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Nov 24, 2020 · 50 min
Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat
Originally published May 14, 2018 The Kubernetes ecosystem consists of enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and individual engineers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created to balance the interests of all the different groups within the cloud native community. CNCF has similarities to the Linux Foundation and the Apache Foundation. CNCF helps to guide open source projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem--including Prometheus, Fluentd, and Envoy. With the help of the CNCF, these projects can find common ground where possible. KubeCon is a conference organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. I attended the most recent KubeCon in Copenhagen. KubeCon was a remarkably well-run conference--and the attendees were excited and optimistic. As much traction as Kubernetes has, it is still very early days and it was fun to talk to people and forecast what the future might bring. At KubeCon, I sat down with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn, who are the COO and director of the CNCF. I was curious about how to scale an organization like the CNCF. In some ways, it is like scaling a government. Kubernetes is growing faster than Linux grew, and the applications of Kubernetes are as numerous as those of Linux. Different constituencies want different things out of Kubernetes--and as those constituencies rapidly grow in number, how do you maintain diplomacy among competing interests? It’s not an easy task, and that diplomacy has been established by keeping in mind lessons from previous open source projects.
Nov 24, 2020 · 51 min
Cruise: Self-Driving Engineering with Mo Elshenawy Holiday Repeat
October 1, 2019 The development of self-driving cars is one of the biggest technological changes that is under way. Across the world, thousands of engineers are working on developing self-driving cars. Although it still seems far away, self-driving cars are starting to feel like an inevitability. This is especially true if you spend much time in downtown San Francisco, where you will see a self-driving car being tested every day. Much of the time, that self-driving car will be operated by Cruise. Cruise is a company that is building a self-driving car service. The company has hundreds of engineers working across the stack, from computer vision algorithms to automotive hardware. Cruise’s engineering requires engineers who can work with cloud tools as well as low-latency devices. It also requires product developers and managers to lead these different teams. The field of self-driving is very new. There is not much literature available on how to build a self-driving car. There is even less literature on how to manage a team of engineers that are building, testing, and deploying software and hardware for real cars that are driving around the streets of San Francisco. Mo Elshenawy is VP of engineering at Cruise, and he joins the show to talk about the engineering that is required to develop fully self-driving car technology, as well as how to structure teams to align the roles of product design, software engineering, testing, machine learning, and hardware.
Nov 23, 2020 · 1 hr 19 min
Slack Data Platform with Josh Wills Holiday Repeat
Originally published January 10, 2020 Slack is a messaging platform for organizations. Since its creation in 2013, Slack has quickly become a core piece of technology used by a wide variety of technology companies, groups, and small teams. The messages that are sent on Slack are generated at a very high volume, and are extremely sensitive. These messages must be stored on Slack’s servers in a way that does not risk a message from one company accidentally being accessible to another company. The messages must be highly available, and they also must be indexed for search. When Slack was scaling, the company started to encounter limitations in its data infrastructure that the company was unsure how to solve. During this time, Josh Wills was the director of data engineering at Slack, and he joins the show to retell the history of his time at Slack, and why the problem of searching messages was so hard. Josh also provides a great deal of industry context around how engineers from Facebook and Google differ from one another. When Slack was starting to become popular, the company quickly began to attract engineers from both of those companies. Facebook and Google have distinct solutions for how they have tackled the problems of data engineering.
Nov 20, 2020 · 48 min
GraphQL at Github with Marc-Andre Giroux
GitHub manages a large API surface for both internal and external developers. This API surface has been migrated from purely RESTful requests to GraphQL. GraphQL is a newer request language for data fetching with fewer round trips. Marc-Andre Giroux works at GitHub and is the author of Production Ready GraphQL. He joins the show to talk about GraphQL across the industry, and specifically at GitHub. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 19, 2020 · 49 min
Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals with Stefan Ålund
Infrastructure at Spotify runs at high speeds. Developers work autonomously, building and deploying services all the time. Backstage is an open source platform built at Spotify that allows developers to build portals for making sense of their infrastructure. Backstage developer portals are powered by a central service catalog, with centralized services and streamlined development. Stefan Alund joins the show to explain how Backstage works and their role in developing it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 18, 2020 · 41 min
OpenBase: JavaScript Package Selection with Lior Grossman
The JavaScript ecosystem has millions of packages. How do you choose from those packages to find the best in breed for your projects? OpenBase is a system for searching and discovering JavaScript packages. OpenBase includes reviews, insights, and statistics around these JavaScript packages. Lior Grossman is a founder of OpenBase, and joins the show to talk about the JavaScript ecosystem and what he is building. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 17, 2020 · 47 min
Data Protection with Dave Cole
Data leaks can cause privacy violations and other cloud security vulnerabilities. Visibility and control of cloud resources can help secure data and ensure compliance and governance. Open Raven is a system for discovering and classifying sensitive data in a public cloud, and assuring compliance and governance. Dave Cole is a founder of Open Raven, and he joins the show to talk through data protection and what he has built with Open Raven. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 16, 2020 · 53 min
Banking and Money Flows with Sam Aarons
Banking and money management are at the core of many modern applications. Payment operations teams work to enable the transfer of funds between different bank accounts, and to track the movement of those funds effectively. Modern Treasury is a company that builds payment operations APIs. Sam Aarons works at Modern Treasury and joins the show to talk through the engineering at Modern Treasury. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 13, 2020 · 46 min
Retool with David Hsu
Internal tools are often built with Ruby on Rails or NodeJS. Developers create entire full-fledged applications in order to suit simple needs such as database lookups, dashboarding, and product refunds. This internal tooling creates a drain on engineering resources. Retool is a low-code platform for creating internal tools. These internal tools can be written by bizops, marketing, or roles other than engineers. David Hsu is the founder of Retool and joins the show to talk through what he has built. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 12, 2020 · 45 min
Microservice Routing with Tobias Kunze Briseño
Microservices route requests between each other. As the underlying infrastructure changes, this routing becomes more complex and dynamic. The interaction patterns across this infrastructure requires operators to create rules around traffic management. Tobias Kunze Briseno is the founder of Glasnostic, a system for ensuring resilience of microservice applications. Tobias joins the show to talk about microservice routing and traffic management, and what he has built with Glasnostic. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 11, 2020 · 45 min
Edge Handlers with Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Netlify is a cloud provider for JAMStack applications. To make those applications more performant, Netlify has built out capacity for edge computing--specifically “edge handlers”. Edge handlers can be used for a variety of use cases that need lower latency or other edge computing functionality. Matt Biilmann Christensen is the CEO of Netlify and joins the show to talk through the engineering behind edge handlers. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 10, 2020 · 51 min
DevOps Community with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller
DevOps practices are shared via community, and community manifests at conferences. Unfortunately, conferences are not possible right now due to COVID-19. The world has turned to virtual conferences. All Day DevOps is a 24 hour conference sharing learnings and software strategies around DevOps, starting November 12th. Derek Weeks and Mark Miller are organizers of the conference and they join the show to talk about modern DevOps. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 9, 2020 · 41 min
DeepSource: Static Analysis for Code Reviews with Jai Pradeesh and Sanket Saurav
Static analysis allows for the discovery of issues in a codebase without compiling. There have been many generations of static analysis tools. A newer static analysis tool is DeepSource, which automates code reviews, identifies bug risks, and generates pull requests to fix them. Jai Pradeesh and Sanket Saurav are founders of DeepSource, and join the show to talk through the creation of static analysis tooling, and their work on DeepSource. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 6, 2020 · 45 min
Splitgraph: Data Catalog and Proxy with Miles Richardson and Artjoms Iškovs
Data science requires data sets to be cataloged and indexed. The data sets are versioned and might be in CSV files in S3, a database, or another data storage system. Splitgraph allows the user to query this data catalog like it is a Postgres database, routing queries to any data set across your catalog. Artjoms Iškovs and Miles Richardson are the founders of Splitgraph and join the show to talk about data cataloging and what they are building with Splitgraph. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 5, 2020 · 50 min
Messaging APIs with John Kim
Sendbird is a company that makes chat, voice, and video APIs for developers. The biggest company in this category is arguably Twilio, but Sendbird works at a higher level of abstraction, with an emphasis on developer experience and visual components. John Kim is the CEO of Sendbird and he joins the show to discuss the engineering and competitive positioning of his company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 4, 2020 · 36 min
Model Deployment and Serving with Chaoyu Yang
Newer machine learning tooling is often focused on streamlining the workflows and developer experience. One such tool is BentoML. BentoML is a workflow that allows data scientists and developers to ship models more effectively. Chaoyu Yang is the creator of BentoML and he joins the show to talk about why he created Bento and the engineering behind the project. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 3, 2020 · 42 min
Humanloop: NLP Model Engineering with Raza Habib
Data labeling is a major bottleneck in training and deploying machine learning and especially NLP. But new tools for training models with humans in the loop can drastically reduce how much data is required. Humanloop is a platform for annotating text and training NLP models with much less labelled data. Raza Habib, founder of Humanloop, joins the show to to talk about NLP workflows and his work on Humanloop. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Nov 2, 2020 · 47 min
Hightouch: Customer Data Warehouse
A customer data platform such as Segment allows developers to build analytics and workflows around customer data such as purchases, clicks, and other interactions. These customer data platforms (CDP) are often tightly coupled to an underlying data warehouse technology. Hightouch is a platform that provides an unbundled CDP--a platform that sits on top of your own data warehouse. The Hightouch team joins the show to talk about what they are building and the CDP ecosystem as a whole. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 30, 2020 · 51 min
Fivetran and DBT with George Fraser
Fivetran is a company that builds data integration infrastructure. If your company is performing ELT or ETL jobs to move data from one place to another, Fivetran can help with that movement from source to destination. Once the data is moved into a data warehouse, a tool called DBT (data build tool) can be used to transform the data more effectively. We have done shows previously about Fivetran and DBT. In today’s episode, George Fraser of Fivetran returns to discuss the cross section of these two technologies, and what his company is doing around that integration point. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 29, 2020 · 46 min
Staff Engineering with Will Larson
Staff engineer is a job title that suggests the engineer has deep expertise, and considerable experience. More and more companies are adopting a “staff engineer track” where an engineer can work to become a staff engineer. What is the role of staff engineer? Is it a management role or an individual contributor? What are the expectations and obligations of staff engineer? Will Larson is an experienced engineer who has worked at Stripe and other prominent tech companies. He joins the show to talk about the role of staff engineering, and the material he has written about it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

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