In this episode I speak with Jean Georges Perrin about his forthcoming book "Spark in Action", where we cover Apache Spark, writing books, and why many are wrong about IBM. I also cover Twine, Open Source and Alexa and the UK's health service.

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In this episode I speak with some of the team behind the IOST Blockchain project, cover recent Zoom woes, wonder if air travel is all that's it's hyped to be, dig into JPEGs, and so much more!

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I speak with Marco Palladino of Kong about their API gateway, microservice mesh and smart docs generation.

Also features content on North Korea, increased sobriety, Sugar and Vegetarian tech events.

And I announce how you can get involved in my new show, "The Enthusiastic Amateur".

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In this episode I speak with Ian Fogg of OpenSignal about our current 4G network, and the future 5G one. Also featured is D&D for product teams, educating on the history of the British Empire, Visual Basic, Project Catalyst, Libra, escaping the smart city and more!

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In part 2 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes:

• Idit Levine of Solo.io


• 24:48 - Shiv Ramji of Digital Ocean


• 50:05 - Matthew Whittington of Atlassian

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In part 1 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes:

• 1:27 - Jason McGee of IBM


• 25:26 - Carmine Rimi of Canonical


• 48:16 - Sheng Liang of Rancher Labs

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I speak with Mark Marron of Microsoft about their new language that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.

I also cover Edge arriving on macOS, Android Q desktop mode, Vale for the desktop, and why no one builds underground lines anymore?

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In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!

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In this episode Chris speaks with Hayden Barnes about the Pengwin project, an optimised Linux for the Windows Linux Subsystem. Also features articles on Coffee Pods, Polymaths, digital newspapers and more!

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In this episode Chris covers why the Essential phone isn't as bad you might have thought, how smart speakers are changing music, new programming languages, and is D&D becoming too mainstream?



Also features an interview with Pooh from Mojobot, a cool new coding board game that's on kickstarter right now!

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