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Developer Voices

Kris Jenkins
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Deep-dive discussions with the smartest developers we know, explaining what they're working on, how they're trying to move the industry forward, and what we can learn from them.

You might find the solution to your next architectural headache, pick up a new programming language, or just hear some good war stories from the frontline of technology.

Join your host Kris Jenkins as we try to figure out ... more

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My guest this week is James Brown, an engineering lead at Schroders, and that's a useful vantage point — asset managers carry all the regulation and organisational weight of a bank, mixed with the first-to-market pressure of a startup. James starts w... more

There's a problem that's bugged the database industry since the 1980s: you run an expensive query over millions of rows, cache the result, and then a single new row arrives. Logically that's one small update, but most engines throw the cached answer ... more

AI is changing the way we all build software — that much seems clear. But the landscape is moving so fast that even the people paid to keep up are struggling. MCP or skills? Fine-tune or just prompt? LangChain or let a thousand agents loose? With alm... more

I have a theory that only bad projects get finished — good ones keep finding new things to do. Asciinema is a case in point. What started as a way to share terminal sessions with friends has, over 14 years, grown into a full suite of tools covering r... more

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Recent Guests

James Brown
Engineering lead at Schroders Asset Management
Schroders Asset Management
Episode: The Enterprise AI Gap (with James Brown)
Lalith Suresh
CEO of Feldera
Feldera
Episode: What If Every SQL Query Could Update Incrementally? (with Lalith Suresh)
Henry Garner
CTO of Juxt, co-author of Allium
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Episode: What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)
Marcin Kulik
Creator of Asciinema, a suite of tools for recording, sharing, and streaming terminal sessions.
Asciinema
Episode: Asciinema: Terminal Recording Done Right (with Marcin Kulik)
Glauber Costa
Creator of Turso, former Linux kernel contributor
Episode: Will Turso Be The Better SQLite? (with Glauber Costa)
Christina Lin
A member of Google's team specializing in AI development.
Google
Episode: Can Google's ADK Replace LangChain and MCP? (with Christina Lin)
Mohammed Aboullaite
Backend engineer at Spotify, expert in system observability and profiling strategies.
Spotify
Episode: Building Observable Systems with eBPF and Linux (with Mohammed Aboullaite)
Martin von Zweigbergk
Creator of Jujutsu, a version control system designed to improve usability over Git
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Episode: Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)
Dov Katz
A software development leader at Morgan Stanley specializing in getting software practices to change and evolve.
Morgan Stanley
Episode: Getting New Technology Adopted (with Dov Katz)

Host

Kris Jenkins
Host of Developer Voices

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 227 ratings
  • Excellent podcast

    Many subjects and super interesting interviews always. It’s a podcast format but as a developer you can still follow long just as well as if there were slides and visuals. That’s a skill that Kris brings incredibly well to the show

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Mlultra
    United Statesa year ago
  • Great interviews, thoughtful questions

    Incredibly insightful interviews. Love how each of the questions get the guests to go more and more in depth. Miss the more technical episodes about actual practical systems implementation, but great insights nonetheless.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    ricardo_nunez
    United States2 years ago
  • Best Tech Podcast!

    Love the broad spectrum of guests & how Kris manages to keep the conversation light-hearted while going deep into the technical details. Thanks!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    sch'maks
    Switzerland2 years ago
  • Great interviews and insightful conversations

    I’ve really enjoyed the style of this show and the depth into which Kris goes, asking questions on behalf of everyone in the audience. This is one of my favorite subscriptions.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    ianthetechie
    United States2 years ago
  • Approachable and in depth

    I love Kris’s approach. He’s the sort of insightful, curious developer that I aspire to be.

    This is the first time I’ve left a review, and I was prompted by the show’s fiftieth episode and first birthday (though I know Kris from an earlier podcast).

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Th1x0
    United Kingdom2 years ago

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The show is viewed as a reliable source for understanding evolving tooling and infrastructure within software development.
The host's curiosity and approachable style help complex topics feel accessible to engineers at all levels.
Guests consistently offer practical insights and real-world experience, making episodes highly actionable for developers and leaders.
Listeners praise depth and technical rigor, with insightful questions that draw guests into meaningful, detailed discussions.

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#186
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#65
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#83
Belgium/Technology
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#128
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#130
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#137
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The Enterprise AI Gap (with James Brown)
Q: How much is AI going to change the way we work in enterprise contexts, compared to home or personal projects?
AI accelerates certain tasks and ideas, but in regulated environments the bottlenecks are organizational and process-driven. Productivity gains are real where the right people and tools are in place, but you need sustainable practices to translate hype into durable value.
What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)
Q: How does Allium handle ambiguity in requirements, and what happens if stakeholders change their minds during development?
Allium encourages a Socratic, iterative process where the LLM asks clarifying questions and refines the specification as you go. The open-ended aspects of the spec allow deferred decisions, so changes can be incorporated without breaking the whole system, maintaining a stable progression toward a well-defined outcome.
What's Worth Knowing In AI Right Now? (with Henry Garner)
Q: Given the hype around AI, when would you choose to train a specialized model versus using frontier models with orchestration?
Training a specialized model makes sense when you have a clear, stable domain and大量 labeled data for high accuracy in a regulated or mission-critical domain. For most teams, frontier models with strong orchestration, retrieval, and spec-driven components provide a faster, cheaper path to value while maintaining control through design constraints and testing.
Asciinema: Terminal Recording Done Right (with Marcin Kulik)
Q: What was your naive implementation of Asciinema?
I started with an old Unix command called Script, which captured terminal sessions. I then transformed that into a web-based solution.
Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)
Q: What functionality does JJ need to implement in the future?
Martin mentions the need for copy tracking as a big feature they are planning to add.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Developer Voices

What is Developer Voices about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show mines deep technical conversations with prominent software developers and engineers, often exploring how AI tooling, open-source collaboration, and modern infrastructure shape real-world software systems. Episodes frequently center on practical tooling, system observability, deployment at scale, and the human side of adopting new technologies in teams. A standout thread across recent conversations is the tension between hype and pragmatism in AI, the evolution of developer tooling and workflows, and the push for more usable, Creator-friendly approaches to complex topics such as version control, cloud platforms, and AI-driven development. The host maintains a curious, approachable style that invites expert guests to illuminate conc... more

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1. James Brown
2. Lalith Suresh
3. Henry Garner
4. Marcin Kulik
5. Glauber Costa
6. Christina Lin
7. Mohammed Aboullaite
8. Martin von Zweigbergk

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