An Introduction to Database Reliablility
Gone are the days of the monolithic SQL database application. Startups and enterprise are leveraging distributed datastores spread across the cloud to solve their data problems. The business requires faster velocity and the data requirements are skyrocketing in complexity. Today’s data problems require a new approach to planning, managing, and scaling our datastores.
The State of Digital Banking
The biggest banks in the world exist for tens and hundreds of years. They were started well before “software took over the world”. They specialize in banking, and not consumer facing software. However, just like the most successful journalism and commerce companies are now software companies, so do banks that want to succeed in the
An Overview of Flutter
Origins of Flutter Flutter is a programming framework for building cross platform mobile apps. Its roots trace back to Google Chrome and the efforts of a team dedicated to making the web faster. Eric Seidel is the founder of the
The State of Autonomous Driving
Self-driving cars, sometimes referred to as autonomous vehicles, seem like an inevitability. Companies like Tesla, Waymo, Uber, and even old mainstays like Ford and GM all have various prototypes in the field or are currently
Cloud Structures: Kubernetes, Container Instances, Serverless
When it comes to cloud services and infrastructure, there are many routes to choose from. You can choose a serverless structure, where FaaS (Function as a Service) providers can perform simpler tasks without much hassle on the
Podcast Episodes
Open vSwitch: Virtual Networking with Ben Pfaff
Virtual machines are operating system instances that run alongside each other on the same physical host. The virtual machines running on a physical host are managed by a hypervisor running on the physical host. A cluster of two...
Data Warehouse with Christian Kleinerman
A data warehouse provides fast access to large data sets for analytics, data science, and dashboards. A data warehouse differs from a transactional database, because you often do not need to update specific records. Because of...
DevOps at Microsoft with Martin Woodward
The Windows operating system is one of the most widely used pieces of software in history. Windows was started before there was any alternative to a monolithic codebase, because Microsoft was building software before the Internet...
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Topic Roundtable with Haseeb Qureshi and Practical Dev’s Ben Halpern
Bot fraud, the New York tech scene, RethinkDB and open source; these topics and more are discussed in today’s episode. Two of the most popular guests return to the show to explore a variety of topics. Ben Halpern is the creator of The Practical Dev, a massively...
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