#118
Bruce & James recap the technology shifts of 2025 and look ahead to what may be ahead in 2026. Resources: Register for the Winter Tech Forum (March 2-6 2026 in Crested Butte, Colorado) The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code Thinking in Types javad
#112
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planning and domain-driven orchestration.
#109
Lize Raes teaches us about AI models, LLMs, Tools, Agents, and MCP. Article from Anthropic on Agent architectures: Building effective agents
#100
Diana Montalion teaches us about Systems Thinking and why it matters for those of us building software. Diana is founder of Mentrix, which teaches "systems architecture skills for an increasingly complex world." Pre-Order Diana's book: Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonline
#95
We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.
#79
We chat with Oliver Drotbohm about what Domain-Driven Design is and how it might intersect with Microservices, Monoliths, or Moduliths. Mentioned resources Parnas on modularity Chris Richardson – Introducing Assemblage - a microservice architecture definition process Spring Modul
#77
Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus.
#69
Bruce continues his archaeological dig into the foundations of mainstream programming. Referenced blog: Why Are There Functions?
#68
Andrew Harmel-Law shares a better way to make decisions in software teams using the "Advice Process" which he has used in a number of teams resulting in happier, more productive programmers.
#42
The legendary Viktor Klang chats with Bruce & James about information loss, reactive, emergence, and many other mind expanding topics.
#35
As usual, Bruce & James try to figure out monads & type classes. Then something new, as they go meta on design patterns.
#18
Software architectures, organizational management, hiring practices, and many other normal part of life give us an illusion of control. But is there another way?
#14
Most developers have been exposed to inheritance based polymorphism but there are other ways to deal with overlapping functionality. In this episode we talk about ad-hoc polymorphism, parametric polymorphism, and type classes.