#030 - The Future of Backend JavaScript with a Node.js Maintainer: Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina is a member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has one of the most impressive developer resumes we've ever seen. His 500 NPM modules have o...

#029 - Write Laravel, not PHP (feat. Aaron Francis)

Lane and Aaron Francis sit down to talk about Laravel and PHP, and why everyone who uses them tends to make a lot of money. There seems to be something to avoiding the...

#028 - Learning Go: A Discussion of the Language with the Author, Jon Bodner

#027 - 2023 vs 2001 Tech Recessions and Distributed Systems with Russ Ross

Lane chats with his distributed systems professor from when he was a computer science undergraduate, Dr. Russ Ross. They talk about the state of the hiring market in 2...

#026 - Why PubSub Architectures are Still Cool with Byron Ruth and David Gee

Byron Ruth and David Gee from the NATS and the Synadia team join Lane today to chat about distributed systems, and more specifically, PubSub architectures. If you've e...

#025 - Rust Developer Admits to Enjoying Dynamic Types with Sean Walker

Lane sits down with Sean Walker to talk about Ruby on Rails, dynamic typing, and even a bit of Rust. Sean's been writing Ruby on Rails for years, and has some opinions...

#024 - Behind HTMX: Carson Gross on the re-Rise of Hypermedia

This is a podcast about backend development, so I couldn't miss the chance to chat with Carson Cross, the creator of HTMX and author of the book Hypermedia Systems. HT...

#023 - Has Web Development Regressed? A Conversation with Wes Bos

Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has c...

#022 - Job Hunting as a Self-Taught Programmer with Don the Developer

If you're nervous about searching for programming jobs this episode is for you. Lane sits down with Don the Developer to chat about everything from resumes and cover l...

#021 - TypeScript vs Elixir: An FP Showdown with Theo Browne

Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his ba...

#020 - Running SQLite on the Edge with Pekka Enberg

Pekka is the CTO of TursoDB, a cloud database product that helps developers run SQLite on the edge. Lane and Pekka talk about all the tradeoffs involved with SQLite, a...

Backend Banter | Official Trailer

The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetSc...

#019 - Full-time vs Freelancing vs Starting a Company with Rob Walling

Lane chats with Rob Walling. Rob is the author of several books, including the SaaS playbook and Start Small Stay Small. He founded Drip, TinySeed and even runs MicroC...

#018 - Data Engineering for Gophers with Miriah Peterson

Miriah Peterson chats with Lane about how great Go tends to be for not only backend application development, but also data engineering roles. Miriah hosts Golang meetu...

#017 - Writing Go at Multi-Million Dollar Companies with Mat Ryer

Lane chats with Mat Ryer, a host of the amazing GoTime.fm podcasts sits down with Lane to chat about his experience as a Go developer. Among other things, they chat ab...

#016 - Is Python even good? A debate with Dr. Michael Green

Lane chats with Michael Green about Python programming on the backend side of the web stack. They debate Python's efficacy in large production projects. It gets spicy,...

#015 - Forking Rust into Crablang with Travis Wagner

Lane chats with Travis Wagner, aka TechSavvyTravvy, the man behind the "crablang" fork of Rust. They talk about the issues with the Rust foundation that caused the for...

#014 - Building the Best Tools and Tests with The Primeagen

Lane chats with The Primeagen about unit tests, how to build good cli tooling, Golang, Rust, and a ton of stuff about Prime's history and how he got into coding and ca...

#013 - Landing your First Coding Job with James Q Quick

Lane chats with James about all his best tips for landing your first ever job as a developer.Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favorite podca...

#012 - Becoming a Netflix-Level Engineer with Trash Dev

Lane chats with Trash, a Netflix engineer and code streamer on Twitch. They break down Trash's story: how he got into coding, from being a mainframe developer all the ...

#011 - Writing Go and doin' DevOps with Jonathan Hall

Lane chats with Jonathan Hall, a long time Go developer, host of the cup o' go podcast, and prolific DevOps guy. They discuss what DevOps is, what it isn't and why Go ...

#010 - Distributed Web Apps with Kyle Simpson

Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the b...

#009 - Scaling MySQL with Brian Morrison from PlanetScale

Lane and Brian talk about scaling databases, particularly MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale platform. Brian is a developer educator at PlanetScale, and he breaks down...

#008 - Accelerating Your Coding Career with Charles Max Wood

Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs...

#007 - Switching from .NET to Go with Bill Kennedy

Bill Kennedy joins Lane on this episode of Backend Banter to discuss his origin story: why he left .NET and the Microsoft stack years ago to become a full-time Go deve...

#006 - Building a FAANG Career with Melkey (Senior Go Dev @ Twitch)

I chat with Melkey,  a senior Go developer at Twitch about how he would reverse engineer his successful backend software engineering career at FAANG if he were startin...

#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa

Lane chats with Glauber Costa, a founder of Turso DB, maintainer of the Linux kernel, and ex-Scylla DB developer. If you're curious how databases scale up to trillions...

#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B

Lane chats with Simon B,  a PHD in electrical engineering from the UK who has founded startups, worked as a CTO, and publishes educational coding content under the ali...

#003 Architecting a Backend that Serves Millions with Adam Elmore

Lane chats with Adam Elmore, cofounder of StatMuse about how he builds scalable B2C backend infrastructure on AWS. They discuss the pros and cons of some of the new se...

#002 - Serverless Architecture and SST with Dax Raad

Lane chats with Dax Raad, SST framework maintainer about the future of serverless infrastructure. They cut through the hype to figure out how serverless can help backe...