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Building a full cloud backend with James Cowling

Serverless backend platforms are cloud services that simplify the process of building a backend. These platforms are growing rapidly in popularity because they can greatly accelerate application development, and improve the developer experience. Convex is a real-time backend platform that uses 100% TypeScript and is designed with reactive UI frameworks in mind. The team behind Convex has built and maintained some of the most popular apps, backends and exabyte-scale storage projects at companies like Dropbox and Google. James Cowling is the Co-Founder and CTO at Convex, and he joins us to discuss how Convex offers a simpler full-stack developer experience. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more.

Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan

Exafunction is a leader in deploying deep learning models at scale. One of their products is Codeium, a coding assistant for software developers based on Exafunction's deep learning technology. Codeium provides AI-assisted autocompletion in your IDE, making it easier for you to incorporate deep learning technology in your software development workflow. Varun Mohan is the CEO and Co-founder of Codeium, and he is our guest today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more.

The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

Tom Preston-Werner is a renowned software developer, inventor and entrepreneur. He co-founded GitHub and is the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, the TOML configuration file format, and the static site generator software Jekyll. Tom is currently working on the full-stack web framework, RedwoodJS. He joins us today to tell us the latest about RedwoodJS, including its new support for server-side rendering. Check out the show notes for a link to the RedwoodJS conference. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more.

Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments. Rootly is a platform to handle incident management directly from Slack, and is used by hundreds of leading companies including Canva, Grammarly, and Cisco. Ashley Sawatsky leads Developer Relations at Rootly and previously led Shopify's Incident Communications team. Niall Murphy is Co-founder and CEO at Stanza. He has written extensively about reliability engineering and is the co-author of the best-selling book, Site Reliability Engineering. Ashley and Niall join us in this episode to discuss how engineers and their non-technical counterparts can successfully approach incident management together. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more.

AI for Software Delivery with Birgitta Böckeler

AI-assisted software delivery refers to the utilization of artificial intelligence to assist, enhance, or automate various phases of the software development lifecycle. AI can be used in numerous aspects of software development, from requirements gathering to code generation to testing and monitoring. The overarching aim is to streamline software delivery, reduce errors and, ideally, reduce the time and costs associated with software development. Birgitta Böckeler is the Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery at Thoughtworks and she joins us in this episode. We discuss how the latest advances in large language models are revolutionizing software development. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more.

Expanding B2B payments with Sohil Pandya

The Buy Now, Pay Later model, or BNPL, is traditionally a business-to-consumer model that is gaining traction in the business-to-business domain. Adoption of BNPL in business-to-business scenarios offers benefits like improved cash flow management for buyers, and increased sales for suppliers, often leading to higher order value. However, this model introduces complexities, including the need for advanced technical platforms for managing such transactions. There are also risks associated with delayed or defaulted payments, and potential accumulation of interest and fees. As business-to-business entities consider BNPL, they must strike a balance between its potential advantages and its inherent risks and operational challenges. Tranch is a London-based startup that is focused on providing a payments-checkout platform for businesses that want to pay easier and get paid faster. Sohil Pandya is the Head of Engineering at Tranch and he joins us in this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more. Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily.

Database Caching with Ben Hagen

Database caching is a fundamental challenge in database management and there are hundreds of techniques to satisfy different caching scenarios. PolyScale is a fully automated database cache. It offers an innovative approach to database caching, leveraging AI and automated configuration to simplify the process of determining what should and should not be cached. Ben Hagen is the founder and CEO of PolyScale and he is our guest today. Full disclosure: PolyScale is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more. Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily.

An update about SED from Jeff’s family

Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber

In the realm of modern software development, clear and comprehensive documentation is essential for guiding users and contributors alike. Developers often struggle to create, manage, and maintain documentation that is both user-friendly and visually appealing. In this episode, we sit down with Sebastian Lorber, the lead maintainer of Docusaurus, a widely acclaimed open-source static site generator, purpose-built for documentation sites. Sebastian sheds light on how Docusaurus empowers developers to effortlessly build and deploy documentation websites that are not only functional, maintainable, and easy to brand. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more.

SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu

Nearly all developers are interested in developing APIs to streamline the connection process for other companies to their services. APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software. However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consuming endeavor. As a result, API teams often leave the “final” mile of integration on the shoulders of the users. Speakeasy, a budding startup, aims to provide a product and a pipeline that makes it easy to create and consume any API. Sagar Batchu is the Co-foudner and CEO of Speakeasy and he joins us in this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Statsig: Visit https://statsig.com/softwaredaily to learn more. Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more.

Ethical GPTs with Amruta Moktali

The increasing adoption of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models underscores the critical need for privacy and data protection. Using LLMs without appropriate safeguards can lead to sensitive data leakage. Skyflow GPT Privacy Vault prevents sensitive date from reaching GPTs. Amruta Moktali is the Chief Product Officer of Skyflow and she joins us today. We discuss about Generative AI, how its different from the other AI models and how we can use this technology in an ethical manner. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today!

CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer

The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer's theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

Data-Centric AI with Alex Ratner

Companies have high hopes for Machine learning and AI to support real-time product offerings, prevent fraud and drive innovation. But there was a catch - training models require labeled data that machines can digest. As data volumes increase, the opportunity to get great ML results rises, but so does the problem of labeling all the data to get that excellent result. Enter Snorkel AI’s programmatic data labeling and MLops platforms like Snorkel Flow. Today we are interviewing Alex Ratner, one of the founders of Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI evolved from research Alex led as part of his Ph.D. research at Stanford, focused on programmatic data labeling to enable much faster and more accurate ML training and retraining. Alex is a born teacher who always has enthusiasm for the topic. Today he will share the newest evolutions of the product at Snorkel, shed light on why doing ML well requires programmatic data labeling, and talk about foundation models in actual enterprise settings and generally. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today!

Cloud-native Search with Paul Masurel

Elasticsearch is the most established solution today to search and analyze large amounts of logs. However, it can be costly and complex to manage. Quickwit searches large amounts of append only cloud data like logs or ledgers in a fraction time with significantly less cost than Elasticsearch. In this episode, we interview Paul Masurel, one of the founders of Quickwit and the creator and maintainer of Tantivy, the open source full text search engine written in Rust. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Engineering Insights with Christina Forney

As Companies scale and their codebase becomes large, it can become difficult to measure team effectiveness. With so many moving pieces, and an increased lack of visibility, Engineering Leaders mostly rely on gut feelings to guide decisions and determine impact. Uplevel pulls meta-data from programs like Git, Slack, Jira and public calendar events and uses machine learning and organizational science to generate actionable insights. With Uplevel Engineering teams can increase velocity, decrease burnout and plan and execute more predictable releases. Christina Forney is the VP of Product at Uplevel and she joins us in this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

Making Data-Driven Decisions with Soumyadeb Mitra

Rudderstack is a warehouse-native customer data platform (CDP) that helps businesses collect, unify, and activate customer data from all their different sources. In today's episode, we're talking to Soumyadeb Mitra, the founder and CEO of Rudderstack. We discuss the importance of activating all your data, how Rudderstack can help you activate your data, the challenges of integrating different data sources and how to build a data-driven culture in your organization. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily.

Shipping Oxide with Bryan Cantrill

Hyperscalers refer to expansive cloud service providers capable of delivering enterprise-scale computing and storage services. These Hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Facebook that have huge data centers and are either running their own software or renting out this infrastructure realized a long time back that the traditional Network, Storage & Compute server racks were not enough to fulfill the requirements of a modern enterprise at scale. So they built custom solutions for their data center requirements. For all of the other companies and organizations that have their own data centers, they are still running legacy old technology. Oxide Computer is a company aiming to democratize access to rack-scale technology and provide a seamless software stack to facilitate its implementation. Bryan Cantrill is the Co-Founder and CTO of Oxide Computer and he joins us in this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

Trusted Software Supply Chain with Vincent Danen

Available as a cloud service, Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain provides a DevSecOps framework to create applications more securely. Vincent Danen is the VP of Product Security at Red Hat and he joins us in this episode. Red Hat has been a secure open source software provider for a long time. We discuss how the Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain product allows enterprises to adopt DevSecOps practices successfully, safely, consume open source code and third-party dependencies and build security into the software development lifecycle. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. Work OS: To learn more and get started, go to https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/workos

Customer-facing Analytics with Tyler Wells

The state of Data inside most companies is chaotic. It takes significant time and investment to tame this chaos. When you are a platform provider you are gathering tons of data from the developers using your platform. These developers building products on your platform need insight into that data to better understand how their application is performing or to troubleshoot it. Most Platforms or SaaS application providers find it both difficult and expensive to build customer-facing analytics and data applications into their platforms. In fact most companies don’t know what to do with the data they are gathering and continually postpone future product roadmap features aimed to unlock this data. This data can be a crucial part of the developer experience and can empower your customers. It can save you countless hours of handling support tickets, and increase overall stickiness on the platform. Propel is a GraphQL API platform ideal for powering customer-facing analytics use cases, from customer dashboards and analytics APIs to product usage or in-product metrics. Tyler Wells is Co-founder and CTO at Propel and he joins us today. We discuss how the customer-centric experiences at Twilio lead his team to the journey they are on today. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Starburst: Try Starburst Galaxy today: https://starburst.io/sedaily. CoxAutomotive : Visit https://COXAUTOTECH.COM today! Fullstory: Visit https://fullstory.com to learn more.

Resale Revolution with Richie Ganney and Harry Riley

The company Continue has a new take on the resale marketplace. By partnering with brands and pulling post-purchase data onto their platform, this innovative solution simplifies and enhances the resale process, empowering consumers to participate in a more sustainable and circular economy. Richie Ganney and Harry Riley are the Co-founders of Continue and they join us in this episode. We uncover how this startup is revolutionizing the way we consume and recycle products. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com