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So, after far too long a hiatus, we’re back on the Magpie Talkshow for a one-off episode where I interview Kafka creator and Confluent CEO, Jay Kreps.
I’ve been doing a small amount of work with Confluent recently, and through this I got the chance...
Adrian Cockcroft has been a great supporter of my work around microservices, and I was really grateful he was able to find the time to catch up with me at Yow 2015 late last year.
Few people have done as much to help share the power of the cloud in...
In the last episode of the podcast, I shared the first of the two part NASA special, when I chatted to Dr Anita Sengupta about her involvement with the recent Curiosity Mars lander. This time, I'm chatting to her colleague Dr. Kamal Oudrhiri, who led...
One of the nice things that the YOW conference has done over recent years is strive to bring in interesting keynotes, often from quite left-field areas (at least for a software technology conference!). Last year the organisers outdid themselves when...
Welcome back to the Magpie Talkshow Podcast! It's been too long (almost exactly 3 months) since I got the last episode out, and despite having a healthy backlog of interviews recorded I've been unable to find the time to get them out. Since then, a...
In this week's episode I chat to Kathleen Fisher, a professor at Tufts University. I caught up with Kathleen during the first stop of the three city YOW 2015 conference late last year, where she was delivering the opening keynote on the topic of formal...
After far too long a hiatus, the Magpie Talkshow is back with it's 17th episode. This week we wrap up the last of the interviews I recorded at Øredev last year, and hear my chat with Android developer Corey Latislaw. Mobile development in general is...
Distributed systems can be pretty hard things to understand, so I'm always on the lookout for someone who manages to explain these things well. Neha Narula is one such person, and I was lucky enough to see one of her sessions at Øredev late last year...
Back in November, again at the Øredev conference, I sat down with an old colleague of mine, Ben Stopford. After starting out in physics (specialising in cosmology no less!) Ben shifted over to computing, where he has been ever since. After leaving...
** When I first put this episode out, there was a glitch at the end with overlaid speech. This is now fixed! **
I've enjoyed all the interviews I've done for The Magpie Talkshow so far, but some do stick out more than others. Often the key distinction...
After an unplanned two week hiatus, the Magpie Talkshow is back. The break was due to a bunch of craziness going on which I'll hopefully let you know about soon, but I'm hoping from here on out we can get back to an episode a week.
Aside from Øredev...
This episode is a week later than planned, due to me being on holiday. Good for me, not so good for all of you I'm afraid! It'll be weekly from here on out I hope, and I'll get better at letting you know if they'll be any interruptions in service....
I got to record a number of great interviews at Øredev in Sweden late last year. My interview with Songkick's Amy Phillips was the third, but due to slightly confusing reasons on my side, is actually the first to get released.
Amy is a software engineer...
Many of you have probably heard of my colleague Martin Fowler before. I'm lucky enough to get to work with him on occasion as part of my role on ThoughtWorks' Technology Advisory Board (or TAB), which is an internal body inside ThoughtWorks itself...
In a change to the normal schedule, rather than releasing episodes in the strict order in which they were recorded I've instead brought forward one of my most recent interviews. In Episode 9 of the Magpie Talkshow, I talk to security consultant, blogger...
In the second of two episodes released this week, I chat to Beth Skurrie.
Microservices have been a focus of mine for the last few years, and one of the trickiest problems in this area is how to ensure that when you change one service that you don...
I was tied up with work an unable to get an episode up last week, so to make up for it you'll be getting not one, but two episodes!
In the first of this week's episodes, I chat to Brian Sletten. Brian has long been passionate about the semantic web...
Simon Brown is a freelance author, consultant and trainer based on Jersey in the channel islands. I've known Simon for a while, and we caught up at Devoxx Poland earlier this year.
Simon's focus for the last few years has been on helping people articulate...
David Pollack it turns out has done many things. Like many of us, he was born before the internet existed. That said not many of us saw the internet being built at the ripe old age of 14! Since then he created the Lift framework for Scala, discovered...