CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

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CaSE is an interview podcast for software developers and architects about Software Engineering and related topics. We release a new episode every three weeks.

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Artur Ortega on GraphQL

01.04.2021

In this episode, Artur Ortega explains to Stefan Tilkov what GraphQL is, how it came to be, and how it differs from REST. Predictably, the two debate whether it’s better or not, but also spend some time going over its ...

CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering episodes:

01.04.2021 Artur Ortega on GraphQL In this episode, Artur Ortega explains to Stefan Tilkov what GraphQL is, how it came to be, and how it differs from REST. Predictably, the two debate whether it’s better or not, but also spend some time going over its ...
10.07.2020 Markus Völter on Language Engineering In this episode, Markus Völter talks with Stefan Tilkov about language engineering and its connection to domain-driven design. Picking up from their past interactions in various different podcasts, the two agree and disagree fundamentally in equal parts, on topics such ...
08.24.2020 Birgitta Böckeler on Cultivating Architecture Principles Birgitta Böckeler talks with Sven Johann about cultivating architecture principles. They first discuss what architecture principles are, why they are useful, how they are structured and how they help to guide decision making across multiple teams. They then talk about ...
05.28.2020 Rachel Andrew on contributing to CSS and CSS Layout Joy Heron talks with Rachel Andrew about CSS Layout. Rachel shares her journey as a web developer and how the web has changed over that time. They discuss Rachel’s work with the CSS working group and how developers can get ...
05.07.2020 Daniel Bryant on Service Meshes and API Gateways for Application Modernization Daniel Bryant talks with Sven Johann about the business problems to modernize applications. They need to be decoupled from the compute fabric and the network fabric and Daniel explains the reasons for that, what products are available and what strategies ...
04.16.2020 Mike Sperber on Functional Architecture Does functional programming matter? Stefan and Mike continue an interesting conversation they had on Twitter: Does the style of programming matter if you look at it from a larger distance? Mike describes two distinguishing characteristics of functional programming: Immutable data ...
02.27.2020 Peter Elger on Commodity AI Peter Elger talks with Sven Johann about AI as a service - commodity web services offered by large cloud providers, which make it very easy to use AI in your application just by using an API. They start the discussion ...
02.06.2020 Lars Hupel on Algebraic Design In this episode of the CaSE podcast, Lucas talks to Lars Hupel of Typelevel-fame about algebraic design. Lars starts to explain how the expression problem views the difference between the functional and Object Oriented style of programming. He then explains ...
01.09.2020 Ryan Singer on Shape Up In this Conversation about Software Engineering, Stefan Tilkov talks with Ryan Singer about Shape Up. Ryan works on the product strategy for Basecamp. Over time the company started growing, and they needed to step up how they managed their product ...
12.19.2019 Felienne Hermans on Programming Education In this episode, Stefan Tilkov talks with Felienne Hermans, associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands heading the Programming Education Research Lab. They talk about programming education with a focus on people learning their first programming skills and how ...
07.08.2019 Philippe Kruchten on Managing Technical Debt In this episode, Sven Johann hosts Philippe Kruchten, the author of the Managing Technical Debt book. They talk about the research leading to the book and the practical implications the book and the research offer. They start the conversation with ...
05.17.2019 Sam Newman on Insecure Transit – Microservices Security In this episode, Sven Johann hosts Sam Newman, the author of the first Microservices book, to talk about security in the world of Microservices. They discuss why and where it is different to security in a monolithic architecture and why ...
02.19.2019 Richard Rodger on Message-based, Generic Microservices In this episode, Stefan Tilkov talks to author and microservices expert Richard Rodger about his approach to microservices, which focuses on small services that exchange messages, are built using a “generalize first” approach, and rely on content-based routing to allow ...
08.14.2018 Mentoring Engineers with Steve Vinoski In this episode, Stefan Tilkov hosts well-known distributed systems expert Steve Vinoski to talk about lessons learned in 30+ years of software engineering. In their conversation, they cover topics such as what to learn and what to avoid, how to ...
07.05.2018 Micro Frontends with Gustaf Nilsson Kotte In this conversation about software engineering, Gustaf Nilsson Kotte, web architect at IKEA, talks to host Stefan Tilkov about ways to build large web sites and applications with multiple teams. Topics covered include team organization and Conway’s law, horizontal vs. ...
06.07.2018 Web Frontend with Lucas Dohmen Joy Clark talks with Lucas Dohmen about Web Front-End development. They first discuss the role of front-end development and frontend architecture. Lucas then explains his view on the role of JavaScript and the separation between front-end and back-end development. They ...
05.03.2018 Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey Joy Clark talks with Rich Hickey about Clojure and Datomic and the reasons that Rich decided to design them the way that he did. They discuss the dependency problem and how we should change our method of developing libraries so ...
04.19.2018 Security and Privacy with Susan Landau Sven Johann talks with Susan Landau about Security and Privacy. After defining those terms they proceed to find out why this important to individuals and societies. They discuss why its the job of intelligence agencies to collect data, but how ...
03.29.2018 Application Security with Peter Chestna Joy Clark talks with Peter Chestna about application security. The overarching topic of the podcast was what a developer can do in order to make applications more secure. This included talking about some of the most prevalent security vulnerabilities and ...
03.22.2018 Blockchain Technology with Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Part 2) In this second episode of a two-part interview, Stefan Tilkov talks to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Andreas M. Antonopoulos about Bitcoin vs. blockchain tech, the programmable Ethereum system, alternatives to the proof of work approach, and using Bitcoin in hybrid ...
03.01.2018 Blockchain Technology with Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Part 1) In the first episode of a two-part interview, Stefan Tilkov talks to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Andreas M. Antonopoulos about the Bitcoin system’s technical foundation and architecture. Andreas addresses common questions about Bitcoin’s usefulness, scalability, and energy consumption.
01.25.2018 Domain-Driven Design with Vaughn Vernon Joy talks with Vaughn Vernon about Domain-Driven Design. Vaughn shares his journey to DDD and the reasons behind his DDD books. They then go on to discuss strategic design, the broad brush strokes of DDD, what a model actually looks ...
12.21.2017 aim42 with Gernot Starke Joy Clark talks with Gernot Starke about aim42, a method for systematically improving software. They discuss in detail the three phases of the process: Analyze, Evaluate, and Improve. Gernot shares his wisdom about how to carry out each phase using ...
11.30.2017 Advanced Scala with Daniel Westheide Daniel Westheide, author of “The Neophyte’s guide to Scala” and Stefan Tilkov talk about some advanced Scala features and challenges, such as case classes and the problems they can create, algebraic data types, type classes and implicits, using the compiler ...
11.09.2017 ClojureScript with David Nolen Joy Clark talks with David Nolen about ClojureScript. David introduces the language and discusses the direction that the language is heading in. He talks about how the language is compiled to JavaScript and how it takes advantage of the the ...
10.19.2017 Management for Developers with Camille Fournier Stefan Tilkov talks to Camille Fournier about making a career as a manager in a software development organization. Camille shares her insights about when or why someone would want to become a manager and how to become good at it. ...
09.14.2017 Scala with Sofia Vaughn-Jones Joy Clark talks with Sofia Vaughn-Jones (née Cole) about Scala. Sofia introduces the language and describes its features. They then discuss what kinds of programs can be written with Scala and the tooling and frameworks that are available. They attempt ...
08.25.2017 Microservices with Michele Leroux Bustamante In this episode, Stefan Tilkov talks to Michele Leroux Bustamante about Microservices. Michele shares her perspective on microservices and what she sees as the difference between SOA and microservices: The way they share data. Stefan and Michele also talk about ...
08.03.2017 Clojure with Alex Miller Joy Clark talks with Alex Miller about Clojure. Topics include the Clojure language and how it compares to other languages as far as features and maintainability are concerned. The benefits of dynamic languages are also discussed, and clojure.spec is introduced ...
07.13.2017 Microservices with Eberhard Wolff Lucas Dohmen talks with Eberhard Wolff about microservices. Eberhard Wolff is a fellow at innoQ and wrote a book as well as a primer about microservices. He talks about what lead to microservices and the advantages, and disadvantages of as ...
06.22.2017 Rails Girls with Ute Mayer Eberhard Wolff talks with Ute Mayer about Rails Girls. Topics include how Rails Girls increase diversity in IT and thereby influence the live of the attendees. Rails Girls is a global movement and does workshops to introduce women to programming. ...
06.01.2017 Legacy Software and Immutable Infrastructure with Chad Fowler Joy Clark talks with Chad Fowler about legacy software and immutable infrastructure. They begin by discussing legacy software and why the description 'legacy' shouldn't actually be a bad thing. Then they contrast how reusable libraries differ from a system of ...
05.11.2017 Software Architecture with Stefan Tilkov Joy Clark talks with Stefan Tilkov about software architecture. After discussing the definition of software architecture, they go on to cover what the role 'Software Architect' actually means and what tools and skills an architect needs to do their job. ...
04.20.2017 OpenTechSchool with Martin Stadler Eberhard Wolff talks with Martin Stadler about OpenTechSchool, an organization that helps people to learn about programming and software development. Topics include the different types of events and material OpenTechSchool offers and how OpenTechSchool enables a hands-on, empowering, and peer-driven ...
03.30.2017 Spring Data with Oliver Gierke Eberhard Wolff talks with Oliver Gierke about Spring Data. The show starts with an overview of the Java framework Spring and its ecosystem. The focus of the show is Spring Data: A set of frameworks that support many different relational ...
03.09.2017 Modern CSS with Jen Simmons Stefan Tilkov talks to Jen Simmons about CSS, the standard for applying layout rules to HTML pages. Jen talks about the often misunderstood role of CSS in the Web stack, why it matters, and how it has grown ever more ...

CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

What's CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering episodes:

Artur Ortega on GraphQL

Markus Völter on Language Engineering

Birgitta Böckeler on Cultivating Architecture Principles

Rachel Andrew on contributing to CSS and CSS Layout

Daniel Bryant on Service Meshes and API Gateways for Application Modernization

Mike Sperber on Functional Architecture

Peter Elger on Commodity AI

Lars Hupel on Algebraic Design

Ryan Singer on Shape Up

Felienne Hermans on Programming Education

Philippe Kruchten on Managing Technical Debt

Sam Newman on Insecure Transit – Microservices Security

Richard Rodger on Message-based, Generic Microservices

Mentoring Engineers with Steve Vinoski

Micro Frontends with Gustaf Nilsson Kotte

Web Frontend with Lucas Dohmen

Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey

Security and Privacy with Susan Landau

Application Security with Peter Chestna

Blockchain Technology with Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Part 2)

Blockchain Technology with Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Part 1)

Domain-Driven Design with Vaughn Vernon

aim42 with Gernot Starke

Advanced Scala with Daniel Westheide

ClojureScript with David Nolen

Management for Developers with Camille Fournier

Scala with Sofia Vaughn-Jones

Microservices with Michele Leroux Bustamante

Clojure with Alex Miller

Microservices with Eberhard Wolff

Rails Girls with Ute Mayer

Legacy Software and Immutable Infrastructure with Chad Fowler

Software Architecture with Stefan Tilkov

OpenTechSchool with Martin Stadler

Spring Data with Oliver Gierke

Modern CSS with Jen Simmons

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