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Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Programming Throwdown attempts to educate Computer Scientsts and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show covers a new programming language, so listeners...

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Listen to Programming Throwdown, a Technology podcast by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci. Stream 188 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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186: Becoming a Manager

Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, co...

87:30Feb 3, 2026

185: Workflow Orchestrators

Patrick and Jason break down workflow orchestrators and why they matter for batch jobs, long-running tasks, and resumable distributed system...

92:02Nov 4, 2025

184: Asynchronous Programming

Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover corout...

90:32Sep 23, 2025

183: Landing a Software Job in 2025

Patrick and Jason are joined by Mark Cunningham to discuss how software engineers can find strong job opportunities and perform well through...

106:53Jul 31, 2025

182: AI Assisted Coding

Patrick and Jason discuss how AI-assisted coding tools can speed up development, answer questions about a codebase, and reduce boilerplate w...

97:36Jun 30, 2025

181: Memory Management

Patrick and Jason cover memory management from both the operating-system and language-runtime perspectives. They discuss heap management, vi...

106:21May 12, 2025

180: Reinforcement Learning

Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA...

112:22Mar 17, 2025

179: Project Planning

Patrick and Jason discuss project planning and management for software teams. They cover why planning matters, how frameworks like SMART goa...

103:00Feb 3, 2025

178: Working from Home

Patrick and Jason revisit working from home and the realities of remote engineering work. They cover communication, scheduling, home-office...

105:15Dec 3, 2024

177: Vector Databases

Patrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They di...

88:26Nov 4, 2024

176: MLOps at SwampUp

James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco System Administrator to DevOps Difference between DevOps and MLOps Getting Started with DevOps Luke...

118:37Sep 24, 2024

175: Resume Writing

Patrick and Jason discuss how to write a strong technical resume that gets attention without becoming bloated or misleading. They cover what...

100:55Aug 16, 2024

174: Devops

Patrick and Jason explain DevOps and how it relates to site reliability, build systems, testing infrastructure, and release processes. They...

85:47Jun 10, 2024

173: Mocking and Unit Tests

Patrick and Jason discuss unit testing, regression testing, and system testing, with a focus on when mocking actually helps. They explain mo...

95:22Apr 29, 2024

172: Transformers and Large Language Models

Patrick and Jason explain transformers and large language models from the ground up. They cover attention, encoders and decoders, self-super...

86:08Mar 11, 2024

171: Compilers and Interpreters

Patrick and Jason walk through the differences between compilers and interpreters, starting from machine code and assembly and moving up to...

85:10Feb 12, 2024

170: 2023 Holiday Special Live

Predictions: Jason VR for Work Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency RISC-V takeoff Patrick Ai claim of AGI Ai peer reviewer Ai Vid...

98:34Dec 24, 2023

169: HyperLogLog

Patrick and Jason explain HyperLogLog and the broader problem of estimating cardinality efficiently at scale. They walk through the ideas be...

89:33Nov 27, 2023

168: Godot

Patrick and Jason discuss the Godot game engine and what a game engine actually provides to developers. They cover graphics, physics, script...

88:34Nov 20, 2023

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