Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
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AI Updates, Lakehouse Streaming (Iceberg/Fluss), and more!
Apr 19, 202624 min
Understanding AI Agent Skills, MCP and Custom GPTs/Gems
Jan 27, 202613 min
Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling
Jan 16, 202621 min
More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development
Jan 2, 202624 min
2025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg
Dec 23, 202519 min
Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?
Nov 25, 20250
Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial
Nov 18, 20250
Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like?
Oct 17, 20250
Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Sep 26, 20250
Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Sep 5, 20250
Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Jun 30, 20250
Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
Apr 6, 20250
BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)
Nov 5, 20240
FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course
Jul 9, 20240
33 – What is DevOps?
Mar 28, 20240
32 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism
Feb 2, 20240
31 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)
Jan 21, 20240
Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse
Jan 20, 20240
2024 Preview – Data/Web Content
Jan 9, 20240
Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)
Oct 30, 20230
Bonus: docs.devnursery.com
Oct 19, 20230
31 – Cross-Origin Cookies
Aug 23, 20230
30 – Generative AI for Web Developers
Jun 16, 20230
29 – Monolith vs Serverless Application Architecture
May 8, 20230
BONUS: What is Object Storage like AWS S3, Minio and more!
Apr 12, 20230
BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)
Mar 23, 20230
28 – What is a Database Connection String?
Mar 21, 20230
27 – What is Hydration and Resumability? (Frontend Rendering Paradigms)
Mar 10, 20230
25 – TaskRunners and Build Tools
Feb 22, 20230
24 – Singing Praises to Builder.io, Mitosis, Qwik, etc.
Feb 15, 20230
23 – Web Terminology – Serverless, Islands, Edge
Feb 1, 20230
22 – What is a URL or a URI? Connection Strings Explained.
Jan 20, 20230
Happy New Year Web Dev 101 & DataNation
Jan 6, 20230
21 – What is Solid Start (The SolidJS Meta Framework)
Nov 12, 20220
20 – How My Domain was stolen (GPDHost, Enom, and Godaddy)
Oct 14, 20220
19 – Getting those daily git and github commits
Oct 7, 20220
Don’t use GPDHost and cool content announcements
Sep 29, 20220
Tech Interviews and AlexMercedCoder (.com -> .dev)
Sep 16, 20220
18 – The Streaming UI Trend (Server Components, HTMX, Livewire, Hotwire)
Sep 2, 20220
New Podcasts! Economics and Finance for N00bs & Living Better
Aug 30, 20220
Why Open Matters – Code, Transparency and Governance in Technology
Aug 5, 20220
17 – The Developer Hiring Process – Advice
Jul 30, 20220
16 – What is Bun? New Javascript Runtime (Node/Deno Killer?)
Jul 15, 20220
15 – What is a Virtual DOM?
Jul 8, 20220
14 – The Python Programming Language
Jun 24, 20220
#13 – Authentication and Authorization
Jun 17, 20220
#12 Web Forms
Jun 10, 20220
#11 – Computer Science
Jun 4, 20220
#10 – How the Web Works (TCP, IP, HTTP)
May 28, 20220
#9 – Rendering Web Pages (Server, Client, Static)
May 20, 20220