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Backend Banter — 82 episodes
The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12
How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11
Mitchell Hashimoto: From Terraform to Ghostty | S02 E10
Vercel’s Big AI Bet. ft. Malte Ubl | S02 E09
Build skills, not degrees. ft. Madison Kanna | S02 E08
Roll your own auth or you’re ngmi. ft. Dreams of Code | S02 E07
Programming Music with Sonic Pi feat. Sam Aaron | S02 E06
KRAZAM Unfiltered feat. Ben Burke | S2 E05
Does ADHD really make programming harder? ft. Chris Ferdinandi | S2 E04
Why You Need To Stop Worrying About AI feat. Danny Thompson | S2 E03
Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02
Is Elixir the Future? feat. José Valim | S2 E01
#069 - Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan
#068 - Should you trust tech influencers? feat. Charles The III
#067 - How to Be Better than 96.487% of Developers
#066 - CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language
#065 - I Quit Voice Coaching for Typescript feat. Matt Pocock
#064 - You’re doing networking wrong feat. Lawrence Lockhart
#063 - I was fired for using HTMX
#062 - Declaring War Against the Frontend feat. Sam Selikoff
#061 - Forget SQL, use Typescript feat. Thomas Ballinger
#060 - Adam Elmore: IndieHacker Extraordinaire
#059 - The Internet == AWS? feat. James Q Quick
#058 - Stop Making Private Variables feat. BadCop
#057 - AI Bros Suck.. feat. Ken Wheeler
#056 - Maybe Programmers are Just Bad feat. Casey Muratori
#055 - Talking Go with the Go God feat. AnthonyGG
#054 - CS Programs Should NOT Teach Git feat. ThePrimeagen
#053 - Go isn’t secure?!? feat. Low Level Learning
#052 - AI Generates 90% of My Code
#051 - Should you grind leetcode? feat. NeetCode
#050 - Python is Faster than Rust
#049 - Is OCaml SaaS Ready?
#048 - Your command line sucks feat. Bashbunni
#047 - From Nursing to Programming feat. Trash Puppy
#046 - How I Spent $100,000/mo on CI/CD
#045 - Whiskey, Web, and Wagners
#044 - Managers should know how to code feat. Thorsten Ball
#043 - Nuxt.js is better than Next.js feat. Daniel Roe
#042 - Rust is the WORST language to learn first feat. Teej DeVries
#041 - From Roblox to software founder feat. Lewis Menelaws
#040 - The man who wrote the book on DynamoDB feat. Alex DeBrie
#039 - Get promoted by being lazy feat. Dax Raad
#038 - I Got Caught Rolling my Own Auth... feat. Dev Agrawal
#037 - Caddy Chronicles with Matt Holt
#036 - BadCop's Bash Breakdown
#035 - Discussing Roc and functional systems with Richard Fieldman
#034 - Brain Oriented Programming with Philip Winston
#033 - WebI is not a package manager feat. AJ O'neal
#032 - React Server Components... in Go? With JLarky
#031 - Trying (Practically) Every Functional Language and Landing on OCaml with Sabine
#030 - The Future of Backend JavaScript with a Node.js Maintainer: Matteo Collina
#029 - Write Laravel, not PHP (feat. Aaron Francis)
#028 - Learning Go: A Discussion of the Language with the Author, Jon Bodner
#027 - 2023 vs 2001 Tech Recessions and Distributed Systems with Russ Ross
#026 - Why PubSub Architectures are Still Cool with Byron Ruth and David Gee
#025 - Rust Developer Admits to Enjoying Dynamic Types with Sean Walker
#024 - Behind HTMX: Carson Gross on the re-Rise of Hypermedia
#023 - Has Web Development Regressed? A Conversation with Wes Bos
#022 - Job Hunting as a Self-Taught Programmer with Don the Developer
#021 - TypeScript vs Elixir: An FP Showdown with Theo Browne
#020 - Running SQLite on the Edge with Pekka Enberg
Backend Banter | Official Trailer
#019 - Full-time vs Freelancing vs Starting a Company with Rob Walling
#018 - Data Engineering for Gophers with Miriah Peterson
#017 - Writing Go at Multi-Million Dollar Companies with Mat Ryer
#016 - Is Python even good? A debate with Dr. Michael Green
#015 - Forking Rust into Crablang with Travis Wagner
#014 - Building the Best Tools and Tests with The Primeagen
#013 - Landing your First Coding Job with James Q Quick
#012 - Becoming a Netflix-Level Engineer with Trash Dev
#011 - Writing Go and doin' DevOps with Jonathan Hall
#010 - Distributed Web Apps with Kyle Simpson
#009 - Scaling MySQL with Brian Morrison from PlanetScale
#008 - Accelerating Your Coding Career with Charles Max Wood
#007 - Switching from .NET to Go with Bill Kennedy
#006 - Building a FAANG Career with Melkey (Senior Go Dev @ Twitch)
#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa
#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B
#003 Architecting a Backend that Serves Millions with Adam Elmore
#002 - Serverless Architecture and SST with Dax Raad
#001 - Elegance in OCaml with TJ DeVries