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.
Rock the Code
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17 episodes
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Podcast Overview
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.
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3/18/2025
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
Magnus Madsen on Flix, Scala Inspiration, AI, and the Relevance of Programming Languages
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 library 6:30 Effects as checked exceptions 10:57 Type inference and effect propagation 15:53 LLMs and Flix code generation 22:47 Datalog inside Flix 32:13 Research language vs. industry needs 37:03 Compiler tooling and VS Code integration 49:02 No warnings, only errors 51:03 Effect-aware package manager and supply chain attacks 54:59 Why the JVM, and WebAssembly futures 58:04 Flix-generated code outperforming Java 1:01:31 Java interop and effect system boundaries 1:07:48 Is programming language design still relevant in the AI age 1:09:35 Design regrets in Flix 1:13:09 Maintaining motivation across a decade of work
June 5, 2026
16 - Richard Eisenberg on OCaml, Effective AI, Teaching FP and Hiring for Fundamentals
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 maintaining ease of use and runtime efficiency. Richard has also taught various computer science topics to both university and high school students, and he holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. You can find Richard's work at https://richarde.dev/ --- 0:00 Intro 0:56 Teaching CS to high school students 3:20 Turning down Microsoft for a teaching career 8:26 PhD, faculty life, and joining Jane Street 12:32 Algorithms and FP for high schoolers in the age of AI 17:08 How Richard uses LLMs day-to-day 22:29 Jane Street's internal AI experimentation 23:08 OCaml in the age of AI: open sourcing and error messages 29:31 Making illegal states unrepresentable: how far is too far 38:11 Formal verification and LLMs 42:08 Effect handlers in OCaml 44:03 Rust-style ownership and data race freedom in OxCaml 51:06 Why Jane Street chose OCaml 57:54 OCaml vs Haskell: purity, mutability, and physical equality 58:47 Onboarding engineers to OCaml at Jane Street 1:00:01 Hiring for fundamentals, not OCaml experience 1:07:07 Screening for good programming taste 1:10:47 Training vs hiring: the chicken-and-egg problem 1:15:31 Why OCaml hasn't gone mainstream 1:25:08 Dynamic languages: Python, JavaScript, and their place 1:28:15 Rust, C++, Scala: languages Richard finds interesting 1:33:08 Research at Jane Street: papers, peer review, and process 1:36:17 Contributing back to open source ecosystems 1:37:46 Dependent types in Haskell: motivation and the long road
May 27, 2026
15 - Sam Newman on Microservices, Monoliths, and Building Resilient Distributed Systems
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 architecture. His forthcoming book is Building Resilient Distributed Systems. You can find Sam on his website https://samnewman.io/. --- 0:00 Intro 0:57 The distributed monolith trap 6:30 Structured programming fundamentals most devs skip 10:00 Why long-lived teams make better architecture decisions 13:33 Building Resilient Distributed Systems: the book 22:00 Three golden rules of distributed systems 22:11 The human side of resilience engineering 35:56 AI's impact on PR workflows and code verification 43:13 Why QAs are making a comeback 47:33 End-to-end testing in microservices architectures 58:21 Containerization, public cloud, and DevOps as microservices enablers 1:03:53 When Sam advises against microservices 1:09:38 Idempotency: retrofitting vs. designing upfront 1:15:21 Trunk-based development vs. the PR process
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