Frontier Podcast by Gun.io

Frontier Podcast by Gun.io

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Frontier Podcast by Gun.io episodes

  • The Intersection of AI and Medicine
    One of most promising areas for artificial intelligence research rests at the intersection of biology and medicine. That's where we found Robert Fratila, CTO and Co-founder of Aifred Health. He and his team won an XPRIZE at the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. He's worked on brain-state classifiers, computer vision packages for autonomous underwater vehicles, and predictive models for cancer patients, just to name a few. In this episode we dig into deep learning, neural networks, and hype-busting truths about the current limits of AI.

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    17 min
  • Post-Crypto Distributed Ledger Technology for Business Leaders

    Mike Talbot is the CTO of Veracity Consulting where he leads their data and emerging technologies practices.


    He writes and advises on distributed ledger technology for government and business clients and he's the author of "A Brief Description of Blockchain," which aims to break this hot topic into layman's terms for business decision makers.


    In this episode we delve into finance, smart contracts, risk, regulation, asset tracking, supply chain, and more.


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    16 min
  • The Importance of Soft Skills for Engineers

    Rusty Wilson started his career as a signals intelligence analyst in the US Army where, while deployed in Korea, he cut his algorithmic teeth on Perl scripts that ended up slicing days of processing time from his intelligence data processing before "Big Data" was even a catch phrase.


    Rusty is a Certified Ethical Hacker, and a Hacking Forensic Investigator, among 10 other professional certifications. He's carried the titles CIO, CTO, and VP of Technology.


    All the while he pursued his passion for providing strategic career development coaching for IT and engineering professionals, wisdom he shares with us in this episode.


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    23 min
  • Native vs Hybrid Apps: When to use & What's Next in Mobile App Dev
    Simon Reggiani is a multi-platform native and hybrid mobile developer with over a decade of experience launching apps on iOS and Android using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, and React Native. Simon shares his opinions and insights based on his experience at Slack and other high-growth startups. He talks about when businesses should go native vs. hybrid, and how developers can make the leap from web app to mobile app development.

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    15 min
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare: Interoperability via Machine-to-Machine Data Architecture
    Jim Nasr is Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Synchrogenix where he spearheads strategy and implementation of emerging technologies such as large scale blockchain and machine learning in healthcare and the life sciences. He previously served as Chief Software Architect for the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this episode Jim walks us through the critical requirements of data interoperability and how designing for machine to machine data transfer is the most critical of architectural decisions.

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    16 min
  • DevOps Automation, Orchestration, and Choreography

    Steve Peak is the founder and CEO of Asyncy, an ambitious foray into the brave new world of DevOps automation, orchestration, and choreography. An accomplished software engineer himself, Steve's contributions to the development toolchain includes other efforts like Codecov.io, which he founded in 2015. The future of application choreography in the cloud era requires new ways of thinking about abstraction, and Asyncy's passionate founder and team are charting new paths in this exciting field.


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    Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here.


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    18 min
  • Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture

    Travis Scheponik is a Master Software Engineer, currently with Capital One. His previous decade of experience has included work in finance, government, education, and a series of multi-industry startups. His areas of expertise include legacy system conversion, cybersecurity, and application performance, as well as recent projects in service discovery, a topic we delve into in detail in this episode.


    If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our weekly newsletter, the Wayfarer. You can subscribe here. We promise to make you laugh at least once.


    Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here.


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    15 min
  • Democratizing Blockchain Technologies

    As blockchain technologies proliferate, one of the most challenging aspects for business users and developers alike is accessibility and user experience. In this episode, Ledge chats with Joel Neidig, CEO and Co-founder of SIMBA Chain, a robust developer framework and API. Originally developed through a DARPA grant, SIMBA Chain enables anyone to quickly create blockchain distributed applications for iOS, Android, and the web.


    If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our weekly newsletter, the Wayfarer. You can subscribe here. We promise to make you laugh at least once.


    Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here.


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    12 min
  • Remote Tech Teams: How to Make it Work

    Ledge sits down with Laurel Farrer, a remote work strategist and consultant, to chat about what it takes to strengthen virtual communication, streamline digital processes, and develop long-distance management strategies necessary for remote teams to work.


    If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our weekly newsletter, the Wayfarer. You can subscribe here. We promise to make you laugh at least once.


    Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here.


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    22 min
  • On-Prem vs. Cloud Deployments

    Roland Cooper is a 10-year technical operations and infrastructure expert with broad experience in fintech, e-commerce, and B2C. In this interview Roland talks to us about the tensions between on-prem and cloud deployment. On the bleeding edge of software development we often forget the vast majority of technical infrastructure still resides on-prem and in private data centers. Roland walks us through the current thinking around PCI compliance regulations, guidelines, and interpretations of critical importance to any companies collecting and processing payment card transactions.


    If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our weekly newsletter, the Wayfarer. You can subscribe here. We promise to make you laugh at least once.


    Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here.


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    11 min

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After over a decade of working with highly skilled developers and businesses of all sizes, we've discovered that there is some pretty good advice just waiting to be shared. We've also learned that…