Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Podcasting since 2023 • 81 episodes
Picture Me Coding
Latest Episodes
Space, Time, and Squishy Pebbles
This week we dip our toes into the river of theoretical computer science and immediately drown. We discuss the amazing and surprising result of researcher Ryan Williams about how space is a more powerful resource in computing than time.
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Season 3
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Episode 80
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45:35
Databases Part II: No SQL, No Problem
This week we try to make sense of what were once called "NoSQL" databases, focusing on the early entries into the field like Bigtable, Dynamo and Cassandra. We try to explain how they differ from prior database systems and what motivated ...
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1:09:50
Vibe Coding: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This week we host our friends Bobak Farzin and Kevin Fahey to talk about their experiences building applications with AI tools. Both Bob and Kevin are very tech savvy in different ways, but neither is a full-time software developer. ...
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1:08:21
Friends and Relations
We're talking about databases again. Or database management systems, we're not totally sure. In any case, they are relational databases (or database management systems).The relational database has been the go-to syst...
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Season 3
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Episode 77
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58:29
Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray
Jim Gray was a key innovator in the area of database technology and he won the Turing Prize in 1998. He was particularly influential with respect to the definition and formalization of transactions, and he identified and named the A, C, a...
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Season 3
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Episode 76
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1:04:29
