Software Engineering Daily

Flowdash with Nick Gervasi

When businesses share a common need such as payroll, commercial offerings can compete for market share with software solutions that easily adapt to a variety of businesses. Not all tasks can be easily...

Jan 19, 2022

Uber State Machine with Uday Kiran Medisetty

If you’re working on a proof of concept which you hope will help you raise funding, it’s fine to take a few shortcuts. Use the tech stack you know the best, don’t fall in love with your code, and whe...

Jan 18, 2022

Build Tools with Benjy Weinberger

Writing software is an absolute joy. Getting software to build is a chore. Thus, build systems emerged as a solution to automate this chore. At some point software engineers either use or hear legends...

Jan 17, 2022

Mental Health

I have taken a break from interviews on Software Engineering Daily. I’ll be returning to host the show this year, and want to make a post about why I needed some rest. The last two years have been ext...

Jan 16, 2022

Infrastructure as Code with Rob Hirschfeld

Infrastructure as code is a concept that has delighted software engineers, dev ops, and engineering management across the board. It’s neither fun nor efficient to configure the infrastructure and envi...

Jan 14, 2022

Pinterest Engineering

Pinterest is a visual discovery engine people use to find ideas in home, food, style, beauty, and more. The service grew quickly after its founding in 2010 and the company has grown to be a global tea...

Jan 12, 2022

Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript with Charlie Gerard

Charlie Gerard is an incredibly productive developer. In addition to being the author of Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript, her website charliegerard.dev has a long list of really interesting...

Jan 04, 2022

TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi

TechLit Africa is a non-profit on a mission to lessen African poverty by leveraging the internet. Rural Africans lack digital skills and computers to gain from the digital economy, even though develo...

Jan 03, 2022

Codename One with Steve Hannah

Getting a computer program to run the same in different environments has been a recurring problem since the earliest days of software systems. Software versioning, versions of dependencies, hardware...

Jan 02, 2022

Trifacta with Joe Hellerstein

If you haven’t encountered a data quality problem, then you haven’t yet worked on a large enough project. Invariably, a gap exists between the state of raw data and what an analyst or machine learnin...

Dec 21, 2021

Urbit with Galen Wolfe-Pauly

As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems. To many, this trend towards centralization is antit...

Dec 17, 2021

InfluxData with Zoe Steinkamp

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database. It’s maintained by InfuxData who offers a suite of products that help organizations gain insights from time-series data. In this episode, I interview...

Dec 15, 2021

UiPath with Boris Krumrey

Robotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process. Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox. I’ve worked with...

Dec 15, 2021

The State of Software Supply Chain 2021 with Ilkka Turunen

Everyone is becoming increasingly aware of supply chains for physical goods. Software has its own supply chain. A supply of open source solutions exists as does a demand for these solutions by indus...

Dec 14, 2021

MemGraph with Dominik Tomicevic

Relational databases have been a fixture of software applications for decades. They are highly tuned for performance and typically offer explicit guarantees like transactional consistency. More rece...

Dec 09, 2021