Happy Path Programming Bruce Eckel & James Ward
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No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.
Buy the Happy Path Programming t-shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products
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#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile
We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production.
Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software
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#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies
We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org).
Resources:
James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha
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#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel
We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others.
Resources:
Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion
Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center definition of compassion
Oren Jay Sofer's Needs & Feelings Lists
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#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira
We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.
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#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee
We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.
Mentioned TDD Article:
The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice
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#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling
When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral.
Resources:
Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge
Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/
Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNIbgV6j-Y
James' very slow Scala ZIO implementation: github.com/jamesward/1brc-zio/blob/main/src/main/scala/Main.scala
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