Programming Throwdown
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Programming Throwdown
Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
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186: Becoming a Manager
Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, pe...
185: Workflow Orchestrators
Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed systems. They co...
184: Asynchronous Programming
Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover coroutines, bloc...
183: Landing a Software Job in 2025
Patrick and Jason are joined by Mark Cunningham to discuss how software engineers can find strong job opportunities and perform well throughout the in...
182: AI Assisted Coding
Patrick and Jason discuss how AI-assisted coding tools can speed up development, answer questions about a codebase, and reduce boilerplate work. They...
181: Memory Management
Patrick and Jason cover memory management from both the operating-system and language-runtime perspectives. They discuss heap management, virtual memo...
180: Reinforcement Learning
Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy g...
179: Project Planning
Patrick and Jason discuss project planning and management for software teams. They cover why planning matters, how frameworks like SMART goals, Gantt...
178: Working from Home
Patrick and Jason revisit working from home and the realities of remote engineering work. They cover communication, scheduling, home-office setup, mot...
177: Vector Databases
Patrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They discuss how...
176: MLOps at SwampUp
James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco System Administrator to DevOps Difference between DevOps and MLOps Getting Started with DevOps Luke Marsden: C...
175: Resume Writing
Patrick and Jason discuss how to write a strong technical resume that gets attention without becoming bloated or misleading. They cover what to includ...
174: Devops
Patrick and Jason explain DevOps and how it relates to site reliability, build systems, testing infrastructure, and release processes. They cover infr...
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Patrick and Jason discuss unit testing, regression testing, and system testing, with a focus on when mocking actually helps. They explain mocks versus...
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Patrick and Jason explain transformers and large language models from the ground up. They cover attention, encoders and decoders, self-supervised lear...
171: Compilers and Interpreters
Patrick and Jason walk through the differences between compilers and interpreters, starting from machine code and assembly and moving up to high-level...
170: 2023 Holiday Special Live
Predictions: Jason VR for Work Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency RISC-V takeoff Patrick Ai claim of AGI Ai peer reviewer Ai Video Generat...
169: HyperLogLog
Patrick and Jason explain HyperLogLog and the broader problem of estimating cardinality efficiently at scale. They walk through the ideas behind Linea...
168: Godot
Patrick and Jason discuss the Godot game engine and what a game engine actually provides to developers. They cover graphics, physics, scripting, porta...
167: Desktop User Interfaces
Patrick and Jason survey the landscape of desktop user-interface development and compare common toolkit choices. They cover Qt, wxWidgets, Electron, n...
166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl
pganalyze: - Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": - How Postgres chooses which index to use: - CMU databases courses: - Postgres community: As well as s...
165: Differential Equations
Patrick and Jason explain differential equations and why programmers should care about them. They cover rates of change, ordinary versus partial diffe...
164: Choosing a Database For Your Project With Kris Zyp
Things to consider when choosing a database Speed & Latency Consistency, ACID Compliance Scalability Language support & Developer Experience Relationa...
163: Recursion
Patrick and Jason break down recursion as a practical problem-solving technique rather than a classroom trick. They cover base cases, recursive steps,...
162: Interactive Fiction
In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of interactive fiction. We explore: Wordnet, Inform, and how games...
161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko
MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins us today to discuss generative AI! We talk about how to use existing models as well as ways to fine...
160: Position Localization
It’s a question that may seem easy to answer on the surface, but in truth hides more complexity than people expect. In today’s episode, we tackle the...
159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal
GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire...
158: Software Supply Chain with Bill Manning
In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and c...
157: Kubernetes with Craig Box
There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes to Kubernetes, and Craig Box – ARMO’s VP of Open Source & Community –is one of several who have see...
156: Perl and Regular Expressions
Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode...
155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain
When it comes to untangling the complexities of what lies ahead for search engines in this age of AI, few are as deeply versed in the subject as You.c...
154: Python Again with Jason C. McDonald
A second Jason joins this episode of Programming Throwdown! Jason McDonald – Python evangelist, author, and more – talks to Patrick and Jason about hi...
153: ChatGPT
has made a mark on the world as we know it, but that’s only the tip of the AI iceberg. Join us as we discuss how the field of artificial intelligence...
152: The Future Database with Sam Lambert
Databases are key to almost any project, large or small. Most database systems in the cloud are designed for heavy use and the costs can get expensive...
151: Machine Learning Engineering with Liran Hason
Machine Learning Engineer is one of the fastest growing professions on the planet. Liran Hason, co-founder and CEO of Aporia, joins us to discuss this...
150: Code Reviews with On Freund
Patrick and I are always stressing the importance of code reviews and collaboration when developing. On Freund, co-founder & CEO at Wilco, is super fa...
149: Workflow Engines with Sanjay Siddhanti
At scale, anything we build is going to involve people. Many of us have personal schedules and to-do lists, but how can we scale that to hundreds or e...
S1: Holiday 2022 Special
Today we field questions from Programming Throwdown’s listeners about AI, machine learning, and more practical matters as developers in our annual hol...