Best Softwareengineer Podcasts (2024)

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Data Management at Capital One with Jim Lebonitte 28:58

1h ago28:58

28:58

Data is at the center of many business decisions and advances today, including AI-driven capabilities. This requires companies to have well-governed data that is easy for users to find, use and understand. In moving to the cloud, Capital One modernized its data ecosystem and adopted a “You Build, Your Data” model to equip its data stakeholders with…

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Creating ESLint with Nicholas Zakas 46:22

3h ago46:22

46:22

ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying and fixing problems in JavaScript code. It helps developers maintain code quality and consistency by enforcing coding standards and detecting issues such as syntax errors, stylistic problems, and bugs. Nicholas Zakas is the creator of ESLint. He joins the show to talk about working at Yahoo in t…

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Humane with George Kedenburg III and Josh Dickens 50:08

41m ago50:08

50:08

The Humane pin is a multi-modal wearable device designed by Humane Inc., a startup co-founded by former Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. This wearable is part of a broader vision to create more seamless and integrated interactions between humans and technology, moving away from traditional screens. George Kedenburg III is a Sof…

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Using Role-Playing Scenarios to Identify Bias in LLMs 45:07

14m ago45:07

45:07

Harmful biases in large language models (LLMs) make AI less trustworthy and secure. Auditing for biases can help identify potential solutions and develop better guardrails to make AI safer. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Katie Robinson and Violet Turri, researchers in the SEI’s AI Division,…

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Building a Fast Financial Transactions Database with Joran Greef 59:17

2d ago59:17

59:17

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Firefox Software Architecture with Brian Grinstead 51:22

6d ago51:22

51:22

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Since its first major release in 2004, it has stood out on the browser landscape for its emphasis on privacy, security, and customization. Brian Grinstead is a Senior Principal Engineer at Mozilla. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the Firefox archit…

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LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette) 1:55:50

3d ago1:55:50

1:55:50

Known for co-creating Django and Datasette, as well as his thoughtful writing on LLMs, Simon Willison joins the show to chat about blogging as an accountability mechanism, how to build intuition with LLMs, building a startup with his partner on their honeymoon, and more. Segments: (00:00:00) The weird intern (00:01:50) The early days of LLMs (00:04…

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AI Data Analytics at Google with Gerrit Kazmaier 50:38

3d ago50:38

50:38

Google needs no introduction, and is renowned for its data and analytics capabilities. Gerrit Kazmaier is the VP and GM for Database, Data Analytics and Looker at Google. He has a long history in the space, and in this episode he speaks with Sean Falconer about data and analytics in the AI era. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler.…

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Standing Up an AISIRT 38:29

4d ago38:29

38:29

In the wake of widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in critical infrastructure, education, government, and national security entities, adversaries are working to disrupt these systems and attack AI-enabled assets. With nearly four decades in vulnerability management, the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI)…

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Ben Laude, Professor of Music (Piano Literature & Aural Skills) at Utah State University 1:27:18

4d ago1:27:18

1:27:18

Ben Laude, a concert pianist and music educator, joins Behind the Tech to discuss his journey from a suburban childhood in Austin, Texas to becoming a world-renowned classical pianist and YouTube creator. Ben shares his early inspirations—including his father's dabbling in piano and his own private obsession with classical music that began in high …

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Building a Collaborative DevOps Platform with Adam Jacob 55:00

8d ago55:00

55:00

DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an open-sour…

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React 18 at The New York Times with Ilya Gurevich 52:09

19d ago52:09

52:09

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library maintained by Meta. It was first released in 2013 and is now the most popular web framework. Ilya Gurevich is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times. Last winter, his team set out to implement React 18 for The Times' flagship core news site. Ilya recently wrote a viral blog post about t…

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Lekko and Dynamic Software Configuration with Konrad Niemiec 41:08

10d ago41:08

41:08

Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment, but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt. Lekko is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration. Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases, and business teams and other stakeholder…

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Crafting a Stop Motion Video Game with Onat Hekimoglu 47:35

21d ago47:35

47:35

Harold Halibut is a 2024 narrative adventure video game developed by German developer Slow Bros. The game has a distinct look owing to its use of stop motion animation with 3D scans of physical sets and puppets. Onat Hekimoglu worked on Harold Halibut as the Director, Game Designer, Composer, and Person of Many Hats. He joins the podcast with Joe N…

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Why Stack Overflow Uses Svelte with Giamir Buoncristiani 46:37

20d ago46:37

46:37

Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners. Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity. Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks d…

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From "AI mid-life crisis" to the "time of my life" | Steve Yegge (Sourcegraph) 1:25:32

17d ago1:25:32

1:25:32

A Silicon Valley veteran and known for his writings like "The Death of the Junior Developer", Steve Yegge joins the show to chat about his "AI Midlife Crisis", the unique writing process he employs, and building the future of coding assistants. Segments: (00:00:00) The AI Midlife Crisis (00:04:53) The power of rants (00:09:55) “You gotta be able to…

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How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner 47:25

18d ago47:25

47:25

The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, o…

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3 API Security Risks (and How to Protect Against Them) 19:28

23d ago19:28

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The exposed and public nature of application programming interfaces (APIs) come with risks including the increased network attack surface. Zero trust principles are helpful for mitigating these risks and making APIs more secure. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), McKinley Sconiers-Hasan, a solu…

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Containers at the Edge with David Aronchick 40:55

23d ago40:55

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Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance. David Aronchick is th…

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Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford 54:32

24d ago54:32

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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his career …

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Developer Productivity with Damien Filiatrault 41:00

25d ago41:00

41:00

Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path, a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins t…

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GemFire with Ivan Novick 34:12

1M ago34:12

34:12

Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading…

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Modern Frontend Engineering with Stefan Li 42:32

1M ago42:32

42:32

In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern brow…

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Early Twitter's fail-whale wars | Dmitriy Ryaboy 1:08:46

1M ago1:08:46

1:08:46

A veteran of early Twitter's fail whale wars, Dmitriy joins the show to chat about the time when 70% of the Hadoop cluster got accidentally deleted, the financial reality of writing a book, and how to navigate acquisitions. Segments: (00:00:00) The Infamous Hadoop Outage (00:02:36) War Stories from Twitter's Early Days (00:04:47) The Fail Whale Era…

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AI Research at Capital One with Bayan Bruss 44:08

1M ago44:08

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A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as "unseen" data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of AI Foundations at Capital One and …

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DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen 47:33

1M ago47:33

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DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It's designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to ta…

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Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt 45:42

1M ago45:42

45:42

Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed r…

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Discovering the power of story-telling in engineering | Adam Gordon Bell (CoRecursive) 1:02:28

1M ago1:02:28

1:02:28

Known for hosting the CoRecursive podcast, which dives into the stories behind the code, Adam joins the show to chat about discovering that the great engineers he had looked up to are actually great communicators, his framework for building one of the best storytelling engineering podcasts, and the journey getting into DevRel. Chapters: (00:00:00) …

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Chroma’s Vector Database with Anton Troynikov 50:58

1M ago50:58

50:58

Chroma is an open-source AI application database. Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma. He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent. Sean’s been …

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The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader 44:12

1M ago44:12

44:12

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 papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved. It wasn'…

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Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee 53:34

1M ago53:34

53:34

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. This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process. Hound…

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Behind designing Kubernetes' APIs | Brian Grant (Google) 2:10:56

2M ago2:10:56

2:10:56

As the original architect and API design lead of Kubernetes, Brian joins the show to chat about why "APIs are forever", the keys to evangelizing impactful projects, and being an Uber Tech at Google, and more. Segments: (00:03:01) Internship with Mark Ewing (00:07:10) “Mark and Brian's Excellent Environment” manual (00:11:58) Poker on VT100 terminal…

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Uber’s LedgerStore and its Trillions of Indexes with Kaushik Devarajaiah 34:45

2M ago34:45

34:45

Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides verifiable data completeness and correctness guarantees to ensure data integrity for its transactions. Kaushik Devarajaiah is the Tech…

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Evaluating Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Tasks: Challenges and Best Practices 43:05

2M ago43:05

43:05

How can we effectively use large language models (LLMs) for cybersecurity tasks? In this Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute podcast, Jeff Gennari and Sam Perl discuss applications for LLMs in cybersecurity, potential challenges, and recommendations for evaluating LLMs.

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Frontend Observability with Purvi Kanal 49:48

2M ago49:48

49:48

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 of web applications from the user's perspective. Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolu…

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AI Tools for Game Development with Igor Poletaev and Nathan Yu 1:05:35

2M ago1:05:35

1:05:35

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 Xbox, Ubisoft, and NVIDIA. Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM of Labs at Inward. They join the show to talk ab…

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Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts | Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck (Oxide) 2:06:29

2M ago2:06:29

2:06:29

From building a new kind of server to building a new kind of company, co-founders Bryan and Steve join the show to chat about their "meet cute" and the origin story of Oxide, their unconventional recruiting process, transparent and uniform salaries, and their solution to the "N+1 shithead problem". Segments: (00:03:03) Bryan and Steve's "meet cute"…

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C++ Static Analysis with Abbas Sabra 47:52

2M ago47:52

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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. Abbas Sabra is a Principal Engineer at Sonar, which creates tools to help developers produce clean code. Abbas specializes in C++ static analysis, an…

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Capability-based Planning for Early-Stage Software Development 33:55

2M ago33:55

33:55

Capability-Based Planning (CBP) defines a framework that has an all-encompassing view of existing abilities and future needs for strategically deciding what is needed and how to effectively achieve it. Both business and government acquisition domains use CBP for financial success or to design a well-balanced defense system. The definitions understa…

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Climate Tech Investing with Tom Biegala 49:14

2M ago49:14

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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 of Bison Ventures. Prior to starting Bison Ventures, Tom worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office that manages the assets of t…

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Luma AI with Barkley Dai and Karan Ganesan 42:04

2M ago42:04

42:04

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 environments by reconstructing any scene in 3D from just a few photos. Karan Ganesan is a Software Engineer and Barkley Dai is the Product and Growth Lead at…

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Grokking Synthetic Biology | Dmitriy Ryaboy (Twitter, Ginkgo Bioworks) 1:08:51

2M ago1:08:51

1:08:51

From building a data platform and Parquet at Twitter to using AI to make biology easier to engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, Dmitriy joins the show to chat about the early days of big data, the conversation that made him jump into SynBio, LLMs for proteins and more. Segments: (00:03:18) Data engineering roots (00:05:40) Early influences at Lawrence Berk…

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AI at Redis with Brian Sam-Bodden 47:12

2M ago47:12

47:12

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 and AI at the company. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information…

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Dusk and the Art of Making Short Games with David Szymanski 1:04:45

2M ago1:04:45

1:04:45

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 the production of the upcoming Iron Lung film. David joins the podcast to talk about his work, how to capture an appealing retro game feel, why he mak…

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