This week with sit down for a chat with Sai Vennam, who describes himself as a IBM Cloud Developer Advocate. We talk about the quest that let him level up from Java programmer to Kubernetes evangelist and how he found his niche teaching the world about technologies on YouTube.

In this episode we discuss the rise of the Single Page Application, or SPA. From humble beginnings around 2003, it has come to be a dominant approach for many large tech companies and an alluring option for smaller startups. But for simpler web projects, are there better alternatives?

This week we chat with Holly Cummins, the worldwide development practice lead for the IBM Garage. She shares the lesser known history of microservices and strategies for optimizing cloud computing to help companies save money while helping the environment.

In October of 2019, we sat down on the podcast to introduce Prashanth Chandrasekar, the new CEO of Stack Overflow. The 12 months since have been some of the most turbulent times in a century, with a global pandemic transforming the way we work and live. Prashanth shares his thoughts on how Stack weathered the storm and what we have planned for 2021.

This week we chat with Nicolas Chabanovsky, a programmer and community manager with Stack Overflow, about the origin story of Stack Overflow in Russian.

What's the best way for massive tech companies to act when they decide to turn tiny open source projects into products and services they sell?

This week we chat with Kelsey Hightower, a principal engineer at Google, about his history with networks, containers, and configuration management.

Emily Kager is an Android developer for open source Firefox browsers and self-described wannabe internet comedienne. She recently posted a skit on Tik Tok about what it would be like if other industries conducted job interviews the way they are done in the software industry. The joke went viral, but shortly after she was dealing with a wave of cruel and violent comments.

This episode, we talk about the ways in which game developers are similar and different from web and mobile developers, before getting lost in a quick revery of the video games that have kept smiles on our faces during the recent lockdowns.

This week on the podcast, we talk about Jack Rusher, an underground cage fighter turned above-ground code teacher, who bestowed on Paul the gift of Lisp and is now tutoring Ben on the basics of Clojure.