Podcasts

Victor Dibia on TensorFlow.js and Building Machine Learning Models with JavaScript

Victor Dibia is a research engineer with Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs. On today’s podcast, Wes Reisz and Victor Dibia talk about the realities of building machine learning in the browser. The two discuss the capabilities, limitations, process, and realities around using TensorFlow.js.

Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom

Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.

Charles Humble and Wes Reisz Take a Look Back at 2018 and Speculate on What 2019 Might Have in Store

Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about autonomous vehicles, GDPR, quantum computing. Microservices, AR/VR and more

Colin Eberhardt on What WebAssembly Is, and Plans for Version 2.0

In this podcast Wes talks to Colin Eberhardt, the technology director at Scott Logic, about what WebAssembly (WASM) is, a bit of the history of JavaScript, and plans for WebAssembly 2.0 including the threading model and GC.

Jean Barmash on Binary RPC with gRPC and Thrift, and Constraint Theory in Product Design

Jean Barmash is the director of engineering for Compass. He talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design.