Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.
Pekka is the CTO of TursoDB, a cloud database product that helps developers run SQLite on the edge. Lane and Pekka talk about all the tradeoffs involved with SQLite, as well as the tradeoffs of putting your database geographically near your backend servers. Pekka's Twitter: https://twitter.com/penberg Turso: https://turso.tech/ LibSQL: https://github.com/libsql/libsql...
The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetScale. Hope you like the pod!
Lane chats with Rob Walling. Rob is the author of several books, including the SaaS playbook and Start Small Stay Small. He founded Drip, TinySeed and even runs MicroConf, the largest conference for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. In this episode they chat about how new backend developers can use their skills in a full time job, but how those skills are also unbelievably valuable when it comes to starting companies. Rob Walling's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robwalling Rob's Book,...
Miriah Peterson chats with Lane about how great Go tends to be for not only backend application development, but also data engineering roles. Miriah hosts Golang meetups and conferences alongside her full time job, so they also discuss how in person networking can help your new career as a programmer.
Lane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat about how Mat used Go to successfully build and sell a multi-million dollar company. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Mat Ryer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matryer GoTimeFM: https://changelog.com/gotime Mat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@matrye...
Lane chats with Michael Green about Python programming on the backend side of the web stack. They debate Python's efficacy in large production projects. It gets spicy, bring a glass of milk. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgdotdev Michael's site: https://michaelgreen.dev/ ZeroToPy Discount: https://leanpub.com/zero-to-py/c/bootdotdev Like & subscribe for the algo if you...
Lane chats with Travis Wagner, aka TechSavvyTravvy, the man behind the "crablang" fork of Rust. They talk about the issues with the Rust foundation that caused the fork, how the fork works from a technical perspective and other open-source shenanigans. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Travis's Twitter: https://twitter.com/techsavvytravvy Travis's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/techsavvytravvy Crablang: https://gith...
Lane chats with The Primeagen about unit tests, how to build good cli tooling, Golang, Rust, and a ton of stuff about Prime's history and how he got into coding and came to work at Netflix. Prime's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen Prime's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen Prime origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjHFubUPLV0 Article on Mocks: https://blog.boot.dev/clean-code/writing-good-unit-tests-dont-mock-database-connections/ References: https://world.hey.com/dhh/progra...
Lane chats with James about all his best tips for landing your first ever job as a developer. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com James on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesqquick James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesqquick James Discord: https://t.co/LUOsSsixq2 Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjoyed the video!
Lane chats with Trash, a Netflix engineer and code streamer on Twitch. They break down Trash's story: how he got into coding, from being a mainframe developer all the way through his days as a backend engineer to a frontend developer at Netflix. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Trash Twitter: https://twitter.com/trashh_dev Trash Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trash_dev Trash YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trash_dev
Lane chats with Jonathan Hall, a long time Go developer, host of the cup o' go podcast, and prolific DevOps guy. They discuss what DevOps is, what it isn't and why Go is such a good option for backend and devops work. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Jonathan on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhallio/ Cup o Go Podcast: https://cupogo.dev/ Boldly Go YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@boldlygo...
Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the backend data required for their apps to run directly on various client's devices. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Kyle on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/getify/ Socket Supply: https://socketsupply.co/
Lane and Brian talk about scaling databases, particularly MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale platform. Brian is a developer educator at PlanetScale, and he breaks down how you can think about scaling databases for your own projects, or for the companies you work for. PlanetScale is used for cloud MySQL deployments in the new CI/CD course on Boot.dev that just dropped! Brian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianmmdev PlanetScale: https://planetscale.com/
Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs.com and hosts myriad tech podcasts, and has spoken prolifically about how to level up your career as a developer. Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmaxw Topenddevs: https://topenddevs.com/
Bill Kennedy joins Lane on this episode of Backend Banter to discuss his origin story: why he left .NET and the Microsoft stack years ago to become a full-time Go developer. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your podcast player - https://www.backendbanter.fm Bill Kennedy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet Ardan Labs: https://www.ardanlabs.com/
I chat with Melkey, a senior Go developer at Twitch about how he would reverse engineer his successful backend software engineering career at FAANG if he were starting over. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Melkey Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelkeyDev Melkey Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/melkey
Lane chats with Glauber Costa, a founder of Turso DB, maintainer of the Linux kernel, and ex-Scylla DB developer. If you're curious how databases scale up to trillions of records, or how they scale out to geographic edge platforms, this conversation is for you. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Glauber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glcst Turso DB: https://turso.tech/ Leave a review and subscribe in your podcast player if you enjoyed the episode!
Lane chats with Simon B, a PHD in electrical engineering from the UK who has founded startups, worked as a CTO, and publishes educational coding content under the alias "All the Code"! They talk about Simon's experience breaking into the software development industry. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen to the podcast: https://backendbanter.fm Find Simon: https://allthecode.co/podcast
Lane chats with Adam Elmore, cofounder of StatMuse about how he builds scalable B2C backend infrastructure on AWS. They discuss the pros and cons of some of the new serverless stuff Adam works with, and how that plays into legacy code bases. Learn backend development - https://boot.dev Podcast Homepage: https://backendbanter.fm Adam's links: https://adam.dev
Lane chats with Dax Raad, SST framework maintainer about the future of serverless infrastructure. They cut through the hype to figure out how serverless can help backend developers build robust and scalable systems. Learn backend development - https://boot.dev Dax on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thdxr Dax on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thdxr
Lane and TJ DeVries chat about OCaml and why functional programming can result in more elegant and readable code. TJ is a core maintainer of NeoVim and explains how contributing to open source has had a huge positive impact on his coding career. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev TJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teej_dv TJ on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/teej_dv TJ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv
