NewsTech News

Software Engineering Daily

softwareengineeringdaily.com

Software Daily: The world through the lens of software.

Play

Open in

2,221 episodes
Avg 53 min
English

Episodes 2,221

Newest Oldest Longest

All20 Unplayed20 In progress0 Played0

Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.

Jan 9, 2024 · 35 min
AWS re:Invent Special: Sagemaker with Ankur Mehrotra
This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Ankur Mehrotra who is the Director and GM of Amazon SageMaker. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Jan 5, 2024 · 44 min
Bonus Episode: Hypnospace Outlaw with Jay Tholen
Hypnospace Outlaw is a hit indie game which features an internet and operating system simulator set in a surreal, alternate version of 1999. The game is entirely unique both in its design and aesthetic, and it has an impressive development history. Jay Tholen is the developer of Hypnospace Outlaw and he joins the show to talk about the engineering of the game, the creation of an entire "fake internet", and he gives an update on his next game, Dreamsettler. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Jan 4, 2024 · 49 min
CockroachDB with Jordan Lewis
SQL databases were built for data consistency and vertical scalability. They did this very well for the long era of monolithic applications running in dedicated, single-server environments. However, their design presented a problem when the paradigm changed to distributed applications in the cloud. This shift eventually ushered in the rise of distributed SQL databases. One of the most prominent is CockroachDB, which uses a distributed architecture inspired by Google's Spanner. But what were the engineering approaches that made this architecture possible? Jordan Lewis is a Senior Director of Engineering at CockroachDB Cloud. He joins the show to talk about the design of CockroachDB and how it works under the hood. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Jan 3, 2024 · 42 min
Apiiro Security Posture Management with Yonatan Eldar
Software supply chain security is a major challenge in the modern engineering environment. Many teams are working to establish best practices to proactively identify, fix, and prevent risks in their applications. Apiiro is a platform designed to solve this problem and gives risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation. Yonatan Eldar is the Co-Founder and CTO at Apiiro and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, application security posture management, and more. Full Disclosure: 10KMedia is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Jan 2, 2024 · 39 min
Pinecone Vector Database with Marek Galovic
An embedding is a concept in machine learning that refers to a particular representation of text, images, audio, or other information. Embeddings are designed to make data consumable by ML models. However, storing embeddings presents a challenge to traditional databases. Vector databases are designed to solve this problem. Pinecone has developed one of the most prominent vector databases that is widely used for ML and AI applications. Marek Galovic is a software engineer at Pinecone and works on the core database team. He joins the podcast today to talk about how vector embeddings are created, engineering a vector database, unsolved challenges in the space, and more. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 29, 2023 · 46 min
Bonus Episode: Adobe Cloud Native with Carlos Sanchez
Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe where he works on the Adobe Experience Manager. AEM is a content management system, analogous to WordPress, and provides a platform for site creation and content delivery. In addition to his work at Adobe, Carlos has a long history contributing to open source projects, including Apache Maven. He joins the show today to talk about his work at Adobe, open source, and more. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 28, 2023 · 44 min
Rama with Nathan Marz
Building scalable software applications can be complex and typically requires dozens of different tools. The engineering often involves handling many arcane tasks that are distant from actual application logic. In addition, a lack of a cohesive model for building applications can lead to substantial engineering costs. Nathan Marz is the creator of Rama, which is a platform for building end-to-end, scalable backends. Previously Nathan led engineering at BackType which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. In addition, Nathan created the Apache Storm project and is the author of the book Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems. Nathan joins the podcast today to talk about Rama, and how to build scalable software applications. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 27, 2023 · 36 min
Kubefirst with Frédéric Harper
Frédéric Harper is the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, which is an open source platform that integrates some of the most popular tools in the Kubernetes space. Frédéric has deep experience at major software companies having worked at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Fitbit, and others. He joins the show to talk about the challenges and solutions associated with working with Kubernetes. Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securiti.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on LinkedIn or Twitter @jocelynbyrne. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 26, 2023 · 46 min
Vespa.ai with Jon Bratseth
Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database, and it has integrated ML model inference. The project open sourced in 2017, and since then has grown to become a prominent platform for applying AI to big data sets at serving time. Vespa began as a project to solve Yahoo’s use cases in search, recommendation, and ad serving. The company made headlines in October when they announced they're spinning Vespa.ai out of Yahoo as a separate company. Jon Bratseth is the CEO at Vespa and he joins the show to talk about large language models, retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, vector database engineering, and more. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 25, 2023 · 55 min
Bonus Episode: SurrealDB with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
SurrealDB is the result of a long-time collaboration between brothers Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock. The project has modest origins and started merely to support other projects the brothers were working on. However, over time the project grew and in 2021 they started working on it full-time. Since then the project has gained serious adoption. What's makes SurrealDB so special? Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the CEO of SurrealDB and he joins the show to talk about his multimodal database, support for graph and time series data, why they rewrote the entire project in Rust, and more. Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securiti.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on LinkedIn or Twitter @jocelynbyrne. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 22, 2023 · 40 min
Bonus Episode: Responsible AI with Ezequiel Lanza
Responsible AI is an approach to developing and deploying AI in a safe, trustworthy and ethical fashion. The concept has gained considerable attention with the rise of generative AI technologies. Ezequiel Lanza is an AI Open Source Evangelist at Intel and he joins the show today to talk about responsible AI, and the practices and tools evolving around it. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 21, 2023 · 46 min
Blocking Ransomware Attacks with Anthony Cusimano
Ransomware attacks involve the deployment of malware that blocks access to a user’s or organization's computer files by encrypting them. The attackers then demand a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key that will restore access to the files. These attacks are often directed at governments and corporations, and can be costly. Veeam is a data storage system that was designed specifically to provide protection against ransomware attacks. Object First is a system that works with Veeam to increase its safety and security. Anthony Cusimano is the Director of Technical Marketing at Object First and he joins the podcast to talk about the growing sophistication of ransomware attacks and the emerging technologies to block them. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 20, 2023 · 58 min
Supabase Security with Inian Parameshwaran
Supabase is an open source backend-as-a-service platform and competes directly with Google's Firebase. A key distinction between them is that Firebase is a document store, while Supabase uses Postgres, which is a SQL-based database management system. Software Engineering Daily last covered Supabase in 2020 when its Founder Paul Copplestone came on the show, and a lot has changed since then. The platform has continued to grow its feature set and, importantly, this growth has come with an expanded number of security considerations. Inian Parameshwaran is Head of Product and Engineering at Supabase and a former YCombinator Fellow. He started at Supabase when the platform was still in alpha, and has been there for three years. He joins the show today to talk about the current feature set of Supabase, and the various security challenges that he and his team work on, including how to handle crypto mining exploits, IP blocking, DDoS attacks, and more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 19, 2023 · 49 min
GitHub Copilot with Joseph Katsioloudes
GitHub Copilot is an AI tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist software developers by autocompleting code. Copilot kicked off a revolution in software engineering, and AI assistants are now considered essential tools to many developers. Joseph Katsioloudes is a cyber security specialist and works at the GitHub Security Lab. He joins the show today to talk about Copilot, the future of software development in an AI world, using AI to improve security, and more. Check out Joseph’s bio and the Secure Code Game which is an in-repo learning experience that Joseph created to teach how to secure vulnerable code. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information covisualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 18, 2023 · 45 min
Bonus Episode: Bazel with Julio Merino
Build systems coordinate all the steps to transform source code into a production application. Bazel is a build system and testing tool that was first released in 2015 as a free and open-source port of Google's internal build system called Blaze. Historically, each language has its own build system which can create complexity when developing applications that use many languages. Bazel is special because it's a polyglot system with unified support for many languages. To handle build configuration, Bazel uses the Starlark language which has syntax inspired by Python. This is a key part of what contributes to Bazel's growing popularity. Julio Merino is a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, and before that worked at Google and Microsoft. He joins the podcast today to talk about Bazel. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 14, 2023 · 42 min
Kubernetes at Google with Ben Elder
Containers make it possible to standardize the deployment of software to any compute environment. However, managing and orchestrating containers at scale is a major challenge. Kubernetes was originally created by Google and solves the problem of scaling container deployment. Ben Elder is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, and an Elected Member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee. Ben joins the show to talk about the why Kubernetes became the standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes control theory, how he runs his home infrastructure, and more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 13, 2023 · 45 min
Deno with Luca Casonato
Deno is a free and open source JavaScript runtime built on Google's V8 engine, Rust, and Tokio. The project was announced by Ryan Dahl in 2018 with the goal of addressing shortcomings of Node.js, which Ryan also created. Since then, the Deno project has grown tremendously in popularity, and they recently announced Deno KV which is a database built into Deno. Luca Casonato is a Software Engineer on the Deno project and joins the show to talk about Deno's design, its new database, and the future of the JavaScript ecosystem. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development. You can find Josh on: Bluesky, Fosstodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and joshuakgoldberg.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 12, 2023 · 38 min
Weights & Biases with Chris Van Pelt
Machine learning model research requires running expensive, long-running experiments where even a slight mis-calibration can cost millions of dollars in underutilized compute resources. Once trained, model deployment, production monitoring, and observability requirements all present unique operational challenges. Chris Van Pelt is the Chief Information Officer of Weights and Biases, which is the industry standard in experiment monitoring and visualization, and has expanded that expertise into a comprehensive suite of ML Ops tooling including model management, deployment, and monitoring. Chris joins us today to discuss the state of the machine learning ecosystem at large, as well as some of their more recent work around production LLM tracing and monitoring. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 7, 2023 · 49 min
Tracking Drug Smugglers and Migrating Databases with Benny Keinan and Lior Resisi
Maritime logistics is the process organizing the movement of goods across the ocean. Historically, this has been a challenging problem because of the multinational nature of shipping, as well as piracy, smuggling, and legacy technology. It's also profoundly important for security reasons, and because 90% of what we buy travels over the oceans. Ocean vessels produce a lot of CO2, which adds climate change and energy dimensions to maritime logistics. Windward AI is a maritime logistics platform that was started 13 years ago by two ex-Israeli naval officers. The idea for the company came from the observation that, at that time, it was hard or impossible to know what's happening on the deep sea. Benny Keinan is the VP of R&D and Lior Resisi is the Data Platforms Group Lead at Windward AI. They join the podcast today to talk about the technical and practical challenges of maritime logistics, why Rockset was the right database for their unique datasets, the impact of the Ukraine war, and more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Dec 6, 2023 · 43 min
Software Supply Chain Security with Michael Lieberman
One of the most famous software exploits in recent years was the SolarWinds attack in 2020. In this attack, Russian hackers inserted malicious code into the SolarWinds Orion system, allowing them to infiltrate the systems of numerous corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. executive branch, military, and intelligence services. This was an example of a software supply chain attack, which exploits interdependencies within software ecosystems. Software supply chain security is a growing issue, and is particularly important for companies that rely on large numbers of open source dependencies. Michael Lieberman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kusari and has an extensive background in software security from his time at Citi Bank, MUFG and Bridgewater. He’s also active in the open source and security communities, including the Open Source Security Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Michael joins the show today to talk about challenges and strategies in software supply chain security. Please click here for the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Showing 321–340 of 2,221 episodes