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#332
Aug 1, 2016 · 53 min
Prometheus with Julius Volz
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring tool built at SoundCloud. It can be used to produce detailed time-series data about a distributed architecture. Prometheus is based on the monitoring system inside Google’s infrastructure, called Borgmon. Julius Volz is the creator of Prometheus, and he joins the show to explain why he built Prometheus and how it differs from previous monitoring tools. Prometheus is widely used to monitor Kubernetes clusters, just like Google uses Borgmon to monitor its Borg clusters.
#331
Jul 28, 2016 · 1 hr 5 min
The Art of Monitoring with James Turnbull
Monitoring translates machine data into actionable business metrics, and is a key component of a modern software company. James Turnbull’s new book “The Art of Monitoring” describes how organizations can build their monitoring infrastructure. James joins the show today to outline the strategies that a company can use to proactively monitor their systems. We talk about pull- vs. push-based monitoring, events, logging, metrics, and James’s experience as CTO of Kickstarter.
#330
Jul 28, 2016 · 57 min
Fintech Hiring with Ed Donner
Financial technology has changed significantly in the last decade, and companies both new and old are adapting to that change. Newer companies like TransferWise and Stripe are often called “fintech” companies–short for “financial technology”. Established companies like banks may not refer to themselves as fintech companies, but the way that they do business is changing, due to technological advances like blockchain. Ed Donner is the CEO of untapt, a hiring platform for fintech companies, and he joins the show to talk about the fundamental changes that are causing so many new fintech companies to be created. Before starting untapt, Ed worked at JP Morgan Chase, where he spent much of his time leading engineers and hiring engineers, which makes him well-equipped to build a platform for hiring software engineers into fintech companies, driven by machine intelligence.
#329
Jul 27, 2016 · 49 min
Scaling github with Sam Lambert
github has grown to have 10 million users and 30 million repositories. Getting to this scale has required innovation in many places–github has significantly altered the code for git itself, and has built unique infrastructure and written low level code to architect for git repository management at scale. Despite the need for cutting-edge technologies to support github, the development culture at github values tried and true technologies, and today’s guest Sam Lambert explains the value of maintaining a Rails monolith as the frontend of github, and the other battle-tested tools that github uses.
#328
Jul 26, 2016 · 1 hr 2 min
Pixar in a Box with Kitt Hirasaki
Pixar has made some of the most successful movies of all time: Toy Story, WALL-E, Monsters Inc, and many others. These movies are made with cutting-edge computer animation techniques that Pixar often has to invent in order to tell the story it wants to tell. Pixar has teamed up with Khan Academy to teach anyone who wants to learn the basics of computer animation–Pixar-style. The collaboration with Khan Academy is called “Pixar in a Box”, and Kitt Hirasaki joins the show to talk about it. Kitt has worked two stints at Pixar, starting in 1996 and again in 2008, and today he works at Khan Academy–so we also get into his experiences at Pixar, and how the software engineering at Pixar works.
#327
Jul 25, 2016 · 44 min
Open Source Culture with Rachel Roumeliotis
Open source software has become the rule for how software is written rather than the exception. OSCON is O’Reilly’s open source conference, where companies and individuals talk about where the open-source world is going. Rachel Roumeliotis is the chair of OSCON, and she joins the show today to talk about the state of open source, and how the conference has developed since she started working at O’Reilly. We are giving away a free ticket to O’Reilly’s Velocity 2016 conference in New York. If you want to be entered to win that ticket, send a tweet about your favorite SE Daily episode about dev ops or web performance, and tag software_daily, as well as #velocityconf.
#326
Jul 22, 2016 · 54 min
Android on iPhone with Nick Lee
Finally–the Android operating system has been put on an iPhone, and today’s guest is Nick Lee, who accomplished that feat. Nick works at Tendigi, a design and engineering firm. In the past, Nick has put Windows 95 on an Apple Watch. Why would you do something like this? In today’s interview with Nick, we talk about the technical challenges of bringing Nick’s bizarre sense of technological irony into reality.
#325
Jul 21, 2016 · 54 min
Kubernetes Origins with Craig Mcluckie
The container management system Kubernetes was open sourced by Google with the intention of creating a cloud service based on the project. Today, the Kubernetes ecosystem is looking similar to the Android ecosystem, with different vendors providing different ways to use Kubernetes, from RedHat’s OpenShift to Google Container Engine. Craig Mcluckie was a member of the team who originally devised Kubernetes, and he joins the show to talk about the origins of Kubernetes and where the project is headed, exploring both the technical architecture and Google’s business strategy around Kubernetes.
#324
Jul 20, 2016 · 48 min
Container Platforms with Darren Shepherd
Container management systems like Kubernetes and Docker Swarm give us a higher level management tool for architectures built out of distributed containers. Container platforms like Rancher provide a higher layer of usability, and today’s guest Darren Shepherd of Rancher Labs takes us through what a container platform is. This interview is part of our continued coverage of Kubernetes, Docker, and the other components of the growing container ecosystem.
#323
Jul 19, 2016 · 58 min
Peter Bailis on the Data Community’s Identity Crisis
Breakthroughs in modern data research tend to come from companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, with projects like MapReduce, Cassandra, and Dynamo. Twenty years ago, this types of breakthroughs would be happening in academia, which causes today’s guest Peter Bailis to ask: is the academic data community having an identity crisis? Peter is an assistant professor at Stanford University, where he works on an analytic monitoring system called MacroBase. Our conversation also explores the intrigue and the challenges of analyzing and storing IoT data.
#322
Jul 18, 2016 · 54 min
Apache Arrow with Uwe Korn
In a typical data analytics system, there are a variety of technologies interacting. HDFS for storing files, Spark for distributed machine learning, pandas for data analysis in Python–each of these different technologies has a different format for how data is represented. Serialization and deserialization between these different formats causes significant latency across the overall system. Apache Arrow is a tool for improving performance of in-memory analytics systems, and today’s guest Uwe Korn explains how Arrow enables these systems with interoperability.
#321
Jul 15, 2016 · 1 hr 3 min
Economics of Software with Russ Roberts
EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast that has been going for a decade. On EconTalk, Russ Roberts brings on writers, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs for engaging conversations about the world as seen through the lens of economics. Russ Roberts is today’s guest, and it is a treat because I have been listening to EconTalk since 2006 and it was a central point of inspiration for what Software Engineering Daily has become. On this episode, we talk about how software impacts the world economically, from bitcoin’s promise of zero cost transactions to the opportunities and regulatory challenges of the software-enabled gig economy.
#320
Jul 13, 2016 · 48 min
IoT Analytics with Jean-Christophe Cimono
On smart thermostats, sensor-driven assembly lines, and electronically monitored farms, the internet of things is producing huge volumes of data. To take advantage of that data, an application needs tools for storing and analyzing that data. Today’s guest is Jean-Cristophe Cimono, the CTO of mnubo, a cloud platform for connected objects. Today we walk through the architecture of mnubo and the use cases of an IoT analytics platform. Thanks to Manuel Vonthron and Eduardo Siman for contributing to the preparation of this show.
#319
Jul 13, 2016 · 56 min
Cassandra Data Modeling with Jon Haddad
Data modeling is the process of creating relationships and rules about objects, so that we can decide how to store them in a database. Data modeling defines how we store and query our database systems. Today’s episode features a discussion of data modeling in Cassandra with Jon Haddad, an evangelist at Datastax. The distributed nature of Cassandra creates some unique rules around how we should model our Cassandra tables. If you are new to Cassandra, there are a few episodes in the past that you may want to listen to first. Special thanks to Caleb Meredith and Ben Johnson from the SE Daily community who helped the preparation of this episode
#318
Jul 12, 2016 · 1 hr 34 min
Salary Negotiation with Haseeb Qureshi
Negotiation is an important skill for software engineers. The salary you negotiate at the beginning of your job could be a difference of tens of thousands of dollars over the course of an engineer’s career, but intimidating recruiters and exploding offers scare many engineers from negotiating at all. Today, Haseeb Qureshi returns to the show to discuss his epic story of salary negotiation. On a previous episode, Haseeb discussed leaving his career as a poker player to join a coding boot camp and start down the path of a software engineer. In this episode and his recent blog post, Haseeb describes his approach to the job search and salary negotiation process, which eventually landed him at Airbnb with a $250,000 annual salary–after about a year of learning to code.
#317
Jul 11, 2016 · 57 min
Platforms with Bridget Kromhout
At software conferences, I like to walk around the vendor booths and talk to the representatives from different companies. By talking to the vendors about their marketing pitches, I get an idea of how those companies are positioning themselves for the future, and the complex business landscape of software becomes slightly easier to understand. At recent conferences, many of the big vendors have been talking about their cloud platform. With Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenStack and so many other cloud platforms, it is hard to keep track of the different offerings, and how they differentiate. Bridget Kromhout joins the show today to talk about these different platforms, and how they have changed modern software development. We also talk about her podcast Arrested DevOps, a great show where she interviews some of the luminaries of the operations and software development world. You can also hear Bridget speak at O’Reilly’s Velocity 2016 conference in New York. We are giving away a free ticket to Velocity New York. If you want to be entered to win that ticket, send a tweet about your favorite SE Daily episode about dev ops or web performance, and tag software_daily, as well as #velocityconf.
#316
Jul 9, 2016 · 54 min
Scalable Architecture with Lee Atchison
Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As an application scales, it becomes significantly more complicated while at the same time receiving more traffic. The intersection of these two problems leads to a variety of discussions around availability, risk management, and microservices. Lee and I didn’t have time to get through everything in his book Architecting for Scale, but if you enjoy this episode, check out the book. Lee also spoke recently at the O’Reilly Velocity conference in Santa Clara, so you can check out his talk. We are giving away a free ticket to O’Reilly’s Velocity 2016 conference in New York. If you want to be entered to win that ticket, send a tweet about your favorite SE Daily episode about dev ops or web performance, and tag software_daily, as well as #velocityconf.
#315
Jul 7, 2016 · 57 min
Schedulers with Adrian Cockcroft
Scheduling is the method by which work is assigned to resources to complete that work. At the operating system level, this can mean scheduling of threads and processes. At the data center level, this can mean scheduling Hadoop jobs or other workflows that require the orchestration of a network of computers. Adrian Cockcroft worked on scheduling at Sun Microsystems, eBay, and Netflix. In each of these environments, the nature of what was being scheduled was different, but the goals of the scheduling algorithms were analogous–throughput, response time, and cache affinity are relevant in different ways at each layer of the stack. Adrian is well-known for helping bring Netflix onto Amazon Web Services, and I recommend watching the numerous YouTube videos of Adrian talking about that transformation.
#314
Jul 6, 2016 · 59 min
Security and Machine Learning in the Call Center with Pindrop Security’s Chris Halaschek
Call centers are a vulnerable point of attack for large enterprises. Fraud accounts for more than $20 billion in lost money every year, and a significant portion of that fraud is due to customer service representatives being fraudulent social engineering attacks. Chris Halaschek joins the show today to discuss how Pindrop Security is addressing this attack vector. Every phone call that gets made to a call center has a unique phoneprint, and the machine learning model at Pindrop Security uses these phoneprints to assign a risk score to each call. Chris also discusses the challenges associated with scaling a cloud security company.
#313
Jul 5, 2016 · 56 min
Cloud Providers with Don Pezet
In 1999, it took $50,000 to buy a server. Once you bought that server, you had to know how to operate and maintain it. Today, cloud service providers have changed how we build software. Servers, load balancers, networking, storage–these hardware concerns have been turned into software. Don Pezet joins the show today to discuss the fundamentals of a cloud service provider. These are the basics that you need to know about building and maintaining your application in the cloud. Don is a host of IT Pro TV, a company that makes training resources for engineers and operators.

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