Lane chats with Trash, a Netflix engineer and code streamer on Twitch. They break down Trash's story: how he got into coding, from being a mainframe developer all the way through his days as a backend engineer to a frontend developer at Netflix.

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Trash Twitter: https://twitter.com/trashh_dev
Trash Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trash_dev
Trash YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trash_dev

Lane chats with Jonathan Hall, a long time Go developer, host of the cup o' go podcast, and prolific DevOps guy. They discuss what DevOps is, what it isn't and why Go is such a good option for backend and devops work.

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Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

Jonathan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhallio/
Cup o Go Podcast: https://cupogo.dev/
Boldly Go YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@boldlygo

Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the backend data required for their apps to run directly on various client's devices.

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Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com

Kyle on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/getify/
Socket Supply: https://socketsupply.co/

Lane and Brian talk about scaling databases, particularly MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale platform. Brian is a developer educator at PlanetScale, and he breaks down how you can think about scaling databases for your own projects, or for the companies you work for. PlanetScale is used for cloud MySQL deployments in the new CI/CD course on Boot.dev that just dropped!

Brian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianmmdev
PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/

Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs.com and hosts myriad tech podcasts, and has spoken prolifically about how to level up your career as a developer.

Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmaxw
Topenddevs: https://topenddevs.com/

Bill Kennedy joins Lane on this episode of Backend Banter to discuss his origin story: why he left .NET and the Microsoft stack years ago to become a full-time Go developer.

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Bill Kennedy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet
Ardan Labs: https://www.ardanlabs.com/

I chat with Melkey,  a senior Go developer at Twitch about how he would reverse engineer his successful backend software engineering career at FAANG if he were starting over.

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Melkey Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelkeyDev
Melkey Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/melkey

Lane chats with Glauber Costa, a founder of Turso DB, maintainer of the Linux kernel, and ex-Scylla DB developer. If you're curious how databases scale up to trillions of records, or how they scale out to geographic edge platforms, this conversation is for you.

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Glauber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glcst
Turso DB: https://turso.tech/

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Lane chats with Simon B,  a PHD in electrical engineering from the UK who has founded startups, worked as a CTO, and publishes educational coding content under the alias "All the Code"! They talk about Simon's experience breaking into the software development industry.

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Listen to the podcast: https://backendbanter.fm

Find Simon: https://allthecode.co/podcast

Lane chats with Adam Elmore, cofounder of StatMuse about how he builds scalable B2C backend infrastructure on AWS. They discuss the pros and cons of some of the new serverless stuff Adam works with, and how that plays into legacy code bases.

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Podcast Homepage: https://backendbanter.fm

Adam's links: https://adam.dev