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SE Radio 545: John deVadoss on Design Philosophies that Drive .NET/Azure
4 januari 2023 · 43 min
We 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 544: Ganesh Datta on DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering
28 december 2022 · 59 min
Ganesh 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 543: Jon Smart on Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Successful Software Delivery in Enterprises
21 december 2022 · 57 min
Jon 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 542: Brendan Callum on Contract-Driven APIs
15 december 2022 · 46 min
Brendan 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 541: Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer on Securing the Supply Chain
8 december 2022 · 52 min
Open 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.. Lees meer
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SE Radio 540: Joe Nash on DevRel
2 december 2022 · 54 min
Joe 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 539: Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
23 november 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Adam 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 modeling in the context of other related approaches and methodologies, including event sourcing, event storming, CQRS, and domain-driven design. Lees meer
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SE Radio 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale
18 november 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
Roberto 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...
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SE Radio 537: Adam Warski on Scala and Tapir
9 november 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
Adam 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 Tapir discussion explores why Tapir is a library and not a framework, how server interpreters work in Tapir, how interceptors work, and what observability features are included with Tapir. Lees meer
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SE Radio 536: Ryan Magee on Software Engineering in Physics Research
2 november 2022 · 56 min
Ryan 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 535: Dan Lorenc on Supply Chain Attacks
26 oktober 2022 · 50 min
Dan 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 else's supply chain; techniques for attacking the supply chain, including compromising the compilers, injecting code into installers, dependency confusion, and typo squatting. They also consider Ken Thompson's paper on injecting a backdoor into the C compiler. The episode then considers some well-known supply chain attacks: researcher Alex Birsan's dependency confusion attack; the log4shell attack on the Java Virtual Machine; the pervasiveness of compilers and interpreters where you don't expect them; the SolarWinds attack on a network security product; and CodeCov compromising the installer with code to insert exfiltration of environment variables into the installer. The conversation ends with some lessons learned, including how to protect your supply chain and the challenge of dependencies with modern languages. Lees meer
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SE Radio 534: Andy Dang on AI/ML Observability
20 oktober 2022 · 54 min
Andy 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 533: Eddie Aftandilian on GitHub Copilot
12 oktober 2022 · 44 min
Eddie 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 532: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF
5 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
Peter 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 531: Xe Iaso on Tailscale
30 september 2022 · 50 min
Xe 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...
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SE Radio 530: Tanmai Gopal on GraphQL
21 september 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Tanmai 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...
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SE Radio 529: Jeff Perry on Career Management for Software Engineers
14 september 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Jeff 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. Perry shares examples of how engineers have made shifts to opportunities that took advantage of their skill sets. The conversation then tackles the importance of building a personal brand and the role of mentors and coaches. Lees meer
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SE Radio 528: Jonathan Shariat on Designing to Avoid Worst Case Outcomes
7 september 2022 · 56 min
Jonathan 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, what to consider during the product development cycle, industry-specific checklists and testing requirements, creating guiding principles for a team, why medical software often has poor UX, designing for crisis situations, and why employing deceptive design patterns (also known as "dark patterns") can be bad for products in the long term. Lees meer
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SE Radio 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch
31 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Adrian 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.. Lees meer
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SE Radio 526: Brian Campbell on Proof of Possession Defenses
24 augustus 2022 · 54 min
Brian 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 525: Randy Shoup on Evolving Architecture and Organization at eBay
17 augustus 2022 · 59 min
Randy 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...
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SE Radio 524: Abi Noda on Developer Experience
11 augustus 2022 · 58 min
In 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 523: Jessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad on Data Governance
4 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Jessi 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...
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SE Radio 522: Noah Gift on MLOps
27 juli 2022 · 52 min
Noah 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 521: Phillip Mayhew on Test Automation in Gaming
21 juli 2022 · 1 uur
Phillip 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...
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SE Radio 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design
13 juli 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
John 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. Lees meer
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SE Radio 519: Kumar Ramaiyer on Building a SaaS
6 juli 2022 · 56 min
Kumar 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.
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SE Radio 518: Karl Wiegers on Software Engineering Lessons
29 juni 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Karl 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...
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SE Radio 517: Jordan Adler on Code Generators
21 juni 2022 · 52 min
In 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 Lees meer
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SE Radio 516: Brian Okken on Testing in Python with Pytest
16 juni 2022 · 51 min
In 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 testability; test-driven development, and designing your tests so that they support refactoring. Finally, we consider some complementary tools that can improve the python testing experience. Lees meer
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Edpisode 515: Swizec Teller on Becoming a Senior Engineer
8 juni 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
This 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.. Lees meer
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SE Radio 514: Vandana Verma on the Owasp Top 10
31 mei 2022 · 49 min
Vandana 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. Lees meer
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SE Radio 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications
25 mei 2022 · 51 min
Gill 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... Lees meer
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Episode 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications
25 mei 2022 · 51 min
Gill 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 512: Tim Post on Rubber Duck Debugging
17 mei 2022 · 50 min
Tim 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.
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SE Radio 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)
10 mei 2022 · 54 min
Ant 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 510: Deepthi Sigireddi on How Vitess Scales MySQL
4 mei 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
In 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;... Lees meer
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SE Radio 509: Matt Butcher and Matt Farina on Helm Charts
26 april 2022 · 54 min
Matt 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;...
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SE Radio 508: Jérôme Laban on Cross Platform UI
19 april 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Jérôme 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...
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SE Radio 507: Kevin Hu on Data Observability
13 april 2022 · 50 min
Kevin 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.
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SE Radio 506: Rob Hirschfeld on Bare Metal Infrastructure
6 april 2022 · 48 min
Rob 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.. Lees meer
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SE Radio 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL
29 maart 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Daniel 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. Lees meer
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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL
29 maart 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Daniel 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. Lees meer
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SE Radio 504: Frank McSherry on Materialize
22 maart 2022 · 58 min
Frank 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...
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SE Radio 503: Diarmuid McDonnell on Web Scraping
16 maart 2022 · 51 min
Diarmuid 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 502: Omer Katz on Distributed Task Queues Using Celery
11 maart 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Omer 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...
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SE Radio 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects
1 maart 2022 · 55 min
Nikhil 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. Lees meer
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SE Radio 500: Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability
23 februari 2022 · 56 min
Sergey 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... Lees meer
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SE Radio 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS
15 februari 2022 · 56 min
Uma 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. Lees meer
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SE Radio 498: James Socol on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD)
9 februari 2022 · 52 min
James 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... Lees meer