Python is Faster than Rust | 050

In today’s episode, we welcome John Crickett, veteran software engineer, having worked at Staff, VP, and C-Suite positions over the years, and now focusing on helping thousands of engineers worldwide, through his coding challenges that have you building real applications, as well as helping with the soft skills through his articles and posts about software development. Today we cover a LOT of ground where we explain exactly what a Software Architect is, discuss different leadership types, advice to get a software job, remote work, unpopular opinions on programming languages, performance and scale, and a couple other things, so stay tuned because this episode is a true fountain of knowledge. Learn back-end development - ⁠boot.dev/⁠ Listen on your favorite podcast player: ⁠www.backendbanter.fm/⁠ John Crickett's Twitter/X: ⁠twitter.com/johncrickett⁠ John Crickett's Linkedin: ⁠www.linkedin.com/in/johncrickett/⁠ Coding Challenges: ⁠codingchallenges.fyi/⁠ Coding Challenges on Substack: ⁠codingchallenges.substack.com/⁠ Research mentioned at 27:33 : ⁠www.researchgate.net/publication/232514133_Effect_… More on the topic of Deindividuation: ⁠en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation#Major_empiri… Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:12 Who is John Crickett 01:13 What is a Software Architect 03:04 People vs Technical Leadership 03:53 What kind of decisions does a software architect make? 04:43 Is there a lot of "Thought Leadership" involved? 05:23 Do you prefer Technical or People leadership? 07:47 How did John start his coding career? 11:39 Most people don't start working at "sexy" companies 13:58 Juggling off-topic 14:32 What are the Coding Challenges? 19:03 Remote work and downtime 22:56 The wrong culture might spoil the remote environment and people care less about the work 27:05 Anonymity turns people into assholes 29:58 Why did we have a phone call when this could've been an e-mail? 33:42 Doing LeetCode vs Building Projects 36:54 Most of the time you'll be using already existing solutions 40:05 Is there too much abstraction nowadays? 41:56 Using the Command Line is cool again! 43:44 When talking about scale, what matters most is the architecture, not the language or framework 51:30 Why just switching to a "faster" language isn't enough 53:48 Go vs Rust performance comparison 54:44 Learning how to write performant code is more important than the programming language itself 55:25 The importance of benchmarking 58:33 Where to find John

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