Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
708 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 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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Episode 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications
May 25, 2022 21:11 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBGill Hoffer, co-founder and CTO at Salto, talks with SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi about a new persona -- the Business Engineer -- created by the rise of SaaS and adoption of best-of-breed business applications for back office systems. They examine...
Episode 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications
May 25, 2022 21:10Gill Hoffer, co-founder and CTO at Salto, talks with SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi about a new persona -- the Business Engineer -- created by the rise of SaaS and adoption of best-of-breed business applications for back office systems. They examine...
Episode 512: Tim Post on Rubber Duck Debugging
May 17, 2022 21:19 - 49 minutes - 68.7 MBTim Post of echoreply.io discusses Rubber Duck Debugging, a way to wrap your head about problems and solutions. Host Felienne spoke with Post about Rubber Duck debugging, and how it can help you to find answers to complex problems.
Episode 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)
May 10, 2022 20:43 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBAnt Wilson of Supabase discusses building an open source alternative to Firebase with PostgreSQL. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung spoke with Wilson about how Supabase compares to Firebase, building an API layer with postgREST, authentication using GoTrue...
Episode 510: Deepthi Sigireddi on How Vitess Scales MySQL
May 04, 2022 16:19 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn this episode, Deepthi Sigireddi of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) spoke with SE Radio host Nikhil Krishna about how Vitess scales MySQL. They discuss the design and architecture of the product; how Vitess impacts modern data problems;...
Episode 509: Matt Butcher and Matt Farina on Helm Charts
April 26, 2022 20:48 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBMatt Butcher and Matt Farina, authors of the book Learning Helm join SE Radio host Robert Blumen to discuss Helm, the package manager for kubernetes. Beginning with a review of kubernetes and Helm, this episode explores the history of helm;...
Episode 508: Jérôme Laban on Cross Platform UI
April 19, 2022 21:26 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBJérôme Laban, CTO of Uno Platform, joined host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about Cross-platform User Interfaces. The conversation addressed the unique challenges and possibilities related to applications designed to run on multiple platforms...
Episode 507: Kevin Hu on Data Observability
April 13, 2022 16:54 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBKevin Hu, co-founder and CEO at Metaplane discusses "Data Observability" with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion touches upon Data observability roots, components, differences with software observability and tooling.
Episode 506: Rob Hirschfeld on Bare Metal Infrastructure
April 06, 2022 01:22 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MBRob Hirschfeld CEO of RackN discusses Bare Metal as a Service. Host Brijesh Ammanath spoke with Hirschfeld about all things bare metal. Hirschfeld starts with the basics before doing a deep dive into bare metal configuring, provisioning, common failures..
Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL
March 29, 2022 21:44 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBDaniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, and winner of the Polhem Prize, discusses the history of the project, key events in the project timeline, war stories, favorite command line options and various experiences from 25 years of developing an Open Source project.
Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL
March 29, 2022 21:44Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, and winner of the Polhem Prize, discusses the history of the project, key events in the project timeline, war stories, favorite command line options and various experiences from 25 years of developing an Open Source project.
Episode 504: Frank McSherry on Materialize
March 22, 2022 20:16 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MBFrank McSherry, Chief Scientist at Materialize talks to Host Akshay Manchale about Materialize which is a SQL database that maintains incremental views over streaming data. Frank talks about how Materialize can complement analytical systems...
Episode 503: Diarmuid McDonnell on Web Scraping
March 16, 2022 19:56 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBDiarmuid McDonnell , a Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland talks with host Kanchan Shringi about his experience as a social scientist on the need for computational approaches for data collection and analysis as well as the...
Episode 502: Omer Katz on Distributed Task Queues Using Celery
March 11, 2022 03:04 - 1 hour - 58 MBOmer Katz, a software consultant and core contributor to the Celery discusses the Celery task processing framework with host Nikhil Krishna. We discuss in depth, the Celery task processing framework, it's architecture and the underlying messaging...
Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects
March 01, 2022 19:48 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBNikhil Krishna speaks to Bob DuCharme an experienced technical writer and author about how to write and maintain technical documentation for software products. In the episode different mediums to distribute documentation and tools to maintain documentation are discussed.
Episode 500: Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability
February 23, 2022 18:21 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBSergey Gorbunov of Axelar discusses blockchain interoperability, a technology that enables decentralized applications to work across multiple blockchain ecosystems. Host Philip Winston spoke with Gorbunov about programmable blockchains, distributed vs. centralized changes, the Ethereum virtual machine, Axelar's Cross-Chain Gateway Protocol and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, security issues, delegated proof of stake...
Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS
February 15, 2022 21:13 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBUma Chingunde of Render compares building a PaaS with her previous experience running the Stripe Compute team. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chingunde about the role of a PaaS, building on public cloud providers, build vs buy, choosing features, user experience, managing databases, Series A vs later stage startups, and why internal infrastructure teams should run themselves like product teams.
Episode 498: James Socol on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD)
February 09, 2022 17:58 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBJames Socol of Policygenius discusses continuous integration and continuous delivery, ways to test and deploy software quickly and easily. SE Radio host Felienne spoke with Socol about why CI and CD matter for the development process, what tools to use...
Episode 497: Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics
February 01, 2022 20:27 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBRichard L. Sites discusses his new book Understanding Software Dynamics, which offers expert methods and advanced tools for understanding complex, time-constrained software dynamics in order to improve reliability and performance. Philip Winston spoke with Sites about the five fundamental computing resources CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, and Locks, as well as methods for observing and reasoning when investigating performance problems using the open-source utility KUtrace.
Episode 496: Bruce Momjian on Multi-Version Concurrency Control in Postgres (MVCC)
January 25, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBThis week, Postgres server developer Bruce Momjian joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) in the Postgres database. They begin with a discussion of the isolation requirement in database transactions (I in ACID); how isolation can be achieved with locking; limitations of locking; how locking limits concurrency and creates variability in query runtimes; multi-version concurrency control as a means to achieve isolation; how Postgres manages multiple...
Episode 495: Vaughn Vernon on Strategic Monoliths and Microservices
January 19, 2022 21:10 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBVaughn Vernon, author of the book “Strategic Monoliths and Microservices” discusses his book with host Akshay Manchale about strategies for purposeful architecture from the perspective of both business decision makers and technical leaders.
Episode 494: Robert Seacord on Avoiding Defects in C Programming
January 12, 2022 17:49 - 1 hour - 99.5 MBRobert Seacord, author of Effective C, The CERT C Coding Standard and Secure Coding in C and C++, discusses why the C programming language can be insecure, the top 5 security issues and the tools and techniques you can employ to write secure code in C.
Episode 494: Robert Seacord on Avoiding Defects in C Programming
January 12, 2022 17:49Robert Seacord, author of Effective C, The CERT C Coding Standard and Secure Coding in C and C++, discusses why the C programming language can be insecure, the top 5 security issues and the tools and techniques you can employ to write secure code in C.
Episode 493: Ram Sriharsha on Vectors in Machine Learning
January 04, 2022 21:20 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBRam Sriharsha of Pinecone discusses the role of vectors in machine learning, a technique that lies at the heart of many of the machine learning applications we use every day. Host Philip Winston spoke with Sriharsha about the basics of vectors, vector...
Episode 492: Sam Scott on Building a Consistent and Global Authorization Service
December 28, 2021 18:23 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBSam Scott, CTO of Oso discusses how to build a global authorization service and challenges with host Priyanka.
Episode 491: Chase Kocher on The Recruiting LifeCycle
December 21, 2021 19:13 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBChase Kocher, the Founder and CEO of aim4hire, a technology recruitment agency, discusses the recruiting lifecycle from the candidate, the company and the recruiter’s point of view with host Kanchan Shringi.
Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition
December 14, 2021 23:21 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBTim McNamara, author of Rust in Action, discusses the top three benefits of Rust and why they make it a performant, reliable and productive programming language.
Episode 489: Sam Boyer Package Management
December 08, 2021 17:09 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBGuest Sam Boyer, author of So you want to write a package manager talks about package management. The discussion covers - what is a package? what does it mean to manage package? package meta-data; package versioning; the quantity of packages in modern...
Episode 488: Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy on the Missing Readme
December 01, 2021 00:49 - 51 minutes - 71.6 MBChris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy discuss their book, The Missing Readme, which is intended to be the missing manual for new software engineers. Felienne spoke with Riccomini and Ryaboy about a range of topics that new software engineers might not have..
Episode 487: Davide Bedin on Dapr Distributed Application Runtime
November 23, 2021 19:22 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBDavide Bedine, a cloud solution architect at Microsoft and professional Dapr enthusiast joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss his book, Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET. Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, simplifies cloud-native...
Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart
November 17, 2021 19:15 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBBob Nystrom, author of Crafting Interpreters and a software engineer at Google working on the Dart programming language, discusses the key features of Dart which make it an excellent choice for fast apps on any platform.
Episode 485: Howard Chu on B+tree Data Structure in Depth
November 09, 2021 17:03 - 1 hour - 142 MBHoward Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP project, discusses the key features of B+Tree Data Structures which make it the default selection for efficient and predictable storage of sorted data.
Episode 484: Audrey Lawrence on Timeseries Databases
November 02, 2021 22:12 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBAudrey Lawrence of Amazon discusses Timeseries Databases and their new database offering Amazon Timestream. Philip Winston spoke with Lawrence about data modeling, ingestion, queries, performance, life-cycle management, hot data vs. cold data...
Episode 483: Alexander Pugh on Robotic Process Automation
October 27, 2021 18:47 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBAlexander Pugh discusses why and when to use Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Pugh about interacting with systems without APIs like mainframes; the importance of having developers involved when building bots; the difficulty...
Episode 482: Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code
October 20, 2021 21:42 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBLuke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, joined host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about infrastructure as code (IAC), which allows software development teams to configure and control their cloud infrastructure assets using code in contrast to other approaches...
Episode 481: Ipek Ozkaya on Managing Technical Debt
October 12, 2021 23:26 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBIpek Ozkaya joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss a book she co-authored entitled Managing Technical Debt. In the book, Ozkaya describes nine principles of technical debt management to aid software companies in identifying, measuring, tracking...
Episode 480: Venky Naganathan on Chatbots
October 06, 2021 19:20 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBHost Kanchan Shringi speaks with Venky Naganathan,Sr. Director of Engineering at Conga specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots about the Conversational UI paradigm for Enterprise Apps as well as the enablers and business use cases suited...
Episode 479: Luis Ceze on the Apache TVM Machine Learning Compiler
September 29, 2021 19:29 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBLuis Ceze of OctoML discusses Apache TVM, an open source machine learning model compiler for a variety of different hardware architectures with host Akshay Manchale. Luis talks about the challenges in deploying models on specialized hardware and how TVM.
Episode 478: Satish Mohan on Network Segmentation
September 24, 2021 22:36 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBSatish Mohan, CTO of AirGapNetworks discussed "Air Gapped Networks" with host Priyanka Raghavan.
Episode 477: Josef Strzibny on Self Hosting Applications
September 15, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBJosef Strzibny the author of Deployment from Scratch discusses how and why it's valuable to learn how to self host applications.
Episode 476: Leonid Shevtsov on Transactional Email
September 08, 2021 17:05 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBLeonid Shevtsov talks with host Robert Blumen about email protocols and transactional email.
Episode 475: Rey Bango on Secure Coding Veracode
August 31, 2021 18:48 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBRey Bango, Senior Director of Developer and Security Relations at Veracode discussed Secure coding with host Priyanka Raghavan.
Episode 474: Paul Butcher on Fuzz Testing
August 24, 2021 18:51 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBPaul Butcher of AdaCore discusses Fuzz Testing, an automated testing technique used to find security vulnerabilities and other software flaws. Host Philip Winston spoke with Butcher about negative testing, brute-force fuzz testing...
Episode 473: Mike Del Balso on Feature Stores
August 17, 2021 18:06 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBMike Del Balso, co-founder of Tecton discusses Feature Stores which are data platforms to operationalize Machine Learning applications. He talks about challenges faced by teams in creating custom data pipelines to serve models in production...
Episode 472: Liran Haimovitch on Handling Customer Issues
August 11, 2021 21:14 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBLiram Haimovitch talks about how a business handles customer issues with a software product. How issues start out with a dedicated customer-facing team and when they may be escalated to engineering.
Episode 471: Jason Meller on Choosing the Right Tech Stack for a Greenfield Project
August 03, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBCEO and security expert Jason Meller discusses modern tech stacks across a variety of programming languages to consider when building your next project or startup.
Episode 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
July 27, 2021 18:23 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBL Peter Deutsch of Aladdin Enterprises and formerly of Sun Microsystems joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss the fallacies of distributed computing. Peter retold the history and origin of the fallacies and how they have been addressed over...
Episode 469: Dhruba Borthakur on Embedding Real-time Analytics in Applications
July 22, 2021 02:20 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBDhruba Borthakur, CTO and co-founder of Rockset, discusses the use cases and core requirements of real-time analytics, as well as the evolution from batch to real time and the need for a new architecture with host Kanchan Shringi.
Episode 468: Iljitsch van Beijnum on Internet Routing and BGP
July 13, 2021 17:09 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBNetworking researcher Iljitsch van Beijnum discusses internet routing and the border gateway protocol (BGP) with host Robert Blumen.
Episode-467-Kim-Carter-on-Dynamic-Application-Security-Testing
July 07, 2021 00:19 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBKim Carter of BinaryMist discusses Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and how the OWASP purpleteam project can improve early defect detection. Host Justin spoke with Carter about how DAST can provide meaningful feedback loops to developers...