Apache Mesos is an open-source cluster manager that enables resource sharing in a fine-grained manner, improving cluster utilization. Michael Hausenblas is a developer and cloud advocate with Mesosphere, which builds the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), a distributed OS that uses Apache Mesos as its kernel. Questions Can you give the historical context for cluster computing? How are the distributed systems needs of different companies changing? What is Apache Mesos andContinue reading...

“When you have different goals – it’s impossible to say ‘we have the best practices for doing everything’. Because the web is just so versatile.” Vue.js is a lightweight front-end JavaScript framework that makes it simple to begin prototyping and building web interfaces. Vue.js provides a flexible API for MVVM data bindings, and can serve as an alternative to other front-end frameworks like Angular and React. Evan You is theContinue reading...

“If an engineer is doing something repeatedly over and over again, their mind is immediately going to jump to that place where it’s like ‘Okay how can I make this faster?’ or ‘How can I save myself time?’” Quora is a Q&A website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Shreyes Seshasai is the Director of Engineering at Quora. Questions Is there a falseContinue reading...

“It’s a classic case where you have to be contrarian. It seems like the worst idea in the world to start a cloud hosting business. We didn’t know any better.” Moisey Uretsky is the cofounder of Digital Ocean, a leading cloud hosting provider based in New York. “It’s the usual immigrant story. My parents moved to America when we were four or five. We were poor and didn’t have muchContinue reading...

“The main motivation for me was to gain more perspective on the world and my place in it.” Michael Rosenthal is a traveling programmer who gave up school and full-time job prospects in the U.S. to travel and freelance. This episode is a Christmas special because Michael is my younger brother, and his journey as a developer and a person has been inspiring to me. Questions When did you startContinue reading...

“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.” Triplebyte is a technical hiring platform that vets engineers using a comprehensive evaluation platform and connects them to companies that are interesting in hiring them. Triplebyte was part of the Y Combinator summer class of 2015. Ammon Bartram is the Chief Data Officer and cofounderContinue reading...

“I think that anybody who’s not using universal JavaScript is wasting a ton of time and a ton of money, and it’s just a silly thing to do.” Eric Elliott is a JavaScript advocate, and the author of Programming JavaScript Applications. He is also an entrepreneur tackling social issues including homelessness and inequality in the tech industry. Questions Why will not knowing programming be akin to illiteracy in the future?Continue reading...

“Part of the point of Tessel is that it just works – you don’t have to worry about it. Much in the way that you would throw your app up on Heroku.” Tessel is an open-source microcontroller that is programmable in JavaScript and compatible with Node.js. Kelsey Breseman is a hardware engineer and Steering Committee Member on the Tessel Project. Questions What is the origin story of Tessel? Tessel runsContinue reading...

“Systems are giving up correctness for latency, and I’m arguing that stream processing systems have to be designed to allow the user to pick the tradeoffs that the application needs."

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“We’re not in the business of taking tuition, we’re in the business of getting people jobs.”

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