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• 02.08.2024

  Building a Unified Hardware API at Intel with James Reinders

  oneAPI is an open standard for a unified API to be used across different computing accelerator architectures. This including GPUs, AI accelerators, and FPGAs. The goal of oneAPI is to eliminate the need for developers to maintain separate code bases,...

  
• 11.16.2023

  Building a State Machine Backend with Adam Berger

  When Adam Berger was at Uber, his team was responsible for ensuring that Uber Eats merchants correctly receive and fulfill orders. This required them to think hard about engineering workflows and state management systems. Six years of experience at Uber...

  
• 11.08.2023

  Open Source Contributing with Brian Douglas

  The open source coding philosophy has enormous appeal to many software engineers, and with good reason. Open source libraries, applications, and operating systems are now essential to the overall technology ecosystem. And the number of open source projects is only...

  
• 11.07.2023

  Temporal with Max Fateev

  There are countless real world scenarios where a workflow or process has multiple steps, and some steps must be completed before others can be started. Think of something as simple as cooking dinner. First you look up a recipe, then...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Building Pieces.app and the Future of Developer Productivity with Tsavo Knott

  Ongoing advances in generative AI are already having a huge impact on developer productivity. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasing the velocity of code development, and more advances are on the horizon. However, an ever-growing challenge for developers...

  
• 08.03.2023

  Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber

  In the realm of modern software development, clear and comprehensive documentation is essential for guiding users and contributors alike. Developers often struggle to create, manage, and maintain documentation that is both user-friendly and visually appealing. In this episode, we sit...

  
• 08.09.2022

  Cloud-native Authorization with Tim Hinrichs

  Enabling authorization policies across disparate cloud-native environments such as containers, microservices and modern application delivery infrastructure is complex and can be a roadblock for software engineering teams. Open Policy Agent, or OPA, is an open, declarative, policy-as-code approach to authorization...

  
• 07.30.2022

  Kong API Platform with Marco Palladino Holiday Repeat

  Originally published January 4, 2019 When a user makes a request to a product like The New York Times, that request hits an API gateway. An API gateway is the entry point for an external request. An API gateway serves...

  
• 06.11.2022

  Open-Source Cloud Asset Management with Yevgeny Pats

  This episode is hosted by Alex DeBrie. Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB, as well as The DynamoDB Guide, a free guided introduction to DynamoDB. He runs a consulting company where he...

  
• 12.16.2021

  InfluxData with Zoe Steinkamp

  InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database.  It’s maintained by InfuxData who offers a suite of products that help organizations gain insights from time-series data.  In this episode, I interview Zoe Steinkamp, Software Engineering and Developer Advocate at InfluxData.  We explore...

  
• 11.24.2021

  Nuxt.js with Alexander Lichter

  When creating a website, there’s no shortage of choices for how to do it.  Builders must make strategic decisions about the language or framework they want to adopt.  An important first consideration for many is selecting a web application framework...

  
• 11.10.2021

  #FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

  Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They...

  
• 11.05.2021

  Angular Dev Tools with Minko Gechev

  Angular is a free and open-source web application framework.  It’s maintained by the Angular team at Google.  It’s used by millions of web applications and has a strong ecosystem of core contributors and library builders. In this episode, I interview...

  
• 09.08.2021

  Distributed Open Source Databases with Jonathan Ellis and Spencer Kimball

  By most accounts, the first databases came on line in the 1960s. This class of software has continued to evolve alongside the technology it runs on and the applications it supports. In the early days, databases were typically closed source...

  
• 08.26.2021

  Grouparoo Open Source Data Tools with Brian Leonard

  ETL stands for “extract, transform, load” and refers to the process of integrating data from many different sources into one location, usually a data warehouse. This process has become especially important for companies as they use many different services to...

  
• 08.25.2021

  Publishing Open Source Code with William Morgan

  In the late 1970s a printer at MIT kept jamming, resulting in regular pileups of print jobs in the printer’s queue. To solve this problem, some computer scientists wrote a software program that alerted every user in the backed up...

  
• 08.05.2021

  Wasp-Lang: Boilerplate Code with Matija Sosic

  The term “boilerplate code” refers to code sections that are repeated across many projects with little to no variation. Every developer is familiar with boilerplate code, whether it be pom.xml files in Java or setting up React.js applications, tweaking boilerplate...

  
• 03.25.2021

  Developer Community Management with Patrick Woods and Josh Dzielak

  Many startups today begin their life as an open-source project. Open source projects allow early adopters of a technology to experiment, to contribute code and feedback, and to shape the evolution of the project in its early stages. When a...

  
• 03.24.2021

  Airbyte: Open Source Data Integrations with Michel Tricot and John Lafleur

  ELT, or “Extract, Load, and Transform,” is the process that modern data pipelines use to replicate data from a source and load it into a target system such as a cloud data warehouse. ELT is a more flexible evolution of...

  
• 03.23.2021

  Suborbital: WebAssembly Infrastructure with Connor Hicks

  The complexity of building web applications seems to have grown exponentially in the last several years. This added complexity may bring power, but it can also make applications brittle, costly, and difficult to maintain. Suborbital is an open-source project with...

  
• 03.22.2021

  Opstrace: Open Source Observability with Sebastien Pahl

  Observability is a key feature of a well-architected application. Because building an observability system for a cloud application can be challenging, especially at scale, many organizations elect to use third-party observability platforms rather than build internal tools. But these third-party...

  
• 03.19.2021

  Datahub: Open Source Data Lake with Pardhu Gunnam and Mars Lan

  As the volume and scope of data collected by an organization grow, tasks such as data discovery and data management grow in complexity. Simply put, the more data there is, the harder it is for users such as data analysts...

  
• 03.18.2021

  SPIFFE and SPIRE with Derek Edwards and Ryan Turner

  The shift to microservices architectures and distributed systems has been a challenge for systems using conventional security practices, such filtering IP addresses using network policies. In addition, the increasing intersection of development and operations exemplified by the DevOps methodology has...

  
• 03.02.2021

  Postgres Data Warehouse with Josh Drake and Thomas Richter

  A data warehouse is a centralized repository that an enterprise may use to store selected data from production systems. Data is transformed into a structured form that makes it easily accessible for business intelligence or other operational users. SQL-compliant databases...

  
• 02.05.2021

  Open Source Industrialization with Kevin Xu

  Open source software is software distributed along with its source code, using a permissive license that allows anyone to view, use, or modify it. The term “open source” also refers more broadly to a philosophy of technology development which prioritizes...

  
• 12.18.2020

  LinkedIn Kafka with Nacho Solis (Repeat)

  Originally published October 18, 2019 Apache Kafka was created at LinkedIn. Kafka was open sourced in 2011, when the company was eight years old. By that time, LinkedIn had developed a social network with millions of users. LinkedIn’s engineering team...

  
• 12.16.2020

  Kafka Applications with Tim Berglund (Repeat)

  Originally published September 17, 2019 Ever since Apache Kafka was open sourced from LinkedIn, it has been used to solve a wide variety of problems in distributed systems and data engineering. Kafka is a distributed messaging queue that is used...

  
• 12.11.2020

  Facebook React with Dan Abramov (Repeat)

  Originally published May 16, 2019 React is a set of open source tools for building user interfaces. React was open sourced by Facebook, and includes libraries for creating interfaces on the web (ReactJS) and on mobile devices (React Native). React...

  
• 12.01.2020

  CubeJS with Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov

  Business intelligence is crucial for both internal and external applications at any company. There is a wide array of proprietary BI tools. Today, there is an increasing number of options for open source business intelligence, one of which is CubeJS....

  
• 11.19.2020

  Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals with Stefan Ålund

  Infrastructure at Spotify runs at high speeds. Developers work autonomously, building and deploying services all the time. Backstage is an open source platform built at Spotify that allows developers to build portals for making sense of their infrastructure. Backstage developer...

  
• 10.15.2020

  Supabase: Open Source Firebase with Paul Copplestone

  Firebase is well-known as a platform that makes it easy to build real-time applications quickly and easily. Firebase was acquired by Google, and has been turned into a large platform that runs on top of Google Cloud. Firebase is closed-source,...

  
• 08.18.2020

  Metabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-Sakran

  Business intelligence tooling allows analysts to see large quantities of data presented to them in a flexible interface including charts, graphs, and other visualizations. BI tools have been around for decades, and as the world moves towards increased open source...

  
• 07.30.2020

  DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern

  Dev.to has become one of the most popular places for developers to write about engineering, programming languages, and everyday life. For those who have not seen it, DEV is like a cross between Twitter and Medium, but targeted at developers....

  
• 07.10.2020

  Strapi: Headless CMS with Pierre Burgy

  WordPress has been a dominant force in the world of online publishing for many years because of how battle-tested it is. WordPress is the definitive leader in CMS technology. But there have always been alternatives.  Drupal, Ghost, and other open...

  
• 06.24.2020

  Envoy Mobile with Matt Klein (Summer Break Repeat)

  Originally published July 25, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy that was originally developed at Lyft.  Envoy is often deployed as a...

  
• 06.19.2020

  Facebook Open Source with Tom Occhino (Summer Break Repeat)

  Originally published April 14, 2017. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. Facebook’s open source projects include React, GraphQL, and Cassandra. These projects are key pieces of infrastructure used by thousands of developers–including...

  
• 06.11.2020

  Grafana with Torkel Ödegaard

  Grafana is an open source visualization and monitoring tool that is used for creating dashboards and charting time series data. Grafana is used by thousands of companies to monitor their infrastructure. It is a popular component in monitoring stacks, and...

  
• 04.17.2020

  Facebook OpenStreetMap Engineering with Saurav Mohapatra and Jacob Wasserman

  Facebook applications use maps for showing users where to go. These maps can display businesses, roads, and event locations. Understanding the geographical world is also important for performing search queries that take into account a user’s location. For all of...

  
• 04.06.2020

  Godot Game Engine with Juan Linietsky

  Building a game is not easy. The development team needs to figure out a unique design and gameplay mechanics that will attract players. There is a great deal of creative work that goes into making a game successful, and these...

  
• 02.05.2020

  Changelog Podcasting with Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo

  The Changelog is a podcast about the world of open source. As open source has become closely tied with the entire software development lifecycle, The Changelog has expanded its coverage to the broader software industry. Since starting the podcast ten...

  
• 11.27.2019

  Kong API Platform with Marco Palladino Holiday Repeat

  Originally published January 4, 2019 When a user makes a request to product like The New York Times, that request hits an API gateway. An API gateway is the entry point for an external request. An API gateway serves several...

  
• 11.06.2019

  FOSSA: Open Source Management with Kevin Wang

  Every company has a software supply chain. A company builds its products from custom code, paid APIs, paid proprietary binaries, and open source software libraries. As the types of software available have increased, the management of the software supply chain...

  
• 10.18.2019

  LinkedIn Kafka with Nacho Solis

  Apache Kafka was created at LinkedIn. Kafka was open sourced in 2011, when the company was eight years old. By that time, LinkedIn had developed a social network with millions of users. LinkedIn’s engineering team was building a range of...

  
• 09.19.2019

  Open Source Ecosystem with Dirk Hohndel

  Open source software is very new. Open source has existed for less than 30-40 years, depending on who you ask. The idea of open source was popularized by Linux, and open source software started to get heavily commercialized in the...

  
• 09.17.2019

  Kafka Applications with Tim Berglund

  Ever since Apache Kafka was open sourced from LinkedIn, it has been used to solve a wide variety of problems in distributed systems and data engineering. Kafka is a distributed messaging queue that is used by developers to publish messages...

  
• 09.09.2019

  Open Source Policy with Bruce Perens

  Open source plays a key role in today’s world of technology businesses. Today, the impact of open source seems obvious. From Kubernetes to distributed databases to cloud providers, so much of our software is powered by open source. But it...

  
• 08.23.2019

  Crypto and OSS with Haseeb Qureshi, Joseph Jacks, and Alok Vasudev

  Cryptocurrencies are decentralized monetary systems built on open source software. The open source software movement has evolved from the world of Linux, MySQL, and Apache to a thriving ecosystem of commercial enterprises built around open source software. This ecosystem includes...

  
• 08.19.2019

  Open Source Business Models with Karthik Ranganathan, Heather Meeker, and Matt Asay

  Open source software has evolved into a thriving, multifaceted ecosystem. Open source encompasses operating systems and databases. Open source embodies both altruism and self-interest. And open source enables thriving businesses from WordPress blogs to hundred billion dollar cloud providers. There...

  
• 08.06.2019

  Jaeger: Distributed Tracing at Uber with Yuri Shkuro

  During 2015, Uber was going through rapid scalability. The internal engineering systems were constantly tested by the growing user base. Over the next two years, the number of internal services at Uber would grow from 500 to 2000, and standardizing...

  
• 07.25.2019

  Envoy Mobile with Matt Klein

  Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy that was originally developed at Lyft.  Envoy is often deployed as a sidecar application that runs alongside a service and helps that service by providing features such as routing, rate limiting,...