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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Picture Me Coding
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Lamport
This week Mike and Erik talked about Leslie Lamport's work. Lamport has been called "the father of distributed systems" and we cover Lamport clocks, Paxos, TLA+ and others of his ideas.
For music, Erik has been listening to Again by Oneohtrix Point Never while Mike has been stuck on 8-Track by Ashley Bathgate.
References
- Lamport’s Personal Site (with links to all of his papers)
- Quanta Interview
- Changelog Recent Podcast Interview
- Cloudflare leap second bug
- The Poem “Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer” from Robert Hass’ Sun Under Wood
