CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

By CaSE Podcast Team

Conversations about Software Engineering (CaSE) is a podcast for software engineers about technology, software engineering, software architecture, reliability engineering, and data engineering. The th... more

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February 25, 2025Theo Schlossnagle on Meat, Machines, and Mastery in Software Engineering
Theo Schlossnagle is a world-class software engineer, serial entrepreneur and owner of a butcher shop. In the podcast he unpacks the mindset, practices, and strategies that have shaped his approach to software development. From the power of curiosity to the challenges of debugging distributed systems, we explore what it takes to build resilient, maintainable software in an ever-evolving landscape.
Along the way, we dive into automation of butchery equipment, the pitfalls of legacy systems, and the delicate balance between abstraction and simplicity. Whether you're scaling architectures, optimizing code, or integrating outdated APIs, this conversation is packed with insights to sharpen your engineering craft.
Tune in to explore what makes great software—and great engineers—stand out.
Theo Schlossnagle on Bluesky
Butchers Club of Maple Lawn
DTrace
OpenZiti
Chapter Marks:
00:00:00 The Intersection of Software Engineering and Butchery
00:07:42 Automation and Consistency in Butchery Operations
00:26:36 The Role of Curiosity in Software Development
00:47:40 Debugging and Troubleshooting Techniques
01:16:13 The Challenges of Distributed Systems
01:39:27 Future Directions in Software and IoT
...more
1h 51min
February 03, 2025New Hosts and Formats, Observability Costs and Training
Sven Johann talks to Heinrich Hartmann and Alexander Heusingfeld about the cost of observability
How Buildings Learn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowBuildingsLearn
Big Ball of Mud, http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#BigBallOfMud
Coinbase USD 65M bill from Datadog, https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/datadog-65m-year-customer-mystery/
Observability by Ben Sigelman, https://medium.com/lightstephq/observability-will-never-replace-monitoring-because-it-shouldnt-eeea92c4c5c9
Charity Majors, GOTO Amsterdam, Observability 2.0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2ykPO805M
Hillel Wayne, SRECon Keynote, “Are we really engineers?”, https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/wayne
Chapter Marks:
00:00:00 New hosts, new formats
00:12:40 Observability Costs
00:29:03 Observability Training
01:06:10 Engineering vs. Software Engineering
01:18:03 Wrapping up
...more
1h 22min
September 11, 2023Aino Corry on Better Tech Meetings
Sven Johann talks with Aino Corry about better Tech Meetings
Aino on Twitter
Video from Aino on meetings on Dave Farleys channel
Article about her book on Martin Fowlers website
The book
Liberating structures
Fearless Change book
...more
1h 10min
May 16, 2022Angelo Veltens on Solid
Lucas Dohmen talks with Angelo Veltens about Solid
Solid Homepage
SolidOS
Solid community
Solid organization on Github
SolidOS organization on Github
Forum
Chat
Solid Spec
schema.org
A data ecosystem fosters sustainable innovation
...more
45min
March 14, 2022Mark Seemann on heuristics for software engineering
Stefan Tilkov talks with Mark Seemann
Mark’s book
Mark’s blog
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce)
Hammock-driven development (Rich Hickey)
...more
1h 1min
February 21, 2022Chris Richardson on Service Templates and Service Chassis
Chris Richardson and Sven Johann discuss service templates
Chris’ Microservices Patterns website
Chris’ book on Microservices Patterns
Crowdsourcing Technology Governance at Target
Sam Newman, Building Microservices, chapter “Governance and the paved road” and “Governance and the paved road”
Blogpost from Pete Hodgson
...more
1h 1min
January 17, 2022Adam Tornhill on Software Design X-Rays
Sven Johann talks with Adam Tornhill about Software Design X-Rays
This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club
Part 1
Part 2
Adam Tornhill, Software Design X-Rays
Adam Tornhill, Your Code as a Crime Scene
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais, Team Topologies
John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer
Fred Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
Chapter Marks:
0:00 Intro
2:54 Behavioral code analysis
8:53 Hotspot analysis and technical debt
14:42 Trends analysis
21:05 System mastery
24:11 Software Design X-Ray
27:18 The more metrics the better?
30:09 Change coupling
33:19 Copy-paste dilemma
42:40 Change coupling gets more expensive with distance
45:20 Team structure visualized in the code
53:52 Outro
...more
55min
October 25, 2021Manuel Pais on Team Topologies
Sven Johann talks with Manuel Pais about Team Topologies
Interview with Werner Vogels
Team Topologies book
Free resources
Github: tools and templates
Team Topologies Academy
Platform as a Product
Nikki Watts, Platform Engineering as a Community Service
Chapter Marks:
00:00 Intro
01:45 The challenge of “two pizza” teams
07:00 The three types of cognitive load
10:48 Measuring cognitive load
16:44 Stream aligned (“two pizza”) teams
21:26 Platform teams
22:54 Enabling teams
24:25 Complicated subsystem teams
26:13 Overcoming common problems of enabling teams
38:21 What do Platform teams do?
53:35 Interaction modes between teams
56:08 Applying team topologies in small organisations
59:51 Closing
...more
1h 3min
October 04, 2021Michele Hansen on Customer Interviews and Deploying Empathy
Joy Heron talks with Michele Hansen about customer interviews
Deploy Empathy
Practical Empathy by Indi Young
Service Design by Andy Polaine, Ben Reason, and Lavrans Løvlie
The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
Inspired by Marty Cagan
The Voice of the Customer, 1993 research paper by Abbie Griffin and John R. Hauser
Clayton Christensen books
Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
Brené Brown
Deploy Empathy Newsletter
Software Social Podcast
...more
50min
June 21, 2021Eric Normand on Functional Thinking
Lucas Dohmen talks with Eric Normand
Eric's homepage
Grokking Simplicity
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Chapter Marks:
00:00:15 Introduction
00:06:10 Functional Thinking
00:19:27 Calculations, Actions, Events
00:26:56 Concurrency and Immutability
00:37:05 Immutable Facts and GDPR
00:40:46 Object Oriented and Functional Programming
00:59:30 Type System
01:25:11 Learning from other communities
...more
1h 37min

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