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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Episodes
Episode 466: Casey Aylward on Venture Capital for Software Investing
June 29, 2021 20:54 - 50 minutes - 117 MBCasey Aylward, Principal at Costanoa Ventures discusses Venture capital with a focus on early stage investing from the perspective of the entrepreneur and the VC with host Kanchan Shringi.
Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
June 22, 2021 23:29 - 55 minutes - 127 MBTrisha Gee and Kevlin Henney of 97 things every Java developer should know discusses their book, which is a collection of essays by different developers covering the most important things to know. Host Felienne spoke withGee and Henney about all things...
Episode 464: Rowland Savage on Getting Acquired
June 16, 2021 17:25 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBRowland Savage, author of How to Stick the Landing: The M&A Handbook for Startups, discusses how company acquisitions work, the three types, and why it is so important for software engineering startups to know the details to make an acquisition happen.
Episode 463: Yaniv Tal on Web 3.0 and the Graph
June 10, 2021 18:04 - 45 minutes - 105 MBYaniv Tal discusses The Graph’s key features and also explains to user basics of blockchain infrastructure, Ethereum.
Episode 462: Felienne on the Programmers Brain
June 02, 2021 18:07 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBFelienne joins host Jeff Doolittle as a guest on the show to discuss her book, The Programmers Brain. While programmer’s brains are not special in comparison to the brains of others, they face unique cognitive challenges...
Episode 461 Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman on Quality Assurance
May 26, 2021 18:55 - 59 minutes - 137 MBMichael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman discuss Quality Assurance with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 460: Evan Weaver on FaunaDB
May 18, 2021 21:01 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBEvan Weaver of Fauna discusses the Fauna distributed database. Host Felienne spoke with him about its design and properties, as well as the FQL query language, and the different models it supports: document-based as well as relational.
Episode 459: Otakar Nieder on Gaming vs Simulation Engines
May 12, 2021 21:16 - 53 minutes - 122 MBOtakar Nieder, Senior Director of Development at Bohemia Interactive Simulations, discusses how simulation apps are different from gaming with host Kanchan Shringi.
Episode 458: Daniel Roth on Blazor
May 06, 2021 00:39 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBDaniel Roth from Microsoft discusses Blazor’s key features and benefits of using c# full stack for building web apps with host Priyanka Raghavan.
Episode 457: Jeffery D Smith on DevOps Anti Patterns
April 27, 2021 19:19 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBJeffery D Smith, author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions, talks about how things can go wrong in development organizations and what DevOps has to offer with host Robert Blumen.
Episode 456: Tomer Shiran on Data Lakes
April 21, 2021 18:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBTomer Shiran, co-founder of Dremio, talks about managing data inside a data lake, historical changes and motivations for managing data as a data lake, and the common tools and methods for ingestion, storage, and analytics on top of the underlying data.
Episode 455: Jamie Riedesel on Software Telemetry
April 13, 2021 19:01 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBJamie author of Software Telemetry book discusses Software Telemetry, why telemetry data is so important and the discipline of tracing, logging, and monitoring infrastructure.
Episode 454: Thomas Richter Postgres as an OLAP database
April 09, 2021 04:37 - 56 minutes - 129 MBThomas Richter is the founder of Swarm64, a Postgres extension company designed to boost performance of your Postgres instance. This episode examines the internals of Postgres, performance considerations, and relational database types.
Episode 453: Aaron Rinehart on Security Chaos Engineering
March 30, 2021 23:05 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBAaron Rinehard, CTO of Verica and author, discusses security chaos engineering (SCE) and how it can be used to enhance the security of modern application architectures.
Episode 452: Scott Hanselman on .NET
March 23, 2021 20:05 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBScott Hanselman discusses .NET with Jeremy Jung
Episode 451: Luke Kysow on Service Mesh
March 16, 2021 20:01 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBLuke Kysow from Hashicorp does a deep dive into the key features of Consul with host Priyanka Raghavan.
Episode 450: Hadley Wickham on R and Tidyverse
March 09, 2021 23:09 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBHadley Wickham, chief scientist at RStudio and creator of the Tidyverse, discusses how R and its data science package the TidyVerse are used and created. Host Felienne speaks with Wickham about the design philosophy of the Tidyverse, and how it supports..
Episode 449: Dan Moore on Build vs Buy
March 05, 2021 00:34 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBDan Moore, cofounder of Vaporware, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of building or buying software solutions, including evaluation criteria, how to inspect an API, and cost considerations for purchasing software from external vendors.
Episode 448: Matt Arbesfeld Starting Your Own Software Company
February 27, 2021 02:56 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBMatt Arbesfeld, cofounder of LogRocket, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of starting a software company as a software engineer, including finding cofounders, fundraising, and determining what ideas are worth pursuing.
Episode 447: Michael Perry on Immutable Architecture
February 18, 2021 17:09 - 58 minutes - 134 MBMichael L. Perry discusses his recently published book, The Art of Immutable Architecture, distinguishing immutable architecture from other approaches and, using familiar examples such as git and blockchain, addresses some possible misunderstandings...
Episode 446: Nigel Poulton on Kubernetes Fundamentals
February 10, 2021 21:47 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBNigel Poulton, author of The Kubernetes Book and Docker Deep Dive, discusses Kubernetes fundamentals, why Kubernetes is gaining so much momentum, deploying an example app, and why Kubernetes is considered "the" Cloud OS.
Episode 445: Thomas Graf on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter)
February 02, 2021 18:27 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBThomas Graf, Co-Founder of Cilium, discusses eBPF and XDP and how they can be leveraged for a wide variety of use cases across networking, observability, and security.
Episode 444: Tug Grall on Redis
January 29, 2021 21:43 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBTug Grall of Redis Labs discusses Redis, its evolution over the years and emerging use cases today,its module based ecosystem and Redis’ applicability in a wide range of applications beyond being a layer for caching data such as search, machine learning
Episode 443: Shawn Wildermuth on Inclusivity
January 20, 2021 17:31 - 98.1 MBFelienne discusses diversity and inclusivity in software development with Shawn Wildermuth, Microsoft MVP and creator of the Hello World movie.
Episode 443: Shawn Wildermuth on Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
January 20, 2021 17:31 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBFelienne discusses diversity and inclusivity in software development with Shawn Wildermuth, Microsoft MVP and creator of the Hello World movie.
Episode 442: Arin Bhowmick on UX Design for Enterprise Applications
January 14, 2021 21:52 - 1 hour - 144 MBArin Bhowmick, Global Vice President and Chief Design Officer at IBM, discusses why and how UX design for enterprise applications is different than for consumer applications.
Episode 441 Shipping Software - With Bugs
January 05, 2021 21:11 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBJames Smith, CEO and co-founder of Bugsnag discusses “Why it is ok to ship your software with Bugs.”
Episode 440: Alexis Richardson on gitops
December 24, 2020 19:17 - 51 minutes - 70.3 MBAlexis Richardson discusses gitops - a deployment model based on convergent infrastructure as code with host Robert Blumen.
Episode 439: JP Aumasson on Cryptography
December 18, 2020 17:18 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBJP Aumasson, author of Serious Cryptography, discusses cryptography, specifically how encryption and hashing work and underpin many security functions.
Episode 438: Andy Powell on Lessons Learned from a Major Cyber Attack
December 12, 2020 02:39 - 50 minutes - 81.8 MBAndy Powell is the CISO of AP Moller Maersk and discusses the 2017 cyber attack that hit the company and the lessons learned for preventing and recovering from future attacks.
Episode 437: Architecture of Flutter
December 08, 2020 21:39 - 1 hour - 103 MBTim Sneath, product management for Flutter and Dart at Google discusses what Flutter is, why it was created, where Dart came from, what the different layers of Flutter are, why it is so popular and why it makes a developers life much easier.
Episode 436: Apache Samza with Yi Pan
November 24, 2020 18:45 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBYi Pan is the lead maintainer of the Apache Samza project and discusses the use cases for stream processing frameworks, how to use them, and the benefits & drawbacks of a framework like Samza.
Episode 435: Julie Lerman on Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework
November 17, 2020 18:39 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBJulie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 435: Julie Lerman on Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework
November 17, 2020 18:38Julie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 434: Steven Skiena on Preparing for the Data Structures and Algorithm Job Interview
November 10, 2020 20:33 - 58 minutes - 134 MBSteven Skiena speaks with SE Radio’s Adam Conrad about practical applications for data structures and algorithms, as well as take-aways on how to best study Skiena’s book when prepping for the technical interview process.
Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB
November 06, 2020 18:16 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBJay Kreps, CEO and Co-founder of Confluent discusses ksqlDB which is a database built specifically for stream processing applications to query streaming events in Kafka with SQL like interface.
Episode 432: Brian D. Foy on Perl 7
October 30, 2020 17:40 - 94.8 MBBrian D. Foy, author of many Perl books discusses what Perl 7 is, where it’s going, what you need to do to get ready and various pieces advice on making the most of your Perl and programming life.
Episode 432: brian d. foy on Perl 7
October 30, 2020 17:40 - 94.8 MBbrian d. foy, author of many Perl books discusses what Perl 7 is, where it’s going, what you need to do to get ready and various pieces advice on making the most of your Perl and programming life.
Episode 432: brian d foy on Perl 7
October 30, 2020 17:40 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBbrian d foy, author of many Perl books discusses what Perl 7 is, where it’s going, what you need to do to get ready and various pieces advice on making the most of your Perl and programming life.
Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python
October 23, 2020 17:29 - 1 hour - 97 MBFelienne spoke with Youens-Clark about new features in Python, why you should teach testing to beginners from the start and the importance of the Python ecosystem.
Episode 430: Marco Faella on Seriously Good Software
October 16, 2020 20:49 - 1 hour - 153 MBFelienne interviews Marco Faella about his book ‘Seriously Good Software,’ which aims to teach programmers to use six key qualities to better analyze the quality of their code bases.
Episode 429: Rob Skillington on High Cardinality Alerting and Monitoring
October 08, 2020 20:23 - 57 minutes - 79 MBRob Skillington discusses the architecture, data management, and operational issues around monitoring and alerting systems with a large number of metrics and resources.
Episode 428: Matt Lacey on Mobile App Usability
September 30, 2020 16:26 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBMatt Lacey, author of the Usability Matters book discusses what mobile app usability is and why it can make or break an app destined for consumers, business users or in-house users and what you can do to make the best app possible.
Episode 427: Sven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen on Mobile Application Security
September 23, 2020 22:26 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBSven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen from the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard and Testing Guide project discuss mobile application security and how the verification standard and testing guide can be used to improve your app’s...
Episode 426: Philip Kiely on Writing for Software Developers
September 15, 2020 17:58 - 52 minutes - 121 MBPhilip Kiely discusses his book Writing for Software Developers. Software development primarily involves writing code but strong written communication skills are critical. Technical comprehension is vital but solid written communication skills are also...
Episode 426: Philip Kiley on Writing for Software Developers
September 15, 2020 17:58 - 121 MBPhilip Kiely discusses his book Writing for Software Developers. Software development primarily involves writing code but strong written communication skills are critical. Technical comprehension is vital but solid written communication skills are also...
Episode 425: Paul Smith on The Crystal Programming Language and the Lucky Web Framework
September 09, 2020 16:22 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBPaul Smith discusses the Crystal Programming Language and the Lucky web framework with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 424: Sean Knapp on Dataflow Pipeline Automation
September 02, 2020 18:47 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBSean Knapp of Ascend.io talks to Robert Blume about data pipeline automation with an orchestration layer.
423: Ryan Singer on Remote Work
August 25, 2020 17:33 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBRyan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp discusses the mindset and culture behind a successful remote work for engineers. Akshay spoke with Ryan about communication, collaboration and cultural aspects of working remotely.
Episode 422: Michael Geers on Micro Frontends
August 17, 2020 17:02 - 50 minutes - 70.2 MBKanchan spoke with Michael Geers on the Micro Frontends. Micro Frontends is an architectural style that aims to extends the benefits of microservices to UI.