Redpanda: Kafka Alternative with Alexander Gallego
Kafka has achieved widespread popularity as a popular distributed queue and event streaming platform, with enterprise adoption and a billion dollar company (Confluent) built around it. But could there be value in building a new platform from scratch? Redpanda is a streaming platform built to be compatible with Kafka, that does not require the JVM
Machine Learning Carbon Capture with Diego Saez-Gil
Companies can have a negative impact on the environment by outputting excess carbon. Many companies want to reduce their net carbon impact to zero, which can be done by investing in forests. Pachama is a marketplace for forest investments. Pachama uses satellites, imaging, machine learning, and other techniques to determine how much carbon is being
Salesforce as a Data Source
Salesforce AppExchange. Source Salesforce is the most popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool in the world, with 19.5% of the market share of CRM solutions in 2018. CRM platforms offer a centralized system to deal
Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song
Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applications. How do they compare in
Dgraph: Native GraphQL Database with Manish Jain
GraphQL has changed the common design patterns for the interface between backend and frontend. This is usually achieved by the presence of a GraphQL server, which interprets and federates a query from the frontend to the backend
Podcast Episodes
Redpanda: Kafka Alternative with Alexander Gallego
Kafka has achieved widespread popularity as a popular distributed queue and event streaming platform, with enterprise adoption and a billion dollar company (Confluent) built around it. But could there be value in building a new...
Machine Learning Carbon Capture with Diego Saez-Gil
Companies can have a negative impact on the environment by outputting excess carbon. Many companies want to reduce their net carbon impact to zero, which can be done by investing in forests. Pachama is a marketplace for forest...
Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song
Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applications. How do they compare in...
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Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat
Originally published January 6, 2016 “The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of what you want to do, and that feeds back into better practice.” Brian Kernighan is...
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