Software Engineering Daily

The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader

In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papy...

Aug 01, 2024

Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee

Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. Thi...

Jul 31, 2024

Uber’s LedgerStore and its Trillions of Indexes with Kaushik Devarajaiah

Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across drivers, couriers, users, and merchants every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution...

Jul 30, 2024

Frontend Observability with Purvi Kanal

One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience...

Jul 25, 2024

AI Tools for Game Development with Igor Poletaev and Nathan Yu

Inworld is a company that provides tools for game studios to add AI-driven gameplay. They are at the leading edge of using generative AI in game development, and have worked with companies such as Xbo...

Jul 24, 2024

C++ Static Analysis with Abbas Sabra

Static analysis is the examination of code without executing the program. It’s used to identify potential errors, code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding best practices....

Jul 23, 2024

Climate Tech Investing with Tom Biegala

Bison Ventures invests in frontier technology companies that use innovative science and deep technology. A key pillar of their investment portfolio is climate technology. Tom Biegala is a co-founder o...

Jul 18, 2024

Luma AI with Barkley Dai and Karan Ganesan

Luma AI develops technologies at the forefront of AI and graphics. They created a text-to-3D tool that functions like Midjourney but for generating 3D models. Another tool makes photorealistic environ...

Jul 17, 2024

AI at Redis with Brian Sam-Bodden

Redis is an in-memory database that can be used for caching, vector search, and as a message broker. Brian Sam-Bodden is a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show to talk about his work...

Jul 16, 2024

Dusk and the Art of Making Short Games with David Szymanski

David Szymanski is a video game developer focused on short retro horror games. He created the hit FPS Dusk, along with Iron Lung, Chop Goblins, and the upcoming Butcher’s Creek. He’s also involved in...

Jul 11, 2024

Fast Frontend Development with David Hsu

Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received...

Jul 10, 2024

One Year of ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki

ChatGPT has been out for more than a year and has since become the centerpiece of intense discussion and debate about AI. Christian Hubicki is a renowned robotics research scientist and an Assistant P...

Jul 09, 2024

Hyperscaling SQL with Sam Lambert

Databases underpin almost every user experience on the web, but scaling a database is one of the most fundamental infrastructure challenges in software development. PlanetScale offers a MySQL platform...

Jul 04, 2024

Google Ventures with Erik Nordlander

GV, or Google Ventures, is an independent venture capital firm backed by Alphabet. Erik Nordlander is a General Partner at GV and invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing o...

Jul 03, 2024

The Challenge of API Design with Lauren Long

A common challenge for developers of SaaS products is integrating with existing services, including services that customers might already be using. For example, a SaaS product might need to integrate...

Jul 02, 2024