Latest Devtools Podcast Episodes
Cloud infra, with Kurt Mackey (Fly.io) - S04E11
Console DevTools - July 06, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Kurt Mackey, CEO of Fly.io. We discuss what it's like running physical servers in data centers around the world, why they didn't build on top of the cloud, and what the philosophy is behind the focus on pure compute, networking, and storage primitives. Kurt sheds l...
Serverless databases, with Monica Sarbu (Xata) - S04E10
Console DevTools - June 29, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Monica Sarbu, CEO of Xata. We start with the philosophy behind serverless databases, why developers shouldn't need to think about relational databases, search, and analytics, whether the performance hit of accessing a database over HTTP matters, and how database br...
Creating Julia, with Jeff Bezanson (JuliaHub) - S04E09
Console DevTools - June 22, 2023 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Jeff Bezanson, one of the co-creators of the Julia programming language and the CTO of JuliaHub. We start with the history of Julia and why it took a while to take off, the key principles behind the language, how it provides the speed of C with the ease of Python, ...
WebAssembly, with Matt Butcher (Fermyon) - S04E08
Console DevTools - June 15, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon. We discuss the four use cases for WebAssembly, why Wasm’s sandboxed approach is so secure, whether there's any danger retrofitting other use cases onto a language that was originally designed for the web, and how limitations like the l...
Why engineering sucks, with Eli Schleifer (Trunk) - S04E07
Console DevTools - June 08, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Eli Schleifer, Co-CEO of Trunk. We discuss why engineering sucks, what developers can learn from how software gets built at Google and Uber, how individual developers can improve their coding experience, and why Git commit messages are useless. Hosted by David Myt...
Frontend platforms, with Matt Biilmann (Netlify) - S04E06
Console DevTools - June 01, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify. We discuss what it was like deploying code before Netlify, whether there is about to be a fragmentation in the JavaScript ecosystem as React gets more opinionated, where state and data fit into the Jamstack model, and how you might re...
Devrel, with Christina Warren (GitHub) - S04E05
Console DevTools - May 25, 2023 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Christina Warren, senior developer advocate at GitHub about all things Developer Relations (or “DevRel”). We talk about what constitutes a “typical day” in DevRel (if such a thing exists), how to get started in the field, and the types of skills needed. We also dis...
Shell scripting, with Steve Lee (Microsoft) - S04E04
Console DevTools - May 18, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Steve Lee, principal software engineer manager on the PowerShell team at Microsoft. We start with what PowerShell is and why its object-based approach is interesting, then get into what it was like open sourcing a project at Microsoft back in 2016. We discuss the t...
Creating Go with Russ Cox (Google) - S04E03
Console DevTools - May 11, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Russ Cox, distinguished engineer and Go programming language tech lead at Google. We discuss the original motivations for Go, the principles behind the language design, what other projects can learn from how Go manages its open-source community, and what Russ would...
Building Tools Devs Love, with Erica Brescia (Redpoint) - S04E02
Console DevTools - May 04, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, and previously COO at GitHub. We discuss what's changed since she started her first DevTools company back in the mid-2000s, how to build tools developers love, whether open source is just a marketing strategy, ...
Dev War Stories, with Steven Sinofsky (a16z, ex-Microsoft) - S04E01
Console DevTools - April 27, 2023 05:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Steven Sinofsky, currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz and previously of Microsoft. We discuss what it was like shipping code at Microsoft in the early days, what he learned from Bill Gates, how it applies to software development today, what the big Wind...
Engineering Leadership, with Meri Williams - S03E10
Console DevTools - August 11, 2022 06:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Meri Williams an experienced CTO at scaleups like Moo, Monzo, and Healx. We discuss the role of technology leadership, what engineering managers can do to help their teams, how to best go about recruiting engineers, and whether engineering performance can be measured....
WebAssembly, with Connor Hicks (Suborbital) - S03E09
Console DevTools - August 04, 2022 06:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Connor Hicks, Founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. We discuss how WebAssembly works, when you’d use AssemblyScript rather than other languages which compile to WASM, the use cases for deploying WebAssembly on the backend, and how the de...
VR, with Elena Kokkinara (Inflight VR) - S03E08
Console DevTools - July 28, 2022 06:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Elena Kokkinara, CTO at Inflight VR, a VR platform developer for in-flight entertainment. We discuss how VR has developed over the last decade, how the body ownership illusion can make you feel like you have an entirely different physical body, whether developers can ...
Containers & Tests, with Sergei Egorov (Atomic Jar) - S03E07
Console DevTools - July 21, 2022 06:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Sergei Egorov, CEO of AtomicJar, the company behind TestContainers, a library that helps with integration testing for containerized applications. We discuss the challenges of developing container-based applications, how to orchestrate containers for testing, the futur...
Data science, with Ines Montani (Explosion) - S03E06
Console DevTools - July 14, 2022 06:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of Explosion, a developer of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing technologies. We discuss how ML and NLP work behind the scenes, how developers should think about applied NLP, the common languages and frameworks use...
Security & Software Supply Chain, with Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket) - S03E05
Console DevTools - July 07, 2022 06:15 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO of Socket.dev, a software supply chain security company. We discuss the risks of using third party dependencies, how JS and NPM could improve their approach to security, whether trust in open source is eroding, and how to improve the overall s...
Privacy Engineering, with Cate Huston (DuckDuckGo) - S03E04
Console DevTools - June 30, 2022 06:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo. We discuss why developers should care about privacy, what technologies and tools are available for building privacy-driven features, how DuckDuckGo manages performance when doing lookups against tracker lists, and the f...
OSS & Investing, with Joseph Jacks (OSS Capital) - S03E03
Console DevTools - June 23, 2022 06:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Joseph Jacks, founder and general partner at OSS Capital, a venture fund specializing in open source software. We discuss why open source is such an important differentiator for all software development, the philosophy behind open source, open core, and building a com...
eBPF, with Liz Rice (Isovalent) - S03E02
Console DevTools - June 16, 2022 06:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the company behind the open source eBPF product Cilium. We discuss why it’s such a revolutionary approach to developing low-level kernel applications, how BPF can be used for observability, networking and security, how...
Dev infrastructure, with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) - S03E01
Console DevTools - June 09, 2022 06:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a platform for globally distributed applications. We discuss the meaning of “developer experience”, how complexity is managed to help developers get started quickly but still be able to scale multiple systems, the role of monorepos and ...
Season 3 - Devtools Interviews
Console DevTools - May 25, 2022 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsStarting with Vercel CEO, Guillermo Rauch on 9th June 2022, in season 3 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 10 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests: Dev Infra, with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) BPF, with Liz Rice (Isova...
Developer experience, with Jean Yang (Akita) - S02E11
Console DevTools - March 17, 2022 07:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak with Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software, an API observability startup, which she founded after leaving her role in academia as a computer science professor. We discussed the software heterogeneity problem, why it isn't better to rewrite in rust and how the language wars h...
Terminal tools, with Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd (Warp) - S02E10
Console DevTools - March 10, 2022 07:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Michelle Lim and Zach Lloyd, both of Warp, a terminal designed to make developer workflows more productive. We discuss the historical significance of physical terminals, terminal emulators, pseudo-terminals and the shell. We also explore why Rust is a better technolog...
Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart) - S02E09
Console DevTools - March 03, 2022 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Ellen Chisa, who was previously CEO of Dark, a programming language startup that allowed you to focus on your backend code and forget about frameworks, deployments, and infrastructure. We discuss whether that is the right way to think about coding, where no code or lo...
Web standards & privacy, with Desigan (Dees) Chinniah (Tor / Ex-Mozilla) - S02E08
Console DevTools - February 24, 2022 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak with Desigan Chinniah, previously at Mozilla, advisor to many web startups and now on the board of Tor. We discuss the evolution of web tech from websites to complex decentralized applications running on browser APIs, the competitiveness of the browser rendering engine ...
Dev communities, with Rosie Sherry (Orbit) - S02E07
Console DevTools - February 17, 2022 07:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Rosie Sherry, Community Lead at Orbit, a community management software company. We discuss why community is not marketing, how devrel and community are different, who owns community and what that might mean with web3 & decentralization, and what essential tools you ne...
Homomorphic encryption, with Rand Hindi (Zama) - S02E06
Console DevTools - February 10, 2022 07:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, an open source framework for securing AI applications in the cloud. We discuss the principles behind encryption, homomorphic encryption, and programmable bootstrapping, how these technologies can ensure user data privacy, what is changing that...
Devtools investing, with Ed Sim (Boldstart) - S02E05
Console DevTools - February 03, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of Boldstart, a venture investor specializing in DevTools and software. Ed has invested in developer-focused companies like Snyk, Slim.ai, and Jit Security. We discuss what engineers should think about when working on side projects,...
Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission) - S02E04
Console DevTools - January 27, 2022 07:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak to Brooklyn Zelenka, CTO at Fission, a decentralized app framework for the future of web apps at the edge. We discuss the relevance of blockchain to web3 and decentralized web apps, why developers should avoid managing backend servers, the challenges of doing authenticat...
Related Devtools Topics
- Developer tools 2
- Software 2
- Devops 2