Francesco Cesarini founded Erlang Solutions in 1999 with a mission to help companies adopt Erlang.  In this interview, I speak with Francesco and Gabor Olah from Erlang Solutions.  We discuss the Erlang language, it’s ecosystem, and features like concurrency, resilience, and scalability that motivate adoption.  We use Java and the Java Virtual Machine as a

Serious software projects require several environments.  Your production environment is obviously mission critical.  A staging environment is also necessary to perform validation and regression testing before taking the risk of pushing an update to production.  Best practices and approaches for managing these and other environments vary from organization to organization. In some sense, different software

Barry McCardel Co-Founder and CEO at Hex Caitlin Colgrove Co-Founder and CTO at Hex In contrast to other IDEs, the notebook interface offers software developers a unique environment idealized for data professionals.  Despite the growth in popularity, a surprising learning curve still exists for setup and configuration.  A siloed notebook offers no native collaboration tools.

When writing code, test driven development is a common accepted methodology to ensure the development of high quality software.  Your organization’s data, on the other hand, is an entirely different challenge.  Data can be missing due to human error, a failure with a 3rd party provider, a botched release, or dozens of other issues.  When

When you visit a web page, the creator’s intent is to present you a seamless experience that fills your browser window.  That web page or web application is generally divided up in some meaningful way across navigation elements, content, ads, header, footer, and other components. Those components may represent the work of independent teams.  Typically

Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast-growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As an

The creator economy has seen rapid growth, thanks largely to software solutions like Patreon that are enabling creators. As the creator economy grows, providers must be prepared for scalability issues and the challenges of maintaining and growing a software infrastructure and the team that evolves it. In this episode, I interview Utkarash Srivastava, SVP Engineering

Snyk is a platform for security that started with open source scanning and has expanded into container security, infrastructure as code, and other products. Snyk is a simple product to use, but has hidden complexities that build large data structures to manage and scan code dynamically. In a previous episode we discussed the core Snyk

Linkerd is a service mesh that runs efficiently with a low memory footprint. We have covered the details of Linkerd in previous episodes. Buoyant is the company that sells Linkerd as a service, and today’s show focuses on the engineering details of the company, and how Linkerd is architected in 2022. William Morgan is the

Online poker was deemed illegal in the United States ten years ago. Since then, poker has decreased in popularity, then found new invigoration thanks to live streaming and a large volume of bored gamers looking for something to do during the pandemic. Poker is a strategy game that can be played even without the financial