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Programming is a podcast that aims to make us better software engineers! With each episode, you'll learn about a computer science concept in a brief and accessible way.
A hundred million comparisons become 27; Minko Gecev makes your algorithm anxiety feel briefly negotiable.
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A grounded look at micro frontends, their trade-offs, and the complexity they can introduce.
Micro frontends get a grounded reality check in this Programming Podcast episode. Minko Gecev lays out why teams trying to scale frontend work might consider them, then shifts from a banking-system example into the harder parts: independent deployments, shared dependencies, and…
A compact, developer-focused tour of AI agents and the practical problems that shape them.
AI agents are treated here as a programming problem, and the episode has a useful sense of scale. Minko Gecev, host of the Programming Podcast, defines an agent as a loop or state machine, an LLM, and tools, then focuses on the practical pressure points: what those tools are…
A clear, compact look at signals, components, and rendering inside reactive web frameworks.
The episode turns web framework machinery into something easier to inspect by building up from a small reactive system. Minko Gecev begins with signals, then ties them to components, rendering, and the split between dynamic and static parts of a view.
A clear, practical tour of maps, from simple key-value storage to trees and hash tables.
Minko Gadget frames maps as a way into the machinery behind key-value lookup. The episode begins with the basic abstraction, using a person record with fields like name and SSN, then walks through three implementation styles.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
This episode explains micro frontends, their trade-offs, and various implementation approaches for building scalable frontends.
Gemini is an agent, not just an LLM, because it can do web search and use Google Drive.
This episode explains the map data structure, its implementations, and when to use it.
Minko Gecev defines graphs through nodes and edges, using Facebook friendships, flight routes, and city cycles to distinguish undirected, directed, and cyclic graphs.
This episode explains binary search in arrays, covering order, direct access, and sequential memory representation.