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Coding Chats

John Crickett
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On Coding Chats, John Crickett interviews software engineers of all levels from junior to CTO. He encourages the guests to share the stories of the challenges they have faced in their role and the strategies and tactics they have used to overcome those challenges providing actionable insights other software engineers can use to accelerate their careers.

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Coding Chats Episode 80 - start-up advisor Alexander Berkovich shares his expertise on building successful start-ups, hiring strategies, CTO roles, and the importance of communication between technical and business teams. Discover practical tips for ... more

Coding Chats Episode 79 - Richmond Alake, Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, joins John to discuss agent memory — how AI agents store, retrieve, and adapt to information. He argues that developers building memory on flat files are naively... more

Coding Chats Episode 78 - John Crickett talks to Robert Harris, an experienced engineering leader. Robert shares hard-won lessons from years of leading software teams, drawing on a distinctive "human systems" lens to explain why so many engineering o... more

Coding Chats Episode 77 — Arnaud Fournier, Forward Deployed Engineer at OpenAI, talks to John Crickett about how AI is fundamentally reshaping software engineering. He explores how OpenAI's own engineers have largely moved away from writing code line... more

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Recent Guests

Richmond Alake
Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, focusing on database-based AI memory solutions
Oracle
Episode: AI Agents Have a Memory Problem (And You're Probably Making It Worse)
Laura Dietz
Professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
Episode: LLM as a Judge: Why Your AI Might Be Marking Its Own Homework
Nnenna Ndukwe
Guest on AI code quality and software engineering advocate
Codo.ai (Cod o)
Episode: AI writes it. You own it. Don't ship AI slop
Charles Humble
Tech writer and speaker focused on software engineering and AI
Conocence (Charles Humble)
Episode: Soft skills for software engineers - why coding isn't the hard part
Paulina Dubas
Speaker on tech conferences and consultant
Independent/Consulting
Episode: The benefits of speaking at tech conferences (even if you aren't an expert)
Matt Boyle
AI software engineer and spokesperson for Ona
Ona
Episode: Ona - the AI software engineer that works while you sleep.
Mark Rober
Famous YouTuber with over 70 million subscribers well-known for science-related content
YouTube
Episode: The secret lives of SWEs: industrial automation and moving million dollar machines
Owain Lewis
AI Engineer and Community Leader
Episode: AI-assisted software engineering: challenges and opportunities
Gilad Naor
Software engineer with experience working in both startups and big tech environments.
Management Deltas
Episode: Career growth strategies in software engineering: start-ups vs bigtech

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John Crickett
Host of Coding Chats with a focus on practical software engineering stories and career strategies.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 17 ratings
  • Amazing

    As a teenage coder aspiring to be a computer scientist, I really found this podcast inspiring and I think it will empower new coders or beginners to achieve higher. This podcast also shows how hard work really pays off when you dedicate and apply yourself. I love this content you just gained a new follower and forever fan.

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The show balances technical depth with relatable career stories.
Guests bring diverse perspectives from coding to leadership.
Listeners appreciate actionable engineering insights they can apply immediately.

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Philippines/Technology

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Let it crash! How Erlang and BEAM build bullet proof software
Q: What should teams consider before adopting Erlang/BEAM in production?
Teams should design architecture with supervision trees in mind, understand hot code loading implications for data structures, and plan for production-friendly deployment strategies (e.g., blue-green deployments). It's important to leverage OTP patterns, consider introspection and observability, and align with the team's capability to maintain distributed fault tolerance.
Let it crash! How Erlang and BEAM build bullet proof software
Q: How do Erlang processes compare to OS processes or threads in terms of isolation and safety?
Erlang processes are very lightweight and isolated, with their own stacks and heaps, and they communicate only by message passing. This isolation minimizes the blast radius of failures and allows the system to restart offending parts without impacting others, similar to OS process isolation but with much lower overhead.
Let it crash! How Erlang and BEAM build bullet proof software
Q: What is Beam and why was it designed this way?
Beam is the runtime system for Erlang and Elixir (and Gleam to some extent). It was designed for fault tolerance and distributed processing from the ground up, with lightweight processes, message passing, and isolation similar to small OS processes, enabling reliable systems that can recover from failures through supervision and restarts.
The benefits of speaking at tech conferences (even if you aren't an expert)
Q: What are the challenges and opportunities when discussing AI at conferences, and how should organizations approach AI tool adoption?
The discussion emphasized governance, process, security, and education to avoid unchecked tool sprawl and to ensure safe, effective use of AI tools.
The benefits of speaking at tech conferences (even if you aren't an expert)
Q: How do you decide what level to target for your conference talks, and how do you tailor content for different audiences?
At larger conferences, talks can be on multiple tracks with broader audiences, while smaller events allow for deeper, more specialized use cases tied to attendees' needs.

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The show features conversations with software engineers and tech leaders across seniority, focusing on real-world challenges, problem-solving tactics, and pragmatic career advice. Episodes frequently explore software development practices, leadership, AI and tooling impacts, and industry trends, providing actionable insights for engineers aiming to accelerate their careers. A notable strength is hosting guests with diverse backgrounds—from individual contributors to CTOs and high-profile creators—delivering practical takeaways that listeners can apply in their own teams and projects.

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1. Richmond Alake
2. Laura Dietz
3. Nnenna Ndukwe
4. Charles Humble
5. Paulina Dubas
6. Matt Boyle
7. Mark Rober
8. Owain Lewis

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