Best Kris Jenkins Podcasts (2025)

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Getting New Technology Adopted (with Dov Katz) 1:05:15

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Getting new technology adopted in a large organization can feel like pushing water uphill. The best tools in the world are useless if we're not allowed to use them, and as companies grow, their habits turn into inertia, then into "the way we've always done things." So how do you break through that resistance and get meaningful change to happen? Thi…

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From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson) 1:12:12

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How confident are you when your test suite goes green? If you're honest, probably not 100% confident - because most bugs come from scenarios we never thought to test. Traditional testing only catches the problems we anticipate, but the 3am pager alerts? Those come from the unexpected interactions, timing issues, and edge cases we never imagined. In…

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Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel) 1:24:57

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How would you build a Heroku-like platform from scratch? This week we're diving deep into the world of cloud platforms and infrastructure with Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render. Starting from the seemingly simple task of hosting a web service, we quickly discover why building a production-ready platform is far more complex than it appears. Why…

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InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix) 1:49:23

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How hard is it to write a good database engine? Hard enough that sometimes it takes several versions to get it just right. Paul Dix joins us this week to talk about his journey building InfluxDB, and he's refreshingly frank about what went right, and what went wrong. Sometimes the real database is the knowledge you pick up along the way.... Paul wa…

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Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd) 1:18:06

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If AI coding tools are here to stay, what form will they take? How will we use them? Will they be just another window in our IDE, will they push their way to the centre of our development experience, displacing the editor? No one knows, but Zach Lloyd is making a very interesting bet with the latest version of Warp. In this deep dive, Zach walks us…

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The $500 Billion Integration Problem, And One Possible Solution (with Marty Pitt) 1:31:33

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Ever wondered why data integration is still such a nightmare in 2025? Marty Pitt has built something that might finally solve it. TaxiQL isn't just another query language - it's a semantic layer that lets you query across any system without caring about field names, API differences, or where the data actually lives. Instead of writing endless mappi…

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Making Software Crash Before It Breaks (with Isaac Van Doren) 57:08

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At 23, Isaac is already jaded about software reliability - and frankly, he's got good reason to be. When your grandmother can't access her medical records because a username change broke the entire system, when bugs routinely make people's lives harder, you start to wonder: why do we just accept that software is broken most of the time? Isaac's ans…

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Making Apache Kafka Diskless (with Filip Yonov & Josep Prat) 1:29:29

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How do you retrofit a clustered data-processing system to use cheap commodity storage? That’s the big question in this episode as we look at one of the many attempts to build a version of Kafka that uses object storage services like S3 as its main disk, sacrificing a little latency for cheap, infinitely-scalable disks. There are several companies t…

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Java's Cutting Edge Comeback (with Josh Long) 1:24:29

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Java’s has been evolving faster than any 30 year old language has a right to do, and there’s probably no-one more pleased about it than my guest this week - Josh Long. He’s a Java & Kotlin programming, a JVM enthusiast in general, and an advocate for Spring, and he has chapters full of news about what’s been happening in Javaland over the past few …

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The European Sea Change, Mock Draft SZN, and the Changing of the Guards with Mike LaTulip 1:17:37

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by Field of 68’s Mike LaTulip to discuss college recruiters turning their gaze overseas, ESPN’s Top 100 rankings, re-ranking the 2021 NBA draft class, dream scenarios for the 2025 NBA draft, some NBA Conference Finals talk, and more (1:48). Finally, Tate closes the show with some shoutouts, including the Hall of …

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Draft Intel Dump and Maximizing the New College Landscape With Steven Ashworth 1:01:59

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier talks about what he is hearing regarding NBA draft rumors and combine week (1:39), before talking with former Creighton and Utah State guard Steven Ashworth about playing in the new Big East, watching the college basketball landscape shift over the past five years, pitching his own NIL deals, his relationship with Ryan Kal…

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Draft Lottery Drama, Stay-or-Go Decisions, and More Offseason Hoopla With Terrence Oglesby 57:26

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Terrence Oglesby to discuss the Dallas Mavericks winning the NBA draft lottery just a few months after trading Luka Doncic to the Lakers, more heartbreak for Hornets and Wizards fans, the 2025 draft class vs. 2024, which players should pull out of the draft and return to college, a quick ACC check-in, and more…

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College Basketball’s New Pope, Portal Matchmaker, and More Offseason Moves With Kyle Williams 1:14:37

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Kyle Williams of The Chicago Sun-Times and 'The Full Go with Jason Goff' to discuss the new pope being a White Sox fan from Chicago, Nick Saban's potential role as "college sports czar", and what "testing the waters" means in 2025 (2:10), before Tate and Kyle identify their favorite landing spots for the bigge…

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The State & Future of Apache Kafka (with Anatoly Zelenin) 1:12:22

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I’m joined this week by one of the authors of Apache Kafka In Action, to take a look at the state of Kafka, event systems & stream-processing technology. It’s an approach (and a whole market) that’s had at least a decade to mature, so how has it done? What does Kafka offer to developers and businesses, and which parts do they actually care about? W…

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More Matchup Announcements, Draft Combine Snubs, and the Caleb Love Experience With Caleb Love 56:03

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier discusses draft combine snubs, NBA G League camp, and the biggest "testing the waters" players left (1:57). Then, Tate is joined by former UNC and Arizona guard Caleb Love to discuss Arizona's tournament run, the biggest shots of his career, his second time through the draft process, his NBA player comp, and more (14:56). …

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Portal Dominoes, Draft Lessons Learned, and Muss Bus Money Moves 1:10:43

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier runs through CBB’s biggest headlines of the early offseason, including the official closing of the transfer portal, bag guy of the week Eric Musselman securing Rodney Rice and Chad Baker-Mazara, and the continuation of St. John's impressive offseason (1:46). Then Tate is joined by Jacob Myers of 'League Him' to discuss NFL…

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DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit (with Andrew Lamb) 1:32:10

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Building a database is a serious undertaking. There are just so many parts that you have to implement before you even get to a decent prototype, and so many hours of work before you could begin working on the ideas that would make your database unique. Apache DataFusion is a project that hopes to change all that, but building an extensible, composa…

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Welcome to the Offseason With Kyle Guy 1:03:35

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier welcomes the wonky offseason with open arms by discussing the latest headlines, including Cooper Flagg’s draft decision, Braden Smith returning to Purdue, Ian Jackson joining Rick Pitino, and Nate Ament committing to Tennessee (0:36)! Then, 2019 MOP and newly named Nevada assistant coach Kyle Guy joins to break down his ne…

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‘OSP’ Season Sights, Sounds, and Superlatives With Special Guest Kris Jenkins 1:04:30

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier remembers a litany of story lines and happenings from the 2024-25 college basketball season before revealing the ‘OSP’ Season Superlatives, complete with a few new categories and fan favorites like Bag Guy of the Year, Sister Jean of the Year, Quote of the Year, and many more. Villanova legend Kris Jenkins then stops by to…

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Jupyter's Architecture Unpacked (with Afshin Darian & Sylvain Corlay) 1:29:11

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Jupyter’s become an incredibly popular programming and data science tool, but how does it actually work? How have they built an interactive language execution engine? And if we understand the architecture, what else could it be used for? Joining me to look inside the Jupyter toolbox are Afshin Darian and Sylvain Corlay, two of Jupyters long-standin…

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The Gators’ Golden Era Begins and More National Championship Reactions 42:34

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss Florida winning its third national championship, key moments from its win vs. Houston, and a breakdown of Houston’s final two possessions (0:55). Then they discuss MOP Walter Clayton Jr.’s four big moments in this game, Todd Golden’s coronation, big-picture Final Four takeaways, final t…

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Final Four Rapid Reactions: Houston Solves the Duke Problem and Florida Ends Auburn’s Season 47:34

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss Houston’s miraculous comeback vs. Duke (1:29), Florida’s hard-fought win over Auburn (20:44), and a quick look-ahead to the national championship matchup between Houston and Florida (33:05). Host: Tate Frazier Guest: J. Kyle Mann Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices.…

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Meeting the Moment, Final Four Story Lines, and McDonald’s All-American Takeaways With Ian Eagle 1:06:03

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier shares his quick breakdown of this year’s Final Four matchups: Florida-Auburn and Duke-Houston (2:05). Next Tate is joined by Ian Eagle to discuss preparing for his second year calling the Final Four, calling Auburn’s Elite Eight win in Atlanta, highlighting the story lines for all four remaining teams, Cooper Flagg chasin…

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Elite Eight Final Thoughts and Looking Ahead to the Final Four With J. Kyle Mann 49:21

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We have a Final Four! The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss Houston dominating Tennessee and Auburn toppling Michigan State (1:49), before looking ahead to the Final Four in San Antonio (25:021). Host: Tate Frazier Guest: J. Kyle Mann Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg…

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Elite Eight Rapid Reactions: Duke Domination, the Golden Moment, and Maryland’s Next Move 47:02

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier is joined by Steven Ruiz to discuss both of Saturday’s Elite Eight games. They talk about Florida’s late comeback win vs. Texas Tech (2:08) and Duke dominating Alabama by 20 points (18:42), before discussing Sunday’s Elite Eight matchups and Maryland coach Kevin Willard officially accepting the head job at Villanova (31:31…

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Sweet 16 Rapid Reactions: Sampson Magic, Auburn Flipping the Switch, and the Izzo-Beard Battle 54:36

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Steven Ruiz to recap all of Friday's Sweet 16 games including Houston's last-second victory over Purdue (1:55), Auburn's late surge to defeat Michigan 78-65 (11:50), Tom Izzo and Michigan State finding a way to beat Ole Miss (21:46), and Tennessee's convincing victory over Kentucky (30:22), before looking ahea…

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Sweet 16 Rapid Reactions: Alabama’s Historic Shooting, Calipari’s Cinderella Ending, and Cooper Flagg Vs. Caleb Love 54:14

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss an incredible late window with Texas Tech's overtime win against Arkansas (1:55), and incredible displays from Cooper Flagg and Caleb Love in Duke's 100-93 victory over Arizona (16:41). Then, they discuss Alabama breaking the tournament record for 3-point attempts and makes vs. BYU (24:…

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Nix, The Build-Everything Language (with Julian Arni) 1:20:36

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Ever since we invented makefiles, the programming world has been wrestling with the problem of building software stacks reliably. This week we’re going to look at one of the most ambitious solutions available - Nix. Nix tries to do everything from invoking your compiler to installing your language, and even providing your operating system. But how …

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Super Sweet 16 Preview With Rob Riggle and Eamonn Brennan 1:09:01

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier is joined by Eamonn Brennan to discuss some of the tournament discourse heading into the Sweet 16 (1:45), before they preview every Sweet 16 matchup (16:51). Then Tate talks with Rob Riggle about experiencing the tournament when your team exits in the first round, Kansas's loss to Arkansas, hosting Late Night in Allen Fiel…

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Round Two Rapid Reactions: First Moment of Madness, Florida Chomps the Champs, and Pac-12 After Dark in Seattle 1:02:43

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The Sweet 16 is set! The Ringer's Tate Frazier quickly runs through some facts and figures from the first two rounds (1:42), before he is joined by J. Kyle Mann to discuss the beginning of the "madness" with Arizona surviving Oregon, Derik Queen's buzzer-beating game-winner against Colorado State (7:33), as well as Florida barely outlasting UConn, …

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Round Two Rapid Reactions: Calipari vs. Pitino, New Blood Battle, and BYU Back in the Sweet 16 58:19

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The Ringer's Tate Frazier talks about the amount of missed layups in this tournament and whether the Wilson Evo NXT basketball has played a role, Arkansas-St. John's, RJ Luis Jr.'s puzzling performance, and losing two prominent characters in Rick Pitno and McNeese's Amir 'Aura' Khan (1:28). A big day for the Big 12; Houston's impressive win over Go…

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Round One Rapid Reactions: Grant Nelson’s Moment, Carolina’s Last Dance, and Pitino’s Next Move With Steven Ruiz 54:40

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The Ringer’s Tate Frazier shares his three big takeaways from the end of Round 1 including Alabama’s close call vs. Robert Morris and Grant Nelson’s impact on their tournament trajectory, why UNC’s loss to Ole Miss perfectly aligns with the story of their season, and a great start for Richard Pitino and the Lobos (1:48). Then Tate is joined by Stev…