Rock the Code
by Daniel Ciocirlan
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Victor Rentea on Agentic Engineering, Training, and Getting Promoted…
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About this podcast
A podcast about interesting programming topics for the curious software engineer. You will learn about programming languages, tools, libraries, and combinations thereof, from the best in the field.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 21 episodes
- Victor Rentea on Agentic Engineering, Training, and Getting Promoted with AI · 1 h 8 min · Episode 21Victor Rentea is a software engineer and architect, and an instructor. He's trained thousands of people in person at 150+ companies around the world. He's the highest-energy…
- Stephan Janssen on Devoxx, Agentic Engineering and Staying Ahead of the Curve · 1 h 9 min · Episode 20Stephan Janssen is the founder of Devoxx, the largest chain of developer conferences in the world. --- 0:00 Intro 1:13 Vibe coding the Devoxx Companion app 5:30 Spec-driven…
- Trisha Gee on the Software Job Market, Skill Atrophy, and the Death of Stack Overflow · 1 h 41 min · Episode 19Trisha Gee is a software engineer with more than 20 yeras of experience, a Java Champion and author of several books on Java and developer productivity. She is a frequent…
- Daniel Spiewak on Cats Effect, Underrated Scala, and Becoming a Distinguished Engineer · 1 h 36 min · Episode 18Daniel Spiewak is known for spearheading Cats Effect, one of the major effect systems in the Scala ecosystem, and for leading Typelevel, a mini-ecosystem of libraries and tools…
- Venkat Subramaniam on System Design, a Rich Career, and Responsibility in the Age of AI · 1 h 48 min · Episode 17Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an engineer, a professor at University of Houston, an author of more than 10 programming books, and a prolific speaker at technical conferences. He's…
- Magnus Madsen on Flix, Scala Inspiration, AI, and the Relevance of Programming Languages · 1 h 16 min · Episode 16Magnus Madsen is an associate computer science professor at Aarhus University and the creator of the Flix programming language. --- 0:00 Intro 1:37 Flix fundamentals and design…
- Richard Eisenberg on OCaml, Effective AI, Teaching FP and Hiring for Fundamentals · 1 h 40 min · Episode 15Richard Eisenberg is a language designer and compiler engineer for OCaml at Jane Street and a core contributor to the Haskell language. He focuses on static type systems and…
- Sam Newman on Microservices, Monoliths, and Building Resilient Distributed Systems · 1 h 21 min · Episode 14Sam Newman is an engineer and consultant, specialized in service architecture. He's the author of the books Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, and has helped…
- Simon Peyton Jones on Haskell, Verse, Strong Type Systems and Tasteful Abstractions · 1 h 24 min · Episode 13Simon Peyton Jones is a computer scientist in the true sense of the word, and the lead designer of the Haskell programming language and the GHC. He's a fellow of the Royal…
- Jon Gjengset on Rust Internals, Vibe Coding, and Teaching by Streaming · 1 h 34 min · Episode 12Jon Gjengset is a long-time Rust programmer and educator and the author of Rust for Rustaceans, a book on idiomatic Rust programming for experienced developers. You can find Jon…
- José Valim on Elixir, AI Tools, Gradual Type Systems, and Being a Prolific Open-Source Contributor · 1 h 53 min · Episode 11José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language and cofounder of Dashbit, where he focuses on growing the Elixir ecosystem, the Tidewave web AI agent, and Livebook…
- Richard Feldman on Roc, AI, Teaching, and Avoiding Fancy Functional Programming · 2 h 11 min · Episode 10Richard Feldman is a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience, a frequent conference speaker, teacher and author of Elm in Action. He's the author of the Roc…
- Haoyi Li on Mill, Scala at Scale, Conference Touring and Moving Up the Stack · 1 h 32 min · Episode 9Haoyi Li is a software engineer and a core contributor to the Scala ecosystem. He's built a whole suite of Scala libraries under the com.lihaoyi banner, focusing on simplicity…
- Grady Booch on Software Architecture, Effective Communication, and Computing as a Human Experience · 1 h 26 min · Episode 8Grady Booch is one of the pioneers of modern software architecture as a distinct discipline of software engineering. He has 50+ years of experience and has developed software for…
- John De Goes on API Design, Effect Systems, Entrepreneurship and The Ultimate Coder · 2 h 22 min · Episode 7John De Goes is a software engineer recognized in the Scala ecosystem for the ZIO effect system. He's the founder of multiple companies, including Ziverge and Golem Cloud, and…
- Robert Martin on Clojure, AI, Programming Languages and the Craft of Good Code · 1 h 39 min · Episode 6Robert Martin aka "Uncle Bob" is a software engineer for more than 50 years, and the author of many influential programming books, including Clean Code and Clean Architecture…
- Jonas Bonér on Akka, Distributed Systems, Open-Source Sustainability and the Backbone of Agentic AI · 2 h 2 min · Episode 5Jonas Bonér is the founder and CTO of Akka Inc. and creator of the Akka project and the Reactive Manifesto. He's also a Java Champion. You can find Jonas at…
- Rúnar Bjarnason on Unison, Scala, Distributed Systems and Delightful Programming · 1 h 27 min · Episode 4Rúnar Bjarnason is a cofounder of Unison Computing, a programming language and environment for distributed systems and applications on the cloud. He's also a coauthor of the…
- Paul Snively on Programming Languages, Reliable Code and Good Taste in Software Engineering · 2 h 5 min · Episode 3Paul Snively is a software architect and engineer with 40 years of programming experience. He's worked professionally with a variety of languages, tools and mental models…
- James Ward on Effect Oriented Programming, Writing Code in the Age of AI, Curiosity and Exploration · 2 h 9 min · Episode 2James Ward is a professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. He describes himself as a typed pure…
