In today’s episode, we bring fellow developer and tech content creator NeetCode, to talk about his obstacles and observations on his path in becoming a FAANG engineer, where he shares his struggles and how he started both his tech career and content creation journeys. Among a variety of other topics, NeetCode shares his advice for anyone that’s open to receiving it, and explains the pros and cons of grinding LeetCode, if it is even worth doing it or not, while also dabbling into why networking i...
Apr 29, 2024•56 min•Ep. 52
In today’s episode, we welcome John Crickett, veteran software engineer, having worked at Staff, VP, and C-Suite positions over the years, and now focusing on helping thousands of engineers worldwide, through his coding challenges that have you building real applications, as well as helping with the soft skills through his articles and posts about software development. Today we cover a LOT of ground where we explain exactly what a Software Architect is, discuss different leadership types, advice...
Apr 22, 2024•59 min•Ep. 51
In today’s episode, we bring Leandro Ostera, a seasoned software engineer, who’s currently leading the OCaml build system team, with the mission of making OCaml SaaS ready! Join us as this episode is packed with a variety of topics, where we mainly focus on the OCaml ecosystem, compare it to other languages and frameworks, but also dabble into very obscure topics such as Idris (hint: it’s a programming language), and explore concepts such as routine blocking, scheduling, types, and other issues....
Apr 15, 2024•52 min•Ep. 50
Today, we're excited to have Bashbunni join us, a software developer and fellow tech content creator currently rocking it as a DevRel at Charm, whose purpose is all about glamming up the CLI experience. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground, from diving into Charm's cool libraries and their real-world applications to chatting about the self-taught programming journey. We also touch on TikTok and addictive social media use, content creation and its intricacies, and share some insights...
Apr 08, 2024•50 min•Ep. 49
In this episode, we host Trash Puppy, with her amazing story of how she went from Nursing to becoming a Software Engineer. Today, we talk about her story, why she chose Golang, her exciting personal projects and her experiences and advice as a self-taught developer. As Trash Puppy is accepting job offers at the moment, we also dove into the current job market and job hunting process, as it definitely isn't an easy one to navigate these days, while also touching up on her thoughts of the thre...
Apr 01, 2024•52 min•Ep. 48
Today, we're thrilled to have Tommy Graves, co-founder of RWX, a company focusing on building tools that optimize build and test performance, reliability, and developer experience. In this episode, we're delving deep into the realm of CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment), with a special focus on Mint - their latest CI platform. We'll be exploring its unique features, how it differs from its competitors, caching, security, cost-efficiency in production pipelines. A...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 47
Today, we bring a special "Whiskey, Web and Whatnot" edition to our podcast, where we welcome Travis Wagner and Robbie The Wagner, to talk about controversial takes regarding tech CEOs, their experiences in the field, the impact of AI and other personal preferences towards technologies Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Whiskey, Web and Whatnot podcast: https://whiskey.fm/Robbie's Twitter: https://twitt...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 46
In today's episode, we bring Thorsten Ball, author of "Writing An Interpreter In Go" and "Writing A Compiler In Go". In this talk, we discuss the different clashes and responsibilities between Product and Engineering teams, reignite the topic of working with technical managers, explain why cookie banners are dumb, and on a more interpersonal note, discuss how important coolness is in education, explain why a lot of the times, highly talented people just don't know how to work and also dabble int...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 8 min
In this episode, we bring Daniel Roe, the Lead Maintainer of Nuxt.js, an open source framework that makes web development intuitive and powerful. Today, he shares his journey into the framework and sheds some light on intriguing questions surrounding its development and usage. Today's talk ranges from the origins of Nuxt to its unique features and practical tips for developers, deliberate naming, comparison with Next.js and technical and detailed discussion regarding performance optimization and...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 6 min
In today's episode, we bring back Teej DeVries, the first guest ever on our podcast! Today we are discussing Teej's new course on Boot.dev on Memory Management. In this talk, we discuss the importance of memory, why Go is a C-programmer minded language, garbage collectors, among other technical topics. We also talk about why understanding the fundamentals in crucial in helping you increase your learning ability, how different it is hiring juniors and seniors and why being curious gives you the a...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 10 min
In this episode, Lane chats with Lewis Menelaws, a Full-Stack developer and entrepreneur. Today he takes us through his coding journey and insights as a developer influencer. From his early days coding Roblox games, tech stacks, and the challenges of freelancing, to his shift into content creation and thoughts on the current programming meta. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Lewis's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lew...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
In this episode, Lane talks to Alex DeBrie, author of the DynamoDB book. Today's talk covers various aspects such as DynamoDB's comparison with Amazon S3, its benefits, use cases, constraints, and cost considerations, while also covering other AWS and Google Cloud services. Alex also shares his insights into his journey of writing the book on DynamoDB and touches on topics like access patterns, secondary indexes, and billing modes. Alex also shares his professional experiences, including consult...
Feb 12, 2024•58 min
In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk about personal opinions on industry practices, scale, financial decisions, infrastructure mistakes, reflections on long-term company commitments and many more! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Dax's Twitter: https://twi...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Lane chats with Dev Agrawal— content creator & Developer Advocate at Clerk! Tune in as they discuss DevRel, authentication vs. authorization, JWT, and so much more in this episode. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Dev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/devagrawal09 Dev's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@devagr (00:00) - Introduction (00:50) - Is Dev's name really Dev? (02:10) - What is it about writing code that s...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Lane chats with Matt Holt-- a renowned figure in backend engineering and the creator of Caddy, a leading platform for serving sites and apps written in Go. In this episode, they discuss the origins of Caddy, its unique features, and Matt's journey in Go programming and web development. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter. fm Matt Holt Twitter: https://x.com/mholt6?s=20 Caddy Web Server Twitter: https://x.com/caddyserver?...
Jan 23, 2024•59 min
Lane chats with BadCop-- a senior Bash engineer, Twitch streamer and the mastermind behind their online presence. From the origins of 'BadCop' to the recent emergence of 'BashCop,' they explore scripting languages, focusing on Bash, shells, terminals and more. Follow the conversation in this enlightening episode, unraveling the intricacies of online identity and the technical landscape of Unix shells! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://w...
Jan 15, 2024•59 min
Lane chats with Richard Feldman, creator of the Roc programming language, about why he decided to create it. They discuss object oriented programming and whether it did irreparable damage to the industry - or not. Follow along as they talk about all of that and functional programming too! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Richard Feldmans Twitter: twitter.com/rtfeldman Roc Programming Language: https://www.roc-lang...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Lane chats with Philip Winston, a software engineer with a storied history who recently published an article titled "Brain Oriented Programming". Tune in as Lane and Philip talk about the pros and cons of object oriented programming and... guitar hero? Don't miss this episode of Backend Banter! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Philip Winston's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pbwinston Brain Oriented Programming Artic...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Lane chats with AJ O'Neal about giving up on Rust, the challenges of using brew from a permissions standpoint, and how, exactly, WebI is not a package manager. Tune in as they discuss why AJ developed WebI, and why you should be using it as well. AJ O'Neal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/coolaj86 WebI: https://webinstall.dev/
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 28 min
In this episode of Backend Banter, Lane chats with JLarky about React server components... in GO. Why would anyone want to do that? Find out here! They also discuss how JLarky came up with the idea to use React in the backend, what other people think about the practice, and how he uses it to streamline his process. All this is intermixed with discussing the differences between frontend and backend, and how knowing how both work can make either job easier! Learn back-end development - https://boo...
Dec 18, 2023•56 min
Lane chats with Sabine, one of the primary maintainers of OCaml.org , about how she built web apps in Django on the side, only to land her first programming job working close to the OCaml ecosystem, and quickly become enveloped in the project. Her backstory about skipping grades, dropping out of school, and teaching herself various web languages is fascinating, give it a listen. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Sa...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Matteo Collina is a member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has one of the most impressive developer resumes we've ever seen. His 500 NPM modules have over 17 billion downloads. Today, he sits down with Lane to discuss Node, the future of backend web development, and Platformatic, his new startup. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Matteo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matteocollina...
Dec 05, 2023•55 min
Lane and Aaron Francis sit down to talk about Laravel and PHP, and why everyone who uses them tends to make a lot of money. There seems to be something to avoiding the technical hype cycle and just shipping web apps that people want to use. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Aaron Francis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Aaron Francis' YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCbixkBITOOa2XNviJLxMh2w Aaron Franc...
Nov 27, 2023•59 min
Nov 20, 2023•53 min
Lane chats with his distributed systems professor from when he was a computer science undergraduate, Dr. Russ Ross. They talk about the state of the hiring market in 2023, LLVM, and of course, distributed systems! Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Russ Ross's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_russross?lang=en Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjoyed the video!
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Byron Ruth and David Gee from the NATS and the Synadia team join Lane today to chat about distributed systems, and more specifically, PubSub architectures. If you've ever wondered about the difference between a distributed monolith and a truly distributed system, this episode is for you. We break down NATS and how it relates to other systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka, and more. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Byron's ...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Lane sits down with Sean Walker to talk about Ruby on Rails, dynamic typing, and even a bit of Rust. Sean's been writing Ruby on Rails for years, and has some opinions on DHH's recent articles. Sean Walker's Twitter: https://twitter.com/swlkr Sean Walker's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/swlkr
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr
This is a podcast about backend development, so I couldn't miss the chance to chat with Carson Cross, the creator of HTMX and author of the book Hypermedia Systems. HTMX is all about giving backend developers the power to build modern webapps, without needing to write a line of frontend JavaScript. In a way, it's a return to the way the web used to work pre-React. Find more about HTMX below! https://htmx.org/ https://hypermedia.systems/ https://bigsky.software/ https://twitter.com/htmx_org...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has changed over the years, and where its heading next. Wes Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesbos Wes Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wesbos/ Wes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WesBos Wes site: https://wesbos.com/ Wes Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesbos/...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min
If you're nervous about searching for programming jobs this episode is for you. Lane sits down with Don the Developer to chat about everything from resumes and cover letters to how to present yourself in an interview. DonTheDeveloper's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/donthedeveloper
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 16 min
