The blockchain tech to build in a crypto winter (Ep. 516)
Even nodes and validators need a backend built for speed.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Taking stock of crypto’s crash (Ep. 515)
Last one to leave turns off the microservices.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
From Twitter Bootstrap to VP of Engineering at Patreon, a chat with Utkarsh Srivastava (Ep. 514)
Patreon’s VP of Eng talks product roadmap, deployment best practices, and UX philosophies.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Here’s what it’s like to develop VR at Meta (Ep. 513)
We chat with a Platform Engineer and Reality Labs Advocate about the expanding toolkit available for crafting virtual reality experiences.
Cloudy with a chance of… the state of cloud in 2022 (Ep. 512)
SPONSORED BY PLURALSIGHT Early in the days of high-traffic web pages and apps, any engineer operating the infrastructure would have a server room where one or more machines served that app to the world. They named their servers lovingly, took pictures, and watched them grow. The servers were pets. But since the rise of public…
The creator of Homebrew has a plan to get open source contributors paid (Ep. 511)
What if you could bake a payment mechanism into the DNA of an open source package manager?
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Tips and tricks for succeeding as a developer emigrating to Japan (Ep. 510)
How a solo developer makes a living with a job board for engineering roles in Japan
Another hard week in tech (Ep. 509)
We need to talk about it.
Hashgraph: The sustainable alternative to blockchain (Ep. 508)
When most people talk about Web3 or cryptocurrencies and related technologies, they usually mean blockchains. But blockchain is only the first generation of distributed ledger technology
Fighting to balance identity and anonymity on the web(3) (Ep. 507)
From building the app store to forging a new approach to personal data on the blockchain.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Making location easier for developers with new data primitives (Ep. 505)
The Foursquare app used to be just a way to check in to the places you go. But that location data is more valuable to developers.