Andrew Rosbrook

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Top 5 Tech Podcast Episodes

Perhaps a slight bias towards Software Engineering Daily!

• Facebook Developers with Nick Schrock | The early years at Facebook. Monolithic release to production every Tuesday, co-ordinated by IRC!
• PlayStation Engineering with Tony Godar | Great to hear the history this ecosystem, more-so having spent significant time as an end-user
• RocksDB with Dhruba Borthakur and Igor Canadi | I enjoyed the wider discussion on Storage Engines and the comparison between BTree and LSM Trees
• Monica Beckwith on Java Garbage Collection | Great overview of GC
• Distributed Systems with Leslie Lamport | What's that Paxos thing all about...

Top 5 Non-Tech Podcast Episodes

I also like non-tech related podcasts...

• Planet Money Buys Oil
• Rough Translation: The Search Parts 1&2
• The Dropout: The Story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
• Bloomberg Odd Lots: What Mathematical Models of Herding Cows Can Teach Us About Markets
• Freakonomics Radio: Is America Ready for a No-Lose Lottery

Top 5 Tech Youtube Videos

I enjoy watching talks from various conferences and meet-ups. Here are some of my favourites from the past ~5 years:

• James Powell: Does Code Quality Really Matter | Brilliantly funny talk. Other James Powell talks are worth watching too!
• Distributed Systems in One Lesson by Tim Berglund | Insightful talk (frequently shared with Data Scientists upon being asked 'What is Hadoop'!)
• Caching In: Understand, Measure, and Use Your CPU Cache More Effectively | Great talk for those interested in lower level performance
• How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times | Slightly older talk but shows what is possible on a single machine, the presenter is also a funny guy
• Java Futures, Devoxx 2018 Edition by Brian Goetz | What's on the roadmap for future Java releases and why