Software Engineering Daily

New Relic One with Lew Cirne

In a distributed application, observability is key to handling incidents and building better, more stable software. Legacy monitoring methods were built to respond to predictable failure modes, and to...

Feb 01, 2021

iRobot with Chris Svec

Embedded Software Engineering is the practice of building software that controls embedded systems- that is, machines or devices other than standard computers. Embedded systems appear in a variety of a...

Jan 29, 2021

Sym: Security Workflows with Yasyf Mohamedali

Security is more important than ever, especially in regulated fields such as healthcare and financial services. Developers working in highly regulated industries often spend considerable time building...

Jan 28, 2021

OpsLevel: Service Ownership Platform with John Laban and Kenneth Rose

Microservices are built to scale. But as a microservices-based system grows, so does the operational overhead to manage it. Even the most senior engineers can’t be familiar with every detail of dozens...

Jan 27, 2021

Reinforcement Learning and Robotics with Nathan Lambert

Reinforcement learning is a paradigm in machine learning that uses incentives- or “reinforcement”- to drive learning. The learner is conceptualized as an intelligent agent working within a system of r...

Jan 26, 2021

Pre Seed Investing with Gaurav Jain

For startups that are still seeking product/market fit, pre-seed investments are critical to funding initial investments in the product and in the infrastructure needed to scale. Afore Capital is a pr...

Jan 25, 2021

Redpanda: Kafka Alternative with Alexander Gallego

Kafka has achieved widespread popularity as a popular distributed queue and event streaming platform, with enterprise adoption and a billion dollar company (Confluent) built around it. But could there...

Jan 22, 2021

Machine Learning Carbon Capture with Diego Saez-Gil

Companies can have a negative impact on the environment by outputting excess carbon. Many companies want to reduce their net carbon impact to zero, which can be done by investing in forests. Pachama i...

Jan 21, 2021

Rust and Go Research with Linhai Song

Rust and Golang are two of the newest lower level languages for doing systems programming. They are often used for applications such as file systems, operating systems, and latency-sensitive applicati...

Jan 20, 2021

Dgraph: Native GraphQL Database with Manish Jain

GraphQL has changed the common design patterns for the interface between backend and frontend. This is usually achieved by the presence of a GraphQL server, which interprets and federates a query from...

Jan 19, 2021

Smart Agriculture with David Potere

Agriculture infrastructure allows plants such as corn, soy, and wheat to move from large scale farms to consumers all around the world. The relevant players in the agricultural infrastructure includes...

Jan 15, 2021

Network Discovery with HD Moore

Network discovery allows enterprises to identify what devices are on their network. These devices can include smartphones, servers, desktop computers, and tablets. Being able to index the devices on a...

Jan 14, 2021

Big Tech with Alex Kantrowitz

Large technology companies are a new type of industry. Their power and reach is resistant to a comparison of previous generations, such as big oil. Alex Kantrowitz is a journalist who has covered big...

Jan 13, 2021

Kubecost with Webb Brown

Cost management is growing in importance for companies that want to manage their significant cloud bill. Kubernetes plays an increasing role in modern infrastructure, so managing cost of Kubernetes cl...

Jan 12, 2021

TensorFlow Lite with Pete Warden

TensorFlow Lite is an open source deep learning framework for on-device inference. TensorFlow Lite was designed to improve the viability of machine learning applications on phones, sensors, and other...

Jan 11, 2021