Signals and Threads – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Technical and general information from the podcast's RSS feed.

Signals and Threads

Jane Street

Technology

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/73d. Total Eps: 30

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers who are working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly. You can find transcripts along with related links on our website at signalsandthreads.com.

Read moreCollapse

Site

RSS

Spotify

Apple

Recent rankings

Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.

Apple Podcasts

🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
20/08/2026
#79
🇫🇷 France - technology
18/08/2026
#84
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
17/08/2026
#82
🇬🇧 Great Britain - technology
16/08/2026
#80

Shared links between episodes and podcasts

Links found in episode descriptions and other podcasts that share them.

See all

https://signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-the-markets
7 shares
https://www.modular.com/mojo
2 shares
https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/unboxed-types-for-ocaml/
2 shares

RSS feed quality and score

Technical evaluation of the podcast's RSS feed quality and structure.

See all

RSS feed quality

Good

Score global : 73%

Publication history

Monthly episode publishing history over the past years.

Year

Latest published episodes

Recent episodes with titles, durations, and descriptions.

See all

Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg

Season 3 · Episode 20

Monday, October 7, 2024 • Duration 53:50

Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron discuss how production engineering blends high-stakes puzzle solving with thoughtful software engineering, as the people doing support build tools to make that support less necessary. They also discuss how Jane Street uses both tabletop simulation and hands-on exercises to train Production Engineers; what skills effective Production Engineers have in common; and how to create a culture where people aren’t blamed for making costly mistakes.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

More about production engineering at Jane Street, including how to apply.
Notes on Site reliability engineering in the wider world.
Alarm fatigue and desensitization.
Jane Street’s 1950’s era serialization-format of choice,
Some games that Streeters have used for training people to respond to incidents.

Read moreCollapse

From the Lab to the Trading Floor with Erin Murphy

Season 3 · Episode 19

Friday, July 12, 2024 • Duration 01:03:35

Erin Murphy is Jane Street’s first UX designer, and before that, she worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory building user interfaces for space missions. She’s also an illustrator with her own quarterly journal. In this episode, Erin and Ron discuss the challenge of doing user-centered design in an organization where experts are used to building tools for themselves. How do you bring a command-line interface to the web without making it worse for power users? They also discuss how beauty in design is more about utility than aesthetics; what Jane Street looks for in UX candidates; and how to help engineers discover what their users really want.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

Erin’s website that shows off her work.
Her quarterly journal of sketches and observations.
An article about Erin’s design work with NASA JPL.
A paper that among other things talks about the user study work that Erin did at JPL.
Jane Street’s current UX job opening.

Read moreCollapse

Writing, Technically with James Somers

Season 2 · Episode 10

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 • Duration 01:00:58

James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose.

You can find the transcript for this episode on our website.

Some links to topics that came up in the discussion:

mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing OCaml code blocks
More on the 4 types of technical writing that James references
Donald Knuth’s original book on Literate Programming
More on John McPhee’s use of KEDIT
Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work
David Goodsell’s The Machinery of Life
Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind

Some of James’s writing on our tech blog

Read moreCollapse

More Signals & Threads coming soon!

Season 2

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 • Duration 00:37

Signals & Threads is back, and we have a fun season of topics lined up, including: Building better abstractions for design and user interfaces, the role of writing in a technical organization, the approach that different languages take to memory management...and more. We hope you’ll join us. The first episode drops September 1st.

Read moreCollapse

An inside look at Jane Street's tech internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, November 6, 2020 • Duration 01:02:52

In this week's episode, the season 1 finale, Ron speaks with Jeanne, Matt, and Grace, three former tech interns at Jane Street who have returned as full-timers. They talk about the experience of being an intern at Jane Street, the types of projects that interns work on, and how they've found the transition to full-time work.