How to build a rocket ship while flying it? In this episode, Cos returns to the show to discuss the technologies and approach Brex chose to create an engineering organization and innovation engine for the long term, while navigating shifts as the company continued to scale at a rapid pace. Cos and Jeff also cover

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Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where system components communicate through events that are generated by producers, and pushed to consumers. This design is often contrasted with a request-driven architecture, where components communicate with each other by sending requests and receiving responses. Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages.

Hookdeck and Building an Event Gateway with Alex Bouchard

OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It lets users grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites, but without giving away passwords. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google,

Authlete and Making OAuth Accessible with Justin Richer

Today, you can access Netflix on virtually any device. For a Netflix user, this seamless experience can be easy to take for granted, but it requires an enormous engineering effort. Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start

Netflix Engineering with Jay Phelps

Snowflake is one of the most prominent platforms for interacting with data and building data-intensive applications. Dan Myers works in Developer Relations at Snowflake and he joins the show to talk about the future of application development, and building native data apps on the platform. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has

Data Applications on Snowflake with Daniel Myers

Kaze Emanuar is a ROM hacker who’s famous for the array of mods he’s made for Super Mario 64. He’s implemented remarkable optimization to the decompiled game code, even pushing Super Mario 64 to run at 60 frames per second. Kaze joins the show to talk about his interest in Super Mario 64, ROM hacking,

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