Best SE Bachinger Podcasts (2024)

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SE Radio 629: Emily Bache on Katas and the Importance of Practice 51:52

5h ago51:52

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Emily Bache, founder of the Samman Technical Coaching Society and author of several books about technical agile coaching, talks with SE Radio host Sam Taggart about katas and the importance of practice. They discuss how practicing in a safe environment helps developers to learn new skills and build new habits. They also talk about how Samman coachi…

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SE Radio 628: Hans Dockter on Developer Productivity 56:46

6d ago56:46

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Hans Dockter, the creator of the Gradle build tool and founder of Gradle Inc, the company behind the developer productivity platform Develocity, joins SE Radio host Giovanni Asproni to talk about developer productivity. They start with some definitions and an explanation of the importance of developer productivity, its relationship with cognitive l…

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SE Radio 627: Chuck Weindorf on Leaders and Software Engineers 57:07

13d ago57:07

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Chuck Weindorf, a retired IT director and chief engineer with nearly 40 years' experience in software engineering, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about the concepts in Chuck's book, Leaders & Software Engineers. Through personal anecdotes and insights gleaned from his extensive career, Chuck underscores quality assurance's critical ro…

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SE Radio 626: Ipek Ozkaya on Gen AI for Software Architecture 59:33

21d ago59:33

59:33

Ipek Ozkaya, Principal Researcher and Technical Director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, discusses generative AI for Software Architecture with SE Radio host Priyanka Raghavan. The episode delves into fundamental definitions of software architecture and explores use cases…

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SE Radio 625: Jonathan Schneider on Automated Refactoring with OpenRewrite 52:45

28d ago52:45

52:45

Jonathan Schneider, the cofounder of Moderne and the creator of OpenRewrite, talks with SE Radio's Gregory Kapfhammer about automated software maintenance. In addition to exploring the design and implementation of OpenRewrite, Schneider explains how the tool can automatically support software maintenance tasks such as framework migration and securi…

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SE Radio 624: Marcelo Trylesinski on FastAPI 41:04

28d ago41:04

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Marcelo Trylesinski, a senior software engineer at Pydantic and a maintainer of open-source Python tools including Starlette and Uvicorn, joins host Gregory M. Kapfhammer to talk about FastAPI. Their conversation focuses on the design and implementation of FastAPI and how programmers can use it to create web-based APIs. They also explore how to cre…

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SE Radio 623: Michael J. Freedman on TimescaleDB 1:05:43

1M ago1:05:43

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Michael J. Freedman, the Robert E. Kahn Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, as well as the co-founder and CTO of Timescale, spoke with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about TimescaleDB. They revisit what time series data means in 2024, the history of TimescaleDB, how it integrates with PostgreSQL, and they take the liste…

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SE Radio 622: Wolf Vollprecht on Python Tooling in Rust 55:10

2M ago55:10

55:10

Wolf Vollprecht, the CEO and founder of Prefix.dev, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about how to implement Python tools, such as package managers, in the Rust programming language. They discuss the challenges associated with building Python infrastructure tooling in Python and explore how using the Rust programming language addresses these c…

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SE Radio 621: Xe Iaso on Fly.io 47:33

2M ago47:33

47:33

Xe Iaso of Fly.io discusses their hosting platform with host Jeremy Jung. They cover building globally distributed applications with Anycast, using Wireguard to encrypt inter-service communication, writing custom code to handle load balancing and scaling with fly-proxy, why serving EU customers has unique requirements, letting users use docker imag…

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SE Radio 620: Parker Selbert and Shannon Selbert on Robust Job Processing in Elixir 59:42

2M ago59:42

59:42

Shannon Selbert, co-founder of Soren and developer of Oban, and Parker Selbert, creator of the Oban background job framework, chief architect at dscout, and co-founder of Soren, speak with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about robust job processing in Elixir. They explore the reliability, consistency, and observability in relation to job processing, to u…

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SE Radio 619: James Strong on Kubernetes Networking 49:55

2M ago49:55

49:55

Infrastructure engineer and Kubernetes ingress-Nginx maintainer James Strong joins host Robert Blumen to discuss the Kubernetes networking layer. The discussion draws on content from Strong’s book on the topic and covers a lot of ground, including: the Kubernetes network's use of different IP ranges than the host network; overlay network with its o…

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SE Radio 618: Andreas Møller on No-Code Platforms 53:53

3M ago53:53

53:53

Andreas Møller, founder of Toddle, a no-code tool for building scalable performant web applications, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about no-code platforms. They discuss the role of developers in a no-code ecosystem and explore scalability and performance considerations, as well as enterprise adoption of no-code tools. Andreas also expands…

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SE Radio 617: Frances Buontempo on Modern C++ 1:11:16

3M ago1:11:16

1:11:16

Frances Buontempo, author of the new book Learn C++ by Example, discusses the C++ programming language, a widely used general-purpose programming language. Host Philip Winston spoke with Buontempo about where C++ fits into the landscape of existing programming languages and how recent C++ standards have changed things. They talk about specific lang…

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SE Radio 616: Ori Saporta on the Role of the Software Architect 54:56

3M ago54:56

54:56

Ori Saporta, co-founder and Systems Architect at vFunction, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about the role of the software architect. The episode begins with Ori’s thoughts on what is typically missed or overlooked regarding this role. The conversation then explores aspects of both hard and soft skills required of software architects. …

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SE Radio 615: Kent Beck on "Tidy First?" 1:01:51

3M ago1:01:51

1:01:51

Kent Beck, Chief Scientist at Mechanical Orchard, and inventor of Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development, joins SE Radio host Giovanni Asproni for a conversation on software design based on his latest book "Tidy First?". The episode starts with exploring the reasons for writing the book, and introducing the concepts of tidying, cohesion, a…

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SE Radio 613: Shahar Binyamin on GraphQL Security 56:17

3M ago56:17

56:17

Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder of Inigo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss GraphQL security. They begin with a look at the state of adoption of GraphQL and why it's so popular. From there, they consider why GraphQL security is important as they take a deep dive into a range of known security issues that have been exploited in GraphQL, in…

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SE Radio 614: Wouter Groeneveld on Creative Problem Solving for Software Development 51:10

3M ago51:10

51:10

Wouter Groeneveld, author of The Creative Programmer and PhD researcher at KU Leuven, discusses his research related to programming education with host Jeremy Jung. Topics include evaluating projects, constraints, social debt in teams, common fallacies in critical thinking, maintaining flow state, documenting and retaining knowledge, and creating e…

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SE Radio 612: Eyal Solomon on API Consumption Management 53:30

4M ago53:30

53:30

Eyal Solomon, CEO and co-founder of Lunar.dev, joins SE Radio’s Kanchan Shringi for a discussion on tooling for API consumption management. The episode starts by examining why API consumption management is an increasingly important topic, and how existing tooling on the provider side can be inadequate for client-side issues. Eyal talks in detail ab…

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SE Radio 611: Ines Montani on Natural Language Processing 1:11:32

4M ago1:11:32

1:11:32

Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of Explosion, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about solving problems using natural language processing (NLP). They cover generative vs predictive tasks, creating a pipeline and breaking down problems, labeling examples for training, fine-tuning models, using LLMs to label data and build prototypes, and the spaCy NLP li…

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Welcome To Conglomerate Knowledge(s) - Remedies For Species Loneliness 1:49

4M ago1:49

1:49

Welcome to conglomerate Knowledge(s) Remedies for Species Loneliness, a podcast where we embark on a journey of exploring methods to rekindle connection and kinship with nature. In a time when disconnection from nature pervades our modern lives, it's crucial to rediscover the threads that intertwine us with our more-than-human kin. Here on Conglome…

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SE Radio 610: Phillip Carter on Observability for Large Language Models 1:05:06

4M ago1:05:06

1:05:06

Phillip Carter, Principal Product Manager at Honeycomb and open source software developer, talks with host Giovanni Asproni about observability for large language models (LLMs). The episode explores similarities and differences for observability with LLMs versus more conventional systems. Key topics include: how observability helps in testing parts…

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SE Radio 603: Rishi Singh on Using GenAI for Test Code Generation 49:02

4M ago49:02

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Rishi Singh, founder and CEO at Sapient.ai, speaks with SE radio’s Kanchan Shringi about using generative AI to help developers automate test code generation. They start by identifying key problems that developers are looking for in an automated test-generation solution. The discussion explores the capabilities and limitations of today’s large lang…

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SE Radio 609: Hyrum Wright on Software Engineering at Google 56:48

5M ago56:48

56:48

Hyrum Wright, Senior Staff Engineer at Google, discusses the book he co-edited, “Software Engineering at Google,” with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer. Wright describes the professional and technical best practices adopted by the software engineers at Google. The wide-ranging conversation investigates an array of topics, including measuring engineering …

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SE Radio 608: Lane Wagner on Revisiting the Go Language 1:08:23

5M ago1:08:23

1:08:23

Lane Wagner of Boot.dev speaks with host Philip Winston about Go, the programming language that's popular for web, cloud, devops, networking, and other types of development. In addition to discussing existing features such as structs, interfaces, concurrency, and error handling, Lane and Philip take a deep look at generics, a recent addition to the…

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SE Radio 607: John Frandsen on Geospatial Technologies 1:02:23

5M ago1:02:23

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John Frandsen, Chief Product officer for Elebase, joins host Jeff Doolittle for an exploration of geospatial technologies. The conversation begins with a discussion of the history of mapping and global information systems (GIS) technologies. John describes the underlying technologies used in location-aware applications and the ways that developers …

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SE Radio 606: Charlie Jones on Third-Party Software Supply Chain Risks 51:29

5M ago51:29

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Charlie Jones, Director of Product Management at ReversingLabs and subject matter expert in supply chain security, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss tackling third-party software risks. They begin by defining different types of third-party software risks and then take a deep dive into case studies where third-party components and software hav…

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SE Radio 605: Yingjun Wu on Streaming Databases 54:09

6M ago54:09

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Yingjun Wu, founder of RisingWave Labs and previously a software engineer at Amazon Web Services and researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center, speaks with SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath about streaming databases. After considering the benefits and unique challenges, they delve into the architecture and design patterns of streaming databases, as we…

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SE Radio 604: Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson on Software Requirements Essentials 1:07:02

6M ago1:07:02

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Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant with Process Impact and author of 14 books, and Candase Hokanson, Business Architect and PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner at ArgonDigital, speak with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about software requirements essentials. They explore five different parts of requirements engineering and how you can apply them to any ong…

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SE Radio 602: Nicolas Carlo on Improving Legacy Code 52:17

6M ago52:17

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Nicolas Carlo talks with host Sam Taggart about Nicolas’s recent book, Legacy Code First Aid Kit. They start by defining legacy code and the general issues that developers face when dealing with it. Nicolas describes some of the tools in his book and provides examples of where he has found them useful. The episode also touches briefly on the role o…

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SE Radio 601: Han Yuan on Reorganizations 48:26

7M ago48:26

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Han Yuan, an accomplished Chief Product and Technology Officer, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss reorganizations. The conversation starts with a broad discussion of reorganizations and reasons that companies choose to undertake them. They then consider organizational behavior and topics such as Conway's law and the theory of constraints. Han…

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SE Radio 600: William Morgan on Kubernetes Sidecars and Service Mesh 45:31

7M ago45:31

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William Morgan, founder of the Linkerd service mesh and CEO of Bouyant, joins SE Radio’s Robert Blumen for a discussion of sidecars, service mesh, and a forthcoming enhancement to kubernetes to support sidecars natively. The conversation explores the origin of sidecars, sidecars and service mesh, and migrating service mesh to kubernetes. They take …

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SE Radio 599: Jason C. McDonald on Quantified Tasks 44:32

7M ago44:32

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Jason C. McDonald, author of the book Dead Simple Python, speaks with host Samuel Taggart about leveraging quantified tasks to improve estimation, particularly across projects. They discuss the origin of the concept and its relationship with story points, and Jason offers examples to show how quantified tasks can capture nuances in software tasks t…

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SE Radio 598: Jonathan Crossland on the AMMERSE Framework 1:07:50

7M ago1:07:50

1:07:50

Jonathan Crossland, software architect, author, and business owner, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about the AMMERSE framework of design principles. They start by discussing the agile manifesto as a statement of values, and Jonathan shares his perspective based on his experience as a software developer and business owner. They then ex…

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SE Radio 597: Coral Calero Muñoz and Félix García on Green Software 1:03:50

7M ago1:03:50

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Coral Calero Muñoz and Felix Garcia, professors at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, speak with host Giovanni Asproni about green and sustainable software—an approach to software development aimed at creating software systems that consume less energy and produce less CO2 during their entire lifetimes with minimal impact on their functionality a…

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SE Radio 596: Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with Temporal 1:08:54

8M ago1:08:54

1:08:54

Maxim Fateev, the CEO of Temporal, speaks with SE Radio's Philip Winston about how Temporal implements durable execution. They explore concepts including workflows, activities, timers, event histories, signals, and queries. Maxim also compares deployment using self-hosted clusters or the Temporal Cloud.…

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SE Radio 595: Llewelyn Falco on Approval Testing 1:03:34

8M ago1:03:34

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Llewelyn Falco, creator approval tests, talks with SE Radio host Sam Taggart about testing code in general and the various types of testing that developers perform. Llewelyn elaborates on how approval tests can help test code at a higher level than traditional unit tests. They also discuss using approval tests to help get legacy code under test. Th…

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SE Radio 594: Sean Moriarity on Deep Learning with Elixir and Axon 57:43

8M ago57:43

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Sean Moriarity, creator of the Axon deep learning framework, co-creator of the Nx library, and author of Machine Learning in Elixir and Genetic Algorithms in Elixir, published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about what deep learning (neural networks) means today. Using a practical example with deep learning for fra…

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SE Radio 593: Eric Olden on Identity Orchestration 1:03:25

8M ago1:03:25

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Eric Olden talks with host Giovanni Asproni about identity orchestration, a software approach for managing distributed identity and access management (IAM) and integrating multiple identity systems or providers (IDPs) to make them look like a single system from a user perspective. The episode starts with a refresher in identity and access managemen…

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SE Radio 592: Jaxon Repp on Distributed Data Infrastructure 53:38

9M ago53:38

53:38

Jaxon Repp of HarperDB speaks with Brijesh Ammanath about distributed data infrastructure, including what it is and why it's important. They discuss the key factors that make distributed data infrastructure attractive, as well as challenges to implementing it. The episode explores the architecture and design principles, the key security considerati…

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SE Radio 591: Yechezkel Rabinovich on Kubernetes Observability 1:02:14

9M ago1:02:14

1:02:14

Yeckezkel Rabinovich, CTO of Groundcover, speaks with host Philip Winston about observability and eBPF as it applies to Kubernetes. Rabinovich was previously the chief architect at the healthcare security company CyberMDX and spent eight years in the cyber security division of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. This episode explores the three pil…

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SE Radio 590: Andy Suderman on Standing Up Kubernetes 54:14

9M ago54:14

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Andy Suderman, CTO of Fairwinds, joins host Robert Blumen to talk about standing up a kubernetes cluster. Their discussion covers build-your-own versus managed clusters provided by cloud services, and how to determine the number of kubernetes clusters an organization needs. Andy describes best practices for automating cluster provisioning, and offe…

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SE Radio 589: Zac Hatfield-Dodds on Property-Based Testing in Python 56:47

9M ago56:47

56:47

Zac Hatfield-Dodds, the Assurance Team Lead at Anthropic, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about property-based testing techniques and how to use them in an open-source tool called Hypothesis. They discuss how to define properties for a Python function and implement a test case in Hypothesis. They also explore some of the advanced features in…

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SE Radio 588: José Valim on Elixir, Machine Learning, and Livebook 1:03:33

10M ago1:03:33

1:03:33

José Valim, creator of the Elixir programming language, Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit, and author of three programming books, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about what Elixir is today, what Livebook is, the five spearheads of the new machine learning ecosystem for Elixir, and how they all fit together. Valim describes why he created Elix…

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SE Radio 587: M. Scott Ford on Managing Dependency Freshness 54:53

10M ago54:53

54:53

M. Scott Ford, the CTO of Corgibytes and host of the Legacy Code Rocks podcast, discusses managing dependency freshness. SE Radio’s Sam Taggart speaks with him about why dependency freshness is important to ensure that your code has all the latest bug fixes, how exactly to measure dependency freshness, and some of the insights that teams can gain f…

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SE Radio 586: Nikhil Shetty on Virtual Private Cloud 1:07:16

10M ago1:07:16

1:07:16

Nikhil Shetty, an expert in networking and distributed systems, speaks with SE radio's Kanchan Shringi about virtual private cloud (VPC) and related technologies. They explore how VPC relates to public cloud, private cloud, and virtual private networks (VPNs). The discussion delves into why VPC is fundamental to building on the cloud, as well as co…

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SE Radio 585: Adam Frank on Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment 43:22

10M ago43:22

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Adam Frank, SVP of Product and Marketing at Armory.io, speaks with SE Radio’s Kanchan Shringi about continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment – and how they differ. Frank suggests that organizations begin by identifying how the CI/CD process aligns best with their unique goals, noting that such goals might be different …

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SE Radio 584: Charles Weir on Ruthless Security for Busy Developers 1:00:49

10M ago1:00:49

1:00:49

Charles Weir—developer, security researcher, and Research Fellow at Security Lancaster—joins host Giovanni Asproni to discuss an approach that development teams can use to create secure systems without wasting effort on unnecessary security work. The episode starts with a broad description of the approach, which is based on Weir's research and on a…

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SE Radio 583: Lukas Fittl on Postgres Performance 1:11:24

11M ago1:11:24

1:11:24

Lukas Fittl of pganalyze discusses the performance of Postgres, one of the world’s most popular database systems. SE Radio host Philip Winston speaks with Fittl about database indexing, queries, maintenance, scaling, and stored procedures. They also discuss some features of pganalyze, such as the index and vacuum advisors.…

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SE Radio 582: Leo Porter and Daniel Zingaro on Learning to Program with LLMs 1:02:22

11M ago1:02:22

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Dr. Daniel Zingaro and Dr. Leo Porter, co-authors of the book Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming, speak with host Jeremy Jung about teaching programming with the aid of large language models (LLMs). They discuss writing a book to use in Leo's introductory CS class and explore how GitHub Copilot de-emphasizes syntax errors, reduces the need to mem…

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SE Radio 581: Zach Lloyd on Terminal Emulators 1:04:44

11M ago1:04:44

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Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp.dev, discusses how to implement and effectively use command-line terminals. Host Gregory Kapfhammer speaks with Lloyd about how command-line terminals work and how the Warp terminal uses the GPU and AI to enhance a software developer’s productivity. They also discuss the trade-offs associated with using the Rust programming …

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