Language Spotlight — Ruby
June 17, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBWe continue the Deploy Friday Language Spotlight series with the programming language Ruby. Our two guests, developers Emily Giurleo and Jason Charnes, talk about their love for Ruby and what to expect with the Ruby 3.0 release. The benefits of Ruby Ruby is a favorite to introduce newcomers to coding, along with Python and JavaScript. The father of the Ruby programming language, Yukihiro Maksumoto, likes to say, “Ruby sparks programming joy.” While he may be biased, Emily and Jason agree. ...
#27 Language Spotlight — PHP
June 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBToday we continue our Language Spotlight series. PHP is the most-used server-side web development language in the world, and it’s also one of the few to be purely open source. We speak with two PHP 8.0 Release Managers, Sara Golemon and Gabriel Caruso, about the current status of PHP and the PHP 8.0 release. Exciting PHP features and benefits It’s hard to understate how important PHP is for the Internet. It has been in constant, evolving use online for 26 years — the Internet itself has on...
#28: Language Spotlight — Java
June 16, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBWe continue our Language Spotlight series with Java, an object-oriented programming language that has shaped the course of the internet in enormous ways. Today we speak with two Java champions, Monica Beckwith and Geertjan Wielenga, to discuss Java’s impact so far as well as its course for the future. What is a Java Champion? Since we have two Java champions as guests today, let’s start off with defining a Java champion. Monica and Geertjan describe the term as a collection of expert knowl...
#26: Accessibility
June 11, 2021 22:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBThe digital accessibility umbrella is broad Digital accessibility means different things to different people. Most people, on hearing the term, think of people with disabilities, such as being deaf or blind. But our two experts, Nic Steenhout and Carie Fisher, make it clear the digital accessibility umbrella encapsulates much more. It also includes people who: Have ADHD or other cognitive issues — such as with memory, concentration or information processing Are accessing digital informati...
#25: Language Spotlight — JavaScript
June 01, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBIn our new mini-series, Language Spotlight, we’ll take a tour of every language that Platform.sh supports. Today our focus is on JavaScript, as we delve into what’s new and exciting in the space, asynchronous coding, and the advantages of Node.js with two JavaScript experts and Software Engineers, Jessica and Austin Keener. Understanding asynchronous JavaScript JavaScript can be different from other asynchronous languages. As Austin Keener explains, “In JavaScript, you say, ‘Hey, make this...
#24: Lando
May 25, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode, we talk with our guest Mike Pirog about Lando, the free and open source local development tool. Mike is the Co-Founder of Tandem, a full service digital agency in the PHP space, and the maker of Lando. Lando offers a high degree of flexibility for common setups, and it’s now fully integrated with Platform.sh. How to use Lando Lando is based on Docker as the underlying engine, and it’s primarily for PHP projects, but it can be used for any kind of project. As Mike defines ...
#23: Schrems 2, Privacy Shield, and data sharing
May 21, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBAdding more complexity to international privacy law A recent ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidates the US EU Privacy Shield, which has many implications for data rules around the GDPR. More than 5,000 U.S. companies rely on Privacy Shield to conduct trans-Atlantic trade in compliance with the GDPR. We talk with a team of legal experts to clarify what this means for you and your international business. Comprehensive data protection for European residents GDPR s...
#21: Javascript News: TypeScript 4.0 and More
May 06, 2021 18:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWhat’s new with Typescript 4.0 Typescript is an Object-oriented, open source, scripting language, with static typing. With our guests, we discuss several exciting updates that come with the release of Typescript 4.0 , such as short-circuiting assignment operators, labeled tuple elements, and more. You can also follow along with this helpful slideshow about the release. Variadic tuple types Variadic tuple types are of value when you don’t know the ordering of an array. Our guest Stefan Ad...
#22: MicroProfile — Optimizing Java for a Microservices Architecture
May 06, 2021 18:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBDefining and standardizing microservice architecture Microservices break down application development into independent functional components. One of our guests, Emily Jiang of IBM, defines a microservice as “a piece of software that can do one thing and do one thing very well.” For building good microservice architecture, she recommends following the 12 Factor App methodology. The 12 principles in this methodology were created in an effort to guide development and help standardize Java micr...
#21: Javascript News: TypeScript 4.0 and More
May 06, 2021 18:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWhat’s new with Typescript 4.0 Typescript is an Object-oriented, open source, scripting language, with static typing. With our guests, we discuss several exciting updates that come with the release of Typescript 4.0 , such as short-circuiting assignment operators, labeled tuple elements, and more. You can also follow along with this helpful slideshow about the release. Variadic tuple types Variadic tuple types are of value when you don’t know the ordering of an array. Our guest Stefan Ad...
#20: Open Social and Drupal Distro Dream
April 22, 2021 01:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBOpen Social is a Drupal distribution and online community platform. We speak with the founders, Taco Potze and Bram ten Hove, in our episode today about how Open Social was born out of the idea to productize community building. Open Social origin story Taco and Bram started Open Social after 14 years of Drupal agency experience. Taco says, “We stumbled upon this amazing use case of building a SaaS platform around social communities where we quickly host, maintain, and deploy your installa...
#19: Netlify, JAMStack, and Next.js — a true Gatsby alternative?
April 07, 2021 03:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBThe benefits of Jamstack In this episode, we speak with Cassidy Williams and Jason Lengstorf, both on the Developer Experience Team at Netlify, about deploying Jamstack (which stands for Javascript, APIs, and Markup) applications to Netlify. Jason clarifies the Jamstack, “It’s honestly not a stack at all, so it ends up being a silly name for an architecture. Jamstack is a way of organizing your code. The Jamstack architecture is where you're abstracting your front end to being a layer of ...
#18: Funding Free and Open Source Software
April 02, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBThe internet economy would not be what it is today without the influence and the value added by open source software. As software development in general has become more sophisticated, complex, and time-consuming, maintaining open source software has, too. Today we talk about the importance of funding open source software sustainably with Pia Mancini, Co-founder & CEO of Open Collective, and Luis Villa, Co-founder of Tidelift. Time vs. money in open source Open source software is not exactl...
#16: Micronaut: A modern full-stack framework for building microservice and serverless
March 30, 2021 23:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBSimplify and speed up cloud-native development with Micronaut Micronaut is an open-source, JVM-based framework for building full-stack, modular, easily testable microservices and serverless applications. In this episode, we speak with Iván López Martín, a JVM Developer and Micronaut committer at Object Computing, and Rodrigo Graciano, a Java User Group leader, about how Micronaut can help developers build their cloud-native applications more simply and easily. Faster start time and lower m...
#17: Enterprise integration patterns with Camel, Broker, and Kafka
March 30, 2021 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBApache Camel is an open source Java framework that helps developers make integrations faster and easier. Our two guests, Christina Lina, a Java developer and software architect, and Hugo Guerrera, a software developer and open source advocate, speak about how Camel can help you implement inter-system Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP). Apache Camel helps developers with integration If you listen in the podcast, I define Apache Camel as integration between database web servers, Apache Ka...
#15: Developing APIs with OpenAPI and Postman
March 26, 2021 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBOpenAPI: Clarity and structure for API development The OpenAPI specification (formerly known as Swagger) is a blueprint to help develop APIs and to make sure what’s in the API is clear and understandable, before development even starts. Lorna Mitchell, a Senior Development Advocate at Nexmo and one of our guests today, explains it like this, “OpenAPI is an API description standard. It's a way of explaining everything in your APIs. So think of when you would write documentation and the endpo...
#14: Apache Kafka
March 17, 2021 23:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDefining Kafka Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform which aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Anna McDonald, one of the Apache Kafka experts we speak with in this episode, describes it like this, “The easiest way to describe it is a durable log. And that makes it different from most all other messaging systems, where a message goes in, you have to broadcast it out. And as soon as it's consumed, it'...
#13: Fostering inclusion in the tech industry
March 17, 2021 23:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBDiversity and inclusion is a perennial challenge in the tech industry. In this episode, we have two guests from Witty Works to help us learn more about research-backed ways to be more inclusive in our hiring processes and everyday lives. Unconscious bias starts very early in life Unconscious bias is one important factor behind the underrepresentation of women and other marginalized groups we often see in certain fields and leadership positions. Our guests Lukas Smith and Nadia Fischer tell...
#12: Java Enteprise Applications
March 11, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBOur two guests, Jeanne Boyarsky and Adam Bien, are both long-time Java developers. On today’s episode, we talk about what consists of “good” architecture in the changing world of software development, and where exactly Java fits in to the puzzle. Defining software architecture Pinning down a solid definition of software architecture can be tricky these days. Our guest Jeanne Boyarsky agrees. ”Architecture feels a little like a vocabulary word because it means so many different things to di...