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Trifacta with Joe Hellerstein
December 21, 2021 07:00 - 1000 BytesIf you haven’t encountered a data quality problem, then you haven’t yet worked on a large enough project. Invariably, a gap exists between the state of raw data and what an analyst or machine learning engineer needs to solve their problem. Many organizations needing to automate data preparation workflows look to Trifacta as a solution.
Urbit with Galen Wolfe-Pauly
December 18, 2021 04:00 - 1000 BytesAs the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems. To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet. Urbit is a new operating system and peer-to-peer network. There are several layers of novel
InfluxData with Zoe Steinkamp
December 16, 2021 02:00 - 1000 BytesInfluxDB is an open-source time-series database. It’s maintained by InfuxData who offers a suite of products that help organizations gain insights from time-series data. In this episode, I interview Zoe Steinkamp, Software Engineering and Developer Advocate at InfluxData. We explore some of the common use cases for time-series databases such as IoT and some recent
UiPath with Boris Krumrey
December 15, 2021 06:30 - 1000 BytesRobotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process. Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox. I’ve worked with a lot of salespeople that configure complex email follow-up campaigns when inbound emails come in, but even that’s a fairly basic example compared to what’s
The State of Software Supply Chain 2021 with Ilkka Turunen
December 14, 2021 05:00 - 1000 BytesEveryone is becoming increasingly aware of supply chains for physical goods. Software has its own supply chain. A supply of open source solutions exists as does a demand for these solutions by industry. Both have surely grown, but it would be nice to have a way of measuring by how much. The State of Software
MemGraph with Dominik Tomicevic
December 10, 2021 03:30 - 1000 BytesRelational databases have been a fixture of software applications for decades. They are highly tuned for performance and typically offer explicit guarantees like transactional consistency. More recently, there’s been a figurative cambrian explosion of other-than-relational databases. Simple key value stores or counters were an early win in this space. Managing a graph data structure is
Amplemarket with João Batalha
December 09, 2021 03:30 - 1000 BytesThe lifeblood of most companies is their sales departments. When you’re selling something other than a commodity, it’s typically necessary to carefully groom the onboarding experience for inbound future customers. Historically, companies approached this in a one-size-fits-all manner, giving all customers a common experience. In today’s data-driven age, a better experience can be provided that
Render with Anurag Goel
December 08, 2021 02:00 - 1000 BytesAs cloud providers enable greater levels of specificity and control, they empower compliance-driven enterprise companies. This level of parameterization is downright inhospitable to a new software engineer and can be a cognitive barrier to entry for a senior professional with a great idea but limited time. Developers want to focus on their code, algorithms, front
Building Go Apps Using Encore with André Eriksson
December 07, 2021 03:00 - 1000 BytesWriting your application’s code is only half the battle. Getting it to run on your machine is a milestone, but it’s far from your code running in a production environment. There are an increasing set of options application designers have for helping to manage deployment, environments, and CI/CD. Encore is a backend engine for the
Tetrate Service Bridge with Zack Butcher
December 03, 2021 16:00 - 1000 BytesMicroservice architecture has become a ubiquitous design choice. Application developers typically have neither the training nor the interest in implementing low-level security features into their software. For this and many other reasons, the notion of a service mesh has been introduced to provide a framework for service-to-service communication. Today’s guest is Zack Butcher. While working
Understandable Software with Kartik Agaram
December 02, 2021 23:00 - 1000 BytesMany software projects run the risk of evolving over time to a complex state that is inhospitable for new contributors to join. This is a dangerous place for a company to be. Either software needs to remain more accessible, or faster paths must be created to help them get on board. Today’s interview is with
The Software of Climate Adaptation with Gopal Erinjippurath
December 01, 2021 21:00 - 1000 BytesClimate modeling is increasingly important as supply chains, emergency management, and dozens of other efforts need to make predictions about future conditions and how they will impact business. Analyzing climate data requires geospatial systems, and those systems need a full-stack geospatial technology solution. Gopal Erinjippurath serves as CTO and Head of Product at Sust Global,
Responsibly Deploy AI in Production with Anupam Datta
November 30, 2021 19:00 - 1000 BytesOnce a machine learning model is trained and validated, it often feels like a major milestone has been achieved. In reality, it’s more like the first lap in a relay race. Deploying ML to production bears many similarities to a typical software release process, but brings several novel challenges like failing to generalize as expected
Internship Management Solutions with Nikita Gupta from Symba.io
November 30, 2021 05:30 - 1000 BytesInternships can be an incredibly valuable resource to new professionals and are often the first professional work experience for many participants. It’s often the case that internship programs are suboptimal. Employers don’t always provide a clear path to success for the intern. Interns in turn don’t always have a resource to reach out for help
Nuxt.js with Alexander Lichter
November 24, 2021 17:00 - 1000 BytesWhen creating a website, there’s no shortage of choices for how to do it. Builders must make strategic decisions about the language or framework they want to adopt. An important first consideration for many is selecting a web application framework like React or Vue. Motivated by a low page response time and good user experience,
Metaplane with Kevin Hu
November 24, 2021 06:45 - 1000 BytesApplication observability is a fairly mature area. Engineering teams have a wide selection of tools they can choose to adopt and a significant amount of thought leadership and philosophy already exists giving guidance for managing your application. That application is going to persist data. As you scale up, your system is invariably going to experience
Risk and Compliance with Terry O’Daniel
November 23, 2021 02:45 - 1000 BytesConsumers are increasingly becoming aware of how detrimental it can be when companies mismanage data. This demand has fueled regulations, defined standards, and applied pressure to companies. Modern enterprises need to consider corporate risk management and regulatory compliance. In this interview, I speak with Terry O’Daniel, Director of Engineering (Risk & Compliance) at Instacart. Sponsorship
Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters
November 20, 2021 06:00 - 1000 BytesThanks to the amazing books, blogs, videos, quickstarts, frameworks, and other software-related resources, getting started as a software engineer is easier than ever. Although you can get started in a day, it can take years to become a master of the craft and most practitioners describe it as a profession of lifelong learning. Titus Winters
Building Engineering Teams with Tramale Turner
November 19, 2021 03:30 - 1000 BytesWith a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person. It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems. There are lots of lessons to be learned from companies that have already found approaches that scale. In this episode, I interview Tramale Turner,
Deploying Computer Vision to the Edge at Anduril Industries with Forrest Iandola
November 17, 2021 16:00 - 1000 BytesNeural networks, in particular, deep neural networks have revolutionized machine learning. Researchers and companies have pushed on the efficiency of every aspect of the machine learning lifecycle. The impact of the trained models is particularly significant for computer vision and in turn for autonomous driving and security systems. In this episode, I interview Forrest Iandola,
Yotascale with Jake Reichert
November 16, 2021 02:09 - 1000 BytesModern businesses run on the cloud and increasingly so they run on multi-cloud infrastructure. As any growing company can tell you, cloud costs can easily run far out of control. Today’s enterprises are trying to deliver new products and services at a fast pace. That needs to be done in a cost-effective, ideally cloud-agnostic way.
Legions
November 12, 2021 22:10 - 1000 Bytesomg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ludavV3ExRE&t=166s withfries2 disgusting
AI in Sales with Ohad Parush
November 12, 2021 10:00 - 1000 BytesTo many people’s surprise tech sales is not much of an art. It’s actually a regimented science where reps have clear step-by-step processes to bring in new business. Each stage takes the customer closer to the end of the deal and consists of learning more about the customer’s needs. A CRM is a database reps
Amazon’s elevators are suboptimal
November 12, 2021 08:29 - 1000 BytesSoftware Daily proudly runs on Heroku.
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November 12, 2021 08:14 - 1000 BytesThank you to everyone for banishing Zuckerberg to the netherverse. He should be kept in a separate cell from Elon Musk | Jeff Bezos | Tim Cook | idk LARRY ELLISON>?
Treasury Prime with Christopher Dean
November 11, 2021 10:00 - 1000 BytesThe banking industry uses technology that some modern software engineers may regard as out of date or old-fashioned. Entrepreneurs wanting to create products in the banking space historically faced a steep curve to build software that could integrate with established banking systems. Christopher Dean seeks to change that. He founded Treasury Prime, a company that
Scalable Streaming Video with Amit Mishra
November 10, 2021 10:00 - 1000 BytesThe internet is a layer cake of technologies and protocols. At a fundamental level, the internet runs on the TCP/IP protocol. It’s a packet based system. When your browser requests a file from a web server, that server chops up the file into tiny pieces known as packets and puts them on the network labeled
Learning Tensorflow.js with Gant Laborde
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 1000 BytesMachine learning models must first be trained. That training results in a model which must be serialized or packaged up in some way as a deployment artifact. A popular deployment path is using Tensorflow.js to take advantage of the portability of JavaScript, allowing your model to be run on a web server or client. Gant
Observability Using Honeycomb.io with Christine Yen
November 08, 2021 10:00 - 1000 BytesIt does not matter if it runs on your machine. Your code must run in the production environment and it must do so performantly. For that, you need tooling to better understand your application’s behavior under different circumstances. In the earliest days of software development, all we had were logs, which are still around and
Andreessen Horowitz Is Run By Chinese Communist Party Sympathizers
November 08, 2021 03:44 - 1000 BytesHow the most popular venture capital firm extends the CCP’s control through the influence of its Chinese partners.
Angular Dev Tools with Minko Gechev
November 05, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesAngular is a free and open-source web application framework. It’s maintained by the Angular team at Google. It’s used by millions of web applications and has a strong ecosystem of core contributors and library builders. In this episode, I interview Minko Gechev, Developer Relations Lead at Google. We explore several aspects of open-source software development,
The Future of Quality Engineering with Liliya Frye
November 04, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesIt wasn’t that long ago that companies scheduled downtime in order to release an updated version of the software running their website. That’s rare today. Most developers want continuous testing, integration, and deployment. While that comes with many benefits, it also places greater demands on quality engineers who can no longer gate all updates into
Location-Based Experiences Using Foursquare with Ankit Patel
November 03, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe manner in which users interact with technology has rapidly switched to mobile consumption. The devices almost all of us carry with us at all times open endless opportunities for developers to create location-based experiences. Foursquare became a household name when the introduced social check-ins. Today they’re a location data platform. Ankit Patel is the
Enterprise React Apps with Paige Niedringhaus
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe React Framework has seen continuous growth of adoption since its launch. There are many reasons for that, but one reason is how relatively painless it is to use `react-create-app` or copy some boilerplate code and have a functioning, hot reloading, live demo up and running in minutes. There is, however, a long way to
Building Startups Around Deep Tech Innovations with Fernando Gómez-Baquero
November 01, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesWelcome to Software Engineering Daily; I’m your guest host, Joey Baruch. I’m the CTO at Alvarez and Marsal Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), prior to which I co-founded and was CTO of HuMoov, a vertical SaaS. I’ve been a software engineer at PayPal, IBM Research Labs, and Qualcomm via the acquisition of Wilocity. Joining me
Learning React with Kent C. Dodds
October 29, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesAccording to builtwith.com, more than 10 million websites are powered by React framework. Of the top 10k sites by traffic, 44.7% of those are built with React. This javascript framework is capable of powering a wide array of modern applications and remains fairly beloved by developers that use it. In this episode, I interview Kent
Datadog with Omri Sass and Hugo Kaczmarek
October 28, 2021 17:13 - 1000 BytesModern business applications are complex. It’s not enough to have raw logs or some basic telemetry. Today’s enterprise organizations require an application performance monitoring solution or APM. Today’s applications are complex distributed systems whose performance depends on a wide variety of factors. Every single line of code can affect production and teams need insights into
Remote Development in the Cloud with Gitpod & OpenVSCode Server with Sven Efftinge
October 27, 2021 18:22 - 1000 BytesOne of the most painful parts of getting started on a new development team is getting one’s environment set up. Whether it’s undocumented steps, overly complex setups, or simply the challenges of understanding how the pieces fit together, getting a dev environment up often feels like a chore to be suffered through in order to
NBSafety for Jupyter Notebooks with Stephen Macke
October 26, 2021 22:15 - 1000 BytesThe notebook paradigm of coding is relatively new in comparison to REPLs and IDEs. Notebooks run in your browser and give you discrete cells for running segments of code. All the code in a single cell runs at once, but cells run independently. Cells can be re-run, which is a blessing and a curse. The
Online Communities on Gather with Phillip Wang
October 25, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesVirtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space that offers the ability to interact with other users as well as interact with the
No Code AI for Video Analytics with Alex Thiele
October 22, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesImagine a world where you own some sort of building whether that’s a grocery store, a restaurant, a factory… and you want to know how many people reside in each section of the store, or maybe how long did the average person wait to be seated or how long did it take the average factory
The Future of Gig Work with Adam Jackson
October 21, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee. Some workers find the relationship between worker and platform to be adversarial in nature since the platform can establish and enforce rules
Investing in Infrastructure and Dev Tools with Timothy Chen
October 20, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesVenture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups. No one builds technology from scratch. There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly. These layers of infrastructure are a key area for many investors. In this episode, I
Meme.com with Johan Unger
October 19, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesWhether you love them or hate them, share them or ignore them, you encounter memes all over the internet. Those that are popular can often take off and spawn a long history of remixes, variants, derivatives, and inspired works. In this episode, we interview Johan Unger, the founder of meme.com. They’re creating a platform for
Developer Relations at Google with Luke Mahe
October 18, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe last 15 years have seen the emergence of cloud-based developer APIs and services as dominant components of the developer toolchain. As a result, there has never been more power at developers’ fingertips. But making that power usable and accessible is a challenge that is shared between the providers and the consumers of these services.
Getting Businesses Unstuck with Jon Dwoskin
October 12, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine. This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well. Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well. In this episode, I interview business coach Jon
Infrastructure as Code with Christian Tragesser
October 08, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesInfrastructure as Code is an approach to machine provisioning and setup in which a programmer describes the underlying services they need for their projects. However, this infrastructure code doesn’t compile a binary artifact like traditional source code. The successful completion of running the code signals that the servers and other components described in the configuration
React Final Form with Erik Rasmussen
October 07, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesAs our guest today points out, most enterprise software applications are essentially forms for collecting data. The tag and related components started appearing in HTML fairly early and those same concepts are still in use with modern web browsers. However, the technology for capturing state, validating input, and providing other common services for the
Developer Productivity with Utsav Shah
October 06, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesBy most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply. Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code. For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible. The pace of business is often throttled by the
Modern Data Infrastructure and Tools with Leigh Marie Braswell
October 05, 2021 09:00 - 1000 BytesThe first industrial deployments of machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions were bespoke by definition and often had brittle operating characteristics. Almost no one builds custom databases, web servers, or email clients. Yet technology groups today often consider developing homegrown ML and data solutions in order to solve their unique use cases. Today’s modern data