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• Stephan Janssen on Devoxx, Agentic Engineering and Staying Ahead of the Curve

  September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

  Stephan 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 development and the client-side validation bug 9:00 Token…

• Trisha Gee on the Software Job Market, Skill Atrophy, and the Death of Stack Overflow

  August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

  Trisha 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 conference and keynote speaker and has held many roles around…

• Daniel Spiewak on Cats Effect, Underrated Scala, and Becoming a Distinguished Engineer

  August 9, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

  Daniel 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 for functional programming in Scala. He's held various senior…

• Venkat Subramaniam on System Design, a Rich Career, and Responsibility in the Age of AI

  July 9, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

  Dr. 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 trained tens of thousands of software engineers all across the…

• Magnus Madsen on Flix, Scala Inspiration, AI, and the Relevance of Programming Languages

  June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

  Magnus 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 philosophy 3:57 Effect systems in the language vs. as a…

• Richard Eisenberg on OCaml, Effective AI, Teaching FP and Hiring for Fundamentals

  June 5, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

  Richard 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 functional programming to make software more reliable, while…

• Sam Newman on Microservices, Monoliths, and Building Resilient Distributed Systems

  May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

  Sam 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 many companies make informed choices about their service…

• Simon Peyton Jones on Haskell, Verse, Strong Type Systems and Tasteful Abstractions

  April 16, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

  Simon 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 Society and the ACM and has won many awards (including the SIGPLAN…