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Episode 382: Michael Chan on Learning ReactJS

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Episode 382: Michael Chan on Learning ReactJS

Michael Chan of the React Podcast discusses React, a front end JavaScript framework.  Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chan about what React is, when to introduce it, and how to learn it without being overwhelmed.  Michael explains how JSX combines JavaScript and HTML-like markup to build components and how it decides how to automatically manipulate […]

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Episode 372: Aaron Patterson on the Ruby Runtime

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Episode 372: Aaron Patterson on the Ruby Runtime

Aaron Patterson of GitHub discusses the Ruby language and its runtime.  Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Aaron about the Ruby language and how it works.  They discuss the language virtual machine, concurrency, garbage collection, and JIT compilation.  If you’ve ever wondered what’s happening under the hood of a programming language, this is a great introduction. […]

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Episode 371: Howard Chu On the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)

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Episode 371: Howard Chu On the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)

Howard Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP project, discusses the key technical features of the Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) that make it one of the fastest, most efficient, and safest embedded data stores in the world. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Chu about B+tree data structures, multi-version concurrency control, memory-mapped […]

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SE-Radio Episode 361: Daniel Berg on Istio Service Mesh

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SE-Radio Episode 361: Daniel Berg on Istio Service Mesh

Daniel Berg, who is a distinguished Engineer at IBM cloud unit, talks about Istio service mesh and how it lets developers deploy services into the cloud in a secure, efficient fashion by removing the burden of devops from the core service logic. Host Nishant Suneja begins the show with discussion about the need for a […]

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SE-Radio Episode 354: Avi Kivity on ScyllaDB

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SE-Radio Episode 354: Avi Kivity on ScyllaDB

Avi Kivity of Scylladb deep dives into the internals of Scylladb and what makes it a high performant version of Cassandra, a distributed key-value datastore. Host Nishant Suneja spoke with Avi about how Scylla’s shared nothing architecture helps it in “scaling up” on every single node in the cluster. The discussion further goes into Scylla’s […]

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