My guest this week is Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at UT-Austin and vice president of Research at Sentient Technologies. Risto came locked and loaded to discuss a topic that we've received a ton of requests for -- evolutionary algorithms.

Neal Ford: @neal4d | nealford.com

This episode is sponsored by Pivotal and ArchConf 2017

Neal's new book, Building Evolutionary Architectures, was just released in
print and eBook formats.

01:36 - Neal’s Background and Career Path Thus Far
Clipper…

Some aspects of mass killings are clearer—especially those by older men.

Good architectures need to be able to evolve to support changing needs, this book describes how we've learned to do this.

Discovery pushes back when crabs came to land, freshwater to 100 million years ago.