Databases & Data — Happy Path Programming

#113

Graph & RAG

with Jennifer Reif

We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases.

AI & LLMs Databases & Data

🗓 Jul 21, 2025⏱ 1h 05m

#105

Nathan Sobo's Pursuit of the Ultimate Code Editor

with Nathan Sobo

Nathan Sobo is co-founder of Zed, a super-fast, collaborative, AI-powered, code editor. We chat about his journey to build the ultimate code editor: lessons learned from building Atom, Electron and its challenges, CRDTs, Rust native GPU GUIs, AI Code Assistants, and more CRDTs. S

Rust AI & LLMs Databases & Data

🗓 Oct 13, 2024⏱ 1h 23m

#101

Effects and Local-First

with Johannes Schickling

Johannes Schickling (@schickling | schickling.dev) gets us up-to-speed on Effect, the ZIO-inspired Effect System for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement. Resources Local-First Podcast: www.localfirst.fm Ink & Switch's Local-First Essay: www.inkandswitch.com/local-first Effec

Effect Oriented TypeScript Databases & Data

🗓 Jul 07, 2024⏱ 1h 13m

#95

21st Century Databases

with Gwen Shapira

We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.

Databases & Data Architecture & Design Cloud & Serverless

🗓 Mar 10, 2024⏱ 1h 00m

#62

Musing About Local-First Sync & CRDTs

with Mark McGranaghan

Mark McGranaghan joins us to talk about how the Muse app uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) for local-first data synchronization. More details on Local-first Referenced article about hybrid logical clocks

Types Databases & Data

🗓 May 27, 2022⏱ 1h 06m

#55

Apache Kafka - Like Functional Programming but for Data (With Anna McDonald)

🎙️ Bruce & James

We chat with the Kafka Duchess, Anna McDonald, about Apache Kafka, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and of-course Functional Programming. Note: There was a bit of echo for a few minutes but we did resolve it around 8 minutes in.

Functional Programming Databases & Data

🗓 Mar 03, 2022⏱ 1h 08m

#44

Tired of Getting N+1'd by Your ORM? A Chat

with Alexander Ioffe

We chat with Alexander Ioffe, maintainer of the Quill library, about database access approaches and Scala metaprogramming.

Scala Databases & Data

🗓 Oct 29, 2021⏱ 59m 47s

#38

Databases are Insufficient

with Jonas Bonér

James rants about databases with Jonas Bonér, CEO of Lightbend and creator of Akka. Bruce & James also learn about the actor model, Reactive, and Akka Serverless.

Databases & Data Cloud & Serverless

🗓 Aug 27, 2021⏱ 1h 04m