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December 23, 2015Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram
“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 cofounder of Triplebyte. Previously, Ammon was lead video developer at Justin.tv and also cofounded SocialCam.
Questions
Why are programming job interviews broken?
Who do Y Combinator companies want to hire?
Why do companies seem to prefer engineers with product experience over academic experience?
Are there any markers we can rely on for hiring?
How do you scale such a labor-intensive process like hiring?
What is one piece of advice you would give to companies to improve their hiring process?
What’s the best way for a candidate to hack the system?
Links
Who Y Combinator Companies Want
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Triplebyte
Ammon on Twitter
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59 min
December 18, 2015Demystifying Stream Processing with Neha Narkhede
“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.”
The stream processing paradigm is increasingly being adopted by applications that need to process and handle large volumes of data. Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is built to support streaming data processing.
Neha Narkhede is the one of the creators of Apache Kafka, which she built to address engineering challenges while working at LinkedIn. She is also the co-founder of Confluent, which builds enterprise products around Kafka.
Questions
Why was Kafka originally developed?
Before Kafka, how did Linkedin maintain consistency between these different services?
What is the purpose of a broker in Kafka?
How did you end up with the log structure?
How does Kafka do garbage collection on messages?
Could you describe Kafka’s persistence model in more detail?
Is the batch versus streaming discussion a false dichotomy?
Links
Kafka
Apache Kafka with Guozhang Wang
Presentation: Demystifying stream processing with Apache Kafka
Neha on Twitter
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51 min
December 16, 2015Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.”
Scott Hanselman is a technologist, teacher and podcaster who works for Microsoft on its web platform team. Scott hosts several podcasts including Hanselminutes and This Developer’s Life, which cover various topics in software.
Questions
When you started Hanselminutes, what was your goal for the show?
What makes the shows by Charlie Rose and Terry Gross the gold standard?
What are the most salient changes you’re seeing at Microsoft these days?
What are the important levers to pull in order to improve developer experience?
What problems are you working on day-to-day?
What comes to your mind when you hear the word “audacity”?
What’s the biggest piece of advice you can give to developers?
Links
Car Talk
Open Source .NET – 1 year later
Scott on Twitter
Scott’s Personal Page
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35 min
December 04, 2015Scaling Uber with Matt Ranney
“If you can make a system that can survive this random failure testing, then you will more or likely survive whatever other chaotic conditions exist.”
Uber is a transportation and logistics company that manages many aspects of its ride-sharing services through mobile apps and distributed technology. Uber faces unique challenges in rapidly scaling its services internationally, and at one point increased its developer headcount from 200 to over 1000 in less than a year.
Matt Ranney is the Chief Systems Architect at Uber and was previously a founder and CTO of Voxer. At QCon San Francisco, he gave a talk called Scaling Uber.
Questions
How did technical debt accumulate at Uber in the first five years?
Why do microservices offer a strategy to help alleviate technical debt?
Could you discuss immutable infrastructure?
What is Ringpop, and how does it help maintain state?
What are the service discovery problems you’ve had while scaling?
How have you “embraced the chaos” recently?
Links
Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design
Ringpop
SWIM: Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership Protocol
Jeff Dean: “Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services” Keynote
The Netflix Simian Army
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45 min
December 01, 2015Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan
“Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of stratification is good for your job and for your employers, but it’s not necessarily good for you as an individual trying to grow in the field of software.”
This is episode 100 of Software Engineering Daily, and is a behind the scenes episode on the show that explores the challenges and motivations behind building a daily software podcast.
Pranay Mohan is the Producer of Software Engineering Daily.
Questions
What is the goal of Software Engineering Daily?
Why did you start working on Software Engineering Daily?
What is your background – what did you study?
Where do you stand on the debate of college versus coding bootcamps?
What is keeping Software Engineering Daily from being a go-to podcast for software engineers?
What is your favorite episode?
How have we made mistakes while working on Software Engineering Daily?
Links
Reconsider by DHH
Lifestyle Businesses
Product Hunt Podcasts
Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky
Java and Developer Advocacy with Trisha Gee
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53 min
November 17, 2015Machine Learning and Technical Debt with D. Sculley
“Changing anything changes everything.”
Technical debt, referring to the compounding cost of changes to software architecture, can be especially challenging in machine learning systems.
D. Sculley is a software engineer at Google, focusing on machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. He recently co-authored the paper Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.
Questions
How do you define technical debt?
Why does technical debt tend to compound like financial debt?
Is machine learning the marriage of hard-coded software logic and constantly changing external data?
What types of anti-patterns should be avoided by machine learning engineers?
What is a decision threshold in a machine learning system?
What advice would you give to organizations that are building their prototypes and product systems in different languages?
Links
Technical Debt
Adapter pattern and glue code
D’s research page
Sponsors
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32 min
November 10, 2015Knowledge-Based Programming with Stephen Wolfram
“The cloud as an environment – I had thought it was a purely utilitarian kind of thing. What I realized is that it’s a fascinating centralized repository of computation.”
Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms.
Stephen Wolfram is the Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and also the author of A New Kind of Science.
Questions
What inspired you to start Wolfram Research?
What is the Wolfram language?
How does the Wolfram language benefit from thinking of itself as a functional language?
How are your different pieces of software wired through the Wolfram language?
What is your book A New Kind of Science about?
Are we living in a simulation?
Is fear of AI a legitimate concern, and if so what preventative measures can we take?
Links
Wolfram Research
Mathematica: what is symbolic programming?
A New Kind of Science
Stephen on Twitter
Sponsors
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1 hr 20 min
November 02, 2015Erlang with Joe Armstrong
“Mutable state is the root of all evil.”
Erlang is a functional, concurrent programming language that was originally designed within Ericsson in the 1980’s. It was built to support distributed, fault-tolerant, non-stop applications suitable for telecommunications infrastructure.
Joe Armstrong is one of the designers of Erlang, and the chief architect of the Open Telecom Platform (OTP), a framework for building Erlang applications.
Questions
Why has Erlang persisted as such a popular tool for communications platforms?
In the domain of telecom, what were the valuable features of languages like Lisp and Prolog?
How did Erlang germinate?
Can you give a high level description for how someone using Erlang should be thinking about concurrency?
What are the advantages of functional programming languages?
Why did object oriented programming become so prevalent and so widely used?
How has the Erlang community changed over time?
Links
Erlang
Development of the AXE System
Joe on Twitter
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1 hr 2 min
October 28, 2015Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson
“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.”
Free Code Camp is an open source community dedicated to teaching people how to code while also helping non-profits
Quincy Larson is the Founder of Free Code Camp, and previously was the director of several schools in the U.S. and China.
Questions
Why did you start Free Code Camp?
How does Free Code Camp compare to the experience of a paid coding bootcamp attendee?
Why do you teach fullstack JavaScript instead of ruby on rails?
What are the things that people have trouble learning in the all javascript stack?
What are the rates of attrition?
Do you think everybody should learn to code?
Links
Free Code Camp
Cloud9 IDE
Codepen
Quincy on Twitter
Sponsors
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54 min
October 23, 2015Poker to Programming with Haseeb Qureshi
“If I was trying to learn coding on my own, to the level that App Academy was able to teach me, it definitely would have taken me significantly longer.”
Haseeb Qureshi is an former high-stakes poker player who pivoted to web development. He is an instructor at App Academy in San Francisco.
Questions
How did you transition from poker to programming?
Were to drawn to programming because of the flow state?
What happens on day one of a coding bootcamp?
Why does App Academy teach Ruby on Rails?
How did you transition from student to instructor at App Academy?
Why do people get imposter syndrome?
Links
Effective Altruism
Cracking the Coding Bootcamp – The Definitive Guide
App Academy
Sponsors
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1 hr 1 min