Web Dev 101 - The Alex Merced Coder Podcast
By: Alex Merced Podcasts
Language: en-US
Categories: Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship, Science, Mathematics
Alex Merced explains Concepts and Ideas relevant development of software and web applications. Find all episodes here: https://host.alexmercedpodcast.com/series/webdev101/ Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder Find Alex's tutorial blogs and instructional videos at GrokOverflow.com, devNursery.com and AlexMercedCoder.com
Episodes
More Thoughts on the State of AI Software Development
Jan 02, 2026Alex Merced discusses more about his experience with the Google Anitgravity IDE Follow Alex Merced at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:24:162025 Reflections, Google Antigravity, NotebookLM, Dremio AI Agent, Pangolin Catalog, Dremioframe & Iceframe Python Libraries for Apache Iceberg
Dec 23, 2025Alex Merced (AlexMerced.com) discusses:– his thoughts on thriving in 2026– His use of Google’s Antigravity– His use of NotebookLM– Dremio’s AI tools (dremio.com)– More Check out Pangolin Catalog at PangolinCatalog.org
Duration: 00:19:00Why do Semantic Layers matter so much?
Nov 25, 2025Try the Dremio Free trial at Dremio.com/get-started Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Gaming Handheld Buying Guide and New Lakehouse Free Trial
Nov 18, 2025Guide to the Dremio Free Trial: https://amdatalakehouse.substack.com/p/comprehensive-hands-on-walk-through?r=h4f8p In this episode I make som suggestions on great handhelds you can buy for christmas, here is some websites of the main handheld manufacturers. Retroid: https://www.goretroid.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmsw4dUCa7w0oODoE05TqOlQzhw8vfewFMVqVKnmF-1iL9pIt3 Anbernic: https://anbernic.com/ Konkr: https://www.ayaneo.com/product/KONKR-Pocket-FIT Mangmi: https://mangmi.com/products/mangmi-air-x XU Retro: https://www.xuretro.com/collections/frontpage Powkiddy: https://powkiddy.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorEoT89yJBBHoB2Ec0cGbfbhTZJUeOr98CnO8djuNacvOrurkR5 Trimui: https://trimui.net/?srsltid=AfmBOooJEXt2RFMBlAVNOgOC2yd9kbECIUBofoZYG4AG4...
Duration: 00:00:00Lakehouse Catalogs Beyond Apache Iceberg, What could they Look Like?
Oct 17, 2025Alex Merced discusses different paths to a Universal Lakehouse Catalog standard and their pros and cons. Find links to books, social and more at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Understanding the role of MCP, Langchain and Agent2Agent
Sep 26, 2025Alex Merced discusses the rising standards within the Agentic AI Space. Buy Alex Merced’s latest book “Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse” use discount code mercedconf25 for a 40% discount. https://www.manning.com/books/architecting-an-apache-iceberg-lakehouse Follow Alex on Social at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Enabling and Optimizing Agentic AI: Access, Performance and the Semantic Layer
Sep 05, 2025Alex Merced discusses three bottlenecks in building Agentic AI Applications and how platforms like Dremio can address them. Get hands-on with Dremio at Dremio.com Find all of Alex Merced’s blogs and resources at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Why Apache Polaris will Become the Industry Standard Data Lakehouse Catalog
Jun 30, 2025Past is Prologue. Alex Merced discusses lessons from the table format wars that can help predict the outcome of the catalog wars. Follow Alex at AlexMerced.com Join the #amtech channel on the Data Lakehouse Hub to discuss the podcast: https://join.slack.com/t/thedatalakehousehub/shared_invite/zt-274yc8sza-mI2zhCW8LGkOh1uxuf8T5Q
Duration: 00:00:00Bonus – What is MCP? (Model Context Protocol – Modern AI 101)
Apr 06, 2025Alex Merced discusses modern AI and the new MCP standard and what it means. Follow Alex’s Blogs on and on Social at AlexMerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00BONUS: Data Lakehouse Crash Course (Polaris, Nessie, Unity, Gravitino, Lakekeeper and more!)
Nov 05, 2024Register for the catalog Course: https://drmevn.fyi/catalogcourse1024 Watch the Iceberg Crash Course: https://drmevn.fyi/icebergcourse1024 London Meetup: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups Paris Meetup: https://drmevn.fyi/1120-france-meetup My Calendar of Events: https://lu.ma/Lakehouselinkups
Duration: 00:00:00FREE Apache Iceberg Crash Course
Jul 09, 2024Register for the Course: https://bit.ly/am-2024-iceberg-live-crash-course-1 Free Copy of Apache Iceberg Book: https://bit.ly/am-iceberg-book My social and blog links: https://bio.alexmerced.com/data
Duration: 00:00:0033 – What is DevOps?
Mar 28, 2024Alex Merced discusses what is DevOps? Follow Alex on Social: https://bio.alexmerced.com/web
Duration: 00:00:0032 – Understanding Multithreading, Events Loops, Concurrency and Parallelism
Feb 02, 2024Alex Merced talks about breaking down processing into different threads, different cores, and different machines. Follow Alex on Social, all links here https://bio.alexmerced.com/web/
Duration: 00:00:0031 – JS Bundlers (Browserify, Webpack, Rollup, Vite, etc.)
Jan 21, 2024Alex Merced discusses JS Bundlers Subscribe on youtube youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata bio.alexmerced.com
Duration: 00:00:00Bonus: New Youtube Channel, State of the Data Lakehouse
Jan 20, 2024Find all my data resources below:https://bio.alexmerced.com/data Listen to the State of the Data Lakehouse Podcast Here:https://em360tech.com/podcast/dremio-state-data-lakehouse?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=alexmercedcontent&utm_term=iceberg+lakehouse+nessie
Duration: 00:00:002024 Preview – Data/Web Content
Jan 09, 2024youtube.com/@alexmercedcoder youtube.com/@alexmerceddata twitter.com/alexmercedcoder twitter.com/amdatalakehouse
Duration: 00:00:00Call for Speakers – Subsurface 2024 (Live in NYC May 2024)
Oct 30, 2023Submit your talks here: https://www.dremio.com/subsurface/
Duration: 00:00:00Bonus: docs.devnursery.com
Oct 19, 2023Quick Update and invitation to come check out docs.devnursery.com
Duration: 00:00:0031 – Cross-Origin Cookies
Aug 23, 2023Alex Merced talks about cross origin cookies, read his blog on the topic here: https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/expressjs-handling-cross-origin-cookies-38l9
Duration: 00:00:0030 – Generative AI for Web Developers
Jun 16, 2023Follow Alex @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0029 – Monolith vs Serverless Application Architecture
May 08, 2023Alex Merced discusses the difference between a monolith and serverless architecture reflecting on Amazon’s recent migration article.
Duration: 00:00:00BONUS: What is Object Storage like AWS S3, Minio and more!
Apr 12, 2023Alex Merced discusses what is Object Storage and the history of file systems. Join the community at datanation.click
Duration: 00:00:00BONUS: The Big Picture at a Tech Company (Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales)
Mar 23, 2023Alex Merced discusses the different departments at a tech company and how they all fit together to create success. follow alex on twitter Web -> @alexmercedcoder Data -> @amdatalakehouse
Duration: 00:00:0028 – What is a Database Connection String?
Mar 21, 2023Alex Merced talks about the concept of a database connection string, database drivers and object managers. Join the community at devNursery.com Follow me @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0027 – What is Hydration and Resumability? (Frontend Rendering Paradigms)
Mar 10, 2023Alex Meced discusses the terms “Hydration” and “Resumability” in terms of how frontend frameworks render web applications. Follow me on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0025 – TaskRunners and Build Tools
Feb 22, 2023Alex Mercd discusses what is a task runner and what is a build tool.
Duration: 00:00:0024 – Singing Praises to Builder.io, Mitosis, Qwik, etc.
Feb 15, 2023Alex Merced’s act like an outright fanboy about the amazing things coming out of builder.io.
Duration: 00:00:0023 – Web Terminology – Serverless, Islands, Edge
Feb 01, 202322 – What is a URL or a URI? Connection Strings Explained.
Jan 20, 2023Alex Merced takes a moment to explain what is a connection string and how to understand their parts. follow on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:00Happy New Year Web Dev 101 & DataNation
Jan 06, 2023Alex Merced kicks off the new year with some updates, follow him on twitter: -> @amdatalakehouse -> @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0021 – What is Solid Start (The SolidJS Meta Framework)
Nov 12, 2022follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0020 – How My Domain was stolen (GPDHost, Enom, and Godaddy)
Oct 14, 2022Alex Merced discusses how his domain, AlexMercedCoder.com was stolen.
Duration: 00:00:0019 – Getting those daily git and github commits
Oct 07, 2022Alex Merced discusses tips for getting those daily github commits. Learn more at GrokOverflow.com and AlexMercedCoder.dev
Duration: 00:00:00Don’t use GPDHost and cool content announcements
Sep 29, 2022AlexMercedCoder.dev
Duration: 00:00:00Tech Interviews and AlexMercedCoder (.com -> .dev)
Sep 16, 2022AlexMercedCoder.com is now AlexMercedCoder.dev Cool announcement about upcoming youtube content.
Duration: 00:00:0018 – The Streaming UI Trend (Server Components, HTMX, Livewire, Hotwire)
Sep 02, 2022Alex Merced discusses the move towards streaming UI in many frameworks.
Duration: 00:00:00New Podcasts! Economics and Finance for N00bs & Living Better
Aug 30, 2022Alex Merced introduces some new podcasts to soon show up on spotify, google play, stitcher and iTunes.
Duration: 00:00:00Why Open Matters – Code, Transparency and Governance in Technology
Aug 05, 2022Alex Merced discusses the complexities of what is “open” and why it matters in the technology world.
Duration: 00:00:0017 – The Developer Hiring Process – Advice
Jul 30, 2022Alex Merced breaks down his thoughts on the developer hiring process and how you should frame it for most the best success.
Duration: 00:00:0016 – What is Bun? New Javascript Runtime (Node/Deno Killer?)
Jul 15, 2022Alex Merced discusses what is Bun and what does it mean for Javscript Ecosystem Join the community at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com Follow on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0015 – What is a Virtual DOM?
Jul 08, 2022Alex Merced explains what is a virtual DOM follow alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:0014 – The Python Programming Language
Jun 24, 2022Alex Merced discusses what is Python Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Join the community at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
Duration: 00:00:00#13 – Authentication and Authorization
Jun 17, 2022Alex Merced explains the concept of Authentication and Authorization Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:00#12 Web Forms
Jun 10, 2022Alex Merced talks about web forms Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:00#11 – Computer Science
Jun 04, 2022Alex Merced discusses Computer Science and why you care as a developer Learn more at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com Follow me on on twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:00#10 – How the Web Works (TCP, IP, HTTP)
May 28, 2022Alex Merced gives a technical backbone to how the internet works to help explain backend development. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Tutorials in blog and video format at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
Duration: 00:00:00#9 – Rendering Web Pages (Server, Client, Static)
May 20, 2022Alex Merced discusses the differences between Server Side Rendering, Client Side Rendering and Static Site Generation. Learn more at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder
Duration: 00:00:00#8 – Backend Development
May 19, 2022Alex Merced discusses what is Backend Development. Follow Alex on Twitter @alexmercedcoder Find tutorials and blogs at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
Duration: 00:00:00#7 – Frontend Frameworks (React, Svelte, Angular, Vue, SolidJS, Alpine, HTMX)
May 18, 2022Alex Merced discusses what are Frontend Web Frameworks and what is there purpose and when they should be used. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Video and Blog tutorials at devNursery.com and GrokOverflow.com
Duration: 00:00:00#6 – Typescript and Typing
May 17, 2022Alex Merced discusses what is Typescript and Typing. Follow Alex on twitter @alexmercedcoder Find tutorials and videos at devNursery.com and Grokoverflow.com
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