Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.

Pekka is the CTO of TursoDB, a cloud database product that helps developers run SQLite on the edge. Lane and Pekka talk about all the tradeoffs involved with SQLite, as well as the tradeoffs of putting your database geographically near your backend servers.

Pekka's Twitter: https://twitter.com/penberg
Turso: https://turso.tech/
LibSQL: https://github.com/libsql/libsql

The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetScale. Hope you like the pod!

Lane chats with Rob Walling. Rob is the author of several books, including the SaaS playbook and Start Small Stay Small. He founded Drip, TinySeed and even runs MicroConf, the largest conference for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. In this episode they chat about how new backend developers can use their skills in a full time job, but how those skills are also unbelievably valuable when it comes to starting companies.

Rob Walling's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robwalling
Rob's Book, "The Saas Playbook": https://saasplaybook.com/
TinySeed: https://tinyseed.com/
Rob's Podcast: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Miriah Peterson chats with Lane about how great Go tends to be for not only backend application development, but also data engineering roles. Miriah hosts Golang meetups and conferences alongside her full time job, so they also discuss how in person networking can help your new career as a programmer.

Lane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat about how Mat used Go to successfully build and sell a multi-million dollar company.

Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

Mat Ryer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matryer
GoTimeFM: https://changelog.com/gotime
Mat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@matryer7143
Blue Monday: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
Big Tent Pod: https://bigtent.fm/

Lane chats with Michael Green about Python programming on the backend side of the web stack. They debate Python's efficacy in large production projects. It gets spicy, bring a glass of milk.

Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgdotdev
Michael's site: https://michaelgreen.dev/
ZeroToPy Discount: https://leanpub.com/zero-to-py/c/bootdotdev

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Lane chats with Travis Wagner, aka TechSavvyTravvy, the man behind the "crablang" fork of Rust. They talk about the issues with the Rust foundation that caused the fork, how the fork works from a technical perspective and other open-source shenanigans.

Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

Travis's Twitter: https://twitter.com/techsavvytravvy
Travis's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/techsavvytravvy
Crablang: https://github.com/crablang/crab

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Lane chats with The Primeagen about unit tests, how to build good cli tooling, Golang, Rust, and a ton of stuff about Prime's history and how he got into coding and came to work at Netflix.

Prime's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen
Prime's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen
Prime origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjHFubUPLV0
Article on Mocks: https://blog.boot.dev/clean-code/writing-good-unit-tests-dont-mock-database-connections/

References:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/programming-types-and-mindsets-5b8490bc

Lane chats with James about all his best tips for landing your first ever job as a developer.

Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

James on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesqquick
James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesqquick
James Discord: https://t.co/LUOsSsixq2

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