Software Engineering Daily

Data Mechanics: Data Engineering with Jean-Yves Stephan

Apache Spark is a popular open source analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Applications can be written in Java, Scala, Python, R, and SQL. These applications have flexible options to run...

May 14, 2021

Apache Hudi: Large Scale Data Systems with Vinoth Chandar

Apache Hudi is an open-source data management framework used to simplify incremental data processing and data pipeline development. This framework more efficiently manages business requirements like d...

May 13, 2021

Akita: Application Programming Interfaces with Jean Yang

An application programming interface, API for short, is the connector between 2 applications. For example, a user interface that needs user data will call an endpoint, like a special URL, with request...

May 12, 2021

Nextmv: Optimization in Fluid Work Environments with Carolyn Mooney

The traveling salesman problem is a classic challenge of finding the shortest and most efficient route for a person to take given a list of destinations. This is one of many real-world optimization pr...

May 10, 2021

Temporal Product: Managing State with Ryland Goldstein

Microservice architecture has become very common over the past few years because of the availability of containers and container orchestrators like Kubernetes. While containers are overall positive fo...

May 08, 2021

Botpress: Natural Language Processing with Sylvain Perron

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with giving computers the ability to understand text and spoken words. “Understanding” includes intent, sentiment, an...

May 07, 2021

New Relic: Telemetry and Intelligent Observability with Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee

In software engineering, telemetry is the data that is collected about your applications. Unlike logging, which is used in the development of apps to pinpoint errors and code flows, telemetry data inc...

May 05, 2021

Bridgecrew: Cloud Security with Barak Schoster

Cloud computing provides tools, storage, servers, and software products through the internet. Securing these resources is a constant process for companies deploying new code to their cloud environment...

Apr 28, 2021

Uber Mobile Engineering: Distributed Payment Systems with Gergely Orosz

Modern applications are increasingly built as large, distributed systems. A distributed system is a program where its components are located on different machines that communicate with one another to...

Apr 27, 2021

Makepath: Geospatial Technology with Brendan Collins

Geospatial technology impacts every person who uses a smartphone, drives a car, or flies in airplanes. It refers to all of the technology used to acquire and interpret geographic information. In more...

Apr 26, 2021

Speedscale: Automated Testing with Ken Ahrens and Matt LeRay

Large portions of software development budgets are dedicated for testing code. A new component may take weeks to thoroughly test, and even then mistakes happen. If you consider software defects as sec...

Apr 23, 2021

Skiff: Secure Document Collaboration with Andrew Milich

Encryption algorithms provide the means to secure and transfer sensitive information by taking input and transforming it into an unreadable output. Usually a special key, or multiple keys, are needed...

Apr 22, 2021

Uniswap: Creating Liquidity in DeFi with Noah Zinsmeister

A liquid market enables individuals or groups to quickly buy and sell assets. Decentralized platforms can struggle to execute trades when their platform does not have much liquidity for a specific tok...

Apr 21, 2021

Showtime: Crypto Art and NFTs with Alex Masmejean

Non-fungible tokens are proofs of authenticity that are stored on a blockchain. Unlike fungible tokens, such as cryptocurrencies which are interchangeable, non-fungible tokens aren’t inherently equiva...

Apr 20, 2021

Synthetix: Derivatives Trading in DeFi with Justin Moses

Volatility is the degree of fluctuation of something’s price. Highly volatile assets may see rapid and large price changes, while less volatile assets will maintain a steady price. This concept is imp...

Apr 19, 2021