Kris Brandow
Appears in 29 Episodes
How To Have A Great Conference Experience
GopherCon is this week! Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica are talking about conferences: their favorite experiences, how they approach them, and advice for first time co...
What's New in Go 1.25?
It's August, which means we've got a fresh new Go release! In this episode, Kris and Matt pick up the "What's New in Go?" series with an edition for the Go 1.25 releas...
Big Data Energy
In the years leading up to the current AI hype cycle we're currently all experiencing, there was another hype cycle: Big Data. In this episode, Kris is joined by Matt ...
AI Booster? AI Doomer? You're Wrong Either Way
It's a rarity in recent years to have a conversation and not have the topic of AI brought up. There are those who think we're on the cusp of AI super-intelligence, tho...
Versioning: We Did It To Ourselves
Versioning! It's a topic that we all deal with on a daily basis, and yet it's a topic that many of us dread. Our ecosystems love semantic versioning, but many of us fi...
[Break] You're Now Less Wrong About REST
Welcome to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! After months of spending time after each recording of Fallthrough chatting, Kris and Matt decided it's time to record some o...
[Break] You're Now Less Wrong About REST
Welcome to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! After months of spending time after each recording of Fallthrough chatting, Kris and Matt decided it's time to record some o...
Why You're Wrong About REST
The web has been around for nearly 40 years, yet despite its massive success, the principles that made it a success still prove elusive to most software engineers toda...
Language and Codes of Misconduct
In episode 27, the panel discussed what languages are, what it means to know things, and what meaning is. In this bonus episode, we extend that conversation to discuss...
What Even Is A [Programming|Natural] Language?
Whether you're talking to another person, talking to a computer, or just talking to yourself, we use languages every day. For a long time now, there's been a debate ab...
The Three Ps: Understanding Product, Project, and Program Management
Building software is difficult and rarely can software engineers do it alone. In this episode, Kris is joined by Ian, Matthew, and Angelica to talk managing software p...
Go's Error Handling Is Handled
Error handling in Go is one of the language's most controversial topics. It ranks high in each Go Developer Survey and many different people have proposed many differe...
A Discourse On AI Discourse
AI is a divisive topic. Some people are AI boosters while others are AI doomers. And then there are those of us who sit in the middle, feeling both sides are not just ...
The Podcast Pipeline
Fallthrough is a podcast about having conversations in public, and over the last 3 months we've shipped 15 of them! In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matt sit down to di...
APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly
APIs are built, not born, so how do we go about actually building them? Well, it starts with design. In this episode, Kris and Ian are joined by Jamie Tanna to talk ab...
What Even Is A Senior Software Engineer?
What does it mean to be a senior (or staff) software engineer? How are we preparing the next generation of software engineers to maintain the software we've created? I...
Translating The Law for Software Engineers
Software is hard to build. From knowing which regulations apply to us to understanding what's in our software, there's a lot to learn. On top of that, regulation is co...
Choosing, Expanding, & Evolving Communities
Communities play a vital role in our technical and non-technical lives, but how much thought have we put into what makes these spaces valuable? In this episode, Kris i...
An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP
There are Web APIs everywhere, from the classic REST/HTTP, to GraphQL, to gRPC, we rely on them to get things done each and every day. But how much do we think about t...
Tools We Love
We all have tools that make our lives better. Software tools, hardware tools, and everything in between. In this episode, Matt is joined by Kris, Ian, and Dylan to dis...
