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Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart

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Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart

Bob Nystrom, author of Crafting Interpreters and a software engineer at Google working on the Dart programming language, discusses the key features of Dart that make it an excellent choice for fast apps on any platform. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Nystrom about Dart’s history, hardware out of your control, async-await, concurrency, mobile platforms, threads, […]

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Episode 437: Tim Sneath on the Architecture of Flutter

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Episode 437: Tim Sneath on the Architecture of Flutter

Tim Sneath, product manager for Flutter and Dart at Google, discusses what Flutter is, why it was created, and where Dart came from, as well as what the different layers of Flutter are and why it’s so popular. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Sneath about the “Architecture of Flutter,”  what cross-platform development is and platforms […]

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Episode 404: Bert Hubert on DNS Security

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Episode 404: Bert Hubert on DNS Security

Bert Hubert, author of the open source PowerDNS nameserver discusses DNS security and all aspects of the Domain Name System with its flaws and history. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Hubert about what DNS is, DNS history, DNS attacks, DNS flaws, DNS privacy, DNS Encryption, DNS integrity, how DNS is used against your privacy, how […]

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SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

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SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

Björn Rabenstein discusses the field of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with host Robert Blumen. The term SRE has recently emerged to mean Google’s approach to DevOps. The publication of Google’s book on SRE has brought many of their practices into more public discussion. The interview covers: what is distinct about SRE versus devops; the SRE […]

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SE-Radio Episode 272: Frances Perry on Apache Beam

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SE-Radio Episode 272: Frances Perry on Apache Beam

Jeff Meyerson talks with Frances Perry about Apache Beam, a unified batch and stream processing model. Topics include a history of batch and stream processing, from MapReduce to the Lambda Architecture to the more recent Dataflow model, originally defined in a Google paper. Dataflow overcomes the problem of event time skew by using watermarks and […]

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