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No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be.

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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

    #98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile

    #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

    Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 1 hr 6 min
    #97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies

    #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

    Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 1 hr 14 min
    #96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel

    #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

    Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 59 min
    #95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira

    #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.

    Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 1 hr
    #94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee

    #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



    Discuss this episode: ⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 1 hr 7 min
    #93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling

    #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

    Discuss this episode: discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF

    • 59 min

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