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 421: Doug Fawley on gRPC
August 11, 2020 19:09 - 49 minutes - 114 MBDoug Fawley of the gRPC project discusses gRPC with host Robert Blumen. Their conversation covers the HTTP layer, protobuf, and use cases within microservices architectures.
Episode 420: Ryan Ripley on Making Scrum Work
August 06, 2020 19:02 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBKanchan spoke with Ryan Ripley about the pre-requisites for an organization to adopt scrum, need for management buy-in, the importance of scrum values and the key responsibilities of the roles defined by scrum and the anti-patterns to watch out for...
Episode 419: John Ellithorpe on the Role of a CTO
July 28, 2020 18:51 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MBHost Kanchan Shringi spoke with Ellithorpe about defining the core essence of the CTO role, the skills that are key for success in the role, how to gain these skills and mentor others.
Episode 418: Functional Programming in Enterprise Applications
July 22, 2020 21:58 - 1 hour - 154 MBVladimir Khorikov discusses functional programming in enterprise applications with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 417: Alex Petrov on Database Storage Engines
July 16, 2020 23:59 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBAlex Petrov, author of Database Internals explains the ins and outs of database storage engines. What are they? How do they differ? What problems do they solve? Host Adam Gordon Bell spoke with Alex about these questions as well as how information...
416: Adam Shostack on Threat Modeling
July 09, 2020 23:13 - 1 hour - 108 MBAdam Shostack of Shostack & Associates and author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security discussed different approaches to threat modeling, the multiple benefits it can provide, and how it can be added to an organization’s existing software proc
Episode 415: Berkay on Incident Management
June 30, 2020 17:56 - 1 hour - 139 MBBerkay Mollamustafaoglu, founder of Ops Genie, discusses the keys to an effective incident management process. Many aspects of incident management are counter intuitive. Why does increasing the rate of change increase uptime? Why is culture the most...
Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C
June 23, 2020 18:31 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBJens Gustedt, author of the Modern C book discusses Modern C, what is legacy C and all aspects of the C programming world with its historic flaws, modern improvements and simple beauty.
Episode 413: Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB
June 16, 2020 22:17 - 54 minutes - 75.6 MBSpencer Kimball talks to Akshay Manchale about CockroachDB which is a distributed, resilient, SQL database system. He talks about challenges of using single node databases and features and principles behind CockroachDB that make it a better alternative open source database.
Episode 412: Sam Gavis-Hughson on Technical Interviews
June 09, 2020 23:18Sam Gavis-Hughson if BytebyByte discusses technical interviews. Felienne spoke with Gavis-Hughson about how to prepare for the dreaded ‘whiteboard interview’ and how to get better at doing interviews. They also discussed the interviewer side of things: how to conduct these interviews yourself and how to improve that. Related Links Dynamic Programming e-book Pramp Interviewing.io Cracking […]
Episode 412: Sam Gavis Hughson on Technical Interviews
June 09, 2020 23:06 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBFelienne spoke with Gavis-Hughson about how to prepare for the dreaded 'whiteboard interview'.
Episode 411: Aaron Vonderhaar on Elm
May 28, 2020 16:58 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBAaron Vonderhaar, maintainer and open source contributor to the Elm programming language, talks with host Adam Conrad about the Elm language, its foundations, features, and applications in the front end web development ecosystem.
Episode 410: Sara Leen on Localizing and Porting Japanese Games
May 19, 2020 22:04 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBSara Leen discusses localizing, porting, and modernizing Japanese games with Jeremy Jung.
Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App
May 14, 2020 17:40Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, discusses the twelve-factor app. The twelve-factor app is a methodology that aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, and maintainable. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Kutner about the origin of these principles; their continued and growing importance with advances in microservices, DevOps, and containerization; and […]
Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve Factor App
May 14, 2020 00:44 - 55 minutes - 128 MBJoe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, spoke with host Kanchan Shringi about the 12-Factor App methodology, which aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, easy to test, and continuously deployable.
Episode 408: Mike McCourt on Voice and Speech Analysis
May 04, 2020 22:58 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBFelienne spoke with Mike McCourt on difficulties in processing voice data using machine learning.
Episode 407: Juval Löwy on Righting Software
April 24, 2020 01:42Juval Löwy, Software Legend and Founder of IDesign discusses his recently published book, Righting Software, with host Jeff Doolittle. This episode focuses on Löwy’s belief that the software industry is in a deep crisis, evident from the numerous projects that fail to deliver on time, on budget and on quality. He discusses his belief that […]
Episode 407: Juval Lowy on Righting Software
April 24, 2020 01:30 - 1 hour - 86 MBJuval Löwy, Software Legend and Founder of IDesign discusses his recently published book, Righting Software, with host Jeff Doolittle. This episode focuses on Löwy’s belief that the software industry is in a deep crisis, evident from the numerous...
Episode 406: Torin Sandall on Distributed Policy Enforcement
April 14, 2020 22:58 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MBTorin Sandall of Styra and Open Policy Agent discussed OPA and policy engines and how they can benefit software projects security and compliance. Host Justin Beyer spoke with Sandall about the benefits of removing authorization logic from your application...
Episode 405: Yevgeniy Brikman on Infrastructure as Code Best Practices
April 07, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour - 138 MBYevgeniy Brikman, author of Terraform: Up & Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code and co-founder of Gruntwork talks with host Robert Blumen about how to apply best practices from software engineering to the development of infrastructure as code...
Episode 404: Bert Hubert on DNS Security
March 26, 2020 18:09 - 1 hour - 107 MBBert Hubert, author of the open source PowerDNS nameserver discusses DNS security and all aspects of the Domain Name System with its flaws and history.
Episode 403: Karl Hughes on Speaking at Tech Conferences
March 18, 2020 01:39 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBFelienne interviews Karl Hughes about doing tech talks. How to get into conferences and how to design and deliver a great talk.
Episode 402: Rich Harris on the Svelte Javascript Framework
March 12, 2020 18:08Rich Harris, author of the Javascript module bundler Rollup, discusses with SE Radio’s Adam Conrad his Javascript framework Svelte as a high-performance alternative to mainstay frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue. They begin with a brief overview of Svelte and how it came to be, then dive in on the compiler-as-a-framework concept, briefly discussing its […]
Episode 402: Rich Harris on the Svelte JavaScript Framework
March 12, 2020 18:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBRich Harris, author of the JavaScript module bundler Rollup, discusses his JavaScript framework Svelte as a high-performance alternative to mainstay frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. We begin with a brief overview of the framework and how...
Episode 401: Jeremy Miller on Waterfall Versus Agile
March 03, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBJeremy Miller, Senior Software Architect at Calavista Software, compares and contrasts his experiences with waterfall and agile methodologies. Host Jeff Doolittle spoke with Miller about the history of these methodologies and how teams can experience...
Episode 400: Michaela Greiler on Code Reviews
February 26, 2020 02:19 - 56 minutes - 129 MBMichaela Greiler spoke with SE Radios Felienne about code review best practices and how to improve the effectiveness of your reviews.
Episode 399: Sumit Kumar on Building Maps using Leaflet
February 20, 2020 22:12 - 1 hour - 97.7 MBSumit Kumar, Head of Engineering at SHARE NOW talks with Jeremy Jung about creating mapping applications in JavaScript using the Leaflet library.
Episode 398: Apache Kudu with Adar Lieber-Dembo
February 12, 2020 18:56Adar Lieber-Dembo from Cloudera discusses Apache Kudu, which is a columnar data storage system for fast analytics and fast ingestion of large datasets. Kudu takes its inspiration from systems in the Hadoop ecosystem, but it addresses many of their shortcomings. SE Radio’s Akshay Manchale spoke with Adar about motivations behind building Kudu, features available for […]
Episode 398: Apache Kudu with Adar Leiber-Dembo
February 12, 2020 18:56Adar Leiber-Dembo from Cloudera discusses Apache Kudu, which is a columnar data storage system for fast analytics and fast ingestion of large datasets. Kudu takes its inspiration from systems in the Hadoop ecosystem, but it addresses many of their shortcomings. SE Radio’s Akshay Manchale spoke with Adar about motivations behind building Kudu, features available for […]
Episode 398: Apache Kudu with Adar Leiber Dembo
February 12, 2020 18:52 - 46 minutes - 107 MBAdar Leiber-Dembo talks to SE Radio’s Akshay Manchale about Apache Kudu, a system for fast analytics in a column-based storage system. They explore how to leverage Kudu for data analytics, as well as its rich feature set and integration options with other SQL and analytical engines.
Episode 397: Pat Helland on Data Management with Microservices
February 07, 2020 03:13Pat Helland, who has been working on building data management systems since 1978, talks to host Akshay Manchale about Data Management at scale with Microservices. Pat talks about trends in storage and computing, state management, immutable data storage, and idempotent computation. He also talks about various ways to look at data — “inside” vs. “outside,” “prescriptive” […]
Episode 397: Pat Helland on Data Management at Scale
February 07, 2020 03:13Pat Helland, who has been working on building data management systems since 1978, talks to host Akshay Manchale about Data Management at scale with Microservices. Pat talks about trends in storage and computing, state management, immutable data storage and idempotent computation. He also talks about various ways to look at data – “inside” v/s “outside”, “prescriptive” […]
Episode 397: Pat Helland on Data Management with Microservices.mp3
February 06, 2020 18:07 - 51 minutes - 71 MBPat Helland talks to host Akshay Manchale about Data Management at scale in a Microservices world. Pat talks about trends in managaging data in a distributed microservices world, immutability, idempotence, inside and outside data, descriptive...
Episode 396: Barry O’Reilly on Antifragile Architecture
January 24, 2020 01:38Barry O’Reilly of Black Tulip Technology discusses Antifragile Architecture, an approach for designing systems that actually improve in the face of complexity and disorder. Host Jeff Doolittle spoke with O’Reilly about the characteristics of antifragility and the nature of complexity in software systems and business environments. Various processes and practices were discussed for applying the […]
Episode 396: Barry OReilly on Antifragile Architecture
January 24, 2020 01:25 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBBarry OReilly of Black Tulip Technology discusses Antifragile Architecture, an approach for designing systems that actually improve in the face of complexity and disorder.
Episode 395: Katharine Jarmul on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning
January 10, 2020 19:21 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBKatharine Jarmul of DropoutLabs discusses security and privacy concerns as they relate to Machine Learning. Host Justin Beyer spoke with Jarmul about attack types and privacy-protected ML techniques.
Episode 394: Chris McCord on Phoenix LiveView
January 03, 2020 21:34 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBChris McCord, author of the Phoenix Framework and Programming Phoenix 1.4, discusses Phoenix's LiveView functionality to showcase the power or real-time applications without the need for writing a single line of JavaScript.
Episode 393: Jay Kreps on Enterprise Integration Architecture with a Kafka Event Log
December 18, 2019 20:26 - 58 minutes - 81 MBJay Kreps, CEO of Confluent, talks with Robert Blumen about how an enterprise integration architecture organized around a Kafka event log simplifies integration and enables rich forms of data sharing. #podcast #seradio #ieeecs #ComputerSociety
Episode 392: Stephen Wolfram on Mathematica
December 13, 2019 23:20 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBStephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha discusses the wolfram language, the language behind both projects. Host Adam Gordon Bell spoke with Stephen Wolfram about computing, computational essays, building a language, notebook based...
Episode 391: Jeremy Howard on Deep Learning and fast.ai
December 05, 2019 19:17 - 57 minutes - 131 MBJeremy Howard from fast.ai explains deep learning from concept to implementation. Thanks to transfer learning, individuals and small organizations can get state-of-the-art results on machine learning problems using the open source fastai library...
SE-Radio Episode 390: Sam Procter on Security in Software Design
November 26, 2019 21:45 - 39 minutes - 55 MBSam Procter of the SEI discusses architecture design languages, specifically Architecture Analysis and Design Language, and how we can leverage the formal modeling process to improve the security of our application design and improve applications overall.
Episode 389: Ryan Singer on Basecamp’s Software Development Process
November 19, 2019 17:13Ryan Singer, head of strategy at Basecamp, discusses the “Shape Up” method of software development with host Nate Black. Scrum pushes too many strategic decisions down on development teams, without giving them enough time to do meaningful work. Instead, Basecamp uses an up-front mix of strategy and design called “shaping”. Basecamp sees backlogs as a […]
Episode 389: Ryan Singer on Basecamp's Software Development Process
November 18, 2019 19:43 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBRyan Singer on Basecamp’s “Shape Up” software development process. Basecamp has ditched the backlog and 2-week sprint in favor of solution “shaping” and strategic 6-week projects, using tools like scope mapping, checklists, and hill charts to understand and reduce risk.
Episode 388: Bob Kepford on Decoupled Content Management Systems
November 12, 2019 19:06 - 49 minutes - 114 MBBob Kepford discusses Decoupled CMS. Many CMS practitioners are adopting a decoupled approach to improve scale, allow for more specialized roles, and to separate data collection from delivery. Host Jeff Doolittle spoke with Kepford about what makes a Decoupled CMS different.
Episode 387: Abhinav Asthana on Designing and Testing APIs
November 07, 2019 01:12 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBAbhinav Asthana, a founding partner and CEO of the API development tool Postman, discusses API design and testing, where to start, which types of APIs to offer, what tools you can use, what features to expose and what is his favorite API to reference.
Episode 386: Spencer Dixon on Building Low Latency Applications with WebRTC
October 30, 2019 00:42Spencer Dixon of Tuple discusses building a pair programming application using WebRTC. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Spencer about what WebRTC is; its uses cases; resources for learning; its limitations; capturing video and audio from an OS; choosing a video codec; connecting clients by traversing NATs, challenges of working with WebRTC in a native application […]
Episode 386: Building Low Latency Applications with WebRTC
October 30, 2019 00:37 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBWebRTC provides real time video and audio streaming capabilities to applications. Spencer Dixon explains the different parts of WebRTC and how they used it to build a pair programming application.
Episode 385: Evan Gilman and Doug Barth on Zero-Trust Networks
October 22, 2019 18:51 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBEvan Gilman and Doug Barth, authors of Zero-Trust Networks: building secure systems in untrusted networks discuss zero-trust networks.
Episode 384: Boris Cherny on TypeScript
October 16, 2019 17:45 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MBBoris Cherny, author of Programming TypeScript, explains how TypeScript can scale JavaScript projects to larger teams, larger code bases, and across devices. Topics include: gradual typing, type refinement, structural typing, and interoperability...
Episode 383: Neil Madden On Securing Your API
October 10, 2019 02:08 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBNeil Madden, author of the API Security in Action book discusses the key requirements needed to secure an API, the risks to consider, models to follow and which task is the most important.