Magpie Talk Show
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA podcast all about technology, where Sam Newman interviews interesting people from the world of software.
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Magpie Talkshow Episode 23 - Jay Kreps
October 24, 2017 13:48 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBSo, after far too long a hiatus, we’re back on the Magpie Talkshow for a one-off episode where I interview Kafka creator and Confluent CEO Jay Kreps. I’ve been doing a small amount of work with Confluent recently, and through this I got the chance to meet Jay, and I thought he’d make a great guest for the show. So in this episode we’re going to learn about Jay’s own journey in the tech industry, as well as diving into the mindset behind Kafka and where you might want to use it. There are a...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 22 - Adrian Cockcroft (Spaghetti Monster Simulation Edition)
October 08, 2016 10:32 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBAdrian Cockcroft has been a great supporter of my work around microservices, and I was really grateful he was able to find the time to catch up with me at Yow 2015 late last year. Few people have done as much to help share the power of the cloud in recent years as Adrian, but he certainly has a career that predates the explosion of Amazon Web Services. In episode 22 of the Magpie Talkshow, he shares is journey so far in the IT industry, from physics to venture capital firm Battery Ventures, ...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 21 - Kamal Oudrhiri (NASA Inspiration Edition)
September 21, 2016 05:28 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBIn episode 21 of the Magpie Talkshow, I interview NASA Scientist Dr Kamal Oudrhiri, who led the radio sciences team for the recent Mars Curiosity Lander. For more information on this episode, along with, links and videos, please check out my blog: http://samnewman.io/blog/2016/09/19/magpie-talkshow-episode-21-kamal-oudrhiri-nasa-special-part-2/ As always, please do subscribe, leave a comment or a review!
Magpie Talkshow Episode 20 - Anita Sengupta (Martian Parachute Edition)
September 08, 2016 05:20 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBIn episode 20 of the Magpie Talkshow, I interview NASA Scientist Dr Anita Sengupta, who was the Lead Systems Engineer on the parachute system for the recent Mars Curiosity Lander. For more information, links and videos, please check out my blog: http://samnewman.io/blog/2016/09/08/magpie-talkshow-episode-20-anita-sengputa-nasa-special/
Magpie Talkshow Episode 19 - Aino Corry (Noisy Handryer Edition)
August 23, 2016 01:21 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBWelcome back to the Magpie Talkshow Podcast! It's been too long (almost exactly 3 months) since I got the last episode out, and despite having a healthy backlog of interviews recorded I've been unable to find the time to get them out. Since then, a number of things have happened including me moving on from ThoughtWorks, where I have worked for over 12 years. I’ll be sharing more about why I made that decision and what comes next over on my blog at some point soon. In this, the 19th episode o...
Episode 18 - Kathleen Fisher (Quadcopter Vulnerability Edition)
May 30, 2016 09:20 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBIn this week's episode I chat to Kathleen Fisher, a professor at Tufts University. I caught up with Kathleen during the first stop of the three city Yow 2015 conference late last year, where she was delivering the opening keynote on the topic of formal methods. Back in university I struggled with the topic of formal verification of software. The amount of work required to formally, mathematically, prove a given implementation actually did what you hoped, always seemed to be an order of magn...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 17 - Corey Latislaw (Solar-powered Minesweeper Edition)
May 18, 2016 06:55 - 24 minutes - 32.9 MBAfter far too long a hiatus, the Magpie Talkshow is back with it's 17th episode. This week we wrap up the last of the interviews I recorded at Øredev last year, and hear my chat with Android developer Corey Latislaw. Mobile development in general is somewhat outside my wheelhouse, so I was very keen to hear about the challenges in that space. At Øredev, Corey did a talk about Android as the world phone, and during our interview we touch on a number of aspects of developing solutions for the e...
Neha Narula Episode 16 (Proof Of Work Edition)
April 07, 2016 07:08 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBDistributed systems can be pretty hard things to understand, so I'm always on the lookout for someone who manages to explain these things well. Neha Narula is one such person, and I was lucky enough to see one of her sessions at Øredev late last year. After spending several years researching distributed systems at Google, Neha is now working at the MIT Media Lab looking into uses of the blockchain. During our interview, we talk about distributed databases, why distributed transactions can be...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 15 - Ben Stopford (Fortran Cosmology Edition)
March 11, 2016 04:24 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBBack in November, again at the Øredev conference, I sat down with an old colleague of mine, Ben Stopford. After starting out in physics (specialising in cosmology no less!) Ben shifted over to computing, where he has been ever since. After leaving ThoughtWorks, he spent much of his time in financial institutions working in the areas of high performance computing and data engineering. Since then he has taken up a role at Confluent, the company behind the Kafka distributed message broker. Duri...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 14 (Tetris Calculator Edition)
March 02, 2016 05:38 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MB*** When I first put this episode out, there was a glitch at the end with overlaid speech. This is now fixed! *** I've enjoyed all the interviews I've done for The Magpie Talkshow so far, but some do stick out more than others. Often the key distinction is the enthusiasm the interviewee has for a given topic - their passion really shines through when I listen back. Sam Aaron, this week's guest on the show, is a great example of this. I've known Sam for a while. Back when we first met, he wa...
Hakan Oredev Episode 13 - Hakan Jonsson (Privacy Tradeoff Edition)
February 24, 2016 00:37 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBAfter an unplanned two week hiatus, the Magpie Talkshow is back. The break was due to a bunch of craziness going on which I'll hopefully let you know about soon, but I'm hoping from here on out we can get back to an episode a week. Aside from Øredev being a generally great conference, it was also my most successful in managing to grab people for interviews. This week in the second interview from that conference I'm chatting to Håkan Jonsso about data science. Håkan is a researcher working o...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 12 - Kristof Adriaenssens (Distributed Drilling Edition)
February 03, 2016 17:37 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThis episode is a week later than planned, due to me being on holiday. Good for me, not so good for all of you I'm afraid! It'll be weekly from here on out I hope, and I'll get better at letting you know if they'll be any interruptions in service. Anyway, on with the episode details. I had the chance to visit SoundCloud's Berlin HQ last year, and sat down with Kristof Adriaenssens, an engineer in their Core Engineering team. Among other things he contributes to a project called Zipkin, a di...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 11 - Amy Phillips (Sandwich Year Edition)
January 20, 2016 09:15 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBI got to record a number of great interviews at Øredev in Sweden late last year. Amy's was the third, but due to slightly confusing reasons on my side, is actually the first to get released. Amy is a software engineer in test at Songkick, who has been helping the delivery organisation there make the journey towards continuous delivery. We talk about many, many things, including the value of parent pester power, why university courses with sandwich (work placement) years are a good idea, he d...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 10 - Martin Fowler (Small Room Edition)
January 12, 2016 03:58 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBMany of you have probably heard of my colleague Martin Fowler before. I'm lucky enough to get to work with him on occasion as part of my role on ThoughtWorks' Technology Advisory Board, which is an internal body inside ThoughtWorks itself. One of our main jobs is putting out the twice yearly Technology Radar, and I was in our New York office recently to work on the new version when Martin and I found time to catch up for a chat. Recorded in a rather cozy room, we talked about many things, in...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 9 - Troy Hunt (Pineapple Darknet Edition)
January 04, 2016 05:54 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBIn a change to the normal schedule, rather than releasing episodes in the strict order in which they were recorded I've instead brought forward one of my most recent interviews. In Episode 9 of the Magpie Talkshow, I talk to security consultant, blogger and pluralsught author Troy Hunt. In the interview, recorded at Yow 2015, Troy and I discuss a number of security breaches, including the recent VTech hacking incident which happened in late 2015. Given the recency of the events we covered, ...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 8 - Beth Skurrie (Ruby Inadequacy Edition)
December 16, 2015 12:46 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBMicroservices have been a focus of mine for the last few years, and one of the trickiest problems in this area is how to ensure that when you change one service that you don't break other, collaborating services. While working as a Consultant for Dius at REA in Australia, Beth helped create an internal project called Pact to help solve this problem. Now an open source project in its own right, Beth and I discuss what Pact is and the problems it solves. We also found time to talk about why Ru...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 7 - Brian Sletten (Liberal Arts Edition)
December 16, 2015 12:45 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBBrian Sletten has long been passionate about the semantic web, and I was fortunate enough to catch up with him at UberConf 2015 in Denver, Colorado. We talk about why the early promise of the semantic web didn't materialise at the time (and why it now may be coming into it's own), why XML may be a terrible way to view graphs, and even touch on the problems with encryption. You can follow Brian on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/bsletten And see some of his previous talks: http://nofluffju...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 6 - Simon Brown (Channel Islands Edition)
December 01, 2015 20:19 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBSimon Brown is a freelance author, consultant and trainer based on Jersey in the channel islands. I've known Simon for a while, and we caught up at Devoxx Poland earlier this year. Simon's focus for the last few years has been on helping people articulate their architectures, and come up with sensible abstractions to make it easy to share them. This is represented in his work on the C4 Model, in his book Software Architecture For Developers, and a new venture, an online tool to help you gen...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 5 - David Pollak (Minecraft Darpanet Edition)
November 24, 2015 23:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MBDavid Pollack it turns out has done many things. He wasn't just born before the internet, he saw the internet being built. Since then he created the Lift framework for Scala, discovered Clojure, and can now be seen playing with Docker. In one of the longer episodes so far, our conversation also takes in types, docker security, and why minecraft might be the spectrum or commodore64 of the 21st century. Trust me, it makes more sense when you listen to it... David's blog can be found at: http:...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 4 - Irina Guberman (Robotic Pianist Edition)
November 17, 2015 23:44 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBSome people love their job, and Irina is clearly one of them. Coming into computing via a somewhat unconventional route, Irina spent a long time with Java before discovering Erlang, which as you can tell from our discussion is something of a passion of hers! We talk about What caused her to switch from Java to Erlang, whether or not Elixir could be the killer app for Erlang, and why you should always let kids play with robots. Regarding Elixir, we talk towards the end of the interview about ...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 3 - Holographic Politician Edition
November 11, 2015 07:52 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBIn the 3rd of my 4 interviews at NDC Oslo, I talk to ThoughtWorks colleague and co-Technical Radar author Neal Ford. Neal talks about his journey into computing, the uneven distribution of holographic politicians, indoor plumbing, and functional thinking. Perhaps not in that order. You can find out more about Neal Ford over at http://nealford.com/, or follow him on twitter @neal4d
Magpie Talkshow Episode 2 - Venkat Subramaniam (International Man Of Mystery Edition)
November 04, 2015 08:05 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBIn this week's episode, I speak to Venkat Subramaniam. Venkat seems to have the stamina of 5 normal people - whenever I start to feel sorry for myself about my own hectic schedule, I look at what Venkat is up to and realise that I have no cause to complain. Aside from being a serial author, and conference speaker, Venkat also finds time to do consulting and training too, all while continuing to be incredibly passionate about his work. In this interview we talk about many things, but in partic...
Magpie Talkshow Episode 1 - Lynn Langit (The Big Cloud Edition)
October 27, 2015 05:43 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBIn the first episode of The Magpie Talkshow, I interview Lynn Langit. Lynn focuses both on data engineering and the cloud, and we discuss both, as well as her work with the Teach Kids Programming organisation. I'm also pretty sure she's the first person I've met who is a Microsoft MVP, a Google Developer Expert, and an AWS Community Hero... If you want to know more about Lynn, you can find her here: main blog - http://www.lynnlangit.com twitter - https://twitter.com/lynnlangit And if you...