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Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: robert.blumen  Guests: Dwight Merriman   Recording venue: MongoSF 2009 Dwight Merriman talks with Robert about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer's CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB. Links MongoDB Brewer's presentation on the CAP theorem 10-gen NoSQL - the Shift to a Non-Relational World by Dwight Merriman A series of blog posts on consistency in a distributed database (see entries from March 26 to April 15, 2010) Slides and video from MongoSF 2010 NoSQL hub NoSQL mailing list on Google Follow Dwight Merriman on twitter 10-gen's blog

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael  Guests: Lisa Crispin   Recording venue: Skype This episode covers the topic of agile testing. Michael interviews Lisa Crispin as an practionier and book author on agile testing. We cover several topics ranging from the role of the tester in agile teams, over test automation strategy and regression testing, to continuous integration. Links Lisa's homepage Software Testing Club Weekend Testing Community Agile Testing Yahoo group

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests:   Recording venue: Announcement regarding the release cycle.

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: robert.blumen  Guests: Jay Kreps   Recording venue: QCon Jay Kreps talks about the open source data store Project Voldemort. Voldemort is a distributed key-value store used by LinkedIn and other high-traffic web sites to overcome the inherent scalability limitations of a relational database. The conversation delves into the workings of a Voldemort cluster, the type of consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, and the tradeoff between client and the server. Links Project Voldemort Jay Kreps presentation at QCon San Francisco 2009 Google mailing list for Project Voldemort Project Voldmort on github LinkedIn blog entry on Project Voldemort Amazon's paper on Dynamo NoSQL hub Google mailing list for NoSQL

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Martin  Guests: Roman Pichler   Recording venue: Skype In this episode, we discuss with Roman Pichler how Scrum impacts product management and how agile product management differs from traditional approaches. The topics covered include product owners on large projects and product owner teams, facilitating customer feedback through early and frequent releases, envisioning the product, and creating products with the minimum functionality. Enjoy! Links Roman's website Roman's blog Book: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: robert.blumen  Guests: Ramnivas Laddad   Recording venue: QCon San Francisco 2009 This episode is a conversation with Ramnivas Laddad about aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Aspect J, and Spring AOP. We review the fundamental concepts of AOP, discuss AspectJ (an open source compiler that extends java with support for AOP), and cover the Spring Framework's proxy-based AOP system. Laddad also gives his thoughts on the use cases for AOP and where we are in the technology adoption curve, and updates on the state of the AspectJ project itself. Links AspectJ in Action: Enterprise AOP with Spring Applications (2nd edition) by Ramnivas Laddad The AspectJ project AspectJ User Mailing Lists The Spring Framework Spring AOP Support Forum AspectJ Development Tools Ramnivas Laddad's web site Follow Ramnivas Laddad on Twitter Episode 11: Gregor Kiczales Episode 49: Dynamic Languages Episode 106: Introduction to AOP Episode 145: Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Scott Meyers   Recording venue: Skype This episode is a conversation with Scott Meyers about the upcoming C++0x standard. We talk a bit about the reasons for creating this new standard and then cover the most important new features, including upport for concurrency, implicitly-typed variables, move semantics, variadic templates, lambda functions, and uniform initialization syntax. We also looked at some new features in the standard library. Links Scott's Website Wikipedia:C++0x C++0x Feature Availability in gcc and VC++ just::thread Implementation of C++0x Concurrency Features Scott Meyers' C++0x Training Course Scott Meyers' C++0x Training Materials

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Rich Hickey   Recording venue: This episode is a coversation with Rich Hickey about his programming language Clojure. Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM that comes with - among other things - persistent data structures and transactional memory, both very useful for writing concurrent applications. Links Clojure Rich Hickey on Twitter Persistent Data Structures Transactional Memory Previous SE Radio Episode on Lisp with Dick Gabriel

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: robert.blumen  Guests: Philip Zeyliger   Recording venue: QCon San Francisco 2009 Philip Zeyliger of Cloudera discusses the Hadoop project with Robert Blumen. The conversation covers the emergence of large data problems, the Hadoop file system, map-reduce, and a look under the hood at how it all works. The listener will also learn where and how Hadoop is being used to process large data sets. Links Hadoop Project Cloudera Cloudera Hadoop distribution Philip's E-mail Presentation slides Book: Hadoop - The Definitive Guide

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Martin  Guests: David Anderson & Arne Roock   Recording venue: Frankfurt This episode is part of our series on agile software development. We talk with David Anderson about Kanban, an agile software development method that is quite different from most of the other agile methods out there. We discuss the basic ideas behind Kanban, the differences between Kanban and Scrum and when and why projects can benefit from using Kanban. This episode is done in cooperation with the German magazine ObjektSpektrum (thanks for sharing this interview with us). Links Limited Work in Progress Society David Andersons Blog David Anderson on Twitter Kanban vs. Scrum by Henrik Kniberg

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Johannes Link & Lasse Koskela   Recording venue: Skype In this episode Johannes Link interviews Lasse Koskela - the author of "Test-Driven" - about test-driven development (TDD). We cover the basics, the rationale behind it and the challenges you face when doing it in more difficult environments. Links Book: Test-Driven JDave RSpec FitNesse Cucumber Johannes Link Lasse Koskela

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Ola Bini   Recording venue: Skype This is a conversation with Ola Bini on his experimental language Ioke. We cover the idea behind the Ioke experiment as well as important language concepts and the thinking behind them. Links Ola Bini's website Ioke

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jan Bosch   Recording venue: Practical Product Lines This episode is a conversation with Jan Bosch about product line engineering (PLE). Jan has worked in various roles and industries and academia in the context of product lines. In this episode we look at Jan's view of what is next for product lines: software ecosystems. What is their relationship to PLE and how should PLE change to remain relevant? Links Jan Bosch's book on PLE Wikipedia: Product Family Engineering