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**Programming Throwdown**

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

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140: Developer Burnout and Infrastructure as Code with Ronak Rahman Aug 08, 2022

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00:00:57 Introductions

00:01:51 How Ronak got started in programming

00:06:03 The first encounter with burnout

00:11:49 Double-edged benefits

00:17:23 Spoon theory

00:19:07 Why relationship clarity matters

00:25:11 A cold room story

00:30:59 Context switching’s relevance

00:35:45 QTorque’s solution to monitor cloud automation costs

00:39:19 Setting up lifetimes

00:42:17 Bom lists

00:49:19 How Quali helps with the challenges

00:54:40 What to do to actualize your true self

00:58:00 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Ronak Rahman:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ofronak

Quali:

Website: https://www.quali.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualisystems/
QTorque Free Tier: https://www.qtorque.io/pricing/
Join QTorque: https://portal.qtorque.io/join

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139: Scientific Python with Guido Imperiale Jul 25, 2022

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00:00:45 Introductions

00:02:22 The sluggish Python-based system that Guido revitalized

00:06:03 Meeting the challenge of adding necessary complexity to a project

00:11:59 Excel in banking

00:18:15 Guido’s shift into Coil

00:19:29 Scooby-Doo pajamas

00:20:21 What motivates people to come in to the office today

00:24:09 Pandas

00:35:35 Why human error can doom an Excel setup

00:39:29 BLAS

00:46:20 A million lines of data

00:51:43 How does Dask interact with Gambit

00:54:40 Where does Coil come in

00:59:34 The six-o-clock question

01:03:53 Dealing with matters of difficult decomposition

01:12:07 The Coil work experience

01:15:37 Why contributing is impressive

01:20:20 Coil’s product offering

01:21:19 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Guido Imperiale:

Github: https://github.com/crusaderky

Coiled:

Website: https://coiled.io
Careers: https://coiled.io/careers/

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138: Fixing the Internet with John Day Jul 11, 2022

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00:00:24 Introductions

00:00:49 IP v6

00:04:50 OSI

00:12:53 The IP v7 debate

00:20:18 The definition of an address’s scope

00:21:38 Why John feels DNS was a mistake

00:26:40 How IP mobility works

00:32:13 Bluetooth

00:41:41 Where will Internet architecture go from here

00:49:49 Understanding the problem space

00:59:04 The angels in the details

01:00:53 Scientific thinking vs engineering thinking

01:04:01 Victorian architecture

01:06:11 John’s career advice

01:11:18 Garbage Can Model

01:14:38 How to make the most out of college today

01:27:05 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Professor John D. Day:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_(computer_scientist)
Website: https://www.bu.edu/met/profile/john-day/
Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/patterns-in-network/9780132252423/

Terminologies:

CIDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
OSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
Connectionless Network Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionless-mode_Network_Service
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
Garbage can model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_can_model

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137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day Jun 27, 2022

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00:01:01 Introduction

00:01:28 COVID and the challenge of teaching

00:04:11 John’s academic and career path

00:08:14 LSI technology

00:12:13 Collaborative software development in the day

00:15:24 ARPANET’s early use

00:20:08 Atom bomb and weather simulations

00:26:55 The message-switching network

00:34:57 Pouzin

00:38:00 Every register had a purpose

00:45:15 The Air Force in 1972

00:52:10 Low memory

00:59:14 Early problems with TCP

01:11:51 The separation of mechanism and policy

01:23:25 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Professor John D. Day:

Pouzin Society:

Website: https://pouzinsociety.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pouzinsociety

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136: Metaverse with Daniel Liebeskind Jun 13, 2022

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136: Metaverse with Daniel Liebeskind

Decentralizing the future can often lead to missing out on genuine human communication. Daniel Liebeskind, Cofounder and CEO of Topia, talks about how they’re working to avoid that pitfall while building the foundation of a better online experience. Whether its his lessons from Burning Man, keeping the human spirit alive in today’s technological frontier, or how Topia fits in the future, Daniel has something for listeners.

00:01:34 Introduction

00:02:15 Daniel and early programming experience

00:07:51 How coding felt like sorcery

00:09:35 Skill trees

00:16:10 Second Life

00:19:56 Enhancing versus replacing real life experiences

00:26:28 A decentralized Metaverse

00:29:54 Web 2 versus Web 3

00:34:15 /r/place

00:44:16 Why boom cycles are important for tech

00:46:03 Topia for consumers

00:52:47 Topia as a company

00:55:50 Opportunities at Topia

00:58:00 Topia.io

01:03:50 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Daniel Liebeskind, Cofounder and CEO of Topia:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dliebeskind/
Website: https://medium.com/@dliebeskind
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dliebeskind

Topia:

Website: https://topia.io/topia/careers
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/topia-io/

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135: Kubernetes with Aran Khanna Jun 06, 2022

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:03 Aran Khanna and his background

00:05:12 The Marauder’s Map that Facebook hated(Chrome Extension)

00:20:11 Why Google made Kubernetes

00:31:14 Horizontal and Vertical Auto-Scaling

00:35:54 Zencastr

00:39:53 How machines talk to each other

00:46:32 Sidecars

00:48:25 Resources to learn Kubernetes

00:52:59 Archera

00:59:31 Opportunities at Archera

01:01:08 Archera for End Users

01:02:30 Archera as a Company

01:05:46 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Aran Khanna, Cofounder of Archera:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aran-khanna/
Website: http://arankhanna.com/menu.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arankhanna

Archera:

Website: https://archera.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/archera-ai/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/archeraai

Kubernetes:

Website: https://kubernetes.io/
Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU

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134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot May 23, 2022

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134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot

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How do you test changes to your web backend or database? Many people have a "production" and one "development" database, but the development database can easily become broken by one engineer and thus unusable for the rest of the team. Also, how would two engineers make changes in parallel to the development environment? What if you could spin up hundreds or thousands of development databases as you need them? Today we have Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder and CEO of Shipyard to explain ephemeral environments and how virtual machines and containers have made massive improvements in devops!

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:24 Introducing Benjie De Groot

00:01:26 Benjie’s Programming Background

00:06:34 How Shipyard started

00:09:17 Working in Startups vs. Tech Giants

00:19:28 The difference between Virtual Machines and Containers

00:26:17 Local Development Environment

00:40:27 What is a DevOps engineer and what does it entail?

00:45:42 Zencastr

00:50:12 Shipyard as a company

00:55:29 How Shipyard gets clients

01:06:48 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder & CEO at Shipyard:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bueller/
Podcast: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/

Shipyard:

Website: https://shipyard.build/
Careers: https://shipyard.build/careers/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipyardbuild/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shipyardbuild
Community Website: https://ephemeralenvironments.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/shipyard

Heavybit:

Website: https://www.heavybit.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heavybit/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heavybit

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133: Solving for the Marketplace Problem with Andrew Yates May 09, 2022

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As anyone who listens to the show regularly knows, I've always been fascinated by marketplaces. How do we figure out what to charge for something, and how do we match buyers and sellers? How does a company like Uber match drivers to riders so quickly? Today we have Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai, to talk about marketplaces and how to optimize for this two-sided problem.

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:27 Introducing Andrew Yates

00:00:50 Andrew’s Programming Background

00:04:19 Andrew at Promoted.AI

00:08:17 What is a Marketplace?

00:17:45 Marketplace Rankings

00:22:50 Short-term vs Long-term Experience

00:24:43 Machine Learning and the Marketplace

00:34:57 Measurements

00:37:09 Promoted.AI Integration

00:38:31 How Promoted.AI Measures Success

00:41:14 Auction Theory

00:46:08 Experience with YCombinator

00:50:34 Promoted.AI as a Company

00:55:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Andrew Yates, Co-Founder & CEO at Promoted.ai:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-yates-0217a985/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ayates_promoted

Promoted.ai:

Website: https://www.promoted.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/promoted-ai/

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132: Funding Open-Source Projects Apr 25, 2022

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00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:24 Gaming setups

00:12:25 News

00:12:27 I was wrong, CRDTs are the future
00:17:18 How we lost 54k Github stars
00:21:10 DALL-E
00:25:45 Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

00:35:11: Sponsor

00:36:22 Book of the Show

00:36:38 Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast
00:37:24 The Laundry Files

00:40:35 Tool of the Show

00:40:39 Zapier
00:42:21 Earthly

00:46:46 Funding open-source projects

01:19:44 How to get funding for open-source projects

01:22:47 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Media:

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2017)
Class Action Park (2020)
Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast: https://indieboardgamedesigners.com/
GitHub Stars Won’t Pay Your Rent: https://medium.com/@kitze/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent-8b348e12baed

News:

I Was Wrong, CRDTs Are The Future: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
DALL-E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r

Books:

Indie Board Game Designers Podcast
The Laundry Files: https://amzn.to/3kdWWQg

Tools:

Adam Gordon Bell:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgordonbell
Website: https://adamgordonbell.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgordonbell/
CoRecursive: https://corecursive.com/

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131: Supporting your Favorite Creators with Brave with Jimmy Secretan Apr 11, 2022

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I've been a big fan of Brave Browser ever since attending a presentation from Brandon Eich back in 2017. Brave was one of the first browsers to aggressively block the ability for websites to share information on your computer without your consent (i.e. third party cookies). I'm so excited to sit down with Jimmy Secretan, VP of Ads and Premium Services of Brave, and talk about all things Brave, from the Browser to the other products to the way Brave takes privacy on the internet to a whole new level, while also empowering content creators and advertisers who depend on ads for income and to promote their businesses.

00:00:15 Introduction

00:00:44 Introducing Jimmy Secretan

00:01:10 How Brave started

00:09:33 Brave and internet advertising

00:21:13 Local machine learning

00:32:07 What is BAT (Brave Attention Tokens)

00:42:59 Cross-platform data synchronization

00:44:28 Chromium

00:50:22 Public and Private key encryption and authentication

00:54:27 Brave for Content Creators

00:59:03 Where is Brave now and what is its trajectory

01:05:40 Opportunities in Brave