Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
708 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 210 ratingsSoftware Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Every 10 days, a new episode is published that covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is an independent and non-commercial organization. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 license.
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SE Radio 562: Bastian Gruber on Rust Web Development
May 03, 2023 20:07 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBBastian Gruber, author of the book Rust Web Development, speaks with host Philip Winston about creating server-based web applications with Rust. They explore Rust language features, tooling, and web frameworks such as Warp and Tokio. From there, they examine the steps to build a simple web server and a RESTful API, as well as modules, logging and tracing, and other aspects of web development with Rust.
SE Radio 561: Dan DeMers on Dataware
April 27, 2023 00:34 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBDan DeMers of Cinchy.com joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about data collaboration and dataware. Dataware platforms leverage an operational data fabric to liberate data from apps and other silos and connect it together in real-time data networks. They explore a range of key topics, including zero-copy integration, encapsulation and information hiding, handling changes to data models over time, and latency and access issues. The discussion also explores dataware management and sec...
SE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with Vitess
April 19, 2023 20:46 - 48 minutes - 67.4 MBSugu Sougoumarane discusses how to face the challenges of horizontally scaling MySQL databases through the Vitess distribution engine and Planetscale, a service built on top of Vitess. The journey began with the growing pains of scale at YouTube around the time of Google’s acquisition of the video service. This episode explores ideas about topology management, sharding, Paxos, connection pooling, and how Vitess handles large transactions while abstracting complexity from the application layer.
SE Radio 559: Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence
April 12, 2023 19:54 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBRoss John Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge, discusses software obsolescence with host Priyanka Raghavan. They examine risks associated with software going obsolete and consider several examples of software obsolescence, including how it can affect cars. Prof. Anderson discusses policy and research in the area of obsolescence and suggests some ways to mitigate the risks, with special emphasis on software bills of materials. He describes future directions,...
SE Radio 558: Michael Fazio on Modern Android Development
April 05, 2023 22:01 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBMichael Fazio, Engineering Manager (Android) at Albert and author of Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack from the Pragmatic Programmers, speaks with SE Radio's Gavin Henry about how the Android ecosystem looks today, and why it's an excellent time to write native Android apps. They explore a wide range of topics about modern Android development, including when to go native, how to keep a lot of decisions in your back-end API, Kotlin co-routines, Jetpack and Jetpack Compose, the ...
SE Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js
March 28, 2023 17:52 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBTimothy Beamish of BenchSci discusses React and Next.js, two of today's most popular front-end frameworks. Host Philip Winston speaks with Beamish about components, routing, JSX, client-side and server-side rendering, single-page applications, automatic code-splitting, image optimization, and more. Beamish also details his experience moving a real-world application to Next.js.
SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry
March 23, 2023 17:28 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBSoftware engineer Alex Boten, author of Cloud Native Observability with Open Telemetry, joins SE Radio host Robert Blumen for a conversation about software telemetry and the OpenTelemetry project. After a brief review of the topic and the OpenTelemetry project's origins rooted in the need for interoperability between telemetry sources and back ends, they discuss the open telemetry server and its features, including transforms, filtering, sampling, and rate limiting. They consider a range of ...
SE Radio 555: On Freund on Upskilling
March 15, 2023 23:23 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBOn Freund, founder of Wilco and former VP of Engineering at WeWork, speaks with SE Radio’s Brijesh Ammanath about “upskilling” – going deeper or increasing the breadth of your skills. On has years of experience in helping developers master the skills needed to advance in their careers. This episode explores the importance of upskilling in a constantly evolving tech landscape. They focus particularly on how and why senior and expert developers should keep learning, upskilling, and reskilling...
SE Radio 554: Adam Tornhill on Behavioral Code Analysis
March 08, 2023 21:37 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBAdam Tornhill, founder and CTO of CodeScene, joins host Giovanni Asproni to speak about behavioral code analysis. Behavioral code analysis is a set of practical techniques aimed at identifying patterns in how a development organization interacts with the codebase they're building. It can be used to prioritize technical debt to maximize return on investment; to identify communication and team-coordination bottlenecks in code; to drive refactorings guided by data from how the system evolves; a...
SE Radio 553: Luca Casonato on Deno
March 01, 2023 23:06 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBLuca Casonato joins SE Radio's Jeremy Jung for a conversation about Deno and Deno Deploy. They start with a look at JavaScript runtimes and their relation to Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine V8, and why Deno was created. They discuss the WinterCG W3C group for server-side JavaScript, why it's difficult to ship new features in Node, and the benefits of web standards. From there they consider the benefits of creating an all-inclusive toolset like Rust and Go rather than r...
SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions
February 23, 2023 18:39 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBMatt Frisbie, author of Building Browser Extensions, speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about browser extensions, including key areas where they've been successful. Based on Matt’s experience as a developer working for Google, Doordash, and a startup he founded, they examine tools for building extensions, as well as APIs they have access to. The conversation presents detailed issues such as cross-browser compatibilities to keep in mind when developing extensions and mechanisms in the browser t...
Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager 1-1 with Direct Reports
February 15, 2023 20:51 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBVidal Graupera, an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, speaks with SE Radio’s Brijesh Ammanath about the importance of managers' one-on-one meetings with direct reports. They start by considering how a 1:1 meeting differs from other meetings...
Episode 550: J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller on Cloud FinOps (Financial Operations)
February 09, 2023 01:49 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBJ.R. Storment and Mike Fuller discuss cloud financial operations (FinOps) with host Akshay Manchale. They consider the importance of a financial operations strategy for cloud-based infrastructure. J.R. and Mike discuss the differences between operating your own data center and running in the cloud, as well as the problems that doing so creates in understanding and forecasting cloud spend. Mike details the Cloud FinOps lifecycle by first attributing organizational cloud spend through showback...
Episode 549: William Falcon Optimizing Deep Learning Models
February 03, 2023 00:20 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBWilliam Falcon of Lighting AI discusses how to optimize deep learning models using the Lightning platform, optimization is a necessary step towards creating a production application. Philip Winston spoke with Falcon about PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning...
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February 03, 2023 00:20 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBWilliam Falcon of Lighting AI discusses how to optimize deep learning models using the Lightning platform, optimization is a necessary step towards creating a production application. Philip Winston spoke with Falcon about PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning...
Episode 548: Alex Hidalgo on Implementing Service Level Objectives
January 25, 2023 17:04 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBAlex Hidalgo, principal reliability advocate at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives, joins SE Radio's Robert Blumen for a discussion of service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. The conversation covers the meaning...
Episode 547: Nicholas Manson on Identity Management for Cloud Applications
January 18, 2023 19:29 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBNicholas Manson, a SaaS Architect with more than 2 decades of experience building cloud applications, speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about identity and access management requirements for cloud applications. They begin by examining what a digital...
Episode 546: Dietrich Ayala on the InterPlanetary File System
January 12, 2023 17:28 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBNikhil Krishna speaks with Dietrich Ayala about IPFS in depth. They cover what it is, how it works in detail and how one could leverage IPFS and libp2p in one's own application or to host one's content. The discussion goes into the IPFS ecosystem...
Episode 545: John deVadoss on Design Philosophies that Drive .NET/Azure
January 04, 2023 20:28 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBWe talk with John deVadoss about the philosophies underlying the development of .NET and Azure software. We discuss the "Fiefdoms and Emissaries" concept of building loosely coupled systems, talk about strengths and drawbacks and how to build services...
Episode 544: Ganesh Datta on DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering
December 28, 2022 22:14 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBGanesh Datta, CTO and cofounder of Cortex, joins SE Radio's Priyanka Raghavan to discuss site reliability engineering (SRE) vs DevOps. They examine the similarities and differences and how to use the two approaches together to build better software...
Episode 543: Jon Smart on Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Successful Software Delivery in Enterprises
December 21, 2022 17:22 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBJon Smart, author of the book Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility, discusses patterns and anti-patterns for the success of enterprise software projects. Host Brijesh Ammanath speaks with him about the various common...
Episode 542: Brendan Callum on Contract-Driven APIs
December 15, 2022 19:36 - 45 minutes - 63 MBBrendan Callum, engineering manager for the Pinterest developer platform team, discusses the "spec first" approach to API development and how it's different from "API first." Brendan speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about the challenges and advantages...
Episode 541: Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer on Securing the Supply Chain
December 07, 2022 23:02 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBOpen source developers Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer join host Robert Blumen for a conversation about securing the software supply chain, especially open source. They start by reviewing supply chain security concepts, particularly as related to open..
Episode 540: Joe Nash on DevRel
December 01, 2022 23:01 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBJoe Nash of Twillio's TwilioQuest discusses the role of developer relations/advocate, which is a role at tech companies in-between developers, marketing, sales, and HR. Host Felienne speaks with Nash about the skills people need if they want to become...
Episode 539: Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
November 23, 2022 01:26 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBAdam Dymitruk, CEO and founder of Adaptech Group, joins host Jeff Doolittle for an exploration of the event modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems. Adam explains how the structured approach eliminates the specifics of implementation details and technology decisions, enabling clearer communication for all stakeholders while keeping conversations focused on the business opportunity. Using concrete examples of event modeling in practice, they examine event ...
Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale
November 18, 2022 02:28 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBRoberto Di Cosmo, Computer Science professor at University Paris Diderot and founder of the Software Heritage initiative, discusses how to protect against sudden loss from the collapse of a "free" source code repository provider, how to protect...
Episode 537: Adam Warski on Scala and Tapir
November 09, 2022 17:22 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBAdam Warski, the co-founder and CTO of SoftwareMill, discusses Scala programming and the Tapir library. Scala is a general-purpose JVM language, and Tapir is a back-end library used to describe HTTP API endpoints as immutable Scala values. Host Philip Winston speaks with Warski about the implications of Scala being a JVM language, the Scala type system, the Scala community's view of functional vs. object-oriented programming, and the transition of the ecosystem from Scala 2 to Scala 3. The T...
Episode 536: Ryan Magee on Software Engineering in Physics Research
November 02, 2022 16:03 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBRyan Magee, postdoctoral scholar research associate at LIGO Laboratory – Caltech, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about how software is used by scientists in physics research. The episode begins with a discussion of gravitational waves...
Episode 535: Dan Lorenc on Supply Chain Attacks
October 25, 2022 23:54 - 49 minutes - 90.9 MBDan Lorenc, CEO of Chainguard, a software supply chain security company, joins SE Radio editor Robert Blumen to talk about software supply chain attacks. They start with a review of software supply chain basics; how outputs become inputs of someone...
Episode 534: Andy Dang on AI/ML Observability
October 20, 2022 15:51 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBAndy Dang, Head of Engineering at WhyLabs discusses observability and data ops for AI/ML applications and how that differs from traditional observability. SE Radio host Akshay Manchale speaks with Andy about running an AI/ML model in production and how...
Episode 533: Eddie Aftandilian on GitHub Copilot
October 11, 2022 23:03 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBEddie Aftandilian, Principal researcher at GitHub discusses GitHub copilot and how it can improve developer productivity with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion explores various subtopics such as the history of copilot, how it can improve developer...
Episode 532: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF
October 05, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 101 MBPeter Wyatt, CTO at PDF Association and project co-Leader of ISO 32000 (the core PDF standard), Duff Johnson CEO at PDF Association and ISO Project co-Leader and US TAG chair for both ISO 32000, discuss the 30 years' history of PDF, how to make a PDF...
Episode 531: Xe Iaso on Tailscale
September 30, 2022 16:42 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBXe Iaso of Tailscale discusses how a VPN can be a useful tool when building software. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung spoke with Iaso about what VPNs are, onboarding, access control, authentication in the network vs individual services, peer-to-peer vs...
Episode 530: Tanmai Gopal on GraphQL
September 21, 2022 16:18 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBTanmai Gopal, CEO of Hasura.io, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about GraphQL. They discussed the history and rationale behind the original conception of GraphQL, as well as some of the use cases it is best suited for...
Episode 529: Jeff Perry on Career Management for Software Engineers
September 14, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBJeff Perry, career coach with experience in multiple engineering and technology fields discusses how software engineers can be intentional and proactive in evaluating and pursuing career options, with host Kanchan Shringi.
Episode 528: Jonathan Shariat on Designing to Avoid Worst Case Outcomes
September 07, 2022 20:57 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBJonathan Shariat, coauthor of the book Tragic Design, discusses harmful software design. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung speaks with Shariat about how poor design can kill in the medical industry, accidentally causing harm with features meant to bring joy...
Episode 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch
August 30, 2022 22:58 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBAdrian Kennard and Kevin Hones, Founders of FireBrick routers and firewalls, discuss how to design, build, test and support a hardware router and network operating system from scratch, while sharing the lessons learned. You'll also learn that in certain..
Episode 526: Brian Campbell on Proof of Possession Defenses
August 24, 2022 18:24 - 53 minutes - 74 MBBrian Campbell, Distinguished Engineer at Ping Identity discusses cryptographic defences against stolen tokens for the OAUTH2 protocol with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion explores various subtopics such as the history of Proof of possession...
Episode 525: Randy Shoup on Evolving Architecture and Organization at eBay
August 17, 2022 16:44 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MBRandy Shoup of eBay discusses the evolution of eBay's tech stack. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung speaks with Shoup about eBay's origins as a single C++ class with an Oracle database, a five-year migration to multiple Java services, sharing a database...
Episode 524: Abi Noda on Developer Experience
August 11, 2022 17:51 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBIn this episode, Abi Noda, founder of Pull Panda and DX, discusses developer experience with SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath. They examine the basic concept of DX and its importance before diving into a wide variety of issues, including methodologies...
Episode 523: Jessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad on Data Governance
August 03, 2022 22:55 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBJessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad, authors of the book "Data Governance: The Definitive Guide," discuss what data governance entails, why it's important, and how it can be implemented. Host Akshay Manchale speaks with them about why data governance...
Episode 522: Noah Gift on MLOps
July 27, 2022 20:51 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBNoah Gift, author of "Practical MLOps", discusses MLOps, which are tools are techniques used to operationalize machine learning applications. Host Akshay Manchale spoke to Noah about the foundational aspects such as basic automation through DevOps, data...
Episode 521: Phillip Mayhew on Test Automation in Gaming
July 21, 2022 20:17 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBPhillip Mayhew of GameDriver discusses test automation for games and game-like applications. Host Philip Winston spoke with Mayhew about the increasing role of test automation in modern game development, the impact on the QA role, how to run tests...
Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design
July 12, 2022 22:03 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBJohn Ousterhout, professor of computer science at Stanford University, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about his book, A Philosophy of Software Design. They discussed the history and ongoing challenges of software system design, especially the nature of complexity and the difficulties handling it. The conversation also explored various design concepts from the book, such as modularity, layering, abstraction, information hiding, maintainability, and readability.
Episode 519: Kumar Ramaiyer on Building a SaaS
July 06, 2022 20:42 - 55 minutes - 77 MBKumar Ramaiyer, CTO, Planning Business Unit at Workday, discusses the Infrastructure services needed for and the design of Building and lifecycle of supporting a SaaS application.
Episode 518: Karl Wiegers on Software Engineering Lessons
June 29, 2022 00:07 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBKarl Wiegers, Principal Consultant with Process Impact and author of 13 books, discusses specific software development practices that can help you make sure that you don't repeat the same problems he sees time and time again with every customer...
Episode 517: Jordan Adler on Code Generators
June 21, 2022 20:58 - 52 minutes - 72 MBIn this episode, SE Radio host Felienne speaks with Jordan Adler of OneSignal about code generation, a technique to generate code from specifications like UML or from other programming languages such as Typescript. They also discuss code transformation, which can be us
Episode 516: Brian Okken on Testing in Python with pytest
June 16, 2022 16:26 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBIn this episode, we explore the popular pytest python testing tool with author Brian Okken, author of Python Testing with pytest. We start by discussing why pytest is so popular in the Python community: its focus on simplicity, readability, and developer ease-of-use; what makes pytest unique; the setup and teardown of tests using fixtures, parameterization, and the plugin ecosystem; mocking; why we should design for testing, and how to reduce the need for mocking; how to set up a project for...
Edpisode 515: Swizec Teller on Becoming a Senior Engineer
June 08, 2022 20:54 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBThis week, senior software engineer, instructor, and blogger Swizec Teller spoke with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about the "senior mindset." Becoming a senior engineer is about more than just years of experience but rather about cultivating a different..
Episode 514: Vandana Verma on the Owasp Top 10
May 31, 2022 18:02 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBVandana Verma, Security Leader at Snyk and vice-chairperson of the OWASP Global Board of directors, discusses the "OWASP top 10" with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion explores various subtopics such as the history behind OWASP, the OWASP top 10 security risks, example of common vulnerabilities and ends with information on top projects in OWASP and how can contribute to it.